Posted on 10/08/2010 3:31:09 PM PDT by FromLori
New York has announced plans to ban the use of food stamps to buy sugary drinks as it steps up its anti-obesity campaign. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Governor David Paterson have asked the U.S. government to ban the purchase of fizzy drinks and sweetened fruit drinks with the federal vouchers used by 42million low-income families. They called sugar-sweetened beverages the largest single contributor to the obesity epidemic.
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“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.”
Umm, I hate to disagree, but some you still can. It was pretty easy when they made a condo project HUD in one of the nicest areas of Las Vegas and the card didn’t look like anyone else’s. That, or we had a bank discriminating and only give that style of card to blacks. We weren’t close enough to the strip for them to coincidentally be tourists.
1. unsugared drinks
2. bags of sugar.
For what it is worth, they can still buy sugar with food stamps, and add it to anything that is not sweet enough naturally. So this is a joke.
The second part of the joke is that there is not anything that can’t be bought with food stamps. Here is how it works,
Food stamp user # 1, “Here is twenty dollars worth of Food Stamps, do you have a twenty?
Food stamp user # 2, “ Sure, here is a twenty, what is it for?”
Food stamp user # 1, “ I need another bottle of Tanquerey”
Yes, I knew about that, but was trying to keep it simple. I was raised not to be prejudiced, and I still try not to be, but working with ghetto people so long really opened my eyes to many things.
Kroger decoated cakes are listed here: http://www.kroger.com/fresh_foods/deli_bakery/Pages/available_cakes.aspx
Several years back I found myself supplying simple recipes to an individual at work who was involved in charitable work with the Catholic church.
The RCs were, in turn, involved with an ecumenical charitable group working out of a Lutheran church in SE Washington DC.
They had at least a dozen Girl Scout troops there.
These people were really, really serious about hands on, grassroots, help the poor people charity.
My favorite recipe ~ at least according to the children helped ~ was remarkably simple. Take some hamburger. Take a potato. Get a pot. Put water in the pot. Slice the potato into big round slices like potato chips but just a little thicker. Boil the potato in the pot of water about 10 minutes, or maybe less. Put in the hamburger. Cook another 5 minutes. Add butter, salt and pepper to taste.
I called that one "DEPRESSION". My mother is from a family of 10 kids ~ really poor ~ she really liked to make that dish because it's quick, filling, and NOTHING IS WASTED. She went through highschool with ONE pair of socks which she washed out each evening and put up to dry. She knows poverty ~ she passed on some of that knowledge.
Oh, yes, and her mother was crippled.
She also helped raise her widowerd brothers 6 children ~ who were all Roman Catholic.
Poverty doesn't keep you from being ecumenical with your relatives.
So, anyway, I passed on the recipe to the lady at work, and she passed it on to the priests and ministers and social workers, and they organized the children to learn to cook.
That's when they found that the idea of having a cooking pot in the home was quite novel to these children, and many had never seen hamburger cook, nor did they know that potatoes come in natural brown wrappers, or how to cut with a knife.
We saved many that evening in the bowels of the kitchen in the old Lutheran church in DC's worst neighborhood. Hundreds!
That's the practice, and the theory is what? The theory is to just give them the stuff ~ but you have to teach them about pots, and knives, and stoves, and all those things, else you leave them hungry.
My recipe enabled the children. They'll never be poor in the same sense as their mothers and the other ladies in the neighborhood who never learned these things.
And they KNOW how to pull those strings!
It seems we need a new Amendment preventing the transfer of monies from the feds to the states for ANY reason...
... but it will never happen. Folks don't realize the extent of the corruption that Congress engages through its "grants."
The Roman and Persian Empires gave food and social amenities to the destitute but rarely money.
very well said!
I agree. They may buy whatever they want with their own money. Govt shouldnt be subsidizing the purchase and consumption of junk food.
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.
I agree completely.
Back in the 60's, before food stamps, welfare recipients actually were given food. (I had family members who were recipients). I think we should go back to that. It would end fraud in a hurry.
Dried beans, peas, corn meal, rice, cans of tuna and peanut butter, powdered milk, oatmeal, raisins, and so forth, bought from American farmers and producers, would certainly keep people from starving but could not be traded for drugs, alcohol, or pretty much anything else.
It wouldn't go over well, but so what? If you don't want the beans, peas, and rice, get a job and buy your own junk food!
Fair enough. I totally agree with you about the abuse of food stamps though.
How would they pay for the Satellite TV? ;0)
On Drudge:
POLL: BUSH PULLS EVEN WITH OBAMA
LOL That’s gotta hurt.
No prejudice intended, the folks I was quoting were poor whites, but I am sure everyone has figured this one out.
The surprising thing is when I saw it I was shocked. Somehow I believed no cheating was going on, but I was very young too.
Michelle Obama is pissing off the Democratic Party’s core voters! At least the live ones...
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