No Food Stamps For Soda

randallscott35 · #1 10-07-2010, 10:22 AM

Why on earth were you ever allowed to get soda with food stamps is a better question? What the ****?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/ny.../07stamps.html

Arletta · #2 10-07-2010, 10:31 AM

Whats next? No chips or cookies?

#3 10-07-2010, 10:32 AM

George Hacker is what's wrong with America.

dellinger63 · #4 10-07-2010, 11:05 AM

Why punish everyone on food stamps when the target is obesity? How about the skinny, redneck, meth-head who sells his family's stamps each month for 50 cents on the dollar?

Crap, I just stigmatized rednecks.

randallscott35 · #5 10-07-2010, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

Why punish everyone on food stamps when the target is obesity? How about the skinny, redneck, meth-head who sells his family's stamps each month for 50 cents on the dollar?

Crap, I just stigmatized rednecks.

Once you get the food, I can't control what you do with it....but we don't let people on food stamps, say, buy cigarettes, so soda is in the same vein as far as I'm concerned.

dalakhani · #6 10-07-2010, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

Once you get the food, I can't control what you do with it....but we don't let people on food stamps, say, buy cigarettes, so soda is in the same vein as far as I'm concerned.

How about Butter? Crisco?

randallscott35 · #7 10-07-2010, 11:20 AM

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How about Butter? Crisco?

You are comparing soda to butter?

dalakhani · #8 10-07-2010, 11:21 AM

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You are comparing soda to butter?

How about soda to crisco?

randallscott35 · #9 10-07-2010, 11:24 AM

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How about soda to crisco?

I stand by my original post. You can agree to disagree...But realize they already disallow purchases of certain items from food stamps so simply bringing up this or that is besides the point. The food stamp law is clear that not everything is considered food.

dellinger63 · #10 10-07-2010, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

Once you get the food, I can't control what you do with it....but we don't let people on food stamps, say, buy cigarettes, so soda is in the same vein as far as I'm concerned.

$200 in stamps gets you at least $100 in cash. No food involved.

dalakhani · #11 10-07-2010, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

I stand by my original post. You can agree to disagree...But realize they already disallow purchases of certain items from food stamps so simply bringing up this or that is besides the point. The food stamp law is clear that not everything is considered food.

I think its a great topic Randall and I really don't have a position one way or the other although I think that government is opening up pandora's box when it goes this deeply into regulating what food stamps can buy. The items that are currently prohibited are clearly defined and really no logical debate can be made. But this soda thing? Where do you draw the line? Are sodas bad but fried chicken is okay?? What comes next?

alysheba4 · #12 10-07-2010, 11:30 AM

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You are comparing soda to butter?

......i would say its more about "big brother" .....

randallscott35 · #13 10-07-2010, 11:31 AM

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$200 in stamps gets you at least $100 in cash. No food involved.

Wonderful. Fraud exists everywhere. Obviously it is wrong. Not really on topic though. It is what you use the food stamps for in the store. If you are selling them for meth, then this doesn't affect you anyway.

randallscott35 · #14 10-07-2010, 11:32 AM

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......i would say its more about "big brother" .....

Not really actually. This is government cheese we are talking about. If you don't want a handout you can drink 10 liters of soda a day.

#15 10-07-2010, 11:42 AM

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I think its a great topic Randall and I really don't have a position one way or the other although I think that government is opening up pandora's box when it goes this deeply into regulating what food stamps can buy. The items that are currently prohibited are clearly defined and really no logical debate can be made. But this soda thing? Where do you draw the line? Are sodas bad but fried chicken is okay?? What comes next?

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.

dellinger63 · #16 10-07-2010, 11:55 AM

[quote=randallscott35;704534]Wonderful. Fraud exists everywhere. Obviously it is wrong. Not really on topic though. It is what you use the food stamps for in the store. If you are selling them for meth, then this doesn't affect you anyway.[/QUOTE]

When a guy goes into a store and is able to turn in his stamps for cash he usually isn't going to invest that money. Hopefully he is buying cigarettes and liquor and not crack and a hot gun. Nonetheless it affects everyone and especially those footing the bill.

Then when Akmand the store owner turns in the $200 in stamps he gets cash. Of course since he didn't sell any food he is now able to be creative on paper diverting his 100% profit to fake distribution companies hopefully not in Iran or Syria. Multipy by a 100 people and he's pulling in $10K/Month with no taxes for counting money and mailing an envelope. Multiply that by number of stores and you get the idea. Another fine taxpayer-subsidized fiasco.

randallscott35 · #17 10-07-2010, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

Wonderful. Fraud exists everywhere. Obviously it is wrong. Not really on topic though. It is what you use the food stamps for in the store. If you are selling them for meth, then this doesn't affect you anyway.[/QUOTE]

When a guy goes into a store and is able to turn in his stamps for cash he usually isn't going to invest that money. Hopefully he is buying cigarettes and liquor and not crack and a hot gun. Nonetheless it affects everyone and especially those footing the bill.

Then when Akmand the store owner turns in the $200 in stamps he gets cash. Of course since he didn't sell any food he is now able to be creative on paper diverting his 100% profit to fake distribution companies hopefully not in Iran or Syria. Multipy by a 100 people and he's pulling in $10K/Month with no taxes for counting money and mailing an envelope. Multiply that by number of stores and you get the idea. Another fine taxpayer-subsidized fiasco.

Outrage it up. But you are off topic.

dellinger63 · #18 10-07-2010, 12:53 PM

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Outrage it up. But you are off topic.

I could give a crap if some fatazz kid is drinking a coke bought w/food stamps.

Danzig · #19 10-07-2010, 01:20 PM

i saw fried chicken mentioned. no prepared food is allowed. so theyd have to buy frozen and take it home to cook. seems like nutritional food is what it should be for, and soda is deinitely not nutritional or a ncessary item for survival.

Honu · #20 10-07-2010, 02:51 PM

Foods stamps wont get you toilet paper or tampons which seems kinda stupid because ALL people NEED T.P.