Brant Cuthbert

Sinner saved by grace. Married to Julie. Dad to 6. Grandpa to 15. #Parkinsons since 2009.

[Brant Cuthbert @BrantCuthbert]

We replaced shovels with excavators, and we built skyscrapers. We replaced manual arithmetic with calculators, and accountants did more interesting work. Each time a tool made a job easier, we didn’t run out of things to do. We found bigger things to do. https://t.co/dLNT582v4N

[Julie Cuthbert @jcuth20192]

@SohrabAhmari Lord, thank you for the Protestant Reformation 🙏 (it’s in the fruit)

[NancyH @NancyH_60]

While all eyes were focused on New York and Mamdani, 42 Muslims seized key offices across America. The Muslim Brotherhood's plan to seize offices across America and take over has been taking place.

Wake up, America!

[isa @solmerv]

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[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

I need to get something off my chest because I'm genuinely LIVID right now.

I feed a family of SIX on approximately $120-130 PER WEEK. All fresh produce. Homemade meals every single day. Chicken Caesar salad, pasta with homemade tomato sauce, chicken tacos with fresh lettuce and tomatoes, the whole nine yards. Dinners run roughly $1.25-1.75 per person. Lunches? FREE because we eat leftovers like responsible adults.

Meanwhile, in Ohio, SNAP pays a family my size around $1,421 PER MONTH. My ENTIRE food budget runs about $520-560 monthly, and we recently INCREASED our spending after refinancing. We were even tighter before that.

Let me do some math that apparently nobody in government has bothered to do. SNAP recipients in my state are getting roughly $900 MORE per month than what my family actually SPENDS feeding six people REAL FOOD. Fresh vegetables every day. Chicken prepared seven different ways throughout the week. Fresh fruit for breakfast. Homemade everything.

When did "Supplemental Nutrition ASSISTANCE Program" become "Here's Almost Triple What Middle-Class Families Budget For Groceries" Program? The word SUPPLEMENTAL means to ADD TO something existing, not to provide MORE than families who work full-time and budget carefully can afford for themselves.

My kids don't know what steak tastes like. We shop at Aldi. We plan meals around what's on sale. We make chicken hotdish on Saturday specifically so we have two days of lunches covered. That's called BUDGETING. That's called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. And apparently, that's called BEING A SUCKER because if I just quit my job and went on SNAP, my family would eat BETTER than we do now.

This isn't assistance. This is WEALTH TRANSFER disguised as compassion. Quinn's 25th Law of Liberalism nails it: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money."

The 45 Communist Goals for America read into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963 included Goal #32: "Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture." Creating permanent dependency through overly generous government programs that exceed what working families provide for themselves? That's not a bug, that's the FEATURE. Keep people dependent, keep them voting for whoever promises to keep the gravy train rolling.

Look, I'm SYMPATHETIC to struggling families. I really am. I worked my way through poverty and I know what it's like to stretch every dollar until it screams. But there's a difference between a hand UP and a hand OUT that becomes a hand AROUND YOUR THROAT.

So here's my proposal, since I'm not one to complain without offering a solution:

Partner with Aldi or similar discount grocers. Create THREE standardized weekly meal plans that feed families nutritiously for what food ACTUALLY COSTS when you're not buying lobster and energy drinks with EBT cards. Each week, recipients pick their meal plan and either pick up pre-boxed ingredients with printed recipes, or get them delivered.

Here's what a REAL week looks like at my house:

MONDAY: Chicken Caesar Salad with garlic bread - $1.65/person
TUESDAY: Chicken pasta with homemade sauce, fresh broccoli and cucumber - $1.40/person
WEDNESDAY: Creamy spinach chicken with fresh side salad - $1.50/person
THURSDAY: Chicken scampi with bowties and steamed broccoli - $1.47/person
FRIDAY: Chicken taco night with fresh everything - $1.65/person
SATURDAY: Chicken hotdish (feeds Saturday dinner AND two days of lunches) - $1.75/person
SUNDAY: Roasted chicken drumsticks with fresh vegetables - $1.60/person
(I have the full breakdown if you need it)

Breakfasts are English muffins, eggs, cereal, fresh fruit. REAL FOOD.

Recipients want free food? Fine. They get A CHOICE among meal plans, not unlimited choices to buy whatever catches their eye. You know what the military dining facility gives you? WHAT THEY SERVE. You show up, eat what's prepared, and say thank you. That's how assistance works when you're not trying to create a permanent dependent class.

Here's what makes my proposal DIFFERENT from every other welfare reform idea though: it's built on EDUCATION, not dependency.

Every box comes with printed recipes and step-by-step instructions. Families aren't just getting food, they're learning HOW TO COOK. They're learning what healthy portions actually look like. They're discovering that fresh vegetables aren't scary and that chicken can be prepared a dozen ways without a deep fryer. Kids watch their parents cook real meals and pick up skills they'll carry for the rest of their lives.

More importantly, families learn HOW TO BUDGET. When you see exactly what ingredients feed a family of six for a week, you start understanding what food ACTUALLY costs. You learn that meal planning isn't some middle-class luxury, it's how responsible adults have fed families for generations. When you're ready to transition OFF the program, you have the SKILLS to do it. You know how to shop at Aldi. You know how to stretch a whole chicken across multiple meals. You know that homemade pasta sauce costs pennies compared to that jarred garbage.

THIS is how you break the cycle. Not by handing people money and hoping they figure it out, but by TEACHING them the skills that self-sufficient families have always used. The current system WANTS people to stay dependent. My system is designed to make itself OBSOLETE by creating competent, capable families who don't NEED government assistance anymore.

And here's the part that should make fiscal conservatives AND bleeding-heart liberals agree: this new SNAP system could actually SAVE MEDICAID.

