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Peterson: Congress should 'look at' banning caloric pop from food stamp purchases
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| 05/14/10
| Derek Wallbank
Posted on 05/14/2010 5:55:37 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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To: Sudetenland
Are you aware what the unemployment rate is? It is nearly impossible to find a job in some areas. People who want to control what others eat scare me.
To: ilovesarah2012
Some people have worked their whole lives, many have sucked at the gov’t teat for generations. Neither you nor I know what percentage of which.
And yes, as a matter of fact, if they’re on the receiving end of my (and others’) largesse, we DO get to decide what they get for free. They are certainly allowed to eat whatever they wish, if they pay for it.
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05/30/2010 6:42:00 AM PDT
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Shimmer1
(Don 't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference)
To: ilovesarah2012
Doesn’t matter, if you take government money (tax-payer money) then you surrender your right to self determination.
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05/30/2010 2:04:40 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
To: Sudetenland
Yet the bankers, etc. who received taxpayer money can have parties and retreats and eat caviar and drink champagne and that’s okay. It’s just the “poor” you seek to control. Doesn’t seem fair. How many people do you know who receive food stamps?
To: ilovesarah2012
Your entire comment is irrelevant. The banks have paid back the TARP money. And yes what they did is wrong, but does that mean we ignore any further wrong? Do two wrongs make a right?
Bailing the banks out was wrong, but, of course, when the entire banking industry is in the Democrat Party column, as is "Wall Street," they are going to get away with doing wrong.
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05/30/2010 3:00:18 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
To: TornadoAlley3
If so many of these food-stamp ("SNAP") recipients are obese, perhaps that's an indication they no longer need to receive government aid as they're not in any imminent danger of starving, eh?
Of course, the food stamp ("SNAP") program isn't really about preventing malnutrition, is it? It's about subsidizing high food prices as a reward to the farmers/food producers that own Congress.
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