A “rant”? LOL. It's just conservative common sense and I do NOT agree with you.
“Let them choose what they buy with our money, but...”
The “but” is where we disagree.
“If the food stamp reciprients are choosing to buy foods other than basics, they are receiving too much.”
Not necessarily. If they want to use that money on something other than YOU approve of it does not compute that they are “getting too much”. You simply do NOT approve of how they are spending it.
“I’m not trying to dictate what anyone buys,”
You certainly ARE! From your reply, when a recprient goes beyond what YOU believe they should be buying on food stamps, than they are “receiving too much”. So you DO want to DICTATE what they can buy because you do NOT like what they are buying.
“but obviously, if they are buying shrimp, steak, pre-prepared foods, pie, and ice cream,
they have “extra”.”
Again, YOU are determining what the “extra” is. I don NOT agree with this. I do NOT want to DICTATE that buying “shrimp, steak, pre-prepared foods, pie, and ice cream, are “extra”. YOU want to DICTATE that buying these foods are “extra”.
BTW, it is highly unlikely that on FOOD STAMPS you are buying upend food. There simply isn't enough money for that. Food stamp people are not living on lobster tails, fillet mignon or expensive cheese cakes. What they typically do is buy JUNK FOOD that is cheap. Again THAT is up to them.
I buy junk food too and I'm not on food stamps. SOme days I feel like eating a Tastycake. So I buy it. If someone else wants to buy a Tastycake, it is NOT up to me to tell them "this is not a "basic", so you can NOT buy that." You'll become obese,now excuse me, while I consume, MY TASTYCAKE because I am not of food stamps.
So we DO NOT agree.
Again, I value freedom and do NOT want to DICTATE what others buy while on food stamps in hard times. If ice cream makes em feel good - great. I want people to have individual choices and not be dictated to by the government or you on what they are allowed to eat. Government does NOT know what is best and all this administration wants to do and fellow Demoncrats is to restrict freedom and control whoever they can.
OK, OK, you win.
They should be able to take 80% of my paycheck and spend it as they please with no input from me, the producer of the wealth that they are using.
You’re right, this is the only “freedom oriented” solution.
Well said!
Good grief - the government is not telling them what they can or cannot eat. Dummy up.
If I spend money out of your pocket, should you have a say in how it is spent?