Oh, I hate how these cards are misused. Every time I watch someone buy their cases of Mt. Dew and mega-bags of chips with a .gov card, my skin crawls.
We're paying for some to get fat and unhealthy. We're paying for their houses so they have a place to sit around and eat the food we bought them. Then, we pay for their medical bills once they've spent a lifetime "living" like this.
Take the cards away. Have a distribution system providing true essentials: bread, canned fruits and veggies, toiletries, etc. I worked at the food bank yesterday packing essentials for elderly. I liked it because money wasn't being spent on soda and chips. Needy folks will get healthy useful supplies.
Helping your fellow man was never meant to be paying for every single thing a person needs from birth until death. Maybe require some small amount of community service in return for feeding off the system?
Ohio has more people receiving welfare than people paying into it.
http://michaelsnyder.mensnewsdaily.com/2012/12/the-number-of-people-on-welfare-exceeds-the-number-of-people-with-jobs-in-11-states/