Food stamps used for buying soda...and we pay for it

[AgustusMcCoog (*Augustus)]

@olutrain

But that actually means being serious about supporting healthy options for people and families instead of being a lame-o grocery cart watching herb crying about someone using $20 bucks off your taxes to buy a Dr. Pepper. Getting a life is also an option.

Try having a coke (on your own dime) and a smile before logging on next time.

[AgustusMcCoog (*Augustus)]

@Cougardue

my buddy Shawn showed up with a 6 pack of Jolt and drink them all by recess.

I assume no one caught you guys during tag.

[olutrain (O. Emmanuel)]

Lemme know when you want to hold a $20. I know times are rough out there for some folks and you seem to really need that $20 in taxes back. Plenty of help out there for ya.

[ghostofjdjrusk]

If someone is poor enough to qualify for food stamps, they can have all the soda they want for all I care. If you care this much about how the poorest Americans live their lives, you need something better to do with your time.

[FormerShasta (Jason Lee)]

No. Poor people need food. I’m not gonna worry about what goes in their piehole, and don’t pretend you do either.

[AgustusMcCoog (*Augustus)]

@FormerShasta

Poor people need food

Exactly. Food. Not $9b worth of soda. It’s a waste of taxpayer money.

[AgustusMcCoog (*Augustus)]

@ghostofjdjrusk

If someone is poor enough to qualify for food stamps, they can have all the soda they want for all I care.

And what about poor people that don’t qualify for SNAP so they don’t buy a grocery cart full of sugary crap? You just tell them tough, get a second job?

[AgustusMcCoog (*Augustus)]

@ghostofjdjrusk

If you care this much about how the poorest Americans live their lives, you need something better to do with your time.

I care about $9b in wasted taxpayer money. Plenty of other worthwhile items that money can be spent on.

[ghostofjdjrusk]

I don’t understand what you’re trying to argue here. In any case, punching down on the poorest Americans just isn’t my style. The current administration has spent $25 billion on the Iran War in less than 60 days. I can’t be bothered to worry about soda with that kind of waste going on.

[olutrain (O. Emmanuel)]

but you see… a beverage being consumed by someone poor is waste! They have water at home. No taxpayer funds for any beverage whatsoever!

[FormerShasta (Jason Lee)]

Go ahead and tell us the programs you would be comfortable with.

And please use that same concern with ballrooms (which we will now of course pay for), arches (not Golden!), MMA fights, etc.

Biggest grift in history and you’re worrying about poor people getting their drank on.

[AgustusMcCoog (*Augustus)]

@FormerShasta

Go ahead and tell us the programs you would be comfortable with.

More assistance for our veterans is one of my biggest concerns. If you guys want to discuss taxpayer waste on the other things then start another thread.

[FormerShasta (Jason Lee)]

You brought it up. You said there were better things. YOU start another thread.

And no one is against veteran assistance, but this isn’t a zero sum game. Congress has all the power in the world to do this, yet they choose not to.

[Duce630 (DustinK - Damn it feels good to be a Cougar. -Dwight Davis)]

@AgustusMcCoog

@olutrain

When your tax bill is actually $9 billion then let’s have a talk.

Crazy you think sodas is the best way to spend $9 billion in taxpayer money. Ask the average taxpayer and they’d disagree with you.

Crazy you think that all $9 billion of SNAP is buying sodas.

@AgustusMcCoog

Cut all that crap out and use the savings towards things that actually matter. This isn’t that hard to understand.

Feeding hungry people doesn’t actually matter? That’s your take?

[Duce630 (DustinK - Damn it feels good to be a Cougar. -Dwight Davis)]

I don’t think you’re going to get people to stop buying sugary sodas or cakes, even if you change snap requirements. I think incentivizing better choices is ideal.

What will make even more of a difference is if you actually increase access to healthier choices (eliminate food desserts) by making sure there are full grocery stores close to the communities. Make sure they have access to affordable health care and health education. Make sure they can afford to take off work to go to the doctor for preventative care and not just clog up emergency rooms when the problems are acute. Make sure schools have P.E. and health programs for students. Do more to clean up and prevent environmental issues in poor communities. Make sure they have well maintained indoor and outdoor spaces for recreation or community activities. Make sure that building safety codes are enforced so people aren’t living in rat, roach, and mold infested apartments. These need to be long term programs, not things that change every two to four years as the political winds change.

If you’re not advocating for all of those type of things and only saying “ban sugary sodas”, then you’re not caring about people just politics.

[firstandten]

You can make your own with flour, eggs, milk and sugar. These people do have$ of their own to spend on that.

[JohnnyCougar]

Politics, anyone? Only if the poster is special, I guess.

[firstandten]

When we used to help poor families from our church, when they wanted pop, we told them that we were only paying for necessities. Funny thing is we had 5 kids and could rarely afford coke except special occasions. Poor people are usually poor for a reason they spend their $ on dumb things

[Duce630 (DustinK - Damn it feels good to be a Cougar. -Dwight Davis)]

@firstandten

You can make your own with flour, eggs, milk and sugar. These people do have$ of their own to spend on that.

You mean they can use snap funds to bake their own cake? Wow! So, how does banning them from buying pre-made cakes solve anything?

[coachv (Chris Vaughan)]

@7thyear

There’s a documentary about appalachia and they cover the consumption of mountain dew and other sodas. It’s pretty wild how much of that stuff those people drink. They put it in baby bottles for some reason.

The Dew was, for a long time, the most highly caffeinated soda on the market