Feed the hungry, but don't make it too easy for them:
Food stamp recipients in North Carolina soon will lose benefits unless they prove they’re working, volunteering or taking classes for at least 20 hours a week.
Sen. Norman Sanderson, a Republican from Pamlico County, said the change would push unemployed people on food stamps to look for work. “I think you’re going to see a lot of them go and get that 20-hour-a-week job, or they’re going to enroll in some sort of higher education to improve their job skills,” he said before the September vote.
And I think a lawmaker who takes food off somebody's table because he "thinks" something positive might happen as a result is a reckless ideologue, not a public servant.
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