Dead People Eat Better Than Me 🤦‍♂️

So apparently,America is running a $100 billion-a-year “Free Food for Whoever Shows Up (or Doesn’t)” Festival otherwise known as SNAP.
According to the USDA, in 2024 the program handed out an average of $190 a month per person and about $356 per household to over 42 million people. That’s basically the entire population of California plus Florida… eating on Uncle Sam’s tab.

And here’s where things get extra spicy:

186,000 people receiving benefits are, uh… dead.

Yep. Not “kind of dead,” not “mostly dead,” but fully, legally dead. Good to know the afterlife comes with meal benefits.

356,000 duplicate enrollments.
Because who doesn’t want a Buy-One-Get-One-Free government identity?

So naturally, the USDA said, “Okay, enough,” and has promised to hunt down the fraud like it’s a bad Netflix documentary. They’re now requiring people to reapply, which is basically government-speak for “We hope this scares off at least the ghosts and the copy-paste identities.”

Then comes the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which raised the age of required work/volunteering/training from 54 to 64 for able-bodied adults.

Translation:
If you’re under 65 and fully capable of lifting a bag of groceries without pulling a hamstring, congratulations — you now need to contribute 80 hours a month to something other than scrolling TikTok.

The rule applies to new SNAP applicants and current ones as soon as their renewal rolls around.

Now let’s talk fairness for the people actually waking up to an alarm every day.

Here’s the million-dollar (or apparently $100 billion) question:

How fair is it that regular folks grind 40+ hours a week, pay taxes, and follow the rules… while others who could work just shrug and say “Nah, I’m good,” yet still get government benefits?

Why should someone sweating through double shifts be funding benefits for a fully capable person who treats job applications like they’re optional side quests? And how fair is it when people who aren’t even supposed to be receiving benefits or who aren’t even… alive — are still cashing in?

Because at the end of the day, society works when everyone carries at least some of the weight. Not when half the country is dragging the wagon while the other half is sitting inside it, asking for a snack refill.