A whole bunch of people are getting their knickers in a knot about this little development, whereby Pore Folks who qualify for food assistance (SNAP) will in future not be allowed to buy candy and such with these handouts — and are suing the Fed to be allowed to do so.
Recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday, challenging its food restriction waivers that reduce the types of foods that can be purchased with benefits.
Represented by the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ), a nonprofit focused on advancing justice for low-income families, five SNAP recipients from Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee and West Virginia sued the USDA for implementing its waiver restriction pilot projects.
The restriction waivers bar SNAP recipients from using their benefits on junk foods, sodas, energy drinks or other “non-nutritious items.” The USDA has approved 22 restriction waivers so far, with the types of barred foods varying across states.
I have two competing thoughts about this. On a point of principle, if money is being given to you (note: given) then the donor has every right to determine how you spend it.
On the other hand, however, is the thought that the fucking government has no business telling people what and what not to eat and drink, regardless of donor status.
“Oooooh but they’re spending money on unhealthy foods!”
So fucking what? They’re adults, and should be treated as such, not as children guided in their food choices by Mother Government.
Just remember, however, that every SNAP dollar spent on Red Bull eventually ends up here:
Not that I care, one way or the other.
From the article:
“ The suit stated that Amanda Johnson, one of the plaintiffs in the suit, would no longer be able to purchase the foods that her daughter, a disabled teenager with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), eats once the restrictions in Tennessee go into effect.”
So this person has a health issue and the medicine / treatment / diet that works is soda and candy? And if they can’t get that soda / candy paid for by the US taxpayers – they will sue claiming they are entitled to someone else’s money?
Also what’s next? Taxpayer funded Ozempic to lose the weight from all the candy and soda from this special diet that works?
The point is – make your own choices but don’t think the government aka the taxpayers should fund your choices.
And I’ll wager Momma Amanda is morbidly obese because she’s consuming more goodies than her daughter. I’m sick of these whiney, over-entitled leeches.
Pay people to be poor and guess what you’ll get?
Right.
Lots of poor people.
The only time I was ever poor was when I was not working.
See the connection?
It’s automatic, universal, and unforgiving.
No work = no food = hungry.
Even wild animals know this fact of life.
Interesting how the government tells people not to feed the animals when they refer to wild 4 legged critters yet the government feeds the most lame lazy and entitled 2 legged animals all at working people’s expense.
# work or starve if you are able bodied.
“They’re adults, and should be treated as such”
Then they should get the same treatment I got when I turned “adult” – you don’t work, you don’t eat. Get a fucking job. The debate isn’t what they can buy with SNAP money, it’s that they get SNAP money to begin with. We need to end the perpetual welfare state.
This.
Amen. Workfare to eat.
/So fucking what? They’re adults, and should be treated as such,…./
Adults don’t get allowances to spend on candy.
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You beat me to it.
And that.
The only sane food assistance program I have ever heard was offered by the late, great William F. Buckley.
He proposed taxpayer-funded food for all citizens – consisting of dried milk, soybeans, wheat, and lard.
If you want anything else, buy it yourself.
That 60-year old plan sounds even better today than it did when I first heard it.
It is fair, to taxpayers and to recipients, and it also induces many excellent secondary effects.
According to the internets, 42 million people in the USA are using SNAP / EBT / Food Stamps.
Random question – does anyone know how many of these are illegal immigrants? If none – how many illegal immigrants are receiving some kind of food assistance if NOT included in the above numbers / statistic.
Maybe if we stop feeding illegals they will go back home
And, Maybe if we stop feeding able bodies slugs they will get job.
I loved it when Trump turned off the food stamps for 2 weeks a short while ago – all the fucking whiny babies who want their free fucking shit crying like a baby who shit their diaper. Fucking losers.
As Sam Kinison one said “STOP SENDING THEM FOOD”
The modern day saying would be STOP SENDING THEM EBT
While I agree with the sentiments posted so far, I’m going to disagree with them slighty.
There are going to be members of the population that legitimately can not feed themselves. Generally it’s going to be those with high disability ratings, and the very elderly who have limited savings and income. Short term legitimate recipients exist as well, the key word there being “short term”.
Feeding those people, or supplementing their food supply used to be done mainly by churches…one of the main justifications fro churches being exempt from taxes*, but they no longer do so to such an extent.
So if the goverment is going to give money for food to the legitimately needey, then give it without these additional limitations. As voiced here already, they’re adults let them eat what they wish.
The current and longstanding prohabition agains using the funds to purchase hot/ready to eat foods is fair. The money is for groceries, not convience food. And while I doubt many of these recipients use the funds in this way, those funds are also able to be used for vegetable seeds to garden some of their own food.
As for candy, and I think this is what those waivers were intended for, diabetics need to keep a simple way to quickly raise their blood sugar on their person.
Now, as for the healthy and hale receiving this money?
Fuck Right Off.
Get a job.
Get a second job.
Enlist in the military.
Join the Merchant Marine.
And if you’re an illegal alien reciving them?
Here’s your plane ticket home, let YOUR goverment feed you.
*Perhaps this should be reexamined by TPTB.