[Responsibility2nd]

Let 'em eat beans.

[taxcontrol]

Hey I have an idea, take the money from the EBT cards, buy a whole bunch of MREs and distribute the MREs instead.

[dware]

Let 'em eat beans.

Most do. But of course, gotta have the steak for fajitas to go with the beans...

[BobinIL]

Good Luck with that!! Stood behind a person in the checkout line at Walmart with a cart full of spare ribs and steaks he pulled out the link card to pay for it all and I paid cash for my hot dogs and frozen pizza.

[dennisw]

Remove caviar, lobster and filet mignon

[DungeonMaster]

Missouri Republicans are trying to ban food stamp recipients from buying steak and seafood

And weed and Cadillac cars and cigarettes and cable TV and smart phones....

[boycott]

It won’t fly. All the media will do is make conservatives look silly and hateful.

The thing to do is significantly reduce the amount to where they cannot buy steak and lobster. Motivate them to work if they want that.

Sooner or later, they won’t be buying steak and lobster. The welfare system is going to crash with our broke government.

[Tennessee Nana]

if they stop them from using food stamps to buy steak then they’ll just use money from the EBT cards to buy it..

food stamps are one thing but letting g them have all that money to spend on beer and cigarettes and drugs is crazy

[plain talk]

This is so stupid. I don’t want those on the left or right micromanaging what people eat - even if they are on food stamps. Make food stamps rare and focused on the truly needy and spent on food. Then if they want to squander the whole amount on expensive or inexpensive foods that is their choice.

[mykroar]

[BobinIL]

Of course they also have the time to slow cook those ribs all day unlike the rest of us who are at work all day and only have time to throw in a frozen pizza when you get home before carting the kids off to school events and such.

[MrB]

That story fit a longtime conservative suspicion that poor people use food stamps to purchase luxury items.

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So, the implication here is that it is just a “conservative suspicion”, and therefore not really happening.

So, logically, passing this law would have no effect on EBT users, and the left doesn’t have a reason to oppose it, right?

[Leep]

Isn’t is suppose to be good for the environment not to eat steak and seafood?

[mrsmith]

“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.”

But it doesn’t fall in line with Food Stamps first mission: to profit donors and the media!

[martinidon]

Why would Republicans get involved with this? It they really want to do something about food stamps focus on the real issues; like abuse, fraud and programs that discourage people getting on food stamps. One of the Northeast states came up with a program that recipients of state aid were required to participate in volunteer work for the State. They saw a huge reduction in participants in a very short time period. This law is a feel good law and does not address the issue.

[MSF BU]

Better yet, let them go to the food kitchen

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

When the state pays for your meals with tax dollars don’t be surprised if the state decides what you can eat.

[A CA Guy]

should be temporary.

[Slyfox]

When I was a kid, my dad worked in the shop for Fisher Body in Flint MI. My parents had ten children which meant resources were stretched real tight. So tight in fact that we qualified for surplus foods. I remember standing in line waiting for the oatmeal, butter, cheese, and dried milk. My mother, bless her heart made the best of a trying situation and would buy "whole" milk and add the dried milk to it, that way we'd get 2 gallons of milk out of the deal. But I will tell you she had a hard time whipping the dried milk to get rid of the lumps. When we drank it we had to sift it through our teeth. Fortunately, it did not taste bad.

On a house hunt we entered this one house that had probably nine bedrooms. Priced right. The realtor told us that the people living there at that time were a single mom and three daughters who were on food stamps. I couldn't help looking in the open cupboards in which held at least six packages of Pepperidge Farm cookies.

As a nine-year-old I understood the injustice of knowing that my parents were doing the difficult thing by not getting food stamps and that we were paying for that lady and her daughters to eat those expensive cookies.

Yeah, we got help from getting surplus foods but we also had to pay for someone else to get to splurge on cookies. It still chaffs my hide.

[LadyBuck]

Back in the day when grocery baggers were college students trying to get by and not “special”, we had our own form of social justice, since we saw everything coming down the conveyor belt.

How about a love letter to theose folks:

1. Sorry your kid’s custom cake got smushed. You still got free cake courtesy of the gal that bagged it.

2. Fancy bread squished under heavy stuff? It’s still edible.

3. Eggs - well, it takes a few cracked eggs...

4. Sorry about the ripped packaging on your specialty meats. Lowlife baggers like us have never dealt with it, since we only pay for it, but cannot afford it ourselves.

5. Since you insisted we also hand-load your free-shit haul, please don’t be mad if the wind in the parking lot pushes the cart of ill-gotten gains into your Mac-Daddy Caddy. My boss already posted signs about cart damage when you decided to shop/loot here.

I worked at the least politically correct grocery store in Columbus....and yet they still came back for more. It was a game for all & we employees had a blast one-upping the FSA class.. Shame it didn’t last.

[pallis]

That will be a tough row to hoe. Grocery stores and chains are heavily subsidized by EBT cards. Half of them would go out of business, if the government money were to stop pouring in. The same goes for the markets that supply steaks and seafood. A lot of them will be wiped out. On the flip side of that is the black market. A lot of steaks and seafood find their way to other people who can’t get the EBT cards, and can’t afford to pay market prices for better food. They buy from the entrepreneurial street vendors.