Think about it. What's driving Medicaid costs through the roof? Obesity. Diabetes. Heart disease. These are conditions directly linked to poor diet. When SNAP recipients can buy unlimited soda, chips, candy, and processed garbage, guess who pays for the resulting health crisis? MEDICAID. Which means TAXPAYERS.

With my meal box system, families eat fresh vegetables every single day. Lean protein. Whole grains. The kinds of foods that PREVENT the chronic diseases bankrupting our healthcare system. Kids growing up on these meals don't develop childhood obesity. They don't get Type 2 diabetes at fifteen. They don't need expensive medications and hospital visits that Medicaid covers.

You want to cut Medicaid spending? Start by not CREATING the health problems Medicaid has to treat. Every dollar spent on fresh broccoli in a meal box is a dollar NOT spent on insulin, dialysis, and heart surgery twenty years from now. This isn't complicated math, but apparently nobody in government connects these dots.

The current system CREATES sick people and then PAYS to treat them. My system creates HEALTHY families who don't need either program eventually. But that would mean fewer government employees, fewer dependent voters, and fewer excuses for expanding bureaucracy. Can't have that now, can we?

This approach eliminates waste, fraud, and abuse because there's nothing PROFITABLE to sell. You can't trade meal kit boxes for cash. You can't buy cigarettes with pre-portioned chicken breasts. And here's the compassionate part nobody wants to acknowledge: it takes STRESS off these families. No more agonizing over what to buy, what to cook, how to stretch dollars they're not stretching anyway. Just pick Plan A, B, or C, get your weekly box, follow the recipes, feed your family.

But this will NEVER happen because the current system isn't DESIGNED to help people become self-sufficient. It's designed to keep them dependent, voting for whoever promises to maintain their benefits.

SNAP benefits currently average $8.2 BILLION per month nationally. That's not assistance, that's an INDUSTRY. An industry that employs social workers, bureaucrats, and politicians who need the poor to stay poor so they can keep their jobs "helping" them.

I'm a teacher in a high-need, high-risk district where ALL of my students get FREE lunches at school. And here's the kicker that should make every SNAP defender's head explode: my family is DEBT FREE except for our mortgage. Single income. Teacher's salary. Stay-at-home mom raising four kids. We're not trust fund babies. We're not secretly rich. We BUDGET. We SACRIFICE. We make CHOICES.

And we do it on LESS than what SNAP hands out.

Let me say that again for the folks in the back: a family of six living on ONE teacher's salary with a stay-at-home mom, completely debt-free, spends LESS on food than what government assistance provides. This is DOABLE on a single salary if you're not buying garbage and actually cooking real meals.

I SEE the results of this broken system every day in my classroom. These aren't bad kids or bad families. They're trapped in a system designed to keep them exactly where they are. Generation after generation, dependent on government, voting for whoever promises more, never building the skills or habits that lead to actual prosperity.

Meanwhile, my family eats fresh chicken seven nights a week on a budget HALF what SNAP provides, and somehow WE'RE the ones who are supposed to feel guilty for questioning where all that money goes.

Quinn's First Law: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent." SNAP was supposed to SUPPLEMENT nutrition assistance, not REPLACE personal responsibility with government dependency. Mission accomplished in reverse, as usual.

#SNAP #FoodStamps #WasteFraudAbuse #TaxpayerMoney #PersonalResponsibility #WelfareReform #MAGA #Trump #Democrats #Liberals #Progressive #WelfareState #GovernmentDependency #BudgetingWorks #AldiForTheWin #FeedYourFamily #RealFood #TaxpayersUnite #BreakingNews #Viral #MedicaidReform #HealthyEating #TeachDontHandout

But what do I know, I'm just a taxpayer who feeds his family on half what the government hands out and has the audacity to notice the math doesn't add up.

[Brant Cuthbert @BrantCuthbert]

@harryjsisson Aren’t you a bit demeaning toward everyone whose name is José? Like it’s a slam?

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

An edifying practice: convert anxiety about the state of the world to prayer for the advance of the gospel, the thwarting of evil, and the speedy return of Christ.

[Brant Cuthbert @BrantCuthbert]

When you feel your unimpressive life doesn't make a difference. https://t.co/j3IdAxi5nP

[Brant Cuthbert @BrantCuthbert]

‘I Will Grieve but not Grumble, Mourn but not Murmur, Weep but not Whine’ --Tim Challies https://t.co/gjJkmRx8CA

[Burk Parsons @BurkParsons]

One of the greatest assurances that we are true Christians is the loving discipline of our Father in heaven.

For he only disciplines those he loves.

And his discipline is always restorative.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
Francis Schaeffer

[Michael Okun @MichaelOkun]

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[Brant Cuthbert @BrantCuthbert]

Promises from God to fight anxiety https://t.co/VCyR9ZReBE

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Proverbs 18:21

A word to wound or a word to heal.

Plan words of life.

[Randy Alcorn @randyalcorn]

God comes right out and tells us why He gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it, or indulge ourselves, spoil our children, or insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give, and give generously. https://t.co/nO9eMBHKkN

[Brant Cuthbert @BrantCuthbert]

“The fight of faith is hard. Doubt, in whatever form, is part of the hard fight.” Jon Bloom https://t.co/r6aP1pSqzu

[Brant Cuthbert @BrantCuthbert]

Living Well Among Thorns: Finding Strength in Physical Weakness | Desiring God https://t.co/1ZulpGqncO

[Brant Cuthbert @BrantCuthbert]

Three Steps to Stop Wasting Your Life | Desiring God https://t.co/61J8eQoqPo

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:17

So, set aflame the gift that is in you.