[the other guy]

Not debating the lines, but there was also food stamps(paper) at that time also. TRT was saying that the new stamps(credit card) was meant to make the recipients feel more comfortable. It wasn't, it was designed to cut down on people selling the paper stamps. The "commodities" were in addition to food stamps. It was food stuffs that were identified as agricultural. It was surplus products that the farmers couldn't sale for a reasonable profit, so the government bought it at a fair price, and gave to those that were supposedly qualified as needy. The commodities might have started first, I don't know, but in my time of remembering, they had both those and foodstamps at the same time.

If the government was not in the business of price support wouldn't cheese be cheaper for all of us.