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.
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Here is a bigger question. Why does a state like Missouri with 6 million people have 1 million on food stamps?
Michelle Obama sure thinks that what we all eat is her business and she makes no secret of it.
Make spam mandatory. that will cut down on the number of EBT people!
So if they can’t afford to buy it even if they wanted to, what’s the problem.
BTW, bucko, I have spent weeks eating nothing but Top Ramen or 2 for a dollar chicken pies, because that’s what my wallet ordered me to eat.
Show a little gratitude that you’re getting money in your wallet for nothing.
It is a program to supplement food purchases. So if $1.41 is added to what you can spend on every meal, yes you can eat better than I do.
House them at the County Commune. Put Sheriff Joe in charge.
Yeah, well that’s the problem.
I pay to feed myself AND I pay to feed those who are too stupid, lazy or ignorant to feed themselves.
It should be up to me either way — how MY money gets spent.
Make them buy crap that Moo decrees to be healthful and PC. White House Mama Moo knows all.
Fish heads and rice at the County Commune. What especially irks me is that many spend NO time helping to support the govt. Time is money. They are required to spend NONE unlike the rest of us.
The Bible says you don’t lend at interest to a poor person, you are to return him his cloak before sundown if you have taken it to secure repayment and you’re too leave the growth of your Sabbath year as food for them.
Why all the anger? Poor people don’t break the law, curse or spit on those who help them. There seems to be more anger at them than at rich people who get away with it.
As though they did something to deserve such treatment.
I was thinking it's much like the bears. You start feeding bears, you get more bears. Pretty soon you've got bears busting down doors and breaking into cars looking for food.
I agree in theory with Denniger. But if a person is homeless and has no way of cooking food, it doesn’t make much sense to ban them from deli or cooked meals.
Gee and I wonder how the poor were treated when Andrew Carnegie was a simple telegraph operator or John D Rockefeller was a bookkeeper or Daniel K Ludwig was a teenage dock worker? Oh, I forgot that working back then was not regarded as bordering on criminal behaviour back then.
Forced “charity” is theft.
Here we have so-called conservatives playing the role of Michelle Obama: dictating what people can buy.
I’m heartily sick of the arrogance.
Let’s stop the whining and do away with snap and the EBT card entirely except for the TRULY disabled.
Go back to handing out basic food commodities to others down on their luck.
Then they won’t have to feel bad going into grocery stores.
Taxpayer funded assistance is supposed to be a helping hand - not a multi-generational family business.
She is complaining about flank steak? Fank steak tastes great if prepared well. She never states her disability, so it probably is one of those “ chronic fatigue” diagnosis which is BS.
Keep that in mind if you ever help someday.
The Salvation Army does good work and provides meals.
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