GOP wants to ban foodstamp-purchased junk food

[The Tiger Kingdom]

It's a great way to get the poor to starve, seeing as how you can't buy much fancy organic shit with food stamps, what with it being relatively expensive and all.
This measure would make sense, as NPE said, if it was in conjunction with a move to raise the amount of money put into food stamps so poor people could actually afford to buy healthy.
As it currently stands this is pretty much an attempt to replace junk food with a heaping helping of...nothing!

It's not about buying only organic food, it's about not buying fast food or candy, soda, etc. Not everything that isn't junk food is organic, and not everything that's not organic is junk food.

It's an example, yes, but the same holds true down the line - healthy stuff just costs more. It might not make such a difference to us, but it does to those below the poverty line.

[The Grey Wolf]

Potato chips and candy, keeping poor people from starving.

The fact that you're scoffing shows you don't have a clue about their reality.

TV dinners do not exists where you live? I can understand buying pop and soft drinks, but candy bars and chips are not going to keep you from starving.

[Mavorpen]

Yes.

As someone who has been actually poor, thats exactly how it fucking is.

Bullshit detected.

He's going for the gold guys!

[The Tiger Kingdom]

The fact that you're scoffing shows you don't have a clue about their reality.

TV dinners do not exists where you live? I can understand buying pop and soft drinks, but candy bars and chips are not going to keep you from starving.

Every poor (homeless?) person has a microwave and power to power it with, now?

[Genivaria]

The increasing polarization of the big two parties in the USA, such that the "Republicans" are more like fascists and the "Democrats" are more like Stalinists, ... it deeply worries me.

I mean, clearly autocracy, fascism, and Stalinism mixing/cobbling together in a big girthy already psychotic imperial power is one fucking recipe for disaster.

That's a crock of shit.

[Union Of Canadorian Socialists Republic]

Junk food is cheap and tastes good *nods

And I should pay for you to buy it.

But dem Mcdonalds be tastin so swaggy! I be trippin'. Yolo bro, lemme get fat.

[Mercatorum]

The title is a bit misleading, i was ready to say: "isn't the GOP the party of free market choice?!"....then i read the part about food stamps....

And it seems like a rather sane proposal. I know its not the "best" source, but cracked's John Cheese complained that one of the reasons poor people are ofter fat is not due to them eating a lot, but because most of the food they eat is cheap fast food with little to none nutritional value....

The question, however, is, will poor people afford "healthy" food for the entire month with their current allowance?
if not, are the Republicans willing to put more money to cover the difference?

[Mavorpen]

The fact that you're scoffing shows you don't have a clue about their reality.

TV dinners do not exists where you live? I can understand buying pop and soft drinks, but candy bars and chips are not going to keep you from starving.

Because if there's one thing every poor person has, it's a microwave!

[The Grey Wolf]

Bullshit detected.

Based on what, exactly? What's your argument? So far, all I've seen from you is "poor people don't deserve to eat because they're drug dealers "
Which is not something you really can stand on while calling other peoples' firsthand experiences bullshit.

You shouldn't be able to buy potato chips using food stamps.

[Crysuko]

Based on what, exactly? What's your argument? So far, all I've seen from you is "poor people don't deserve to eat because they're drug dealers "
Which is not something you really can stand on while calling other peoples' firsthand experiences bullshit.

You shouldn't be able to buy potato chips using food stamps.

Because.....?

[Blasveck]

Based on what, exactly? What's your argument? So far, all I've seen from you is "poor people don't deserve to eat because they're drug dealers "
Which is not something you really can stand on while calling other peoples' firsthand experiences bullshit.

You shouldn't be able to buy potato chips using food stamps.

The hell do you mean "shouldn't be able to"?

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Based on what, exactly? What's your argument? So far, all I've seen from you is "poor people don't deserve to eat because they're drug dealers "
Which is not something you really can stand on while calling other peoples' firsthand experiences bullshit.

You shouldn't be able to buy potato chips using food stamps.

Based on...what?

[Mavorpen]

You shouldn't be able to buy potato chips using food stamps.

Based on...what?

It makes Jesus cry.

[The Grey Wolf]

You shouldn't be able to buy potato chips using food stamps.

Because.....?

They're junk food, they lack nutrients.

