Originally Posted by
Colonel Sun
My two cents. I don't do a ton of grocery shopping. My wife handles the lion's share of that. Additionally, I live in and shop in Amherst, not the SNAP/Food Stamp capital of WNY by any means. Still, I have not seen the abuse discussed in the above thread.
So we can have some facts to go with our usual wild speculation and unsupported accusations, I have discovered that the County provides the number of folks on SNAP/Food Stamps.
Year Food Stamps/SNAP
2007 127,446
2008 135,826
2009 153,336
2010 170,424
2011 182,695
2012 189,379
2013 196,662
2014 199,924
2015 198,410
2016 175,824
2017 190,768
2018 177,185
As per the US Census for 2018, there are 919,719 people in Erie County, therefor, in 2018, about 20% of the population was on SNAP/Food Stamps.
I would make the argument that a handful of observations of abuse should not condemn an entire program. But, that's me.
Please don't let facts get in the way of a tirade. Continue as per usual.