Posted on 05/20/2024 12:12:27 PM PDT by chickenlips
An alarming study has spotlighted how 42 million food stamp recipients spend their welfare handouts on ultra-processed junk food.
Coca-Cola, Sprite and other soft drinks are the most commonly-bought items via the $135 billion-a-year Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a new study says.
Candy, potato chips, frozen pizza, ice cream, cookies, and other ultra-processed food dominates the top 20 items, says a report from the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC).
Report author Matthew Dickerson says recipients spend 'spend significant portions of their allotments on junk food.'
These 'non-nutritious foods' include 'sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods, which can lead to poor health,' says the 35-page study.
The prevalence of junk food is another reason to trim SNAP, which has ballooned this century and gets recipients hooked on handouts, says Dickerson.
The research comes as Washington lawmakers debate the text of an updated farm bill, with Republicans gunning to cut some $27 billion worth of nutrition program funding over 10 years
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SNAP freesup a LOT of ‘pocket money’ to buy junk and booze!
And braids and nails and dreds and sneakers and...
The rest of the money they just squander.
If the water was drunk, it would be pissed away later anyway.
He merely sped up the process.
This is NOT exercise.
This lady has a job, and being an approved, government paid floor strength tester is no walk in the woods!
I propose something NEW!
Free food restaurants in every block of a designated 'desert' area.
No more stamps, cards or whatever.
You be hungry, you go to the 'restaurant' and eat.
Then you buss your table and help clean up.
(Hey! It works fine enough for our service men!!)
Second Thessalonians 3:10
“For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule:
‘The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.’”
The Amish will inherit it all.
BM
I am going to contact my Reps, and tell them that no sugar sodas and junk food should on the list.
I wouldn’t think they get enough food stamps to live on junk food, not with Bidenomics.
just like when they give out $1000 to non white poor people in these rat cities, they certainly WILL NOT use it wisely...
yes
“That is why you signed up at FR, to tell people to leave it up to democrat voters and for us to just stay out of it?”
I am not discouraging anyone from voting. Just be aware of what the people you vote for are and are not doing.
The power of the purse is the greatest power in the Constitution. This is the power to fund and defund every program, department, and bureaucrat’s salary. Cut off the funding and the EPA cannot shut mandate electric vehicles or shut down the fossil fuel industry. Cut off funding for gain of function research and the taxpayer won’t be helping a foreign lab create the next pandemic. Cut off the funding for Planned Parenthood and there will be fewer abortions. Cut off the funding of leftist social justice organizations and a huge source of revenue supporting left wing politicians will end. Cut off federal funding of the student loan program and there will be no federal student loans fir the president to forgive. Cut off funding of never ending foreign wars we can’t afford and let the rest of the world deal with its problems. Would the world really be any different today if we hadn’t spent trillions conquering, ruling, and then walking away from Afghanistan and Iraq?
The national debt is increasing by $1 trillion every 100 days. Every dollar of that spending is appropriated by Congress. Every appropriations bill is required by the Constitution to originate in the House of Representatives. Republicans have controlled the House, and the appropriations process since January 2023. How many Democrat programs have bern defunded since then? How many billions in discretionary slush funds the president and bureaucrats are free to spend have been eliminated? None. The Democrats have every dollar they want to spend. The same thing happened in the two years the Republicans controlled the House during Trump’s term. The same thing when the Republicans controlled the House during the Bush presidency, and during the Obama years. None of the failed Democrat social programs were defunded. None of the government grants to leftist social justice groups and consulting firms were ended. Instead the national debt kept climbing and the bureaucracy kept growing.
So keep voting. Hope for that day when that GOP Congress critter you elect will actually vote against the obscene, budget busting, last minute omnibus appropriations budget Congress passes every year to avoid a government shutdown. The average Republican Congressman will vote for the big spending bill, then send out a letter to constituents saying he fought the hard fight but in the end had to vote for a less than perfect bill so the all important federal government won’t shut down. Afterward he and his fellow representatives will go out to dinner, congratulating themselves for once again fooling the sheep. Over the next few days tens of thousands of dollars will flow into congressional campaign funds from donors benefiting from the millions in earmarks inserted into the huge bill by staff members just before the vote.
Good conservative citizens will vote for the reelection of their representatives and the cycle will continue until one day the US Treasury conducts a bond auction to fund another trillion in debt snd there are no buyers. On that day the music stops playing and some really hard choices, none of them good and all involving real pain, have to be made by the men and women we have voted into power for decades.
My son was a cashier in a grocery store. Some people buy expensive cuts of meat or frozen foods to resell. If you go to urban flea markets, you’ll find people selling food cheap.
When I was younger, my Dad would be incensed by the habits of food stamp recipients. They would use the stamps to buy food, then use their cash to buy beer.
It’s a good thing the People from whom govt stole, I mean ‘voluntarily’ handed-over, that $ from didn’t need it /s
Someone wanna tell me again how the Welfare State DOESN’T violate 5th, 13th & 14th A. on its face (A1S8 left out, just for ‘fun’)??
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Who do you suggest we vote for, then? If we don’t vote for a Republican or Democrat, one of them will win anyway.
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Maybe you missed it, but there are (usually) MORE than 2 options on every ballot. Maybe you should be more diligent & informed, going outside of the faux dichotomy sold. *shrug*
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SNAP is peanuts compared to Section 8 housing. Some people do work hard all their lives, still wind up poor, and need the help. I have a relative just like that, and instead of me helping him the government does, and I pay income tax instead.
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The problem there is {!You} don’t personally know Jack, have they/theirs to worry about &, yet, get THEIR pockets picked via govt gun (always front of the line, whether needed, approved or capable) to ‘give’ to Jack (whole slew of Rights violations right there)...regardless of outcome, efficiency or COST(s).
Land of the Free, my @ss.
A simple yes would have been shorter.
:Turns out, birds have wings!:
Yes, but if the cards remain, they will be used for fraud. Eliminate the cards, and for one year, go the beans/cheese/milk route. A year later, eliminate those too.
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