People receiving welfare are complaining they now cannot buy candy and soda with tax money they are given

[ColonelAngus]

If one wants to purchase NON NECESSARY ITEMS, PAY FOR THEM YOURSELF.

Welfare should be for staple food products. Milk, bread, meat, vegetables, etc.

Not Kit Kat bars and Dr Pepper.

I love the new restrictions.

 

[martybegan]

If one wants to purchase NON NECESSARY ITEMS, PAY FOR THEM YOURSELF.

Welfare should be for staple food products. Milk, bread, meat, vegetables, etc.

Not Kit Kat bars and Dr Pepper.

I love the new restrictions.

 

[August West]

I worked in a deli when I was in high school and you could not use food stamps for candy or soft drinks. Has that changed?

 

[TNHarley]

Its crazy the fruits of my labor are stolen to give to others, simply for existing. Redistribution is bullshit, whether it is mountain dew and skittles, or rice and milk.
Get a fuckin job, or learn how to garden.
The fed govt has no authority to distribute tax payer funds to individuals anyway.

 

[JoeB131]

If one wants to purchase NON NECESSARY ITEMS, PAY FOR THEM YOURSELF.

Welfare should be for staple food products. Milk, bread, meat, vegetables, etc.

Not Kit Kat bars and Dr Pepper.

I love the new restrictions.

It seems you guys love punishing the poor for being poor.

Why not put a big loudspeaker above each cash register when someone uses and EBT Card that calls out, "POOR PEOPLE, EVERYONE, POOR PEOPLE!!!"

 

[JoeB131]

Its crazy the fruits of my labor are stolen to give to others, simply for existing. Redistribution is bullshit, whether it is mountain dew and skittles, or rice and milk.
Get a fuckin job, or learn how to garden.
The fed govt has no authority to distribute tax payer funds to individuals anyway.

Yet you are fine with the fruits of your labor being given to the Military Industrial Complex.

 

[TNHarley]

Yet you are fine with the fruits of your labor being given to the Military Industrial Complex.

No I am not.
They actually have the authority to use funds for the military.
While I am actually anti-war and want our war budget to shrink, that was a stupid comparison.

 

[JoeB131]

No I am not.
They actually have the authority to use funds for the military.
While I am actually anti-war and want our war budget to shrink, that was a stupid comparison.

I agree, spending a million dollars on an expensive missile that misses its target most of the time is a far greater waste of money that providing nutrition to poor kids.

The reality of Food Stamps is that they are corporate welfare for the agricultural industry, and always have been. That's why they are distributed through the Department of Agriculture.

 

[1srelluc]

They can still buy fruit with EBT.....Want something sweet then there you go.

Fruit contains sugar, sometimes a lot of it, but it doesn't have the same effect on your body as the added sugars in processed foods, according to Medical News Today. The sugars that naturally occur in fruit are inside fiber cells that the body must first break down, as opposed to the added sugars in processed foods that the body rapidly absorbs.

 

[ColonelAngus]

I worked in a deli when I was in high school and you could not use food stamps for candy or soft drinks. Has that changed?

You could.

Now you cannot in many places. Florida on April 20th changed.

No candy and soda and things like cupcakes and Twinkies.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Lefties, if this makes you cry….go buy soda and candy for people on welfare.

 

[candycorn]

It seems you guys love punishing the poor for being poor.

Why not put a big loudspeaker above each cash register when someone uses and EBT Card that calls out, "POOR PEOPLE, EVERYONE, POOR PEOPLE!!!"

The sick fvcks get off on it...even though they are more likely to be poor than other demographics.

As I've always said...MAGA is about sticking it to someone--anyone. It's a sickness.

 

[rightwinger]

It seems you guys love punishing the poor for being poor.

Why not put a big loudspeaker above each cash register when someone uses and EBT Card that calls out, "POOR PEOPLE, EVERYONE, POOR PEOPLE!!!"

Trump declares the poor cannot buy candy and soda because it is bad for them.

Then maintains a diet heavy on soda

Do as I say, not as I do

 

[TNHarley]

I agree, spending a million dollars on an expensive missile that misses its target most of the time is a far greater waste of money that providing nutrition to poor kids.

The reality of Food Stamps is that they are corporate welfare for the agricultural industry, and always have been. That's why they are distributed through the Department of Agriculture.

I wont argue with that.

 

[TNHarley]

Trump declares the poor cannot buy candy and soda because it is bad for them.

Then maintains a diet heavy on soda

Do as I say, not as I do

Democrats declare people shouldnt have rifles.
Yet,

 

[braalian]

I agree in principle that food stamp recipients should not be allowed to buy random junk food with it.

I also don’t really think it’s that big of a deal one way or the other.

It’s certainly not worthy of the multiple threads on the subject

You guys really hyper-fixate on minor trigger-issues sometimes

 

[martybegan]

I agree, spending a million dollars on an expensive missile that misses its target most of the time is a far greater waste of money that providing nutrition to poor kids.

The reality of Food Stamps is that they are corporate welfare for the agricultural industry, and always have been. That's why they are distributed through the Department of Agriculture.

The American way of war during and since WWII has always centered around spending $$ on munitions over wasting lives.

There is an old joke about two British Soldiers being lost during the Arnhem Offensive. They are hiding in a bush and hear troops moving a distance off. One of them says "OK, here is how we figure out who they are. We will fire a couple of shots in the air. If we get disciplined rifle fire back, they are British. If we get machine gun fire back, they are German. If nothing happens for 10 minutes, and then we are plastered by three batteries of 155mm artillery and six P-47's with rockets, they are Americans.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Lefties, start a charity, set up tents outside of stores, and buy soda and candy for people on welfare.

 

[pknopp]

If we bail out Spirit airlines to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, do you suppose those who benefit from that taxpayer largess will be able to purchase junk food?

 

[mudwhistle]

It seems you guys love punishing the poor for being poor.

Why not put a big loudspeaker above each cash register when someone uses and EBT Card that calls out, "POOR PEOPLE, EVERYONE, POOR PEOPLE!!!"

It's not funny how you Democrats love creating more poverty so you can bellyache about how Republicans hate the poor.

Democrats are nothing but a bunch of con-artists bent on destroying our economy.

Fact is, poverty shouldn't be a constant or generational....but Democrats need a poor population to sell their BS to.

So they create poverty on purpose.