“Why wasn’t candy and sugary drinks banned before?”
No kidding. The government should invert it and make only “clean” food eligible for SNAP. Fruit, produce and meat. That’s it. Zero processed food. Nobody would starve.
Better yet, get all the freeloaders off all welfare, SNAP, etc.
“Better yet, get all the freeloaders off all welfare, SNAP, etc.”
In 25 states, mostly the big states, Deloitte IES Integrated Eligibility System signs up the free loaders, the DEAD, the DUPLICATES. for SNAP and all welfare benefits.
Deloitte is a bigger fraud than any poor person. Deloitte is one of the biggest fraudsters in the SWAMP.
That Deloitte is the biggest user and abuser of H1b from India maybe irrelevant. That many of these H1b from India are incompetent in IT when they work for Deloitte IES may be irrelevant. Deloitte is fraud above and beyond the H1b.
stop screwing around with soda and candy: if they’re gonna bother, fix this all the way instead of just symbolic fixes: ...
[OTOH i’m guessing there’s zero will for a real fix since probably everyone in Congress is bought out by some portion of the food industry]
nonetheless, the only way to stop SNAP from slowly killing people with very-expensive-to-treat chronic diseases is to list the things that they *CAN* buy with SNAP, because the list of ineligible junk food is simply too long ...
here’s a starter SNAP-eligible list:
meat and seafood in all forms (excluding added sweetener forms)
all forms of legumes (excluding added sweetener forms)
vegetables and fruits in all forms (excluding added sweetener forms as well as all fruit juice)
all WHOLE grains (excluding added sweetener forms)
milk and milk products in all forms (excluding added sweetener forms)
eggs in all forms
seed flours and breads, both risen and flat in all forms (excluding fried forms such as chips as well as all added sweetener forms)
all nuts (excluding added sweetener forms)
cooking oils and fats (excluding semi-synthetic forms such as anything made with hydrogenated oils)
baking supplies and seasonings
My son works at a grocery store and says that they come in and buy lobster and other high dollar items with SNAP cards.