Should be limited to the items on Michelle "Arms" Obamas Lets Move racket. Ya know, the whole Food Pyramid we learned about in First Grade. I was at the store tonight and watched a guy buy Pepsi, Doritos and ice cream with his EBT card. That's ALL he bought.
At the risk of taking the thread seriously, should there be restrictions on what kinds of food you can buy with food stamps? Saying "you can't buy ice cream you evil, irresponsible person" seems very punitive to me.
Fuck that shit. You and your purist attitude. Cleansing the board of all that is different than you? Shut up, Eva Braun.
Whoa there, mein kampf. Calm down. Hey, @garamet. What's the difference between Strom Thurmond and you? Answer: Strom Thurmond is dead.
Not to mention he was a Southerner, a Republican, a bigot, an ignoramus, and male. Your humor circuits appear to be malfunctioning. Perhaps you need to be taken offline for a Level-1 diagnostic.
Why not place restrictions on how people use the money we've given them to buy food? I favor food stamps, but would rather they not be used for junk food, or at least not to any significant extent. But apparently that's hard to enforce, since people still manage to buy cigarettes with food stamps. And again on the question you raise, angle 2. Around here, farmers' markets accept food stamps. Often such food is more expensive than Walmart, etc. Is it okay for the recipient to select a more expensive market? I'll be honest and say I don't have answers. There is no way to place value restrictions without first making a value judgment.
And of course, since this is politics, politics will factor into the judgment of what people should or should not be paid to eat. And there will always be someone who "loses".
Why? Why would ya care? Why would you even care? Cuz they're ENJOYING the junkfood? Are the poor supposed to be miserable? This sounds like some obsolete cold-blooded Malthusian bullshit to me.
Much of American politics is driven by the paralyzing fear that someone, somewhere, might be GETTING AWAY WITH SOMETHING, and we MUST STOP THEM!
So what? What if he treats himself once a week or once a month? You know nothing about this person. It's his body and the food will keep him alive which is all food stamps is supposed to do. Hell. I'm losing weight and I am doing it eating absolutely anything I want to and it works because the key is amount. As long as one doesn't hog out on things a person can have whatever they want. Hey...Trolling Protip: Don't make duals based on an obvious pattern...such as "People with a connection to Skrain Dukat" because you will never, ever get away with it.
I didn't even make that connection. I figured out who it was because the trolling was the same kind of unimaginative, ham-fisted shit that Skrain's known for.
And I watched one get cash from it to buy anything he wanted. And he's NOT from the U. S. He has political asylum.
Assuming you meant a health thing, STILL why do ya care? Puts you on the hook to care about everyone's nutrition choices, but unless you're a perfect saint, I bet you're not that consistent.
Not really. But you did open with that value judgement. You made it. I asked why. That question stands.
