There are many items at the grocery store that Food Stamps will not buy. Such as paper towels, cleaning supplies, toilet paper, etc.
Personally, I’d like to see Food Stamps restricted to actual food items. This would leave out all “empty calorie” items.
It’s really discouraging to see an obese Mom and her fat kids in the checkout line when she whips out the Food Stamps Debit card and her basket is filled with nothing but non-nutritional items (cookies, potato chips, Doritos, ice cream, pie, pop-tarts, soda pop (usually Pepsi or Mt. Dew), etc.)
What I would like to see is a specific brand named "Largesse." Food stamps would only be able to purchase the Largesse brand foods. There would be two things...a Largesse cereal and a highly nutritious Largesse slurry. The moochers would have to choose what they wanted to eat, cereal or slurry.
she might have all the chips etc as she is over weight but when I see her getting shrimp at the checkout then it really pisses me off.