[Yo-Yo]

Tell you what, let's try a social experiment. Mayor Bloomberg and Moosechele Obummer want to dictate what you should and should not eat? Let's start with those on public nutrition support such as WIC or Food Stamps.

Let Moosechele and Mikey head a commission to determine which specific food items are eligible for purchase with public assistance funds. This assistance is in the form of debit cards these days, and even the smallest convenience store has a scanner at the check out. The systems can be programmed to accept or reject purchases based on a master list of "approved" items.

Limiting what these debit cards can purchase may also reduce their value as drug or sex barter.

Then we can see how well their policies work (or don't) on that group.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You make sense but the article tells us:

....”For more than half an hour, Canales listened to their concerns about his bill and another proposed by a lawmaker who wanted to eliminate candy and chips: Should government really be in the position of telling adults what to eat? And if so, who would be trusted to sort through the 40,000 items sold in a typical grocery store and divide healthy from unhealthy? If energy drinks were banned, why not also ban canned iced coffee that has twice the caffeine and triple the sugar? Or Sunny D fruit drink? Or Gatorade? Or fruit punch? And once every product had been rated and sorted, what if some grocery stores decided it was easier not to accept food stamps at all? Or what if food-stamp recipients felt too stigmatized to shop?”...

[MV=PY]

"Mayor Bloomberg and Moosechele Obummer want to dictate what you should and should not eat? Let's start with those on public nutrition support such as WIC or Food Stamps."

Fair enough. If they must experiment, run the experiments on the takers, not the makers.

In addition, if recipients are on the dole for a certain time period let's suspend the right to vote and drug test them.

There should be a cost to consume the wealth of others. Best if that cost teaches responsibility.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

WIC does tell you what you may buy and it is actually good food.

Whole grain, beans, fish, milk (not chocolate) fruits and veggies. It is actually one of the few govenment programs where the money is spent in a more or less sensible manner.

Food stamp money on the other hand is "buy almost anything you want food wise".

[manc]

Agree if Chewbacca and Bloomberg care about weight then start with those on handouts like Food stamps.
They should only be allowed to get fruit and veggies, no more chips, soda’s,junk food etc .
What no, , yea silly me , they would lose their voting bloc.