Food stamp recipients sue over restrictions on right to tax-payer candy and energy drinks

[JoeB131]

Back then, yeah, it was "the basics". Which included seafood and all cuts of meats.

I never bitched about it, I appreciated whatever I could get. Thats how my granny raised me.

And yes, before computer registers, cashiers had charts or lists at their registers if they needed help in identifying EBT foods.
But like I said, they were the BASICS, so pretty much they were instantly memorable.

I wouldn't know. Never had to use food stamps.

Let's be honest about SNAP. The main advocates for the program have been the Food Industry. Otherwise, why not just let them write a check and spend it on whatever floats your boat?

What I find hypocritical is that we draw a line between "Welfare" and "Entitlements".

If you are "poor" you are on welfare, and we treat that as something you should be ashamed of. On principle, yes, no one should be eating junk food. But I don't really like the idea of the government "shaming" people over it, which is what this is. Being told by a minimum-wage cashier that you can't have that candy bar for your kids. We know what the intent here is. It's to degrade people.

But the vast majority of money being spent by the Federal government is on middle-class entitlements - Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment insurance, Veterans' benefits. And we don't attach any "shame" to those things because they are "entitled" to them.

 

[Dante]

Reagan/Bush administration official family lived tried living on food stamps FOR A WEEK !

Agriculture Secretary John R. Block said today that a food stamp budget kept him, his wife, their daughter and her friend well fed for a week, but he acknowledged, ''It's impossible to really appreciate the plight of the poor.''

Mr. Block's experiment began last Thursday when he and his wife, Sue, went shopping with $58, the amount prescribed for a family of four using food stamps.

Mrs. Block said meeting the budget took a great deal of time management and financial restraint. She also said she would have been lost without an Agriculture Department guide containing meal suggestions.

Mr. Block said he got enough to eat, but he said he would have liked a beer or a soft drink on a hot day and most regretted passing up an ice cream sundae while he was shopping on the weekend. He said no one in his family gained or lost weight.

THE MAGA WEIRDOS ARE AT IT AGAIN: IT = Going after the poor

We all know few if any recipients spend all of their snap benefits on candy or sodas, energy drinks. But the Maga dolts believe Big Daddy Knows Best.

And we've been here before (surprise!!! under a Republican administration):

In addition, the program is regularly denounced as a breeding ground for fraud and abuse. William Shaker, executive director of the National Tax Limitation Committee, a private advocacy group, told the Senate Agriculture Committee, ''Food stamps score right at the top of the list in terms of misspent Federal funds.''

Supporters reply that the food stamps program ranks as one of the most effective efforts to combat hunger and poverty in recent years. They regularly cite a study sponsored by the Field Foundation that reported last year, ''There are far fewer grossly malnourished people in this country today than there were 10 years ago.'' Food stamps, combined with other nutritional programs, ''have made the difference,'' the report says.

Food stamp rolls have swelled, the supporters add, not because recipients are abusing the program but because the deteriorating economy has made more Americans dependent on outside aid. Begun as Pilot Under Kennedy

''The short explanation for the program's growth is that it works,'' said Nancy Amidei, executive director of the Food Research and Action Center, a nonprofit law firm and lobbying group.

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[Mac-7]

As well as the drug dealers and SUV sales people.

And donations to foreign islamic terror groups

 

[martybegan]

Most people didn't vote for RatFucK Jr. In fact, he had to fold up his useless campaign.

But now measles is back.

Talk about going off on a tangent.