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See for yourself on Amazon. You can get big bags of candy on EBT

by robk 3y ago

happymellon 3y ago
If there are items you don't believe poor people should be allowed to eat then speak to your legislative representatives. All the items you can buy on food stamps are explicitly reviewed. That's the point. People are bitching because poor people can buy anything on UberEats, and this is not true.
- autoexec 3y ago
  > If there are items you don't believe poor people should be allowed to eat then speak to your legislative representatives. Or better yet, maybe mind your own business and say nothing at all. The idea that a poor child shouldn't be allowed to have a birthday cake or that people shouldn't be able to decide for themselves what they'll eat is gross. I've spent a lot of money over the years in taxes, and I do it in part on the expectation that there will be a safety net for those who might someday need it including (should something terrible happen) myself. I'd be pissed off if I fell on hard times and on the day I went to collect the assistance I'm owed it came with a list of arbitrary restrictions by people who assume I don't deserve anything nice. We give a set amount of money to people to help them buy food. What foods they chose to spend that money on is no one else's concern. An exception to this being programs like WIC which are explicitly about making sure pregnant mothers and babies are getting the nutrition they need If someone were genuinely concerned for people's health rather than just wanting to punish them for the moral failing of not having a lot of money, it'd make far more sense to bother their representatives about subsidizing healthy foods instead of restricting unhealthy ones, or fixing the countless issues that plague the healthcare system.
  - happymellon 3y ago
    Which I completely agree with, the message was more that they are already restricted on what they can purchase, and people searching for cigarettes as an allowed purchase does not stop the main point that their spending is already managed.

See for yourself on Amazon. You can get big bags of candy on EBT

by robk 3y ago

See for yourself on Amazon. You can get big bags of candy on EBT

If there are items you don't believe poor people should be allowed to eat then speak to your legislative representatives. All the items you can buy on food stamps are explicitly reviewed. That's the point. People are bitching because poor people can buy anything on UberEats, and this is not true.

autoexec 3y ago
> If there are items you don't believe poor people should be allowed to eat then speak to your legislative representatives. Or better yet, maybe mind your own business and say nothing at all. The idea that a poor child shouldn't be allowed to have a birthday cake or that people shouldn't be able to decide for themselves what they'll eat is gross. I've spent a lot of money over the years in taxes, and I do it in part on the expectation that there will be a safety net for those who might someday need it including (should something terrible happen) myself. I'd be pissed off if I fell on hard times and on the day I went to collect the assistance I'm owed it came with a list of arbitrary restrictions by people who assume I don't deserve anything nice. We give a set amount of money to people to help them buy food. What foods they chose to spend that money on is no one else's concern. An exception to this being programs like WIC which are explicitly about making sure pregnant mothers and babies are getting the nutrition they need If someone were genuinely concerned for people's health rather than just wanting to punish them for the moral failing of not having a lot of money, it'd make far more sense to bother their representatives about subsidizing healthy foods instead of restricting unhealthy ones, or fixing the countless issues that plague the healthcare system.
- happymellon 3y ago
  Which I completely agree with, the message was more that they are already restricted on what they can purchase, and people searching for cigarettes as an allowed purchase does not stop the main point that their spending is already managed.