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Thread: In the Shopping Cart of a Food Stamp Household: Lots of Soda

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trish View Post
    One element of this discussion being missed is that many low income families and families receiving aide eat and choose unhealthy foods because they cost less than nutritional food. That's just a fact. Eating healthy and living a healthy lifestyle is now a luxury for those who can afford it. Just my 2cents.

    Sugar is expensive in the US because the single family sugar monopoly is protected against importing cheaper sugar.

    But I do agree, nutritious food is more expensive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Seriously, why are the women in these stories always wearing a fur coat?
    I think it's the same woman going around from State to State cashing in all her coupons. ((grin))

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Problem is fulfilling that need with no requirement of payback only perpetuates the need.
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    I don't agree with that theory but is worth a discussion, in it's own topic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Seriously, why are the women in these stories always wearing a fur coat?
    I don't know about that but this woman was. It was probably faux fur b/c it was leopard print, but I'm not a fur guy (Mrs. U is a fur woman, though, and wishes that I revealed that in our marriage negotiations). The contrast was striking to me at the time: generic / powdered formula / no meat - vs- branded everything / crab legs / liquid formula and meat. This was in the Slavic Village / Broadway area of Cleveland that was slowly dying. We moved shortly after being robbed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AeonPax View Post
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    I don't agree with that theory but is worth a discussion, in it's own topic.
    Theory? How is giving poor just enough to buy soda going to get them out of poverty?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Seriously, why are the women in these stories always wearing a fur coat?
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    I'm used to reading stories from people who claim they have seen, or know someone who has seen, someone paying for prime steak, lobster, jumbo shrimp and the like, with food stamps, aka: SNAP card. Funny, as traveled as I am, I have never seen someone even close to purchasing such things on a SNAP card. Quite frankly, I see those stories as deliberate lies, usually aimed at blacks.
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    A lot of it is because of general nutritional ignorance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AeonPax View Post
    `I'm used to reading stories from people who claim they have seen, or know someone who has seen, someone paying for prime steak, lobster, jumbo shrimp and the like, with food stamps, aka: SNAP card. Funny, as traveled as I am, I have never seen someone even close to purchasing such things on a SNAP card. Quite frankly, I see those stories as deliberate lies, usually aimed at blacks.
    You can say what you want, but what I described 100% happened. It was roughly 1990 and the reason I know that was b/c we were buying formula (could've been early 1991 b/c #1 was born in August and I don't recall how long she'd have been on formula). These people weren't black, they were white inner-city poor in the Slavic Village area of Cleveland, where my wife grew up. When I got out of CWRU, I had a ton of debt from law school, so we bought in that neighborhood. I 100% had never seen those 'coupons' before so when I asked Mrs. U what they were, that was a serious question.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Theory? How is giving poor just enough to buy soda going to get them out of poverty?
    we should give them more strawmen

    thanks for doing your part

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Theory? How is giving poor just enough to buy soda going to get them out of poverty?
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    Listen, if you want to make an issue about people using SNAP cards to buy soda, as a reason to end the food share program, go for it. But if saving ones tax dollars that are wasted and ill spent, I'm going after the DoD/Military budget, in a breath. Let me know how your crusade works out. If I'm going to err, I'll do it on the side of feeding people as opposed to killing them.
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