Posted on 03/30/2025 5:00:54 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
If HHS Secretary and healthy food advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has his way, SNAP will stand for Soda Not Allowed Period.
On Friday, Kennedy brought his “Make America Healthy Again” campaign to West Virginia, where Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced that he will be seeking permission from the Department of Agriculture to put soda on the list of items that cannot be bought through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, often referred to by its former name of food stamps, according to The Washington Post.
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Curious. What were people allowed to buy with green stamps?
I am all for SNAP being for healthy food only.
Hookers.
In 1972 I had a professor in a social welfare class clearly state that assistance should be “in kind”. i.e. what the person needed, NOT cash. A bag of food, a place to live.
At that time the idea was in vogue that by giving people cash (food stamps are a form of cash) poor people would learn how to be responsible and manage money for themselves. Which, the thinking went, they would not learn if we just gave them food etc.
His point was that wouldn’t and didn’t work. 50 years later he is still correct.
I know a store owner that will not take EBT. He says it is nothing but trouble. Brings in druggies and thieves into his store.
You are saying you couldn’t possibly get drunk enough to go to bed with that? Whatsa matter, raciss?
The full term is “Soda Pop.”
Soda is the adjective, telling what kind of pop it is.
Pop is the noun.
You could say Soda Pop or Pop and be correct.
You wouldn’t say, the cow is in the red when she’s in the red barn?
Tough beans.
They don’t have to like it. They just have to live with it.
You take handouts from the government for free stuff then take the strings attached.
Just like the restrictions on WIC.
And maybe give them vouchers for farmer’s markets.
It’s not the carbonation that is the problem. It’s the high fructose corn syrup.
I completely agree. Honestly, I think charity should be left to the churches and other private sector actors. Go to the church food bank if you are hungry!
I have less problem with PB&J, eggs, and real milk and real fruit.
You are correct. In any event, I struggle to find Fanta listed in the Constitution’s general welfare clause…
I smell what you’re cooking, but remember: the taxpayers are paying for this, so refrigeration adds an order of magnitude of expense. This aid should be a lifeline, not a lifestyle.
In my 40+ years exposure to food stamp recipients, I have only heard of ONE family that had a genuine need because the dad has a debilitating, degenerative disease.
Other than that, none of the rest of the cases were genuine needs and we lived for almost 20 years in a welfare town down the block from (unfortunately) slum lords who rented to welfare deadbeats.
Half the amount of alcohol needed to get me to even consider physical contact with her would render me impotent and probably require a trp to the ER for alcohol poisoning
An acquaintance used to say that welfare was never meant to be a career choice, and that is indeed what it became. When you saw the 3rd and 4th generation going on it, you KNEW it had become a lifestyle choice.
Was my blood pressure that did in my soda addiction.
I don’t know about purple drank, but in Oklahoma, Dr. Pepper reigns supreme, and not just among SNAP recipients. I prefer Coke Zero, myself.
I no longer drink soda pop but Vernors used to be my favorite. Loved it over ice cream or with milk.
SNAP can be used to purchase vegetable plants and seeds for growing your own.
https://www.walmart.com/search?q=vegetable+plants&facet=benefit_programs%3ASNAP+eligible
I’ve always called it “pop”. Can’t break myself off the habit so it’ll always be pop to me.
And they SHOULD ban it from SNAP, etc. Also chips, cookies, ice cream, etc. All junk food. I resent having to pay for their unhealthy choices, and then have to pay their medical bills resulting from the crap they buy.
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