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People really need to stop controlling what the poor should eat. Goodness!
It's always about picking on who's the weakest. I see many of you don't have *ish to say about Wall Street getting billions of dollars in bailout money, but yet want to pick on the single mother who wants to buy pop tarts for her kids.
It won't be as easy though if they are set up like WIC where instead of a "cash" value they'll be good for certain measures of specific foods.
To even attempt to try to stop poor people from eating junk food, you'd have to spend billions of dollars on screening and enforcement.
People would still find ways around it. Just buy nice healthy food with your stamps, sell it to a friend or family member who has a job, and then boom, you have cash for whatever you want to eat (or drink booze in the case of some drunks I know who eat in soup kitchens, but collect food stamps).
So I hope you enjoy paying even more tax dollars to pay people to act as nannies to others, on what they should eat.
Its another reason why this will never happen, as I doubt in this era of budget cuts the feds or the states would so foolishly allocate resources. Oh, and the wealthy junk food industry simply would never let this come to pass. They'd take this to court, and the courts would strike this down hard and big.
To even attempt to try to stop poor people from eating junk food, you'd have to spend billions of dollars on screening and enforcement.
So I hope you enjoy paying even more tax dollars to pay people to act as nannies to others, on what they should eat.
Its another reason why this will never happen, as I doubt in this era of budget cuts the feds or the states would so foolishly allocate resources. Oh, and the wealthy junk food industry simply would never let this come to pass. They'd take this to court, and the courts would strike this down hard and big.
I don't think so. Actually if you go back to the original food stamp program, it did restrict purchases to healthy foods like milk and dairy and produce.
There wouldn't be anything "Nanny" about it. Each person would be allocated certain amounts of certain products. Just like WIC.
It should be your business to improve the lives of children, especially since those children will, sooner than you know, compose a part of the society of which you are also a part.
"Mind your business" is a quite common ghetto mantra. As I pointed out earlier, perhaps without sufficient bluntness.
I agree about the junk food industry. Funny how people picked up on marketing liquor and cigarettes in lower-income areas, made a big fuss, but not junk food. People do comment about it but more action to create awareness should be taken. On 125th Street, there is a McDonald's or similar every ten feet.
Actually, I see no reason to improve the lives of anyone.
If someone wants to do something "bad" they will.
The war on drugs has not stopped drug use. Prohibition failed.
Annerk, you are not personally paying for anything. You are not the government. You are one person out of 300 million. The country does not revolve around you.
So really, what you'd like to see is 100% irrelevant. There's no pending legislation that covers what you speak of. There's no talk in the media about it. All this is the rants of a mad person on the internet. Rant away, it won't change anything.
Actually, I see no reason to improve the lives of anyone.
If someone wants to do something "bad" they will.
The war on drugs has not stopped drug use. Prohibition failed.
Annerk, you are not personally paying for anything. You are not the government. You are one person out of 300 million. The country does not revolve around you.
So really, what you'd like to see is 100% irrelevant. There's no pending legislation that covers what you speak of. There's no talk in the media about it. All this is the rants of a mad person on the internet. Rant away, it won't change anything.
It's your money too, and you should be equally appalled at how it is being wasted.
It should be your business to improve the lives of children, especially since those children will, sooner than you know, compose a part of the society of which you are also a part.
"Mind your business" is a quite common ghetto mantra. As I pointed out earlier, perhaps without sufficient bluntness.
I agree about the junk food industry. Funny how people picked up on marketing liquor and cigarettes in lower-income areas, made a big fuss, but not junk food. People do comment about it but more action to create awareness should be taken. On 125th Street, there is a McDonald's or similar every ten feet.
Hmmm, well, I'm sure everyone knows that junk food is "bad" for them. However, its their money, and their choice to live as they please.
And as for well to do people, I recall a young woman at Cornell getting arrested when the cops found $150k of heroine in her apartment. Wealthy people can do things that are bad for them to.
Bush II struggled with substance abuse, and he's far from the only wealthy person to have done it. There's been a problem with cocaine on Wall Street (they drug test everyone now), major alcohol and drug issues in Hollywood, and lets not talk about drug use on college campuses.
All of this is unhealthy, but no, its cool to pick on poor people, right?
It's your money too, and you should be equally appalled at how it is being wasted.
No, I have better concerns in my life. I really don't care how the taxes I pay are spent. I care about what I do with my own money, and I care about the future of my career and life. What other people I don't give a damn about. Too busy dealing with my own life and my own situation.
Hmmm, well, I'm sure everyone knows that junk food is "bad" for them. However, its their money, and their choice to live as they please.
And as for well to do people, I recall a young woman at Cornell getting arrested when the cops found $150k of heroine in her apartment. Wealthy people can do things that are bad for them to.
Bush II struggled with substance abuse, and he's far from the only wealthy person to have done it. There's been a problem with cocaine on Wall Street (they drug test everyone now), major alcohol and drug issues in Hollywood, and lets not talk about drug use on college campuses.
All of this is unhealthy, but no, its cool to pick on poor people, right?
Actually, I see no reason to improve the lives of anyone.
On the other hand, people ARE extremely selfish.
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