Americans go to the grocery cards. And we are worse?

In the U.S., for example, former managers did not turn up his nose and fell in the wake of ordinary poor people in line for ration cards. Now this "plastic" is paying for a meal every 9 th American, but the Obama administration in 2009 alone contributed to such targeted support to 54 billion dollars. In Russia and the attitude to poverty, and methods sotspodderzhki quite different. Dad, is it true that once there was a famine and bread were given cards? True, my son ... But I do not understand how they stuffed the bread into the ATM? This anecdote - a new generation of Russians who do not know what the stamps and cards. And those who are older, know and believe them with a hungry terror early 1990 or even more hungry 1940-1950. Meanwhile, nothing really wrong with the cards do not. But yesterday the U.S. Ministry of Agriculture reported on how many people have managed to protect from starvation due to the government allocated 54 billion dollars. It turns out that ... ... At the moment almost every inhabitant of the 9 th U.S. is forced to use food stamps. That has not happened since 1939, when these same coupons were introduced. Food stamp in America is a conventional plastic card, which charged $ 114 per month. Cashed the money can not, but you can buy a minimum of food. But only the food and only in local stores - the participants of this sotsprogrammy. However, this is a very sound approach - and the wolves (ie, retailers) are fed and the sheep are safe. Incidentally, such a system is not an American invention. For example, in the UK permanently are the so-called "meal-tickets", and indeed the entire civilized West has long recognized such a great tool for ration cards and Social Security does not consider itself shameful to actively use it. And here we have the state as the one guy from a joke, frankly do not understand (or do not want to understand?) How the system works "meal-tickets". There just did not invent the bicycle in recent years, Russian officials! Write lists of "social" products and put pressure on retailers to maintain those low prices for this minimum. That did not prevent the networks received profit spread to the rest of the range and still take their own. In the end, we have all the social costs have actually dropped over the regional budgets, and in them is empty, notes company president expert advice "Neocon" Mikhail Khazin. And, indeed, regional governments are struggling with poverty on their own and as far as possible. In Moscow, for example, operates "Muscovite's Social Card. It entitles you to free travel by public transport, person enjoying privileges receive discounts on a small circle of drugs and products. That's all. About any free products out of the question. Although examples of the introduction of "bread cards in Russia is. In Novorossiysk on the initiative of Mayor Vladimir Sinyagovskogo June 1 launched campaign "Social bread." Citizens with incomes below the subsistence level, collecting a pile of certificates of income, family composition, etc., can count to 15 coupons per month. Each such piece of paper can be redeemed for a free loaf of bread in a number of shops of Novorossiysk. Well at least information to be collected once, and not, as in the Volgograd region. There's still spring program began with the poor. Every six months they can get coupons for 200 rubles. But inquiries have to collect every time a new one. Given that we have even the minimum food basket costs 2,213 rubles, anyone else think a hundred times, is it really worth the nerves for the past two hundred "wooden".