Posted on 04/02/2015 5:37:09 PM PDT by dynachrome
Anger toward those living below the poverty line seems to only be increasing. Maine and Missouri have proposed bills limiting residents’ food choices if they use SNAP. Missouri House Bill 813 would bar the state’s 930,000 food stamp recipients from using their benefits to buy cookies, chips, soda, energy drinks, steak and seafood. (The legislature also implemented mandatory drug testing for TANF applicants in 2011.) If the bill becomes law, a Missourian can’t buy a can of tuna with an EBT card. Tortilla chips to go with salsa? Nope. Flank steak — tough, stringy and the only cut of beef I can afford — is off-limits, too. Who are these people, and what makes them think that what we eat is their business? And given that the average food stamp allotment in my state in 2013 came out to just $1.41 per person per meal, I wonder if they understand that recipients couldn’t buy lobster if they wanted to.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
H/T to Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org
See his take here:
“End ‘Food Stamps’
The screaming is getting louder and more-desperate by the day..”
http://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=229979
it’s like obamacare at the grocery store.
Either transfer wealth or don’t. Adding strings is against personal liberty.
The way they use their EBT cards is criminal.
Yep. It’s their human right to have the government steal from us on a permanent basis. And then they get to buy whatever they want with the money that is stolen from us.And you are a dirty rotten low-down SOB if you say boo about it.
It’s so they won’t feeeeeeeeel bad you see.
Is this from The Onion?
Transfering wealth is against personal liberty.
Make it open. “Here’s $5000. See you next year.”
Of course many will blow thru it
I guess hundreds of people standing in bread lines is bad PR. Out of step with our “soaring” economy. LOL.
Agreed. Cut it all off.
Some people can not be helped.
It's not your Money. And there's a high percentage of people using those cards
to buy steak and lobster only to sell it for a lower price to buy drugs and booze.
Enough already. I hope this catches on nationwide.
Because the government treats them like criminals.
Lobster-Eating Food Stamp Recipient Refuses Hannity’s Job Help
http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/03/13/welfare-surfers-saga-continues-lobster-eating-food-stamps-recipient-refuses-hannitys-help
Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores and X-rated shops
http://nypost.com/2013/01/06/welfare-recipients-take-out-cash-at-strip-clubs-liquor-stores-and-x-rated-shops/
“Make it open. “Here’s $5000. See you next year.”
Of course many will blow thru it”
Obama: “ And a little “blow” if there was money for it.”
From what I can tell they are not being treated any worse than the people who have to pay for the benefits.
After working at the grocery store for a number of years and seeing first hand, the vast majority of food stamp recipients loading there carts up with crab legs, steaks and convenient foods, I firmly believe food stamps should be ran like WIC programs, just the essentials, milk, cheese, peanut butter, rice, beans, with the addition of veggies. It is both nutritious and cost less to eat healthy.
I was just about to post a link to that article. His take is pretty much spot on. (as is most of his opinions)
First of all, it's their business if they're paying for it.
Second of all, we now have state and federal governments that want to use taxes to raise the price of stuff they think we shouldn't eat, even though we pay for it ourselves.
So either find money to buy what you like or else STFU and eat what other people are willing to buy for you, and be thankful about it.
Lord, this entitlement mentality is killing our country and our society.
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