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Joey Wahoo

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Such an obviously good idea, yet seemingly unachievable.


The truth is that the typical food stamp recipient makes terrible food choices. We allow them to buy anything they want, so they buy Mountain Dew and Cheetos. Then we ending up paying for their health care.

Or they buy steaks and trade them for drugs/alcohol.

The obvious solution is to limit the the types of food that can be purchased with food stamps. No junk food is a no-brainer.

But whenever this is suggested it is defeated by a coalition of the junk-food lobby and advocates for the poor, who say it denies them choices.

We've always restricted what WIC funds can be used for, but have never been able to implement the same kind of common sense to SNAP/food stamps.

So we use public funds to sicken/fatten people whose health care expenses we'll eventually have to pay.

In what universe does that make sense?

(In response to this post by Stimp)

Posted: 12/05/2017 at 10:20PM



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Wisconsin to begin drug testing food stamp recipients. ** -- PalmyraHoo 12/05/2017 1:29PM
  It's a benefit, not a right. ** -- ConnHoo 12/05/2017 10:59PM
  Wouldn't it be more efficient to give away free meals -- Faz d. Hoo 12/05/2017 3:38PM
  Debatable -- Beerman 12/05/2017 4:33PM
  ...to the USDA. -- HowieT3 12/05/2017 3:59PM
  Good news, I bet you their overall spend drops ** -- TomKazanski 12/05/2017 3:32PM
  Let's go whole hog -- Beerman 12/05/2017 2:36PM
  I vote for anal probes for everyone. ** -- FfxStationHokie 12/05/2017 2:38PM
  With or without KY/Vaseline? ** -- HowieT3 12/05/2017 4:39PM
  Won't the drug tests cost more than the food stamps? ** -- HokieDelNorte 12/05/2017 2:20PM
  who cares? ** -- FfxStationHokie 12/05/2017 2:32PM
  Make em shop at Aldis. End of problem. -- GoochlandHoo 12/05/2017 2:28PM
  Where do you live? -- Fuzzy Dunlop 12/05/2017 2:31PM
  If someone is going on an all-egg diet... -- Fuzzy Dunlop 12/05/2017 2:58PM
  Here, have another -- Hokie5150 12/05/2017 3:38PM
  Wait, what?? -- wahoo138 12/05/2017 2:29PM
  Let's say the government identifies a drug user -- Faz d. Hoo 12/05/2017 2:03PM
  Treatment for what? -- Fuzzy Dunlop 12/05/2017 2:15PM
  I don't see what one has to do with the other. -- WahooRQ 12/05/2017 3:45PM
  Is that the purpose of the food stamp program? -- wahoo138 12/05/2017 2:31PM
  In general... -- Fuzzy Dunlop 12/05/2017 2:26PM
  Weed rehab, man. ** -- wahoo138 12/05/2017 2:18PM
  Reminded me of this classic cameo by Bob Sagat... -- WahooRQ 12/05/2017 2:22PM
  Make them starve, I guess... ** -- wahoo138 12/05/2017 2:09PM
  What if you really have the munchies? ** -- Guy LeDouche 12/05/2017 2:23PM
  Potential to become a viscous cycle ** -- wahoo138 12/05/2017 2:27PM
  Who cares...amirite?!? ** -- wahoo138 12/05/2017 2:10PM
  Don't they catch like, nobody, with this? -- wahoo138 12/05/2017 1:39PM
  This isn't about catching anyone, it's red meat for the base -- Capital City Hoo 12/05/2017 1:59PM
  Nail on the head in your first paragraph -- wahoo138 12/05/2017 2:12PM
  You won that bet. He lost his, though. ** -- HowieT3 12/05/2017 4:19PM
  How much red meat do they need?? ** -- wahoo138 12/05/2017 2:07PM
  That's correct, but it gets even better! -- Fuzzy Dunlop 12/05/2017 1:57PM
  If it takes millions to 'catch' one person it is worth it ** -- FfxStationHokie 12/05/2017 1:44PM
  War on drugs, whatever it takes. ** -- NJHoo 12/05/2017 1:57PM
  Other than pills. ** -- KCHoo 12/05/2017 2:22PM
  Good, regardless of the cost we must do this ** -- FfxStationHokie 12/05/2017 1:34PM
  Survival of the fittest, I guess. Let them die. ** -- HoosWillWin 12/05/2017 1:45PM
  No soul. ** -- hooshouse 12/05/2017 1:31PM
  Goody. More government waste. ** -- Beerman 12/05/2017 1:30PM

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