And one day…Cheese doodles will overtake us entirely.
Last time I checked, Magiver, you can’t buy booze with EBT.
I like cereal too, what kind of cereal?
CMC fnord!
Forget it, he’s rolling.
and why are we denying people this most basic of nutrition?
Those crazy conservatives just love their prohibition. Unconstitutional? Well, only if we do it to everyone…
Where’s a facepalm smiley when you need one?
It’s in aisle 3 next to the crab cakes. You can’t enjoy crab cakes without a liberal bottle of whine.
Why shouldn’t they be allowed to purchase booze with EBT cards? Why doesn’t every argument that you and others have given in this thread about Doritos and Twinkies apply equally to booze and smokes? What is the practical difference?
Because while Doritos and Twinkies will make your skin break out and your waistline expand, they will keep you alive?
But booze and cigarrettes, as tasty as they are going down, can actually kill you? And you can’t share them with your kids because it’s against the law?
I’m just guessing those are the reasons. But I don’t really know.
Let’s not forget, alcohol and cigarettes (especially the latter) are controlled substances, cannot be purchased by minors, and cigs aren’t even food.
Okay, fine. Let’s just agree – the poor shouldn’t be allowed to enjoy a thing. Not even a goddamned bag of a cheetos. Jesus. I mean, they’re poor – let them eat nothing but gruel.
I certainly don’t see how a program could go into place right now that would fix the problem.
But it is a real problem.
I had a student a couple years ago who only ate one healthful meal a day: school lunch. Breakfast, if he was lucky, was Oreos. If he was unlucky, it was Dr. Pepper. (I was unlucky too on the days when he had only Dr. Pepper for breakfast).
I’d bet $100 that his food was purchased with food stamps. I’d bet about that much that his mom was completely drugged out the entire time he was in my class.
The kid absolutely needed better nutrition than he was getting. The food stamp program was not fulfilling its intended purpose where he was concerned.
At the same time, putting restrictions on the type of food purchased probably wouldn’t have helped, either. Mom was great at gaming the system, and I doubt any good bureaucracy could have been put in place that would have beaten her game.
I have a Link Card question (Illinois) if anyone knows about these things. There was an elderly woman in line in front of me at Jewel (a large grocery chain) a couple of weeks ago. She used her Link Card to pay for groceries around $20 - fairly healthy stuff I might add - and then got $40 in cash back. Of course I didn’t say or do anything or make any funny looks, but inside I was like, WTF? Someone mentioned in an earlier post that a woman had “banked” so much in her account that she was going to buy a car with it. How does one do this?
Is it an Illinois thing, since people have to “work” for the funds, they can use the money however they want to? What’s stopping someone from taking $20 cash back at the register and then using the cash to buy booze and cigarettes in a separate transaction?
Well, then that’s a problem in the system, not with her. It’s like Reagan’s dumbass story about the guy buying an orange with food stamps and using the change to buy vodka. Even back then, the smallest denomination would have been a dollar – if he paid with a higher denomination of FS, the guy would have gotten food stamps back. IF he paid with a dollar, he would have gotten change. And if you can buy vodka THAT CHEAP, you just bought your own punishment.
Yes, that would be the goal of a program directed toward low cost nutritional food, to make people miserable:rolleyes:
Walk back in, buy another orange, take change and repeat as necessary. And given that people will drink Lysol I don’t think there is a brand of vodka that doesn’t fit the criteria.
Did you read the entire post, or just cherrypick the part you wanted to?
That wasn’t the story he told, though. Reagan claimed a man bought an orange with food stamps and used the change to buy vodka – he didn’t say he kept going back to get more change. (And anyone who would drink Lysol needs help in the first place)
Reagan was making shit up. Big surprise.
Well, DUH. That was my point. 
That there are all these stupid stereotypes about food stamps and people trying to cheat the system. There are far, far too many people worrying about what people buy with their food stamps, and how everyone is trying to “cheat”. It’s insane.
For godsakes, if someone wants a pack of cookies, let them buy the goddamned cookies! It’s not going to bring the country to its knees. (Yeesh, talk about a “nanny state”.)
It sure would be a better world if SOME people would learn to mind their own business, wouldn’t it. Can’t have no cookies, you gotta suffer. 
on that.