Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: SnakeDoctor
Eh. People who take welfare should be watched like hawks ... but I don’t think we need to go so far as to monitor their diets.

When we are paying for it??

I think EBT should ONLY pay for unprepared starches, vegetables, and non-premium cuts of meat. It has nothing to do with nutrition and everything to do with expectation.

If someone wants to improve their lot and eat lobster, they can start working for it. There is no better incentive than diet.

16 posted on 08/15/2012 5:12:38 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]


To: SampleMan

Yeah, when we pay for it. I’m open to the argument that we shouldn’t pay for it. But, once we do, I don’t think we need to monitor exactly what people are eating.

If they have $200 in welfare, it doesn’t matter to me if they buy all junk food, or lobster, or bare essentials — $200 is $200 is $200. Costs me the same either way. Let ‘em starve because they spent their whole check on one meal, or get fat because they bought a bunch of sugary junk, or whatever. I just don’t care if welfare queens eat healthy. Cut benefits to $100, or $0, if you want ... but using the manpower to police people’s diet is just a waste of time.

Make sure they’re using it on food — not strippers, or drugs, or cigarettes, or booze, or whatever — and let ‘em be. We can monitor diet. We have the right to monitor diet. I just don’t think its worth the time or energy.

SnakeDoc


20 posted on 08/15/2012 5:35:11 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens, Justified)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

To: SampleMan
Back in the day, they were called "commodities" and were handed out one day a month.

Good, solid, wholesome food with no frills and no cash.

Oh, some people sold the five pound block of cheese but that was pretty much the extent of the abuse.

25 posted on 08/15/2012 5:44:55 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (All Y'all White Peoples is racist!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson