{"id":18950,"date":"2010-05-26T08:09:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T08:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/government-trying-to-mainstream-moocherism\/"},"modified":"2010-05-26T08:09:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T08:09:15","slug":"government-trying-to-mainstream-moocherism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/government-trying-to-mainstream-moocherism.php","title":{"rendered":"Government trying to mainstream Moocherism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S_r34OwMa2I\/AAAAAAAALeY\/NJjDX2NzqMI\/s1600\/FoodStamps2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/29ccb_FoodStamps2.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>It's just like a credit card.  No shame at all.<\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/05\/19\/govt-encourages-retailers-to-welcome-food-stamps\/#ixzz0ot1rOJjw\">Daily Caller<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>The Agriculture Department announced Wednesday it will encourage grocery stores and other retail outlets that accept food stamps to post signs reading &ldquo;We Welcome SNAP Benefits.&rdquo; The move is part of an effort to decrease the stigma of using government food assistance in a tough economy.<\/p><p>Attempts to reduce such stigmas have been ongoing for years. SNAP is an acronym for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a recent name change designed to get away from the loaded phrase &ldquo;food stamps.&rdquo; Electronic Benefits Transfer, or EBT, is an electronic way of paying for items so it just appears that a customer is using a credit card.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Underscoring that SNAP benefits are welcome, rather than merely accepted, signals an important change in the way both retailers and program participants view these benefits,&rdquo; said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Of course, tax-payers not wanting to subsidize the tax-takers, have the ability and the full right to avoid shopping at establishments that accept SNAP. See a \"Welcome Food Stamp Recipients\" sign in the window of such an establishment.  Protest to the Manager first, and then take your business elsewhere.  After all, it'd be a Snap!<\/p><p>(H\/t Boortz)<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/29ccb_7828681836623105417-1615803693812977507?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:It's just like a credit card. No shame at all.From the Daily Caller:The Agriculture Department announced Wednesday it will encourage grocery stores and other retail outlets that accept food stamps to post signs reading &ldquo;We Welcome SNAP Benefits.&rdquo; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/government-trying-to-mainstream-moocherism.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}