No Food Stamps For Soda

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by Riot

Food "stamps" haven't been real coupons ("stamps) for some years now. Food assistance is a debit card with an amount loaded on by the government, and having a PIN set by the person getting the assistance. In grocery stores where the card is swiped, it will reject paying for non-food items (like toilet paper, guns, cigarettes, etc)

About the only way left to get cash for your food assistance now is to buy groceries with it, then stand in the parking lot trying to sell those groceries to others at half-price for cash out of your trunk (what they do at a local WalMart near where I live, and yes, illegal)

Or they go into a mini mart and buy a couple gallons of milk w their EBT card, walk out to the car and then come back in "my girlfriend says we have milk at home can I return these?" Return them for cash and then suddenly remember he needed to get a couple of powerball tickets and some scratch offs. I've seen it done more than once.

[clyde]

Originally Posted by paisjpq

Or they go into a mini mart and buy a couple gallons of milk w their EBT card, walk out to the car and then come back in "my girlfriend says we have milk at home can I return these?" Return them for cash and then suddenly remember he needed to get a couple of powerball tickets and some scratch offs. I've seen it done more than once.

what a great id................that's disgusting.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

So calling someone stupid b/c you disagree with them is ok, but calling someone obese, in the context of a state trying to lower the obesity rate, is wrong? Interesting how that works....Your profession and weight do in fact have something to do with the threads you want to discuss. That is why you went into XYZ thread to begin with. Obviously, anyone of any profession is influenced by their life experiences. To think otherwise is naive....And since I practice what I preach I have actual experience with the largest food bank in the United States since I have volunteered there each of the last 5 years. And you know what? You can get soda there. You know why, b/c it was donated. The government isn't providing it, people are. I bring whatever I can bring when I go, but I can't understand wanting to donate something unhealthy to those in need.

I am not calling you stupid because you disagree with me. I'm calling you stupid because most of your responses are stupid.

I would prefer that I choose what life experiences that I wish to draw from as opposed to you making assumptions based on your version of my life experiences.

Hopefully you didn't get injured patting yourself on the back for your noble charity work.

And acting as though soda is heroin just makes your argument even weaker. Soda has been around for 100 years. The fact that kids get less exercise than ever probably has far more to do with the issues that we are experiencing than simply drinking soda. Since we are drawing on personal experience, I eat less than I did 10 years ago but since I am not doing as much physical work as I did then plus the effects of aging I am now considered obese. And I drink diet.

[clyde]

Peanut....no worry.You look fine to me.The unfortunates who resemble a massive tsunami of flesh--now that's bad.

[Cannon Shell]

Randall's ideal physique

[clyde]

Oh well.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I am not calling you stupid because you disagree with me. I'm calling you stupid because most of your responses are stupid.

I would prefer that I choose what life experiences that I wish to draw from as opposed to you making assumptions based on your version of my life experiences.

Hopefully you didn't get injured patting yourself on the back for your noble charity work.

And acting as though soda is heroin just makes your argument even weaker. Soda has been around for 100 years. The fact that kids get less exercise than ever probably has far more to do with the issues that we are experiencing than simply drinking soda. Since we are drawing on personal experience, I eat less than I did 10 years ago but since I am not doing as much physical work as I did then plus the effects of aging I am now considered obese. And I drink diet.

Wrong on soda's history of course. Corn Syrup is not 100 years old. It is the fake sugars that are the bigger issue.

[randallscott35]

Ironically, sugar free products often raise blood sugar as well.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/0...e-blood-sugar/

[randallscott35]

And a nice NIH study about kidney disease and soda.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...ubmed_RVDocSum

[clyde]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

Diet Soda > Smokes

You're GB!!

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by clyde

You're GB!!

Thank God for you Clyde. This place would be the Sahara without you.

[clyde]

Thank you so much,my very good friend.

But I'm only here for the hotties so as to chase theem.


Franny,Gooey,Debbie,Sighty,Cat-Girl-Do,Honula,Pudery,Printheth Chlorine,Danny and Thebby.


