Posted on 08/19/2011 7:08:33 PM PDT by Fitzy_888
Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with their benefits.
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Tom Vilsack, the secretary of agriculture, said in a statement that the United States Department of Agriculture “has a longstanding tradition of supporting and promoting incentive-based solutions that are better suited for the working families, elderly and other low-income individuals” who rely on food stamps. “We are confident that we can solve the problem of obesity and promote good nutrition and health for all Americans and stand ready to work with New York City to achieve these goals.”
The city’s proposal was part of Mr. Bloomberg’s campaign to make the city a healthier place, which has included banning smoking indoors and in public parks, barring restaurants from cooking with trans fats and requiring them to inform customers about calorie counts.
The mayor was not pleased with the rejection on Friday.
“We think our innovative pilot would have done more to protect people from the crippling effects of preventable illnesses like diabetes and obesity than anything else being proposed elsewhere in this country — and at little or no cost to taxpayers,” Mr. Bloomberg said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Land of 10000 loons. Minnesota.
How bought no prepared foods. Prepackaged or bakery, cookies, cakes, pies, candy, chips, frozen dinners, they are all prepared foods. Soda would be out too, it’s obviously something you can live without. Then with the cereals, some of the cereals on the market you might as well be eating cake and cookies, have a sugar cut off 5 grams or so, or a list of cereals you can get. Use to be any taxable items you couldn’t get on food stamps. Isn’t soda taxable? Candy?
Deep breaths.
I have a nephew through marriage who got laid off from his good computer job at a large company in NJ several months ago. The last I heard was that he moved with his wife and 3 kids to Minnesota. He doesn't have any relatives there and still hasn't found a job. His wife doesn't have one either. Hopefully he's not on food stamps in your state...
Well, that just shows you what our "elites" really think of us.
We're not free citizens, just livestock who exist to be milked dry. You know any good farmer will protect his animals by herding them to where they need to be. He will feed them what they need to maximize milk production.
What the cow wants matters not at all.
Those people are pets.
Foodstamps Chaos in the Street Atlanta, GA 8/11/11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrB14EnaebM&feature=player_embedded
I hear ya, though honey roasted peanuts are probably among the healthier SNAP food purchase choices.
Here’s one issue that I agree with Nurse Bloomberg on.
And? So? Well? They’ll be first in line at the hospitals and clinics under Zerocare.
The WIC program (Women, Infants, Children) mandates what kinds of food items (i.e., real food, not Sunny D and Fritos) can be purchased, and that’s how the Food Stamps program should be run (iow, WIC should vanish as a separate program, and Food Stamps should vanish except in name).
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