Proposal would let some KY food stampsbe used at restaurants (Louisville: job market, buying)

[The Dissenter]

Proposal would let some food stamp be used at restaurants - WAVE 3 News - Louisville, Kentucky

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Controversy has exploded over this one question: Should some people on food stamps, who can't make their own meals, be allowed to use food stamps at restaurants, including fast-food places? It's a proposal that the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services is considering.

Makes perfect sense considering KY's rankings in physical health. This from a big guy.

[EclecticEars]

As Bill Cunningham, a liberal-turned-conservative and long-time, well-known talk radio host from Cincinnati, once said:

"America is the only country in the world with fat poor people."

Way to perpetuate "health" and "family services," CHFS! Woo-hoo!

I might slightly consider the idea if the foods specifically allowed fall below calorie, fat, saturated fat, trans-fat, and carbohydrate thresholds. However, I don't see this happening. Then again, I don't think Panera will have hordes of "poor" people eating there anytime soon, anyway.

[censusdata]

I think too many Americans are on public assistance BUT in fairness we've gone everything we could do to get rid of low skill/ low wage jobs. We're basically to the point that the increasing number of very rich people must pay taxes because there aren't enough jobs for poor people. I would love to work this summer btw semesters but the job market is tight enough that no one wants to hire a college student who will only work a few months.

While I personally don't like high gas prices for myself I think in the long run it will benefit society. It will make buying all our cheap plastic crap from China less economically so those products will increasingly be locally made. Many experts on Peak Oil think agriculture will be one of the fastest growing job segments in this century since large scale factory farms depend on cheap oil for everything - fuel for tractors, creation of pesticides/ fertilizers.