I hope I didn't miss anyone.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by clyde

Thank you so much,my very good friend.

But I'm only here for the hotties so as to chase theem.


Franny,Gooey,Debbie,Sighty,Cat-Girl-Do,Honula,Pudery,Printheth Chlorine,Danny and Thebby.


I hope I didn't miss anyone.

The women of DT calendar should be quite the seller.

[clyde]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

The women of DT calendar should be quite the seller.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stevie!!


Listen to him!..He's smart...why not!??

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Riot

About the only way left to get cash for your food assistance now is to buy groceries with it, then stand in the parking lot trying to sell those groceries to others at half-price for cash out of your trunk (what they do at a local WalMart near where I live, and yes, illegal)

really???? there are a lot of people who buy food stamps.

Its called having the person with the card go with you to the store.

or

Have the person give you the card and the pin #.

Its pretty simple.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

The issue is soda. The law has to do with soda. I will discuss soda. I realize the fun people have changing topics b/c they think it will make them pee further in a given thread. It's funny to me. Fact is, there is absolutely no reason food stamps should be used for soda. If Chuck or anyone else would like to make a separate thread to discuss butter and food stamps feel free. Otherwise polluting my thread with idiocy doesn't change the fact that fat kids and people don't need more soda with government money.

you're an idiot...

ahh they are polluting my thread!!!

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Again, why you being obese makes me stupid is beyond me?...It hardly makes you a bad person or alone. But damn if you aren't touchy about it...if you were comfortable with that choice, you would think you wouldn't be.

you're not stupid.

You're just a moron.

[GenuineRisk]

head/desk

No one is banning soda. NY is just saying you can't buy soda with government money. People can buy all the soda they want; they just may not be able to use government money to do so.

If this passes. The reason soda was not excluded before is that the corn industry has a lot of power. Far more than poor people. The corn industry will be the biggest opponent to this because poor people using government money to buy soda makes them money.

While we're on the subject, soda is already ridiculously inexpensive because of the vast subsidies the government gives to corn. So we're all drinking soda already on the taxpayers' dime. And those who don't drink it are subsidizing those who do.

I believe the proposed restriction applies to beverages with more than 10 calories per ounce. So diet soda is still purchasable with government money.

And Randall, I do enjoy your political posts, but saying you're opposed to universal health care because some people make poor lifestyle choices is a wee bit silly, don't you think? Please explain how childhood leukemia is due to poor lifestyle choices. Or MS. Or Type 1 diabetes. Or breast cancer. Or brain cancer or stomach cancer or most kinds of cancer. Or autism or cerebral palsy or getting hit by a drunk driver or catching pneumonia or falling on an icy street or...

[clyde]

I only disagree,because you are so pre-tee.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Well they are regulating just about every profession known to man. But when the deadbeats and retards fall under regulation all of the weak-kneed liberals strongly object to it.

They should let all of the weak people starve to death. 41 million Americans on food stamps and the majority of them don't give a f.uck what's going on in this country. All they care about is getting that check at the first of the month and their god-damned food stamps. And they are out-breeding the middle-class and rich at an alarming rate. It's not sustainable.

While I don't hate them, or want any human being to starve, I do think we should pay poor people to not have children. Right now, we pay them after they have children. Pretty stupid. I guess the problem would be people remaining poor so they could get paid to not have kids. That's still a much easier problem to manage than the one we have. See, I believe in Gov't actually trying to make a better society for all. Seems like most Liberals just want to give out money, and not make sure it's well managed (to obtain important favorable results.) I want to spend money in a way that results in us having to spend less money in the future. Don't get me wrong, nobody should be kept from having kids, but there should be incentives encouraging poor people to refrain from having kids they'll struggle to provide for. Lets say a poor woman has a kid (even though she would have been paid not do.) You know what happens next? She needs help. Where should that come from? Her sister's check (for not having babies while poor.) Watch this video. Keep track of the guy's constant message: 2 for 1..2 for 1..incentivize..incentivize....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtYdDK1uTDI