Posted on 06/25/2016 4:39:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
When you see an EBT card used to purchase lobster tails, Chesapeake Bay Blue Shell crabs by the bushel something smells
I’ve seen EBT people buying upscale foods while the people paying for this are buying Hamburger Helper. There should be a strict list of food types that can be purchased.
Idiotic article. Le Page is 100% right to restrict these (and other) items from SNAP leeches.
I’m opposed to a food ban just like I’m opposed to a big soda ban.
Politicians have no business micromanaging people’s eating and drinking habits.
We’ve already given up a great deal of our freedom. Let lePage mind his own business and we’ll mind ours.
One might want an investigation in cases where this happens egregiously. Are the persons putting the state on about their degree of poverty? This would be more of a watch list than a banned list.
Not that the state is the best vehicle of what ought to be religious charity, but if it is to be one at all, then it should have some ability to check into the integrity of the claims it gets.
As long as addicts can trade their gummint benies for crack how are they gonna do food police. Laughable.
Let your politician tell you you can’t buy beer, can’t drink big soda and you can’t salt your food.
I bet you wouldn’t like it. A politician is not my doctor and should stay the f*ck out of my life.
LePage is right.
The morality is complicated by the fact that this is a kind of de facto insurance. “I paid for this for years in my paycheck; now that I am down and out, I simply ought to get it as a matter of fairness.”
Right according to some abstract morality or by law applying to the system?
If the poor want to buy booze or junk food with their OWN hard-earned money, that’s their business. When the taxpayers are buying THEIR booze and junk food (or gourmet food), that’s the taxpayers business.
Some of these people are buying potato chips.
I think there might be a subtler plan afoot. If governor LePage continues to tick off the federal nannies, they could end up taking over the food stamp program, or ending it in Maine altogether. Either way, the state of Maine no longer has to deal with it.
SNAP never, ever covered alcohol. Anywhere.
Adults are not children.
With freedom, comes the ability to live our lives irrespective of whether other people approve of it or not.
I wouldn’t want the government to decide what kind of lifestyle is appropriate for me. That’s my business.
LePage is anti-American.
Who are you to decide what people drink and eat?
I’m all for guarding against fraud, waste and abuse but we don’t need or want a food police.
I’ve seen EBT people buying upscale foods while the people paying for this are buying Hamburger Helper. There should be a strict list of food types that can be purchased.
LePage isn;t banning food. He’s just setting parameters for the menu of the government-operated soup kitchen.
Of course. This is typical lefty BS. The libtards always seek perceived injustice and then “virtue signal” the herd for their “moral superiority”. More lemming libtards clamber on and insist gummint DO SOMETHING. Never mind the proposed program is stupid, or unConstitutional or both, and worse. The elected corrupt betray their oath and pass legislation that is not helpful or worse. Rinse, repeat. Oh, and each cycle breeds a new round of cronies that leech off the taxpayers and launders funds back to the DNC.
The Rats have been doing this for decades with great success.
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