New York to ban low-income families from using food stamps to buy sugary drinks

The Daily Mail ^ | 10/8/2010

[Typical_Whitey]

This proves that Government is by its very nature is oppressive. If we let Government control healthcare this will be the standard for us all and there will be no going outside of the govt beauracracy, the slave masters in D.C. will never allow us to escape.

REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW !!!!!

[GOP_Lady]

RUSH;  Ladies and gentlemen, we now have in New York City -- dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! -- CAFE standards for cafes! WCBS-TV Channel 2 in New York is reporting that the mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has declared a "War on Salt." New York City Mayor Bloomberg has called "on US manufacturers to reduce the salt content until it results in a 50% reduction in salt in ten years." Now, the subhead here is:  "Citizens revolt, claim New York City is turning into a Nanny State." See, at some point these liberals will overreach, even with their own supporters and minions. First it was what?  Trans fat?  No, it was smoking, and then trans fats and all these others things. So yeah, total Nanny State in New York City.

[flowerplough]

ban low-income families from using food stamps to buy sugary drinks.

And they shouldn’t be allowed to vote, either.

From Robert A. Heinlein’s “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”:

The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a “warm body” democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction…. [O]nce a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome.

[Logical me]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Governor David Paterson. What huge brains. No wonder NY is in the toilet. While the Country and NY goes down the drain, these two brains come up with this. WOW!

[Drew68]

Could you imagine the uproar if it was only good for hamburger, chicken, eggs, milk, rice, bread, beans, fresh fruit and veggies?

They'd starve because they don't know how to prepare even the simplest meals, because anything more than tossing a Hot Pocket in the microwave feels too much like work! And when someone gets salmonella from undercooked chicken? There'd be howls of outrage!

[FromLori]

lol your the winner for comments did you see they were using their welfare money in CA to go to Vegas/Hawaii, etc.

The only thing I always worry about even though I think those people shouldn’t be forever on Welfare is it seem’s as soon as the govt. get’s their hands on something it’s an open door to take rights away from the rest of us.

However other then that this is probably doing them a favor all that sugar for those who are obese, etc. maybe if they ate a little more healthy they could someday find the energy to see about getting a job.

[Sacajaweau]

Sweetened fruit drinks are normal everyday drinks. Full strength cranberry is awful...but the cranberry and extra vitamins you get from these drinks are helpful. THIS STATE has gone stupid.

[Drew68]

Sweetened fruit drinks are normal everyday drinks. Full strength cranberry is awful...but the cranberry and extra vitamins you get from these drinks are helpful. THIS STATE has gone stupid.

Sweetened drinks have as much corn syrup as soda. I don't think they're talking about apple juice or grape juice here. They're talking about the cocktail juice that is nothing more than soda without the fizz.

Good grief, nobody is telling poor people they can't drink soda anymore than we're telling them they can't drink beer or smoke cigarettes. We just don't want to pay for it.

If it were up to me, the only liquid permitted with food stamps would be milk. Want water? Turn on the faucet. Want fruit juice? Here's an apple. Don't like it? Get a job.

[dforest]

They will go for the baked goods next. People do not realize that their liberties are going to be curtailed. When they do it will be too late.

[dfwgator]

They should just go back to giving them Government Cheese.

[j-damn]

*Sweetened fruit drinks are normal everyday drinks.*

Ridiculous. They should neither be “normal” nor “everyday”.

100% pure orange juice does not have added sugar in it—drink that.

Apple juice can be purchased—EASILY—without teaspoon upon teaspoon of sugar in it—drink that.

There’s no reason why unemployed shut-ins need to slug down gallons of Coca-Cola all day long while they sit in front of their flat-screens watching Judge Mathis, pausing perhaps only to waddle over to their rascal scooters to ride down to the corner store to get a pack of smokes.

[NoLibZone]

They can still buy sugary alcohol drinks at casinos.

[Sacajaweau]

Fruit juices have as much sugar as coke.

[napscoordinator]

I doubt it was recent. The food stamp program is now a “debit card” type deal. You most certainly can’t tell who is one food stamps now a day. Good story though.

[ChildOfThe60s]

When I was in college (long time ago) a very smart social welfare professor I had said that help to the needy should be “in kind”.
IOW, if they are hungry you give them a bag of rice, beans and meat, food. You don’t give them money and send them off to “wisely” spend it.

It was the notion of the Great Society that cash be given to the needy because it was less demeaning and (really idiotic) it would teach them the value of and how to handle money. That’s worked well.

I’ve always said that food stamps should be very limited in what can be purchased. Basic proteins and starches. Skip the prepared foods. For free food they can do their own preparations.

[pops88]

I have mixed feelings on this issue. On the one hand, I hate government control. On the other, I worked in hospitals on the edge of the Cleveland ghetto for 12 years. Welfare, food stamps and driving a BMW really angers nurses trying to make ends meet. A colleague used a meat delivery service and bought mostly ground beef. She had a chat with the delivery guy and as suspected, the good cuts she couldn’t afford were bought with food stamps. I’d like to see these people reigned in, and too often see them buying junk food, but in the end, the only people this law will hurt are the honest people that don’t scam the system because they didn’t grow up in the ghetto and go to that class. I’ve been in extremely bad economic circumstances in the past and it was wonderful to every once an a while get a treat when life was absolute hell.

[screaminsunshine]

Better idea.

[screaminsunshine]

No Hamburger it is bad for them. Bread is also fattening. Maybe some Chicken Gizzards and Livers. No Pork..they may be Muslims.

[VermiciousKnid]

One of my favorite RAH quotes of all time.

I know it appeared in “TSBtS,” but this quotation succinctly defines a theme that ran throughout Heinlein’s work. It is one of the reasons he is a favorite of mine.

Regards,

[Graybeard58]

Since the bulk of these people are perpetually on food stamps, I don’t really care what kinds of restrictions the government or any other agency places on them.

By gollies, that's two of us!