Steaks and Seafood to be Removed from Food Stamps Programs

[mfcorey1]

One Missouri lawmaker is working to place more limits on the foods that may be purchased through the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

According to The Washington Post, some foods, such as steaks and seafood, are seen more as luxuries than necessities to be covered by tax payers. The proposed bill also bans the purchase of cookies, chips, energy drinks, and soft drinks. The bills intention is to revert to using stamps for nutritional assistance.

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[Takket]

1. enjoy your gruel and soylent green!

[Vinca]

2. Are they aware that many grocers mark steak down on the expiration date?

It can be cheaper than ground beef. I've never seen a bunch of people so worried someone might get an unmerited extra dime of government services. If only they applied their philosophy to big oil.

[Pooka Fey]

3. WTF Only porridge and powdered milk for the poor

No steak.

[yeoman6987]

26. Why not just go back to handing out block cheese every month?

Gosh I hope they don't get any idea from my dumb reply.

[shraby]

4. The men making this law don't do the grocery shopping or cooking. What do they know

about meat prices except that in a restaurant the steak and seafood are about the most expensive stuff they can order.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. This is what has been running through my mind since this whole thing started.

These idiots have no idea what they are claiming. I can often pick up a bag of fresh shrimp at my local HEB for less than 2 lbs of ground chuck. Jesus, I can't stand these people, and what the hell are people doing looking at how other people are paying for their groceries and what they are buying?

What we need is a MYOFB (Mind Your Own Fucking Business) Law.

[RobinA]

12. What These Fools

should do if they really mean business is take a week and follow a CYS worker around as she/he visits clients. Take a look at what the kids are eating. Take a look in the cupboard. Without some actual in-the-field study they have no idea what they are talking about.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. Except I fear some of them would get off on it.

Since they appear to be all about the fetus while forgetting about the child.

[Kaleva]

6. I don't even buy hamburger with my card. It's gotten too expensive.

I get pork and chicken when that goes on sale and from the Family Dollar store I get tuna for .85 a can.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Do you have an ALDI by you?

Sometimes, they sell tuna 2/1.

[Kaleva]

10. The nearest one is about 80 miles away.

The in-laws and we have often talked about going there together, splitting the gas costs, and doing a big shopping trip. Hopefully soon we'll do that. It'd be a great way to restock the shelves.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. It would be. We recently had a string (3) of them open close to me after not having

any close enough to get to easily. I will hope the same thing happens in your neck of the woods. It's an incredible savings.

[PassingFair]

19. "You're taking all the values!"

Actual line uttered behind ScreamingMeemie at a Big Lots checkout.

Woman knows a bargain!

[kcr]

8. Nothing with flavor and texture allowed on the food stamps program

Enjoying food is a luxury.

[boston bean]

9. Why can't poor people eat steak and seafood?

These fuckers are low life idiotic imbeciles.

[JustAnotherGen]

14. +1000

I'd actually like to see TANF expanded for MORE Omega Fat fishes and free range antiobiotic free meats. I'd gladly pay a bit more to give people whose food budgets are marginal - access to more food with a high nutritious value.

It's wasteful calories and money to feed people spam and velveeta. Then they get sick. Then there is more expense.


America the Cruel. We don't think or feel - we just inflict pain on each other.

[pangaia]

20. The difference.

" I'd gladly pay a bit more to give people whose food budgets are marginal - access to more food with a high nutritious value. "

That's the difference between "us" and "them."

[aikoaiko]

15. I'm sympathetic to the ban on low-nutrition snack food, but steak and seafood is nutritious

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Until there are grocery stores returning to inner cities and inexpensive farmers markets

instead of the trendy, hipster shit we have now, I am not sympathetic to any government action to control what a person can and can't buy.

[aikoaiko]

21. It seems to work for WIC.

Those funds are not going unused in inner cities.

[Phentex]

16. And Republicans are ALWAYS griping that the government is too involved in their lives...

yet this is okay when talking about OTHER people.

They are hypocritical selfish idiots.

[Puglover]

18. Seriously I wonder what exactly

it will take for the knuckle draggers that put these morlocks into office to wake up and vote them out.

Sadly probably nothing.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

23. Morlocks. Perfect

[HughBeaumont]

22. Ah, but . ... WE'RE supposed to be the ones who play "The politics of envy©"!!

I don't want to hear this canard from any conservative EVER. Nowhere on earth has there ever been a larger collection of assholes so jealous of the supposed perks and luxuries of the poor.

[maryellen99]

25. If the teabaggers think being on food stamps and welfare is so great

Why aren't they quitting their jobs?

[yeoman6987]

27. I was lamenting about how awful it is for the poor in America

When a coworker in a snarky way said "ever see a fat poor kid in another country? American poor are treated great compared to every other country. The poor are fat in America!"






And that is the attitude of some in the US

[maryellen99]

32. Wonder if some of these ignorant teabaggers realize

That if you are poor the only stuff you can afford is junk food.

[HughBeaumont]

28. I imagine that same wagon contains . . .

. . . all of those jealous "soshulist" nations ready to abandon their single/multi-payer systems and adopt our "greatest healthcare in the world"*.


* - if you're wealthy.

[XemaSab]

24. Gumbo, tom yum, cioppino, curry, soup, chili, stew

All stuff that you can make a vat of for cheap; all involving seafood or beef used for flavor and not as a big slab o' protein.

Look at how the Mexicans, Asians, Italians, African-Americans, Irish, and so forth have cooked for generations. None of them are sitting down to a steak dinner, they're using that cut to flavor vegetables and grains.

Does he think poor people are stupid and are going to blow a week's worth of food money on one meal?

Ugh.

[Snotcicles]

29. Soon stores will have the "Welfare Corner" It will be where they move all their

expired merchandise. It will probably have it's own cashier so as to have them not mingle with our valued costumers.

[Historic NY]

30. They better define steak & seafood...

because even most consumers today can't afford it either.

[maryellen99]

33. My husband usually get steak a couple of times a year

New Years Eve and a couple of times during the summer.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

31. What kind of rich surreal lifestyle

Do Republicans think poor people lead? I don't get it.