tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post2641033724943387685..comments2024-02-26T17:13:18.702-06:00Comments on DemoCurmudgeon: Food Stamps: It’s not unhealthy foods Rep. Kaufert is targeting, it’s those “luxury items” the miserable poor have no right to eat.Democurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336177394503335112noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-58098198695246628822014-01-17T11:27:24.789-06:002014-01-17T11:27:24.789-06:00You got that right Gareth.You got that right Gareth.Democurmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16336177394503335112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-39292721070006439762014-01-17T08:10:01.530-06:002014-01-17T08:10:01.530-06:00It's pointless to call a Republican liar becau...It's pointless to call a Republican liar because he already knows he's one. He just hopes you don't notice that he's stealing too.Garethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-82784435864141519402014-01-17T02:57:45.486-06:002014-01-17T02:57:45.486-06:00• It would seem we view food stamps as poaching. ...• It would seem we view food stamps as poaching. The taking of the king’s deer often led to deportation to Australia. Our choices would be:<br />• American Samoa<br />• Guam<br />• Northern Mariana Islands<br />• Puerto Riconote 1<br />• U.S. Virgin Islands<br />• Wake Island<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-26368008205121178882014-01-16T21:30:15.621-06:002014-01-16T21:30:15.621-06:00Why the hell do you care what they choose to eat? ...Why the hell do you care what they choose to eat? They don't get any more on their card when they buy something "luxurious".<br /><br /> If Kaufert's crusade included reducing the amount of food islands that exist in poor areas where there aren't places to get good food, I could get with some kind of nutrition requirement. But they don't care about that, they just want to bash poor minoritiesJake formerly of the LPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660401299391001751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-3253033587201402412014-01-16T20:00:03.846-06:002014-01-16T20:00:03.846-06:00Conservatives can't get their Rascals on escal...Conservatives can't get their Rascals on escalatorsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-32549197446304746752014-01-16T17:34:42.038-06:002014-01-16T17:34:42.038-06:00I saw an escalator stop working once. All the con...I saw an escalator stop working once. All the conservatives started walking up the steps while all the liberals just stood there screaming for someone else to come help them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-53526044782042139172014-01-16T15:05:51.556-06:002014-01-16T15:05:51.556-06:00I once saw a Republican buying a baby from a woman...I once saw a Republican buying a baby from a woman in the parking lot at Walmart. I know he was a Republican because he was morbidly obese and had a "Stand With Walker" bumper sticker. God only knows what happened to the poor child. I understand that there is a Republican cult which performs human sacrifice at a local Country Club. This is probably what was going on, yeah I'm pretty sure of it.Garethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-44232425071704898562014-01-16T12:43:16.068-06:002014-01-16T12:43:16.068-06:00Whine whine whine. Lazy conservatives like you sho...Whine whine whine. Lazy conservatives like you should try and make more money so you can afford such "luxury" items, instead of complaining about the poor. <br /><br />Remember, an expensive food item reduces a persons monthly food stamp purchases dramatically, so these rare occurrences are not made often. But then, envy is a real bitch, isn't it. Democurmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16336177394503335112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-89055136422581899752014-01-16T12:35:31.052-06:002014-01-16T12:35:31.052-06:00No, it's when steak is $9.00 a pound and the a...No, it's when steak is $9.00 a pound and the average middle-class American can only afford that kind of meat once a month, when people on EBT/SNAP appear to buy steak and shrimp and tuna steaks every time at the register. Or you see them buying the luxury food items with their EBT/SNAP cards, then follow-though with the beer and cigarettes using cash immediately afterwards. I don't have a "subsidized food list" along with a "non-subsidized food list". It's all non-subsidized on my list.<br /><br />EBT/SNAP should be like WIC, where there are certain items "WIC approved", and people on taxpayer subsidy do not get the subsidy for all other items. This would cut the abuse in the system.<br /><br />You're talking about someone on EBT/SNAP having the "choice" of buying "luxury" items (i.e., steak) on a one-time, freedom-of-choice basis. The issue is not freedom of choice: it is seeing those on subsidy consistently purchase items that non-subsidized consumers cannot normally afford.<br /><br />Every time the government subsidizes something, they put an artificial price floor on that item, be it college tuition, medical costs, housing costs, or food costs. It disrupts the free market system by making it not a free market, but a stratified market of subsidized vs. non-subsidized. jhpace1noreply@blogger.com