Ninnies..........
The GOP needs to get out of the ban-our-way-to-Utopia business that the lefties are already pursuing.
Who decides what junk food is? Mickey obama?
How bout pole dancers and lap dances, this is not uncommon use of food stamp cards in some licals. The junk food thing reeks of bloomberg. It is a weenie solution to a serious problem.
You can buy cigarettes, booze and prostitutes with food stamps, so why not junk food?
How about a bill declaring the democrat party as a seditious organization, followed by arrests and hangings for treason.
I used to know a welfare queen who bought herself a Welfare Cadillac using foo stams!
Morons.
Money is fungible.
1. Accept the Left's premise (i.e. Yeah, people need food stamps don't want them to go hungry and eat dog food)
2. Attack one of the symptoms, not the underlying, structural problem itself. (Instead of screaming from rooftops about how food stamps are an affront to American values, let's just go after one of the problems of it instead).
3. Accept being called "evil" and "mean-spirited" by the Left and their media lapdogs.
4. Grovel, apologize, and then "compromise" with the Dems (in this instance, several measly million dollars will be "cut," or rather, the rate of people obtaining food stamps will slow a few tenth of a percentage points).
5. Beat your chest and brag to conservatives about how much money was saved and if you donate to the RNC and help elect me, I'll "stand up" to more liberal spending.
It’s not the receivers of foo stams who decide these things. Why was Bob Dole known as the King of Foo Stams? For the good of the starving poor of Kansas? Yeah, the foo stam recipients have powerful lobbies on K Street, sure thang. If you don’t know who lobbies for foo stams paying bribes to your reps Rat Party or Stupid, I cain’t help you.
When they had the old Food Stamps, and not EBT cards, there was more regulation on what foods could be bought.
I was in Race Trac today...and their ready-made sandwich cooler/display mentions that “EBT can be used for this”. In old Food Stamp day...you could not buy such food
Ironic is that the ones who whine the most will be liberals who force kids to eat Michelle Lunches and push Organic food...
Too late for me to stay politically active.
Bubba bait. No cost crumb thrown to the idiots they think we are.
“...a 2012 study, which showed that recipients from the food stamp fund spend approximately $2 billion a year on junk food”
It’s much, much (munch, munch?) more than that LOL!
A great idea, I’d guess a $10 billion savings in the $80 billion annual Snap bill.
And no one suffers.
Cookie and cola producers and the media they advertise in will never let it happen.
So no “junk” food yet Lobster Tails and Sirloin is no problem?
Makes it a little hard to fault Nanny Bloomberg. Knowing what to do about Congress is as complicated as Syria. They are all the enemy.
Nope, need to start somewhere cutting people off so why not do exactly what the left does and cut them off “for the children”.
We need to cut off the junk food “it’s for the children”.
We need to cut off high priced steaks and lobster so they can buy more food “for the children”.
Just keep slicing the bologna piece by piece and pretty soon the freeloaders will be eating “healthy” beans and rice like the rest of us.
You’ll be amazed how much your food bill comes down when the freeloaders aren’t buying the choice foods with no concern for cost.