As much as SNAP costs and as much abuse as there is, I wouldn't say it was working fine. Your standards are in the gutter.
Proof of what you are saying, please? And why just SNAP? I'm hearing a lot about wasteful spending, by the military, the executive-branch departments, "abstinence education," security costs for politicians who can't seem to stay in one place and do their jobs, etc.
You are forgetting who you are talking to.
$20 million for a military parade to please Donnie by letting him look at the toys of war is ok.
$25 million is unaccounted for from a contract done for the inauguration party that went to a contractor that happens to be a friend of Melania Trump... is ok.
$1,000's to 10's of $1,000's of dollars to fly on private jets and first class... yeah those are ok.
$3 million per weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago to play golf... or course that's ok.
$31,000 for a nice china cabinet for Ben Carson? well, ok
$300 a month worth of food stamps to a family to buy their own food and make their own meals? HELL NO! Fuck those needy, lazy, assholes!
Oh, come on! It was a whole dining set, not just the cabinet. And our nation's finest need to have very relaxing flights so they are fresh to work on our nation's behalf. Of course, the chief executive needs to let off steam after spending some arduous hours tweeting to improve our country. We need a military parade to warn the world about what we've got. And of course, our nation needs to have a large and lavish party to celebrate the re-birth of our nation under trump (and all of the ladies who actually have been under trump).
Good grief. What has happened to the U.S.A. that we have all known and loved? We no longer have to go to the supermarket and stand in line at the checkout to read salacious "news" and see pictures of female breasts (of which I am not a fan, being a heterosexual woman). All of this is getting way, way too disgusting.
We watch too much TV. People that really matter and make the world a better place. Do you remember some of the people that were famous back in the 30's, 40's, 50's?
Wernher Von Braun, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindberg, Howard Hughes, Jackson Pollack, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, and Jackie Robinson.
Who do we have now? The Kardashians, Paris Hilton, Donald Trump, and Alex Jones.
Do you see the problem now? They need to start playing reruns of Little House on the Prarie, The Andy Griffith Show, The Waltons, and The Monkeys more.
Either people would quit watching, or it would show them HOW they are supposed to live and treat other people.
Our culture has been dumbed down for quite a few decades now. I've never been a great TV watcher, preferring reading to watching. My father was a great fan of history and used to bring back stacks of books, and then he and I would discuss them on the porch over iced tea. I always read like a fiend, even to being caught in school reading "Goldfinger." Most of what has been on TV has been crap, with a few exceptions like
Hill Street Blues, Crossing Jordan, and
Criminal Minds. This "reality" stuff is mindless, like trump's show, and this is what the young are getting nowadays.
Jersey Shore? What is it that the kids on this show actually do?
The Duggars? Glorifying cult junk.
Honey Boo Boo? Seriously. It seems that getting one's eye makeup right now supersedes any interest in what is going on in one's country and one's world.
Music has now turned out to be a function of electronic synthesis instead of the musicianship of such talents as Mark Knopler, with everyone in videos shakin' it for the camera instead of creating art. There is no quality. And video games? Violence, violence, violence, and an addiction to play them rather than living in the real world. No wonder that so many people don't know anything about standards anymore.
Actually, I think that the transition from reading to watching has hurt us. When I read a book or hear a song, I visualize it in my head, my imagination. I have never needed anyone to come along with a movie or a video to lock me into their interpretation of how it looks or what it says, and, frankly, it pisses me off. The only movie that ever came close to what I envisioned from reading was
The Lord of the Rings. Watching, rather than reading, has robbed Americans (and others) of the use of our individual imaginations.
But I digress. Remember, trump is 70 years old. Many of his supporters are in their 50's and 60's. What happened way back when such that they lack a social and moral foundation?