[4years]

"Go to Wikipedia and agree with me" isn't an actual argument that will convince anyone here, just so you know.(1)

*citation needed*(2)

1: No it's not an argument, it's a call to peer review. There is a thing called political science.
2: Hurr hurr hurr, say something that has weight to it why don't you?

1. Then provided the link(s) and summarize what it (they) say in a concise and coherent manner. What you are doing isn't political science, it is poor debating with unsourced and unverified assertions tossed in.
2. That has weigh to it, you haven't demonstrated that

wanting everyone to be a liberty-less wage-and-debt slave to the government, essentially property,

is part of the program of the Democratic Party or an objective prompted by said party.

[Klesh]

1. Aren't they all about "Freedom to choose!" Shit or whatever?

2. WHY IS MY OWN CONGRESS MAKING STUPID BILLS LIKE THIS AND TRYING TO REPEAL OBAMACARE FOR THE 47TH TIME? YOU WERE ELECTED TO GOVERN. START GOVERNING SHIT.

Klesh speaks!

Obama care sucks. I've seen the before and after and it sucks. I pay more for everything now. How is this good?

Nothing wrong with the proposed legislation. If I am paying for other peolles food I want it to be good food and not junk food. I don't want tonpay for that. If lazy ass wants it go out and work for it.

Beggars can't be choosers. Be thankful and STFU or get off food stamps.

Klesh has spoken!

[The Grey Wolf]

Based on...what?

It makes Jesus cry.

I don't know what that s a reference to.

[Mavorpen]

Because.....?

They're junk food, they lack nutrients.

Give them more money to be able to afford nutritional meals and the means to cook and prepare them and I'll gladly agree.

[Crysuko]

Because.....?

They're junk food, they lack nutrients.

Oh god forbid they just want some chips to graze on.

TEH HOROR!!!!!11!1!1!1!111!1!1eleven

[Nigerian Kenya]

It's not about buying only organic food, it's about not buying fast food or candy, soda, etc. Not everything that isn't junk food is organic, and not everything that's not organic is junk food.

It's an example, yes, but the same holds true down the line - healthy stuff just costs more. It might not make such a difference to us, but it does to those below the poverty line.

Well, yes. It does cost more, though not humongously more. But if it becomes more popular because people are more or less forced to buy it, the price will likely go down over time. And there's no reason Congress couldn't decide to allocate more money for food stamps - as to what to cut in return, we won't need as much money for health care when there's less obese people walking around, so allocate the money you will no longer for need for health care to help this bill work more effectively.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Because.....?

They're junk food, they lack nutrients.

Well, then, support this plan with the stipulation that there have to be more food stamps made available to deserving people so they can actually afford to buy healthy stuff. That would actually make some kind of sense.
But anything less - including the plan as it stands - is basically a deliberate attempt to take food out of the mouths of poor people.

[Late Roman Empire]

Where was this outrage when Mayor Bloomberg blocked food aid to Hurricane Sandy victims because of their salt and fat content?

[Mavorpen]

But if it becomes more popular because people are more or less forced to buy it, the price will likely go down over time.

...What? Why? Why do you people believe this myth that if more people buy something, prices will automatically go down no matter what? That's not how markets work in reality. That's only true in models...models that make a shitload of assumptions to simplify reality.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

1. Aren't they all about "Freedom to choose!" Shit or whatever?

2. WHY IS MY OWN CONGRESS MAKING STUPID BILLS LIKE THIS AND TRYING TO REPEAL OBAMACARE FOR THE 47TH TIME? YOU WERE ELECTED TO GOVERN. START GOVERNING SHIT.

Klesh speaks!

Obama care sucks. I've seen the before and after and it sucks. I pay more for everything now. How is this good?

Nothing wrong with the proposed legislation. If I am paying for other peolles food I want it to be good food and not junk food. I don't want tonpay for that. If lazy ass wants it go out and work for it.

Beggars can't be choosers. Be thankful and STFU or get off food stamps.

Klesh has spoken!

It's convenient and considerate you do the "Speaks!/Has Spoken" thing.
It's like a blaring siren announcing to NSG that nothing worthwhile is going to be contained within those two lines.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Where was this outrage when Mayor Bloomberg blocked food aid to Hurricane Sandy victims because of their salt and fat content?

I don't like Bloomberg, for the record.
And honestly, that was a local/city issue; this is a national one.