Every single human on the planet has the capability to provide food for themselves. There are available options regardless of where you live. Urbanites in small spaces can easily grow veggies in planters; instead of flowers and purely decorative plants, simply grow veggies. Over the past few months, the debate has raged in the statist world regarding food stamps. As someone who loves to eat, I find that it is important that I am able to feed myself and, of course, my children. However, long ago I learned that my ability to eat should never be tied to someone else's proviso of monetary assistance.

Over the past few years, I have come to the understanding that whatever the government does, it always attaches detrimental obligations. I firmly believe that we do not need food stamps. However, because so many humans have been taught to look to the brotherly embrace of the government for subsistence and a false sense of protection, we as a race have become lazy. I am disabled according to a multitude of doctors and the state. However, even being physically incapable of trekking even a mile with a backpack, I am able to tend to a garden or animals as needed.

And so I pose this question to those reading; do we need a program that takes the money others have earned and redistributes it, with massive losses, to those who need food? Instead of the government's approach to gardening, which has recently been to send in police to arrest people and SWAT teams to destroy gardens, why not teach people how to grow their own food? Show urban dwellers how just a few feet of planters will help offset the needed food for a small family unit. Those who have yard space can replace the plants with no purpose outside of beautification with plants that provide beauty and food. Instead of wasting millions of gallons of precious water in cities like Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona on useless grass lawns and manicured shrubs, grow a garden that will provide sustenance throughout the year.

Learn to can your own veggies, or freeze them or dehydrate them for long term storage. Eat fresh vegetables with your daily meals and raise chickens for that miracle food, the egg. Buy a goat or two, or engage in share cropping or neighborhood gardening, and learn to get along with the neighbors (ones that, previously, you looked at through the curtain slits covering your windows and separating you from them). Bring back the sense of community so many are lacking in the modern world. Take over your current housing associations and stop allowing the useless waste of space by denying individuals the natural right to their own property. The best part of this is that it can be accomplished with no bloodshed; peacefully, we can change the world into a place where our children, and theirs, can live free.

So what would be the best thing that could happen to this country? The cessation of the EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) system in its entirety. No more food-stamps available to anyone any longer. So in November, when the system is reduced to millions, maybe some will wake up and realize they do not really need this anymore. Maybe after the riots and the inevitable police brutality and control exerted by weapons and mindless drones, people will begin to think outside of the immediate now.