How dare you tell me how I want to waste your money - shame on you. If I wanna eat crap, you can't stop me - pass the Doritos. The group of recipients (latin for freeloaders) of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits filed the lawsuit on Wednesday and are being represented by the National Center for Law and Economic Justice.
The lawsuit challenges the USDA’s food restriction waivers. Under the waivers, a pilot project, SNAP recipients may not use their benefits to buy certain junk foods. The USDA has so far approved 22 of the waivers.
The suit states: "The food restriction waivers contain no exceptions for individual medical, nutritional, or household circumstances. Instead, the food restriction waivers place on recipients and retailers the responsibility for determining whether a particular product is a permissible SNAP purchase under each state’s altered definition of 'food'."
So, in other words, the idiots getting the free shit can't determine what constitutes what's good for them and what isn't, and they're suing you, basically, to make you define what they can eat (for free, mind you) and what they can't. We have become a nation of idiots. And jerkoffs who call themselves lawyers.
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Instead of being grateful they're getting free food!
ReplyDeleteWeren't there originally restrictions on what Food Stamps could be used to purchase? Staple foods, infant supplies, NECESSITIES? What the Hell happened?
ReplyDeleteWhen the food stamp program was new, some states had restrictions on candy, soda, chips, etc. Those restrictions were discarded because nobody can really say what's safe or healthy for someone else to eat. "Life Savers" could save a diabetic's life.
DeleteThat was before farmers started spraying glyphosate and other poisons directly on food. Today, not only could someone get some nutritional benefit from junkfood, but the person might be violently sick after eating e.g. an apple or some whole-grain bread.
They probably filed with some Obama judge that will side with the junk food industry, er recipients.
ReplyDeleteSome useless thing on Fox Business yesterday said that she did not support the "libertarian" concept of letting SNAP recipients spend the money on whatever they wanted. When even FOX can't get libertarianism right we're lost. NO LIBERTARIAN ON EARTH would support the concept of STEALING MONEY FROM EVERYONE to feed whomever wants it. Here's a thought. Here's a thought...abolish SNAP altogether and allow any and all voluntarily supported charities to provide assistance to whomever they think is deserving.
ReplyDeleteAll I know is it getting harder and harder to come up with reasons to give those assholes any of my money. Property tax is due this month and I really don't want to give them the inflate rate they claim I owe.
ReplyDeleteYou can bet that Coke and the other junk food manufactors have their dirty hands in there somewhere.
ReplyDeleteCoke, Crack, Meth, Pot...Oh! You meant the OTHER Coke?
Deletesnap or food stamps as we used to call them, is unreal. after I got out of the army, I had my 2 kids in tow. signed up for whatever bennies I could get. the divorce had wiped me out. broke and in debit. anyway, you wouldn't believe what all they
ReplyDeletegave me. 400 plus in food stamps, as it was the last week of the month. I go that months worth and the next month at the same time. plus 700 bucks for heat (?) and something else I forget now. but I got a good job inside of 2 weeks after getting out. tried to turn in the stamps I didn't use (close to 500 or more ) and was TOLD, NO ONE TURNS IN STAMPS. SPEND THEM ! then I found out the butcher shop took stamps. well, the left over stamps filled 2 freezers
mine and my parents with good beef. but yeah, you can always tell who is using EBT at the supermarket.
cart full of junk and instant food (?) bags of chips and soda hanging off the sides.
and that is why , I go shopping in the AM and only on days they give the old fart discount. never on weekends.
and to think damn near every ILLEGAL got the max bennies from the assholes in the Biden clown show.