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In almost every city ranked, the word “poverty” was mentioned.
Well, we have the fattest poor people on the planet, bar none.
This could be fixed in a week or so if the congress had the balls to change the Farm Bill (this is where food stamps lives, and it is federal, not local, so an individual state cannot do anything about it, even if they wanted to.
They talk about exercise initiatives and walking, etc. Hell’s Bells, would any of you walk in Baltimore, Detroit, or SE Los Angeles?
I own a grocery store in Virginia. The “Food Stamp Queens” are the fattest customers I have. And believe me, they are militant, multi-generational, entitled, and proud of it. Any real “cash” money they have goes to cigarettes, alcohol, and lottery tickets.
It is nothing for them to lay down on the belt arms full of chips, dip, sodas, ice cream, candy, cookies, popcorn, etc. Very seldom do I see any “real” food cross the scanner. The children they have with them are just as fat as they are.
I don’t buy for a minute the nonsense about “access” to healty foods. Within 5 miles, we have a Wal-Mart Supercenter, a Food Lion, and a large SuperValu. All the food in the world is available in these stores.
All the government has to do is remove the above-mentioned items from the allowability list. The problem would start to go away in very short order. But unless the party that proposes it has a veto proof, cloture proof majority, it ain’t gonna happen!
Flame away if you feel the need, but this is the reality where I live.
“Flame away if you feel the need, but this is the reality where I live.”
No flames here because you are dead on. I worked at a C-Store through college that was by a section 8 apartment complex. My experiences were the exact same as yours.
The welfare queens shop at expensive c-stores and buy crap. The reason being, they think if they aren’t spending a lot of money at once, they are saving money. Many just don’t go to the market and buy a bill of groceries. The same people who do this are the same ones who would put $2 worth of gas in their cars every two days instead of filling up once every two weeks. They simply do not have a clue how to manage even a little money. Why would they? More is coming next month and they don’t have to do a thing for it.
In short, it’s just plain laziness and ignorance. How are we to expect people who literally drag their feet when they walk and lie down when they drive to be fit and healthy?
There is a lot of talk here about Southern cooking, etc. That is just a sorry argument. We eat healthier today than ever before in history. What we don’t do is MOVE as much. According to many posts on this thread, I should weigh 300 lbs. I cook with real butter. I fry stuff all the time. I drink sweet tea and enough Coke to keep a factory open. I weigh 160 lbs and am 6 feet tall. I can also drop and give you 51 right now.
Southern heat, my butt. Sweating is good. It’s all I can to to keep weight on during the summer. Know what I did during the heat of the summer? Rented a jack-hammer and broke up all the concrete surrounding the pool in my yard, tossed all the brken concrete (almost a foot thick in some places) and filled in the pool. I dug up 6 LARGE pompus grass plants (weighed over 500 lbs each) and hauled them off. I had to use an engine hoist to get them in the back of my truck. I also rented a skid-steer and leveled the back yard where I filled in the pool. I also installed gutters on my house and built two large flower beds.
To hot to go outside, my butt. Too lazy. Anyway, sorry about the rant.