The number one purchase with food stamps (school, economic, 2015)
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Donald is not obese. He is 6.3 and 236 pounds. Well below the obesity level and his height helps.
I'm 6'6 and 240 and my doctor (and the charts) say that I am overweight and I am only a few years younger then Trump. He needs to be under 200, and even that is borderline overweight.
I love conservatives. Really I do. They are so consistent and without a whiff of hypocrisy. For conservatives who feel they may judge approved and non-approved ways to spend tax dollars:
Bad--SNAP recipients because they are drinking too much unhealthy non-nutritious soda and should use food stamps to drink milk.
Bad--Bloomberg for trying to limit the size of unhealthy non-nutritious sodas one can purchase, because everyone needs a gallon of soda in a cup.
Bad--Michelle Obama for trying to tell us what to eat, which happens to be nutritious food like vegetables, rather than unhealthy non-nutritious sweetened beverages.
Good--judgmental conservatives criticizing people for drinking unhealthy non-nutritious soda using 'their' tax money.
Good--millions and billions of dollars spent for Melania Trump (a former undocumented worker, nude model and 'self-sponsoring' green card immigrant) to maintain her NY lifestyle and not have to be inconvenienced by being forced to move where her husband's job is--at the expense of US taxpayers--of which her PE billionaire husband is not one.
But yet he has probably payed more taxes in any 3 years of taxes than you ever will in your entire life.
Sorry you don't really have a point that matters anymore just because you are a liberal.
a) To the extent that there are "food deserts," they are entirely self-inflicted, since often in poor neighborhoods there is a propensity to rob businesses.
b) If there were "food deserts," then I assume people would be completely open to us handing out food and not money. But they really oppose that. It's like how there are panhandlers who have "will work for food" and if you try to take them up on their offer, they get very irate.
Also, if you left your job to take care of your parents, what exactly did you think was going to happen? You were basically given the convenience of making any decision you wanted to, including to purposefully lose your job and become unable to support yourself. And you openly admit that you did that to avoid spending your parent's money, which I suppose we're supposed to applaud?
a) Horse hockey. The people who own the liquor stores seem to make a nice profit.
b) And you last offered someone food when? I've given food to people like that and guess what? They were grateful.
Also, AKA c) WTF was I supposed to do? They took care of me, I took care of them. And yes, I tried to spare their money so they could have luxuries like medicine and stupid things like that. I don't give a rat's butt about your applause, but you seriously need to step off. right. now. I am not the first, nor will I be the last, caregiver of elderly parents who suffers financially. I hope it never happens to you, and if it does, I hope people treat you with more respect and compassion than you have shown here.
I love how liberals manage to confuse Michael and Michelle lecturing people who pay for their food with us people who don't pay for their food. I know, difficult concep
Liberal solution: just stop paying attention to how other people are spending your money and you will be much happier.
Same poster had to add a dig @ Melania Trump in a food stamp post ... sad little buttercup continues to whine.
Soft drinks, candy, cookies, snack crackers, and ice cream are food items and are therefore eligible items
Seafood, steak, and bakery cakes are also food items and are therefore eligible items
Trump's right ... only in the U.S. are poor people obese. Load up on Twinkies and Coke, get Type 2 diabetes, and then expect the U.S. to provide health care because you abused your body.
Apparently billionaires are obese, too, from the looks of Trump.
There are videos that show what happens when there is a hiccup for just a few hours. It isn't pretty. I assume the welfare takers will resort to looting. They loot when times are good, I imagine when times are bad they won't stop and say, "Hey Tyrone, we really should take care of ourselves and family instead of relying on the federal government."
I hate to break up what seems for some to be a klan meeting, but did you really write, "Hey Tyrone..." when discussing "the poor" (quotations signaling code some of you are using)?
You do know a lot of white people need assistance, right??? And not all assistance needed is because people are lazy???
I love how liberals manage to confuse Michael and Michelle lecturing people who pay for their food with us people who don't pay for their food. I know, difficult concept.
Liberal solution: just stop paying attention to how other people are spending your money and you will be much happier.
SNAP recipients do pay for food. SNAP is supplemental.
Notice that the story doesn't say the SNAP recipients bought MORE soft drinks than non-SNAP people. It was just the #1, whereas non-SNAP people it was the #2 item. For both, the top 2 items were soft drinks and milk.
The SNAP people bought less of them, though. Because they have less money, so buy fewer soft drinks than non-SNAP people.
If that is a valid "study," which it isn't. It's from one grocery retailer in 2011. There were no official studies of such things by those who would know (the govt) until 2015, at which time there was supposed to be a study released.
a) Horse hockey. The people who own the liquor stores seem to make a nice profit.
Good point, but not for you. Notice how people will venture into poor neighborhoods to establish businesses that they frequent? That would be the same for grocery stores. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by Catgirl64
b) And you last offered someone food when? I've given food to people like that and guess what? They were grateful.
That's good, so since they are grateful for food, that's what we should give them instead of money so they can be grateful. See, I believe you. Do you believe you?
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Originally Posted by Catgirl64
Also, AKA c) WTF was I supposed to do?
Not quit your job, for starters.
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