Posted on 04/03/2015 11:04:07 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
In 2013, Fox News proudly broadcast an interview with a young food stamp recipient who claimed to be using the government benefit to purchase lobster and sushi.
"This is the way I want to live and I don’t really see anything changing," Greenslate explained to Fox. “It’s free food; it’s awesome."
That story fit a longtime conservative suspicion that poor people use food stamps to purchase luxury items. Now, a Republican state lawmaker in Missouri is pushing for legislation that would stop people like Greenslate and severely limit what food stamp recipients can buy. The bill being proposed would ban the purchase with food stamps of "cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood or steak."
"The intention of the bill is to get the food stamp program back to it's original intent, which is nutrition assistance," said Rick Brattin, the representative who is sponsoring the proposed legislation.
Curbing food stamp purchases of cookies, chips, energy drinks, and soft drinks at least falls in line with the food stamp program's mission to provide nutrition. Nutrition experts are already discussing whether to remove unhealthy items from the list of foods participants can buy.
But seafood and steak? Seafood has been shown, time and again, to be a healthy part of any diet. And steak is such a broad category that it's essentially banning people from buying any flat cuts of beef, from porterhouse to flank.
"It just seems really repressive," said Mark Rank, a professor at...
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The loose nut is in your head.
Haha, how ill informed you are. I actually have 4 kids, but, that too, is none of your business.
Did you tell them what to eat?
“We couldn’t afford regular milk so it was powdered milk. Gawd awful nasty stuff. I still won’t have it in the house unless it’s a small box used just for homemade yogurt.”
We were reduced to powdered milk for a while when I was young. I still have some in the house, but it’s strictly prepper stuff for the apocalypse.
Since I've paid into the system for untold years, I'd accept assistance as payback. However, I wouldn't expect assistance meant anything more than assistance and that it wouldn't be given to me for the rest of my life and every generation that followed. I'd be the first in line to learn a new jobs skill rather than sit on my couch yapping on my obamy phone day in and day out. But ask me again if/when the usurper and his gang retain control past '16 and the GOP allows it and I might have a change of heart.
When they were small - there were some foods they didn’t like, and I was never one to force them to eat foods they didn’t like. After all, I don’t eat foods I don’t like, but I encouraged them to try the foods they didn’t think they would like. Tastes change over the years, however, and foods that you might like today - wouldn’t taste good to you later on. I’m all about freedom and making choices - unlike those on here who want to tell others what to eat. The food stamp program is out of control - I will admit - but, to deny those who are truly in need is shameful. And private charities can’t handle the load in this day and age. Many food banks are empty before the end of each month. Yes, people need jobs so they can support their families, but, with this obama economy, that isn’t always feasible.
The way they can buy steak on EBT, is they use a food pantry to get their staples, which leaves them with their whole allotment to buy luxuries.
As a start, ALL means tested programs need to be consolidated.
The biggest problem in the US is that govt forced “charity” is extremely corrosive to real charity.
from sushi and steak to fish sticks and spam.
but, to deny those who are truly in need is shameful. And private charities can’t handle the load in this day and age. Many food banks are empty before the end of each month.
Private charities do a better job than the government. The government is in direct competition with private charities which is why they’ve blocked restaurants and supermarkets from giving surplus food to food banks, churches and other charities.
If the government is your idea of “the savior” you are a bigger mess than I previously believed.
Oh, but He did say - render unto Caesar what is Caesars, and unto God what Is Gods. The private charities cannot handle the volume of hungry people. They run out each and every month - the churches were given the mandate to feed the poor, however, some choose to build expensive buildings and what not - so, the government had to step in to fill the gap. There is waste and fraud in charitable organizations as well - it’s an inescapable truth.
Why wouldn’t you just say “yes, I told them what to eat” you tyrant???!!!
That is what will collapse the system; while young working Americans stop breeding, millions of white girls have learned to emulate the urban freebie crowd. Pop out a “golden ticket welfare bastard” when you are 18, and live as a ward of the state for 50 years.
Section 8 housing screws up the order of things; in the past such people would live in such violent hellholes there was a real disincentive to doing it. Now they are increasingly living in suburban areas (since nobody wants to buy homes anymore); it is just grim, and adding to the permanent Democrat majority every minute.
How pitiful you are. The government isn’t my savior - the Lord Jesus Christ is. I’m sick of the bitching about food stamps when we have bigger fish to fry. If people are abusing the system - don’t worry - God keeps accurate books.
Because I didn’t tell them what to eat, you idiot. See, you are just like the left - you think you have yourself a gotcha moment. Just answer YES or NO George.
I like hot dogs and frozen pizzas - especially the Donatos forzen pizzas. Don’t care much for steak, lobster or sushi though. I eat what I like, and assume others should be allowed to do so as well. Isn’t that the true meaning of tolerance? Guess not according to the hypocrites on here.
Oh, but He did say - render unto Caesar what is Caesars, and unto God what Is Gods. The private charities cannot handle the volume of hungry people. They run out each and every month - the churches were given the mandate to feed the poor, however, some choose to build expensive buildings and what not - so, the government had to step in to fill the gap.
That is a load of bull! The government got involved in charity to better control the population. They’d rather the masses be beholden to the state rather than the church.
The government is only capable of growing larger and running less efficiently.
I would suspect that a few of the people who buy steak on EBT work off the books for people, and are buying for their employers, to trade for cash.
No it isn’t bull. Your post is bull.
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