# Replacing food stamps with real food for poor **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 17, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacing-food-stamps-with-real-food-for-poor/506742 "2009-08-17T16:57:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 236
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacing-food-stamps-with-real-food-for-poor/506742/236 "2009-08-25T03:35:17Z")
> [@bri1600bv](#): > > Because the rich aren’t getting their food on the dole. As for the unlimited food that was a typo or two sentences…I forgot to erase the latter words. So you want to make the poor suffer, or what? What does the dole have to do with anything? The Rich got huge tax breaks and government assistance. Why shouldn’t everyone in the banking sector and by extension, wall street, be limited to high protein mush? I’d honestly love me some mush just for the grim satisfaction of, say, AIG’s board of execs being condemned to it. As you can see, being poor hasn’t limited my mental development. I have a very sharp memory as you shall find out. > [@](#): > > I wished death on you because I thought it was such a ridiculous question on your part and thought I should fulfill your request. Obviously, I don’t wish death on random people who I’ve never even met. I thought it odd that free food was associated with “wishing death”. It wasn’t. Your previous wish that poor with medical problems die in the street rather then receive assistance coupled with your constant torrent of insults, put downs, and hateful and wrong stereotypes that prompted the question. Clearly you weren’t looking at the poor through objective eyes. For example: > [@The role of the working poor in our society](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-role-of-the-working-poor-in-our-society/504904/272): > > I don’t care if the “working poor” are sleeping on the streets or dying of the plague, I don’t want my money used for them. And your wish for teenage mothers, who are just kids themselves: > [@The role of the working poor in our society](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-role-of-the-working-poor-in-our-society/504904/308): > > They SHOULD be hungry and miserable, they deserve it. I could go on and on. However I’m willing to consider I had a wrong impression of your views, if you’d be willing to reconsider your opinion of the poor. > [@](#): > > I would guess that obesity is even more a problem for those on food stamps, but no I don’t have a cite for it. Well considering the poor aren’t mostly obese would you be willing to reconsider whether any nutrition issues are ‘Mush level’? > [@](#): > > The food, in the long term, was meant to IMPROVE the lives of the poor. Something that improves your health is a good thing. Read “Angela’s Ashes”…they were eating sheep’s eyes they were so hungry. That guy would have though he’d died and gone to heaven if he could have good, wholesome food, no matter what it tasted like. It sounds like a desperate situation. Which is the kind of situation existant food stamp programs go along way to avoiding. > [@](#): > > Eventually if the gov’t takes over all health care then it may make sense to restrict food choices of the ‘rich’ as the gov’t is on the hook for their care as well. I could see it coming, but for now, I’ll pick on the most vulnerable, defenseless people. Just kidding. Personally I’d have to say biggest problem with American food is the high fructose corn syrup lobby. It’s in everything. Other countries don’t have the weight problems because even their unhealthy food is generally healthier. Also FDA food labeling loop holes let companies hide the true health impact of their food. Also American “Juice” is horrid. It’s seldom actually mostly juice. I have a friend from South America who came up here college. She put on a lot of weight. See in South America juice actually comes from fruits and vegetables with minimal processing. American juice is generally refined to the point of being sugar water. It was more then juice, but the only difference for her was which country’s food she was eating. I’m not saying my one antidote by it’s self is inductive of American food, but in light of countries like Canada having a similar demographic make up, but lower obesity levels ([cite](http://eaves.ca/2008/07/08/fatness-index-canada-vs-united-states/)) it really begs of the question of what we’re letting in our food supply that we shouldn’t. Being poor growing I learned to cook from scratch. I can make delicious meals from base common ingredients. I never once used a recipe that called for high fructose corn syrup, and seldom come across one, yet how much corn syrup do you see in ingredients labels at the store? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacing-food-stamps-with-real-food-for-poor/506742)._