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.
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.
“LePage is anti-American.”
Really? Perhaps then you should take a look at the rules for the WIC program, which is similar to food stamps. Under that program, the food types that you can purchase are very limited. The idea being to subsidize food purchases for healthy foods for women, infants, and young children. Only food stamps allow you to buy twinkies, soda pop, and potato chips.
Oh and another thing, perhaps out west there isn’t so much fraud with SNAP/food stamps, but on the east coast it’s rife. One of the scams that is very popular in appalachia is for folks to buy soda at one store with their SNAP, and then sell it at a discount to another store and pocket the proceeds. This proposal would make that a lot more difficult as you couldn’t buy soda.
I do not want the government interfering in my lifestyle either. That’s why even during a hard time in which we probably could have received food stamps, we didn’t apply.
Whoever provides for your family gets a say in how you live. Don’t want government interference? Don’t take government handouts.
WIC vouchers are extremely specific, food stamps could be changed in a similar manner.
If I’m paying for your food I can damn well decide what you get
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