GOP wants to ban foodstamp-purchased junk food

[Spoder]

Playing devil's advocate here, but the right could argue that if people are no longer using food stamps to get junk food, the cost of junk food would go down.

Of course I don't believe it, just covering our bases here.

And in the meantime the poor starve. I prefer letting people eat than getting cheaper chips.

So they can eat junk food...I'm all for healthy food, and organic non pesticide whatever-the-fuck but your post is flawed.

[Bezombia]

You should really specify in the title food stamps.
I was about to get off my ass and go do something. Jeeze!

Easy way to tell when someone doesn't read the OP.
Just look at this guy: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=261388&p=16527927#p16527927

[Genivaria]

Hmm, should I use my stamps on healthy food, or shit?

If you only have a small amount of money and won't be getting anymore for at least a month what are you going to buy with it?
Something off the dollar menu at McDonalds? Or Olive Garden?

[Napkiraly]

I don't see any problem with it. If you want junk food, buy it with your own money.
This is the only recent GOP ruling on welfare and such that is sane. Why would you be opposed?

Maybe because healthy food is more expensive? For people in such scenarios, it most likely comes down to filling yourself and especially calorie intake while trying to get as much bang for your buck as possible, which is far more important when you don't have a whole lot of bucks. If the cost of healthy food in comparison to junk food was a lot narrower, then the legislation would be fine. As it stands, it isn't.

[Dyakovo]

Hmm, should I use my stamps on healthy food, or shit?

If you only have a small amount of money and won't be getting anymore for at least a month what are you going to buy with it?
Something off the dollar menu at McDonalds? Or Olive Garden?

Money from SNAP cannot be used to buy food from restaurants.

[Seitonjin]

It's good.... But it's a lot harsher in hindsight.

[Genivaria]

If you only have a small amount of money and won't be getting anymore for at least a month what are you going to buy with it?
Something off the dollar menu at McDonalds? Or Olive Garden?

Money from SNAP cannot be used to buy food from restaurants.

Really? I did not know that.

[The Grey Wolf]

I'm not seeing the problem. You don't need to go buy chips or candy bars with food stamps.

[Crysuko]

Oh for--

This is why I laugh when Americans start trumpeting themselves as the bestest country ever.

[Neo-Mlytoria]

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.

[Cameroi]

if the gop were to actually ban all junk food impartially, wouldn't its own members starve to death and thus cease to exist?

^^this guy didn't read the op

i read the topic question. if it is at odds with the op, i didn't create the topic.

[Blasveck]

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.

How are the Republicans fascist and how are the Dems Stalinist?

[Dyakovo]

Money from SNAP cannot be used to buy food from restaurants.

Really? I did not know that.

No pre-prepared food (with certain limited exceptions).

[The Tiger Kingdom]

I'm not seeing the problem. You don't need to go buy chips or candy bars with food stamps.

Except that's usually kind of all poor people can reasonably afford on food stamps, you know.

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 and Stalinism mixing together in a big girthy already psychotic imperial power is one fucking recipe for disaster.

I want you to define Stalinism correctly for me, if you don't mind, because I don't think you quite know what that means.

Oh for--

This is why I laugh when Americans start trumpeting themselves as the bestest country ever.

Least we have cheaper gas than most!

[Blasveck]

I'm not seeing the problem. You don't need to go buy chips or candy bars with food stamps.

You do if you're poor.

[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.

[Lillitania]

The topic title is misleading, the GOP simply wants to prevent people on welfare from purchasing unhealthy foods with government money. I don't see anything wrong with trying to have people stop taking government money to buy Twinkies ( or whatever they're re-branded as nowadays ).

[Releign]

You should really specify in the title food stamps.
I was about to get off my ass and go do something. Jeeze!

Easy way to tell when someone doesn't read the OP.
Just look at this guy: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=261388&p=16527927#p16527927

Oh I read the Op.
I just, with my junk food addicted self, totally flipped my shit and jumped to conclusions.

[Bezombia]

^^this guy didn't read the op

i read the topic question. if it is at odds with the op, i didn't create the topic.

It's the first half of a grammatically correct sentence and a clever way at deducing who reads the OP and who just reads the title and jumps in.

If you'd read the OP you'd know this.

[Blasveck]

The topic title is misleading, the GOP simply wants to prevent people on welfare from purchasing unhealthy foods with government money. I don't see anything wrong with trying to have people stop taking government money to buy Twinkies ( or whatever they're re-branded as nowadays ).

Maybe because they don't get enough money to buy healthier food with food stamps?

[Spoder]

The topic title is misleading, the GOP simply wants to prevent people on welfare from purchasing unhealthy foods with government money. I don't see anything wrong with trying to have people stop taking government money to buy Twinkies ( or whatever they're re-branded as nowadays ).

I believe they're called Twinkies: Rereleased

[The Tiger Kingdom]

The topic title is misleading, the GOP simply wants to prevent people on welfare from purchasing unhealthy foods with government money. I don't see anything wrong with trying to have people stop taking government money to buy Twinkies ( or whatever they're re-branded as nowadays ).

Again, let me restate what I said earlier:
Poor people buy unhealthy food not because they're too stupid to know otherwise - it's because it's cheap, and it's usually all you can reasonably afford if you're poor.
What this is isn't encouraging the poor to eat healthy, it's simply making food stamps less effective at feeding people.

[Nigerian Kenya]

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.

They've only attempted to repeal it 40 times thus far, not 47. Although Boehner is considering a 41st attempt.

This is a good proposal, it has my support. People living on welfare shouldn't be allowed to have the luxury of junk food; providing it just gives people one more reason to stay on welfare, and that drags down the economy, which is obviously terrible.

However, I implore the house to pass a continuing resolution, raise the debt ceiling, and pass the senate's immigration reform, before taking this issue up.

[Uieurnthlaal]

A genuinely good idea from the GOP. I'm shocked.

[The Grey Wolf]

I'm not seeing the problem. You don't need to go buy chips or candy bars with food stamps.

Except that's usually kind of all poor people can reasonably afford on food stamps, you know.

Oh shit. You mean poor people are so poor that Hershey bars are what is keeping them from starvation?
You know what a lot of them do with that money? Buy tons of pop. Yeah, so they can go sell it down the street and buy dope.