First SNAP Ban on Candy and Soda Set To Become Law

[Lisa558]

The ideal scenario would be to have a certified tax payer as a minder for each welfare recipient. They could oversee their grocery purchases, child-rearing techniques, religious practices, etc ... Poor people get fed, and are taught how to live properly by upstanding citizens. Win, win.

Since that’s not possible, let’s just prohibit junk food paid by government money.

 

[dblack]

Since that’s not possible, let’s just prohibit junk food paid by government money.

But if it were possible - right up your creek, eh?

 

[Lisa558]

But if it were possible - right up your creek, eh?

No, I just say junk food is not nutritional and thus should not be part of the Supplemental Nutrition program. Pretty basic concept.

Let them buy junk food with their own money.

 

[Rawley]

Is potato chips food? How about honey roasted peanuts? Are cookies food?

Personally, I'd ban all of those too. It's a nutritional program, it's in the title.

 

[Lisa558]

Personally, I'd ban all of those too. It's a nutritional program, it's in the title.

Agree. Poor people are disproportionately obese because of bad food choices. Taxpayers shouldn’t be enabling them.

 

[Rawley]

Agree. Poor people are disproportionately obese because of bad food choices. Taxpayers shouldn’t be enabling them.

Poor people on SNAP. Poor people not on SNAP are significantly healthier.

Forty percent of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beneficiaries were obese during those years, the study found, compared with 32 percent of poor people who didn't get SNAP benefits and 30 percent of higher-income Americans.

Food Stamp Recipients More Likely To Be Obese, Study Finds

Food Stamp Recipients More Likely To Be Obese, Study Finds

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[Superbadbrutha]

No I get you were. Which I understand is your childish way of acknowledging you were wrong

How was I wrong?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

You’re the one bitching that poor people are entitled to buy anything they want with the Nutritional Supplement that we taxpayers give them - even junk food.

No, I am the one who doesn't give a damn what they buy, as long as, they are not purchasing drugs, alcohol, etc.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Agree. Poor people are disproportionately obese because of bad food choices. Taxpayers shouldn’t be enabling them.

There are plenty of folks with money that are obese as well. You are one bougie, arrogant, entitled, racist ass white woman.

 

[struth]

How was I wrong?

You thought snap recipients got money

 

[Superbadbrutha]

You thought snap recipients got money

What is put on their EBT card every month? Cheese.

EBT cards work as follows:
https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=8fc4...b3JrLWEtZ3VpZGUtZm9yLW9sZGVyLWFkdWx0cy8&ntb=1

• Once approved for SNAP benefits, funds are transferred to you via an EBT card.
• The EBT card works like a debit card and can be used to purchase eligible food items at authorized food stores and retailers.
• Benefits are automatically loaded into your account each month.
• The amount you receive depends on your particular situation.
• EBT cards can be used at grocery stores, superstores, pharmacies, gas stations, and some farmer’s markets.

 

[struth]

No, I am the one who doesn't give a damn what they buy, as long as, they are not purchasing drugs, alcohol, etc.

Ah so you do care what they buy

 

[struth]

What is put on their EBT card every month? Cheese.

EBT cards work as follows:
https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=8fc4...b3JrLWEtZ3VpZGUtZm9yLW9sZGVyLWFkdWx0cy8&ntb=1

• Once approved for SNAP benefits, funds are transferred to you via an EBT card.
• The EBT card works like a debit card and can be used to purchase eligible food items at authorized food stores and retailers.
• Benefits are automatically loaded into your account each month.
• The amount you receive depends on your particular situation.
• EBT cards can be used at grocery stores, superstores, pharmacies, gas stations, and some farmer’s markets.

Correct they aren’t given money. They are given an EBT card, it only becomes money to the store when they redeem the credits for money

 

[Lisa558]

There are plenty of folks with money that are obese as well. You are one bougie, arrogant, entitled, racist ass white woman.

I said nothing about the race of the poor people.

And rich people who are obese buy their own crap. THAT is the point.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Correct they aren’t given money. They are given an EBT card, it only becomes money to the store when they redeem the credits for money

Dumbass, we know they aren't sent cash.

 

[Lisa558]

Ah so you do care what they buy

What’s he’s saying is that he doesn’t care what they buy, as long as it’s not bad staff - and then he gets to define the bad stuff.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

I said nothing about the race of the poor people.

And rich people who are obese buy their own crap. THAT is the point.

I didn't say you did. When they get money put on their card, they buy their own as well.

 

[Lisa558]

I didn't say you did. When they get money put on their card, they buy their own as well.

It is not their money. It is a government program, subject to rules and limitations.

There is a downside to having other people pay for your food.

 

[struth]

Dumbass, we know they aren't sent cash.

So why did you claim they were sent money and it became theirs?

 

[Coyote]

It’s ironic how the same people insisting that poor people can’t use their benefits to buy “junk food” were the same ones who screamed when states like NY tried to take away their Big Gulps.