Why are SNAP benefits so high?

[Paradoxical#1]

You obviously have no clue as to what you are saying because Medicare has no work requirement. Medicaid now does. If you are calling someone out, make sure your own shit is in one sock first!

What the eff are you talking about. My post was about SNAP

 

[toobfreak]

$1.2 billion in cola out of a $112.7 billion budget.
That means from the $6 per day per person SNAP wants to spend, they're drinking two cans of soda.

Whatever the figures, like I said, I might be OK with putting upper limits on the amount of pop a person can buy. Maybe a liter a week? That has to be about 2-4 cans of pop. I'm not crazy about the gov getting involved in telling people how to eat, but perhaps that limit just might encourage some folks to break down and buy something better.

Personally, I prefer passion fruit juice and guava/mango, but pineapple/apricot and pear juice are good too.

 

[Woodznutz]

Actually you'll find that quality foods (high nutrition, low fat etc) is actually more expensive.

Not when you consider the total cost of eating junk food.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

We will always pay for it.

Whether prisons, SNAP, Medicaid, school nutrition programs, etc.

Either we attack it at the front end or we ignore the consequences and deal with it at the back end of poor health.

 

[Lisa558]

How do you know this? Do you look at her bank statements?

She told me.

 

[Woodznutz]

Telling what?


What money? They are on SNAP. And "junk food" is a broad term that could apply to half the stuff in the supermarket.


Meaningless blather. Does that mean if you get hit by a car and I find you alongside the road I get to rob you?


Irrelevant, meaningless blather. All you are pointing out is that this is a problem affecting us all, not just food stamp people and cutting off cola from the sick and needy won't do a thing to address it.

SNAP is calculated to supply about 70 percent of food needs. It is anticipated that the rest will be supplied by the average enrollee. They can certainly buy soda from their share of the food budget as the SNAP allowance can easily pay for 100 percent of their groceries. This leaves all of their 30 percent available for junk food. In the case of someone receiving the maximum allotment they can probably flood their home with soda and still have enough to rot their teeth.

 

[Woodznutz]

Irrelevant, meaningless blather. All you are pointing out is that this is a problem affecting us all, not just food stamp people and cutting off cola from the sick and needy won't do a thing to address it.

It will free us from paying for it.

 

[debbiedowner]

That’s the $1200.

I know, so $240 a month is too much food for anyone person? You had said that was $400 per child and if there is at least one parent it doesn't = $400 per person.

 

[meaner gene]

Whatever the figures, like I said, I might be OK with putting upper limits on the amount of pop a person can buy. Maybe a liter a week? That has to be about 2-4 cans of pop. I'm not crazy about the gov getting involved in telling people how to eat, but perhaps that limit just might encourage some folks to break down and buy something better.

Personally, I prefer passion fruit juice and guava/mango, but pineapple/apricot and pear juice are good too.

Coles Apple & Mango Juice 2L
$3.30

Blueberry Juice 2L
$4.49

Vinut Pineapple Fruit Juice With Pulp
Typically $2.99

Rougemont Royal Gala Apple Juice
$3.65
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Sam's Cola Soda 2 Liter Bottle
$1.00

 

[toobfreak]

Not when you consider the total cost of eating junk food.

How do you do that? Give us the figures.

 

[Woodznutz]

Water is not free. But let me see you drink nothing but tap water for a month, then get back to me.

A healthy person normally needs little water as the body is great at managing hydration. It is when the body accumulates junk that more water is needed to flush it out.

 

[Woodznutz]

How do you do that? Give us the figures.

Cost filling cavity is around $200.

 

[Lisa558]

I know, so $240 a month is too much food for anyone person? You had said that was $400 per child and if there is at least one parent it doesn't = $400 per person.

No, I said it was $1200 for a family of five - the mother and four little kids. And that’s tax-free.

And it’s quite generous for a program that is intended to be SUPPLEMENTAL. You think taxpayers should cover the ENTIRE food bill?

But even so, $300 a week for a family goes quite far. I spend about $100 a week, just for myself - but then, I shop carefully, taking advantage of 2-for-1 sales, “last day” sales, and so forth.

So if I can stretch my OWN money to buy $100 a week in groceries, why can’t a welfare family make do with $300 a week (to supplement any other food spending).

 

[meaner gene]

A healthy person normally needs little water as the body is great at managing hydration. It is when the body accumulates junk that more water is needed to flush it out.

The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine determined that an adequate daily fluid intake is: About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids a day for men. About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women.

 

[toobfreak]

SNAP is calculated to supply about 70 percent of food needs. It is anticipated that the rest will be supplied by the average enrollee.

How do they do that if they have no money? And who decides what their food needs are?
What about your food needs? Maybe we need to look into that too.

with soda and still have enough to rot their teeth.

So now yours is a DENTAL concern. If I throw a tooth in a glass of Coke, how long before it dissolves? When can I see this rot?

When I drink pop, little if any of it actually ever touches my teeth, so when does it rot them? Does it come back while I'm sleeping and sneak up on them? Maybe I should wear a tooth guard.

 

[toobfreak]

It will free us from paying for it.

No it won't. And instead, you'll just pay for other stuff maybe worse instead.

 

[Lisa558]

The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine determined that an adequate daily fluid intake is: About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids a day for men. About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women.

Good thing water is free.

Even the bottled water at Trader Joe’s is only 69 cents. That means you could buy 10 bottles of water for less than a pack of cigarettes!

 

[Lisa558]

No it won't. And instead, you'll just pay for other stuff maybe worse instead.

Yeah, like treatment for diabetes from SNAP people buying all that soda and junk.

 

[Woodznutz]

The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine determined that an adequate daily fluid intake is: About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids a day for men. About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women.

That depends on the size, health, and activities of the individual. There is no one-size-fits-all for fluids.

 

[meaner gene]

No, I said it was $1200 for a family of five - the mother and four little kids. And that’s tax-free.

And it’s quite generous for a program that is intended to be SUPPLEMENTAL. You think taxpayers should cover the ENTIRE food bill?

But even so, $300 a week for a family goes quite far. I spend about $100 a week, just for myself - but then, I shop carefully, taking advantage of 2-for-1 sales, “last day” sales, and so forth.

So if I can stretch my OWN money to buy $100 a week in groceries, why can’t a welfare family make do with $300 a week (to supplement any other food spending).

You have the room to store foods bought on sale, or in bulk that cost a lot less.

People on SNAP are limited in pantry size.