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So I just looked at the choices a little closer. One is "No, only food". Is a wedding cake not food?
Well , considering you can get a loaf of bread for 99 cents and a wedding cake is $ 200 , I personally feel that wedding cake is a frivilous expense to me ( maybe I am the only one thinking that way )
My thought and idea of food stamps is for someone so poor they cannot afford food ( food that keeps you alive ) so they ask the government to help them.
If they qualify the gov'ment gives them a voucher , card , and tells them to go buy food to keep themselves ALIVE.
I don't see a wedding cake as anything but empty calories that lasts at best 2 days before going stale.
The point of food stamps is to allow the user to buy food of some kind to support the agribusiness industry. Buying a premade cake may not be as sensible as buying the ingredients and making your own but not everyone knows how to make and bake (You had to put it in the oven?) a cake.
Food Stamps are the result of a big businesses realizing they would never realize the economies of scale if they did not have a market for the products. So long as the stamps are used they have done their job.
I see that you just don't like farmers, no matter whether big corporate ones of those who do all their own work. Oh yes, they are still easy to find in the Great Plains but they do incorporate to keep families in control of their land and for tax purposes.
You don't know that farmers are subsidized throughout Europe and Canada,do you? You need to check into this when you get a chance instead of just making all that noise about them painted with your broad brush.
Well , considering you can get a loaf of bread for 99 cents and a wedding cake is $ 200 , I personally feel that wedding cake is a frivilous expense to me ( maybe I am the only one thinking that way )
My thought and idea of food stamps is for someone so poor they cannot afford food ( food that keeps you alive ) so they ask the government to help them.
If they qualify the gov'ment gives them a voucher , card , and tells them to go buy food to keep themselves ALIVE.
I don't see a wedding cake as anything but empty calories that lasts at best 2 days before going stale.
Well there is your problem!
We don't wait until someone is licking water out of a gutter and eating out of a garbage can before givng them benefits. And honestly, you can only eat so much 99 cent bread.
But just so you know, I don't think a wedding cake should be purchased with food stamps but I'm not caring about what they buy as much as the entire welfare system itself.
Well , considering you can get a loaf of bread for 99 cents and a wedding cake is $ 200 , I personally feel that wedding cake is a frivilous expense to me ( maybe I am the only one thinking that way )
My thought and idea of food stamps is for someone so poor they cannot afford food ( food that keeps you alive ) so they ask the government to help them.
If they qualify the gov'ment gives them a voucher , card , and tells them to go buy food to keep themselves ALIVE.
I don't see a wedding cake as anything but empty calories that lasts at best 2 days before going stale.
It's none of your business. Your poll choices are pretty angry and hateful, too.
They can buy a wedding cake at Walmart or most grocery stores with their EBT cards because it's considered food.
And, then they can use the cash portion of their "benefits" for champagne and cigars for their guests and to get dragon lady acrylic nails done before the big day.
That's the way it is right now.
So conservatives and liberals should be on the same page, right along with moderates. Liberals wanting nutritional standards, educating people about the difference between junk food and real food... this all dovetails together if only you'd drop the pettiness. You cut the baby in half thinking yourselves righteous.
No, food stamps should buy food, not junk food. Cake is junk food with a bit of real food tossed in. Sugar is not actually food. Defending misinformation campaigns (that dictate our government policies) yield the junk science selling kids cigarettes. When Americans are both fat and malnourished, when everything they know about nutrition has been privatized via madison ave salesmen... this is what you get. People do not associate a full time diet of McDonalds with self destructive behavior. It factually IS.
So conservatives and liberals should be on the same page, right along with moderates. Liberals wanting nutritional standards, educating people about the difference between junk food and real food... this all dovetails together if only you'd drop the pettiness. You cut the baby in half thinking yourselves righteous.
No, food stamps should buy food, not junk food. Cake is junk food with a bit of real food tossed in. Sugar is not actually food. Defending misinformation campaigns (that dictate our government policies) yield the junk science selling kids cigarettes. When Americans are both fat and malnourished, when everything they know about nutrition has been privatized via madison ave salesmen... this is what you get. People do not associate a full time diet of McDonalds with self destructive behavior. It factually IS.
Some great points. Did you see Super Size Me ? The movie ?
The purpose of food stamps should be to sustain life not provide for a wedding
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