[GeronL]

Where will it stop? No cereal? No boxed or canned foods? Fresh fruit, veggies and bagged beans only?

Food police

[Scotsman will be Free]

If you are on welfare getting food stamps then tough titty said the kitty. Get a frigging job, then you can purchase whatever you want.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I actually have no problem with gov’t restrictions on things when the money is coming from the public coffers. If people are going to insist on having other people support them, they should accept whatever guidelines are imposed upon them. Might make welfare and other gov’t programs less attractive.

And no, I don’t condemn anyone who has to accept public aid on a temporary basis, to get them through a rough patch. But if you make it too easy and comfortable, it becomes a lifestyle.

[Sudetenland]

Hey, you take largess from the government, they have every right to constrain how you use it.

You don't like it, don't take welfare or food stamps. Simple and logical.

I think they should restrict it to balogna, processed cheese, the cheapest bread, and milk-if you have a baby. Make it bad enough and maybe people will work instead of lying on the couch at home making more welfare babies.

Governmental "charity" should be subsistance level only; the bare minimum to preserve life and health . . . 1500-2000 calories/day. If they want more, they would have to work for it.

further, if you have a large screen TV, cable-or some variation-pay TV, or cell phones, you should lose all public assistanc . . .you ain't poor enough.