Kentucky wants to ban junk food from SNAP (food stamps)

[DonGlock26]

I've been saying this for a thousand years. SNAP should only get you rice, flour, rolled oats, bananas, and canned beans.

Kentucky bill would restrict select ‘junk food’ from SNAP benefits

House Bill 279 labels some 'junk food' as accessory foods, or ones that would not be staple foods under SNAP if passed.

www.wkyt.com

These programs should provide healthy affordable staples not Burger King.

 

[dblack]

Bullshit. You know nothing about them. You don't know how much taxes they've paid, authoritarian fuckwad.

This same kind of thing will happen if and when they nationalize health care.

 

[Muhammed]

These programs should provide healthy affordable staples not Burger King.

Every individual's nutritional needs are different. And some people are so fuckin stupid that they think a highly nutritious burger is somehow unhealthy. Next the corrupt government will have you believing that bugs are the best food on the planet.

 

[Concerned American]

The government should not ever dictate what the people eat. That is some Orwellian shit there.

The government doesn't dictate what people eat. When someone goes on the dole, they are BEGGARS. Ever hear of BEGGARS CAN'T BE CHOOSERS? I think there should be a list of approved foods for SNAP purchasers--fresh foods and vegetables and nutritious dried and canned goods, staples--period. Maybe along with the initial SNAP card, a "from scratch" cookbook. If you want anything else--get a job.

 

[martybegan]

The government doesn't dictate what people eat. When someone goes on the dole, they are BEGGARS. Ever hear of BEGGARS CAN'T BE CHOOSERS? I think there should a list of approved foods for SNAP purchasers--fresh foods and vegetables and nutritious dried and canned goods--period. If you want anything else--get a job.

It should also give them incentive to improve themselves and get off the dole it they want to be able to afford Doritos.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Good. I have no problem with this.

If you want Cheetos and soda, then it should be paid for with your own money.

 

[Concerned American]

And some people are so fuckin stupid that they think a highly nutritious burger is somehow unhealthy.

A better, more healthy burger can be made at home---CHEAPER.

 

[martybegan]

A better, more healthy burger can be made at home---CHEAPER.

How many people can still make those?

I wouldn't deny them frozen hamburger patties and buns, just no chips and dips and chocolate and other crap.

 

[Concerned American]

This would be a no brainer if providing food to the poor and working poor were really the goal of SNAP.

But it is a program of buying votes, both from the recipients and people who grow, manufacture and sell the products.

WIC has strict rules about what can be purchased with taht benefit and nobody much cries about it.

I've got a real bone to pick with double dipping programs. If a family is on welfare and takes advantage of a "free school breakfast or lunch" their welfare payment should be deducted a like amount to cover the meal. There should be NO FREE LUNCH.

 

[Concerned American]

How many people can still make those?

I wouldn't deny them frozen hamburger patties and buns, just no chips and dips and chocolate and other crap.

A kid in high school can make them, anyone can. I didn't suggest they can't, I said they can make the burger at home instead of wasting the gas to go to the drive up and order their super size big mac and fries and diet coke and then complain that they are obese. LOL, common sense is just not common anymore.

 

[DonGlock26]

Every individual's nutritional needs are different. And some people are so fuckin stupid that they think a highly nutritious burger is somehow unhealthy. Next the corrupt government will have you believing that bugs are the best food on the planet.

They can cook their own burger.

 

[dblack]

How many people can still make those?

I wouldn't deny them frozen hamburger patties and buns, just no chips and dips and chocolate and other crap.

How gracious of you.

 

[ThisIsMe]

I've been saying this for a thousand years. SNAP should only get you rice, flour, rolled oats, bananas, and canned beans.

Kentucky bill would restrict select ‘junk food’ from SNAP benefits

House Bill 279 labels some 'junk food' as accessory foods, or ones that would not be staple foods under SNAP if passed.

www.wkyt.com

I've been saying this for a thousand years. SNAP should only get you rice, flour, rolled oats, bananas, and canned beans.

Eh...I'm actually more forgiving on that. I think it should be the same things that other average people get, I'm fine with that, personally, but if they are filling their carts with T Bone steaks, and things like that...I'm like...uuh..I'm not so sure about that.

 

[martybegan]

How gracious of you.

I pay for my own food, I get decide what I want to eat.

 

[Independent thinker]

I've been saying this for a thousand years. SNAP should only get you rice, flour, rolled oats, bananas, and canned beans.

Kentucky bill would restrict select ‘junk food’ from SNAP benefits

House Bill 279 labels some 'junk food' as accessory foods, or ones that would not be staple foods under SNAP if passed.

www.wkyt.com

I used to work in a retail chain which sold food and took EBT cards. Ringing up bunches of donuts, potato chips, and sodas was par for the course with these cards.

 

[StatesRightsForever]

Personally I am with the government being able to define the items that can be bought, to focus the monies more on staples and child needed items.

Bad idea. Poor people shouldn't have kids. Giving SNAPPERS extra money for having kids encourages them to have kids. THINK

 

[StatesRightsForever]

The recipients of food stamps also paid taxes, you fucking blithering idiot.

Gas tax and sales tax doesn't count, you moron. THINK

 

[StatesRightsForever]

And buying shit junk food, and then paying cash for cigarettes and lottery tickets shouldn't be an option.

Anyone who wins a state run lottery should not get the winnings. They'll say, "I didn't buy it - a friend gave it to me." Tell them tough titties. You get nuffing.

 

[StatesRightsForever]

These programs should provide healthy affordable staples not Burger King.

Zakly. A person can gave live great on cheap nourishing food like rice and beans. Instead our black friends take the snap money and gorge on cheetos and snickers bars

 

[StatesRightsForever]

I've got a real bone to pick with double dipping programs. If a family is on welfare and takes advantage of a "free school breakfast or lunch" their welfare payment should be deducted a like amount to cover the meal. There should be NO FREE LUNCH.

The answer to that is to ban schools feeding kids. Tell the parents to make a sack lunch for junior.