RM: I wonder what would happen if people who are not on Food Stamps were told what to buy. Instead why don't we change our culture to promote healthier eating as a nation...not only poor people are suffering from obesity or poor diets.
QSW: No
LS: When you take a handout from anyone, you are allowing that person to dictate what you can and can not do with it. In this case the government is providing the handout and if a person chooses to accept the handout, they also have to accept whatever rules the person giving the handout puts in place. It's the same concept with every other entitlement. If you sign up for public health care, the government has a list if who you can see, what tests they can run, how much it can cost. If you sign up for low income housing, the government says where you can live, who can live with you, how much money you can or can not make. Shoot, if you get a grant for college, the guarantor of that grant says how it can be paid and sets the limit on who qualifies. My bottom line is this. Everyone has the right to choice but when you allow someone or something else to pay for that choice, you remove your right to choose. Some people get pissed about that and work harder to remove the limits from their lives, for others it becomes a way if life. The choice is yours.
CS: Yes just ask Michelle Obama
CS: Yes just ask Michelle Obama
Ruby Marentes The biggest handouts just recently went to the major banks...they spent it freely, at everyone's expense
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Mocha Freeman I do raise a eyebrow, but they have a right to eat what they choose.
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily. Due to junk food is cheap and they can but it anywhere. What I don't like is when they are buying things they shouldn't be buying or selling them for stuff they shouldn't be buying
ReplyDeleteLauren Spence I agree Ruby. They were given the money for a specific purpose and used it for things outside if that purpose hence the outrage from the people providing the handout: us.
ReplyDeleteRuby Marentes: Recommended Books: "Working Poor" and "Nickel and Dimed"
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ReplyDeleteRecommended book: Uncle Sam's Plantation
Ruby Marentes: Always good to increase one's knowledge about as many sides of the issue as possible. At the very basic, I feel we need to address our diets as a nation...this is not particular to any one category of people.
ReplyDeleteTerry Termine: The insurance companies are also trying to raise the amount you pay for health insurance if you are considered obese by their standards. You can bet that plenty of people would be pissed off and call it big brother. I'm overweight and I know I wouldn't like it so why would I have the right to tell people on food stamps what they should eat. My husband has had the same job for 24 years and they're talking about laying him off. We're all one step away from being in the position of needing assistance ourselves so maybe we should all be a little less judgemental
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