Millions in federal funds to encourage low-income Californians to shop at farmers markets

Sacramento Bee ^ | August 8, 2017 | By Hannah Knowles

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A $3.9 million federal grant awarded to the California Department of Food and Agriculture will help the state expand a program that encourages low-income people to shop at farmers markets, state officials announced this week.

In July, the department launched the California Nutrition Incentive Program, or CNIP, which rewards recipients of CalFresh food stamps who buy fruits and vegetables grown in the state by doubling the value of their vouchers when they purchase at 339 farmers markets throughout the state.

The program’s latest infusion of funds, a three-year Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, builds on several million dollars in private funding and $5 million initially allocated by the state Legislature in 2016 to match federal dollars.

“Primarily, it’s a great way to provide nutritious food to needy Californians, and beyond that, also a way to boost the activities of farmers markets,” said Steve Lyle, state food and agriculture department spokesman.

[Bigg Red]

So very true.

[Kickass Conservative]

Yes, I love all the Taxpayer funded CALFRESH Commercials that are part of the typical daytime TV fodder.

They are placed between the Ambulance Chaser Lawyer Commercials, the Sue Big Pharma Lawyer Commercials, the Big Pharma ED Commercials and the SS Disability Lawyer Commercials showing a bunch of 20ish People (not sitting in Wheelchairs) saying some so and so Lawyer got me my Check!

I wonder, outside of Retired Folks, who sits around all day watching TV? Oh that’s right, all these poor Folks just DVR their favorite Daytime Soaps, Talk Shows and Judge Shows.

There is poor, and there is poor in America. Cell Phones, Cable TV, Air Conditioning, Cars and complaining while someone else (The Suckers) are paying to feed and house them.

The CALFRESH Commercials are some of my favorites. Bright faced Children living in Houses nicer than mine being Fed Taxpayer bought and paid for “healthy” Foods. Everyone is smiling. Who wouldn’t smile when you get to eat for free?

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article Oldeconomybuyer. As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"A $3.9 million federal grant awarded to the California Department of Food and Agriculture will help the state expand a program that encourages low-income people to shop at farmers markets, state officials announced this week."

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Patriots are reminded that states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the corrupt feds the specific power to tax and spend for the stated purpose, career federal lawmakers undoubtedly trying to win votes with this grant.

• “Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

In other words, low-information California state officials evidently don’t understand that the federal grant money that they received should never have left the state in the first place, the feds stealing state revenues in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes.

Let the states take care of low-income people to the extent that a state’s legal voters will allow.

Note that it is much easier for the citizens of a given state to fire bad-apple state officials than to deal with corrupt federal officials.

Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!

Remember in November 2018 !

Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.

In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.

Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.

Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.

”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!

[ALongRoadAhead]

Most of them can barely READ an actual recipe let alone have the brains to follow one. If it weren’t for microwaves a fair part of America would literally starve to death.

[Starboard]

Farmer’s markets are not cheap.

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The “farmers” who sell their produce (and other assorted goods) have taken note of the people who habituate these markets. Like any other business, they know their customers, and it is not lost on them that most of the shoppers are middle to upper class people with money to indulge themselves on products that are more pricey than what is in the local supermarkets. Such customers don’t mind spending more, so the “farmers” quickly learn what price points they can get away with. Just last week we were at a farmers market last week and some guy wanted $2 for a single average size tomato. (No sale!)

Its no unlike Starbucks that charges high prices for coffee and gets away with it because their affluent customers don’t mind paying up for the Starbucks cache and “experience”. It make them feel special.