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Big reason for the obesity epidemic.

Do we need to rein in what they can buy?

Another chart:


1 posted on 11/22/2016 1:00:13 PM PST by PROCON
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Trading cases of soda for cash, then drugs.


2 posted on 11/22/2016 1:01:41 PM PST by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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“Do we need to rein in what they can buy?”

No, but the taxpayers should not be paying for it. The “N” in SNAP is for nutrition. There isn’t a pennies worth of nutrition in soft drinks.
The other thing that these leeches do is pay for their “groceries” with food stamps then roll out their cash for booze.


3 posted on 11/22/2016 1:04:56 PM PST by vette6387
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Third worlders use EBT to buy cart loads of soda and take them back to their convenience stores and resell them. Anything they get for them is pure profit... at the taxpayer's expense.
4 posted on 11/22/2016 1:05:05 PM PST by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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As evidenced by the following thread, food stamp people are possibly reselling sodas.
Muslim Woman Caught Buying Soda With Food Stamps To Sell In Her Store

5 posted on 11/22/2016 1:05:11 PM PST by Amendment10
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This is why people at Walmart are so effin fat.

I see it everytime I go to Walmart.

Grocery carts filled with processed food and fat azz people with skin palor that is gross.

And they spends hundreds at the checkout.

They could eat way more food, that would be healthy and still be a bit overweight, instead of being porcine pinnipeds.

If they can’t buy booze and cigarettes on Food Stamps, then they shouldn’t be allowed to purchase these really disgusting foods.

Besides, this should really should have been addressed in ObamaCare as well, to reduce medical expenses.


7 posted on 11/22/2016 1:07:28 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through you're anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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I know a retired surgeon who muses how it would have been more lucrative to have gone into the flavored sugar-water business.


8 posted on 11/22/2016 1:08:21 PM PST by SpaceBar
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Soft drinks should NOT be eligible for food stamps.


9 posted on 11/22/2016 1:08:21 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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How the heck is “eggs/muffins/potatoes” a category? Federal government logic, I suppose...


10 posted on 11/22/2016 1:10:10 PM PST by irishjuggler
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When I was on EBT, I always bought simple, basic food. Eggs, unsalted butter, cottage cheese, hard cheese (cheddar, swiss, jack), ground beef, chicken thighs, pork chops, rye bread (hard tack), and powdered milk. My one treat was shucked oysters in small jars, never costing more than $4. Fresh fruit and vegetables.

No sugar or sugar based products. Nothing containing corn syrup. The rye products were always pure rye, no wheat, as I am allergic to wheat.

As soon as my SS payments became regular, I stopped the EBT payments.


14 posted on 11/22/2016 1:12:34 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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“Eggs/muffins/potatoes”?

What sort of category is that?


15 posted on 11/22/2016 1:12:42 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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$200M in snacks. And $100M of packaged candy.

After looking at this list one realizes nobody needs this type of food. It is a grocery list for the lazy.


16 posted on 11/22/2016 1:13:06 PM PST by Navin Johnson
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Big Corn and Big Sugar...................


17 posted on 11/22/2016 1:14:11 PM PST by Red Badger
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Yep. But Nancy P will again claim that they have already cut the budget to the bone, and can’t cut any more.


18 posted on 11/22/2016 1:14:18 PM PST by mtrott
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Sodas, ice cream, cookies?

so unnecessary.


19 posted on 11/22/2016 1:15:00 PM PST by hoe_cake ( Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution)
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SNAP/EBT = Corporate + Individual Welfare

I’ve read that around 20% of Wal-Marts food sales are SNAP.


21 posted on 11/22/2016 1:15:16 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!


23 posted on 11/22/2016 1:17:28 PM PST by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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This is totally Un-American!

Bacon at #23?


25 posted on 11/22/2016 1:19:52 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Media were SuperPacs for Clinton. Throw them in prison.)
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Do we need to rein in what they can buy?

Only when we are paying for it.

Expand the foods allowed on WIC a bit and let that be what they get on our dime.

Milk, juice, whole grain breads, cheese, no sugar cereal, tuna, beans, peanut butter is the current list I believe.

Add in some more meat ration such as a chicken and some ground beef and let it stand.

Why is it ok to restrict the buying of women but not ok to restrict the buying of men?

26 posted on 11/22/2016 1:20:11 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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I am actually for ending wealth transfer programs such as this.

Let them go to the food banks - there they do not have all the crap items they can waste other peoples’ money on and still complain how bad they have it.


28 posted on 11/22/2016 1:20:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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29 posted on 11/22/2016 1:20:57 PM PST by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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