Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
The idea is not bad in itself. FDIPR is a federal program that does just the same thing for Native Americans on reservations, and at a glance here and in other studies it seems to work... decently, at least.
The reservation boxes are literal jokes to those who receive them. If by works decently you mean "gets there" sure.

However, this program is complementary to SNAP, rather than a replacement for it. It exists because on some isolated reservations (or reservations in general, because frankly the rez be dirt-poor) families in need of food assistance may not have ready access to quality food in the market.
They get powdered milk, white bread, and processed cheese, hardly quality.

Then again, why shouldn't SNAP recipients get to eat steak and lobster? In line with what you're saying, the underlying assumption either way is that poor people should only partake of the shittiest food and be grateful for it. It's the same sentiment underlying the snide comments when a food bank distributes donations of premium items: isn't it more efficient to give food bank customers the absolute cheapest canned food?
It is simply to deflect the most common brought up argument against SNAP. As a whole people do not suddenly try to game the system.

"One day the poor will have nothing to eat but the rich" is a satisfying thought, but the poor as a group will not be allowed to want for calories until the time to die is at hand.
Everything is impossible until it happens.