Take soda out of food stamp elgibility?

[collegetrumpet2010]

i have no problems with this at all, if they get it from the government then they have to deal with how the government decides.


but NY is trying to ban smoking outdoors? WTF? where do they expect smokers to go?
i know people dont like smokers on the whole, but do you really see how nuts that is? that is scary. when they start restricting freedoms outside, then we are all in trouble

Smoking indoors is quite dangerous

[Rocky]

Smoking indoors is quite dangerous

reread what hearl wrote

[MikMo]

There's an argument for and against this. The nutrition issue aside, you have people, up here especially, that take food stamps and buy nothing but cases of pop. I've been in Wal Mart and the local grocery stores on the first of the month and see people with shopping carts full of nothing but pop....you tell me somebody can drink that much in a month? It's no secret that these people trade the pop for drugs, which is about as lowlife as you can get.

On the other hand, this just seems to me like another way government is trying to inch their way to more and more control over peoples' lives....telling you what to eat, drink....somewhere down the road I would not be suprised if a legislator would try to introduce a bill that would tax the air we breathe....all in the guise of trying to clean the air. I've had to be on food stamps before inbetween jobs. I pay my taxes into that program and I feel if I want to buy porterhouse steaks with food stamps, that's my right.

Banning pop purchases on food stamps is the first step. I've heard talk before of taxing pop straight out. George Orwell's 1984 is beginning to look like not that far of a stretch.

[MikeJones]

Go to Jenkins at the first of the month. The amount of red bull sold there is unbelievable. Needs to be looked at everywhere. You can get a pound of pinto beens for under a dollar.

[Milk3]

Go to Jenkins at the first of the month. The amount of red bull sold there is unbelievable. Needs to be looked at everywhere. You can get a pound of pinto beens for under a dollar.

Was like that around here for awhile but someone stopped that finally

[Rocky]

There's an argument for and against this. The nutrition issue aside, you have people, up here especially, that take food stamps and buy nothing but cases of pop. I've been in Wal Mart and the local grocery stores on the first of the month and see people with shopping carts full of nothing but pop....you tell me somebody can drink that much in a month? It's no secret that these people trade the pop for drugs, which is about as lowlife as you can get.

my wife and I make pretty good money and we buy our pop in bulk when it goes on sale, i dont think ive ever traded it for drugs either. Dont judge a book by its cover, there is a REASON that pop goes on sale at the first of the month, these grocery store owners arent stupid.

[imported_elp6n]

my wife and I make pretty good money and we buy our pop in bulk when it goes on sale, i dont think ive ever traded it for drugs either. Dont judge a book by its cover, there is a REASON that pop goes on sale at the first of the month, these grocery store owners arent stupid.

Dont get offended because you buy in bulk.

You dont have to judge a book by its cover. All you have to do is wait for them to pull out that certain EBT card to pay for those cases of cokes. Many people that buy nothing but two carts full of sodas on the first of the month are using food stamps to do so. I saw it when I was a cashier many years ago and I see it now.

[Rocky]

Dont get offended because you buy in bulk.

You dont have to judge a book by its cover. All you have to do is wait for them to pull out that certain EBT card to pay for those cases of cokes. Many people that buy nothing but two carts full of sodas on the first of the month are using food stamps to do so. I saw it when I was a cashier many years ago and I see it now.

was simply saying that not everyone that buys their drinks in bulk are selling them for drugs

[MikMo]

But come on, one or two shopping carts full and buying on food stamps? I drink a lot of pop but could never down that much in a month. You got to call a spade a spade.

[collegetrumpet2010]

reread what hearl wrote

I am aware of what he wrote. I was agreeing with him. I was adding something about smoking indoors while he discussed someone banning smoking outdoors. I'd rather have someone do it outdoors than in.