Posted on 01/15/2017 7:12:22 AM PST by Drew68
This is essentially what the WIC program is (Women, Infants and Children). Not popular with the big food giants who want the stuff they sell to be paid for with tax dollars as well.
I can’t confirm the accuracy of this, but supposedly the LA riot in the early 1990s ended when postmen refused to enter the Deep Ghetto and the gibsmedats wouldn’t get their checks. If that was the case, they’ve circumvented that with EBT now.
It is amazing how the fake news reports our poor are simultaneously 1) starving, and 2) battling an epidemic of obesity and the related diabetes.
Funny how NONE of us seemed to be allergic to DAMNED NEAR anything!!!
One year supply, $2.50 per meal:
https://www.thereadystore.com/1-year-supply-mre-self-heating-full-meals
Also consider:
https://www.soylent.com
Everything a body needs, nothing it doesn’t, in a completely bland drink.
There are no sodas, potato chips, candy or ice cream in this house. Not saying there never is but those just aren’t items bought regularly. There is a box of rice krispies with about 1 serving left that was bought to make Christmas goodies and there likely won’t be another cereal box here until next Christmas. Very little prepacked stuff either.
When I want some potato chips, I’ll slice a potato and fry it. The cost savings is HUGE. By weight, there are only about 2 potatoes in a large bag of chips.
While I make homemade bread, it costs about $1/loaf. The better buy is store brand for 88 cents or reduced deli loaves for 50 cents. The freezer is stocked with reduced meats.
It amazes me how people willy nilly grab items off the shelves without a worry on the price. 90% of my time in the store is comparing prices.
Yup. Nothing like getting ten pounds of cheese and a gallon of peanut butter for free.
“gibsmedats wouldn’t get their checks”
Supposedly the reason Hurricane Katrina had such a high death toll; the same crowd ignored evacuation orders, as it was just before the government checks were due.
A lot. About half that of a coke.
12 oz soft drink = 40.5 grams
12 oz milk = 18.5 grams
Those kids should have been taken away from the parents. If parents can’t FEED their own kids, then someone else will!!
The gov moochers don’t have the same priorities you do. Feeding their children is not their concern because someone else is there shoving food in their mouths - the local soup kitchen, the food bank, EBT card for the McDonald’s a couple blocks over, the school, the neighborhood church, meals on wheels even though it’s supposed to go to grandma, shoplifting a bag of chips in a coke from the corner store or some other do-gooder organization. Mama doesn’t have to lift a finger for dinner. Cooking doesn’t register on their radar.
Money laundering: government pays for people to buy sodas. Soda companies then use that money to pay politicians to keep paying people buy their product....
A bit greedy of you to grab 10 lbs of cheese.
It wasn’t free since my tax dollars had already paid for it. It was a good practice to give away the leftovers at the end of the month to any and everyone than throw it in the dumpster. I dare you to find one person who didn’t like the cheese. BTW, we ground our own pb from real peanuts off the farm.
I used to work for the Section 8 (subsidized housing program) as a clerk.
I saw cops who pretended to “live with THEIR mom” buy a house with HUD, then pretend to be the landlord while actually moving in with baby mama and his kids. The baby mama was on all kinds of assistance, snap, WIC, TANF, EBT, you name it as well as Section 8 subsidy.
Basically triple dipping. My managers weren’t interested in going after fraud.. .”We don’t get administrative fees (federal) for kicking people off the program” was the response.
Were they still using checks at that point?
America the Fat will perish from its food addiction. Between Big Ag, government fat subsidies, and failed American mothers kids don't stand a chance and it shows.
Yup. And, they're hateful for doing it. Leave those poor people alone with some dignity, eh?
57% of Black females in the USA are obese.
Good question, that was the story that was out there.
I believe an appropriate expression is “when you take the king’s shilling, you become the king’s man”.
Nobody is forcing them to stay there. And NOBODY is forcing them to use their Snap money of junk food.
God provides if only a person sincerely asks Him to lead them to answers. Snap/subsidies is not is not an answer and overwhelmingly not God’s best for any person.
WIC is perhaps the only government program that does what it is suppose to do.
You get healthy, boring food. If you want more you can earn a few dollars and liven your diet up a bit.
Add a small amount of meat, double the vegetable allowance and it is what the entire food stamp program should be.
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