Since he doesn't do it without his public ministry, plus he didn't feed #everybody# when he was on earth in body, who really knows?
anyway, would he feed them potato chips and cup cakes with Kool Aid to wash it all down?
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Food Stamps: $1.3 Billion Spent on Junk Food, Soft Drinks, Says Study
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Since he doesn't do it without his public ministry, plus he didn't feed #everybody# when he was on earth in body, who really knows?
anyway, would he feed them potato chips and cup cakes with Kool Aid to wash it all down?
I know people get all down on food stamp recipients and feel that every one of them should be buying wheat and grinding it themselves to make flour to make their own bread and should be cooking from scratch all the time
BUT
Not everyone is in a situation where they can even cook. I know a single mom of 1 who is living in a homeless shelter that at one time was a Howard Johnson's motel. There are no kitchen facilities. She has a microwave and a dorm sized fridge. She also has a crockpot and a small electric burner to cook on. She's not going to be able to be baking anything and making things from scratch is hard because she has no transportation and the closest supermarket is 3 miles away. So what is she to do? She will walk a distance to take a bus to the grocery store and get what she can use and then come back and try to cook something healthy for herself and her daughter. Sometimes this may be a frozen dinner because she's tired from working full time and just can't think straight to make a perfectly done home cooked meal. This woman is incredible and working hard to get her and her daughter a home someday and to get off of assistance but for now, she does what she can.
So not everyone has full kitchen facilities and the ability to make a homemade chicken pot pie.
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Not everyone is in a situation where they can even cook. I know a single mom of 1 who is living in a homeless shelter that at one time was a Howard Johnson's motel. There are no kitchen facilities. She has a microwave and a dorm sized fridge. She also has a crockpot and a small electric burner to cook on. She's not going to be able to be baking anything and making things from scratch is hard because she has no transportation and the closest supermarket is 3 miles away. So what is she to do? She will walk a distance to take a bus to the grocery store and get what she can use and then come back and try to cook something healthy for herself and her daughter. Sometimes this may be a frozen dinner because she's tired from working full time and just can't think straight to make a perfectly done home cooked meal. This woman is incredible and working hard to get her and her daughter a home someday and to get off of assistance but for now, she does what she can.
So not everyone has full kitchen facilities and the ability to make a homemade chicken pot pie.
Yeah, Ann, not everybody can cook, and not everyone can learn to cook from scratch even with a full kitchen. I think there is a huge obesity problem with Americans, and it's especially worse with people on food stamps but this system is ripe with fraud other than recipients buying the wrong food - start there, not with the menu.
That's because she came off as a hypocrite with the "Move" for poor public school students while her children were in that tony private school. Even the poor kids trashed that menu.
That's because she came off as a hypocrite with the "Move" for poor public school students while her children were in that tony private school. Even the poor kids trashed that menu.
What a person spends HIS own money on - is his business.
What a person spends MY money on - is MY business
Ann, I realize there are always exceptions - but those are rare instances - not the rule,
therefore therefor special arrangements could be instituted.
A Tenn State Rep has introduced a bill to prohibit food stamps to be used to purchase junk food
Your first statement is patently riduculous. Beautiful hyperbole, but totally false.
I notice you didn't say she buys soft drinks and potato chips, instead of food. And that's the point.
I think all of us should try to eat a healthy diet. So, I assume you supported Michelle Obama's effort to get junk foods out of the schools, right?
Supported the concept; execution of the concept was stupid.
You don't force addicts to go cold turkey.
Case-in-point!! One Christmas a fellow I knew gave his secretary a couple of hundred $ so she & husband could make sure their kids (two, IIRC) could have a good Christmas.
He later learned that the couple had spent the money on a restaurant that they could never have afforded, with the leftover going to the kids.
He told me that that he would never do that again.
Moral:
1 You earn the money, you hoard it or throw it out the car window as you drive through a poor neighborhood! It's yours to do with as YOU see fit.
2 You give money to someone with the understanding that it is for a SPECIFIC purpose, then they spend as required, or give it back!
3 Whether they get anymore $, depends on how they handled the last!
Should be the same with all aspects of welfare!!
He later learned that the couple had spent the money on a restaurant that they could never have afforded, with the leftover going to the kids.
He told me that that he would never do that again.
Moral:
1 You earn the money, you hoard it or throw it out the car window as you drive through a poor neighborhood! It's yours to do with as YOU see fit.
2 You give money to someone with the understanding that it is for a SPECIFIC purpose, then they spend as required, or give it back!
3 Whether they get anymore $, depends on how they handled the last!
Should be the same with all aspects of welfare!!
His point was people on food stamps spend 2.8% MORE than the national average on junk food. Can you read and understand?
Careful how you word that one. 2.8 is 14% of 20, so they spent 14% more on snacks.
It's 2.8% more of their total budget.
Or am I wrong? Not a math major.
Since they are both percentages derived from the same number, they can be directly compared as percentages.Careful how you word that one. 2.8 is 14% of 20, so they spent 14% more on snacks.
It's 2.8% more of their total budget.
Or am I wrong? Not a math major.
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Yeah, dealing with percentages and not raw dollar amounts is making my brain hurt.
So if a NATO ally increased defense spending from from 2% of GDP to 3% of GDP, would the reporters say they increased spending by 1%, or by 50%?
I try not to feed the trolls. You're history.
Try to keep up.
Yeah, dealing with percentages and not raw dollar amounts is making my brain hurt.
So if a NATO ally increased defense spending from from 2% of GDP to 3% of GDP, would the reporters say they increased spending by 1%, or by 50%?
Both would be true, but would need to be qualified.
Defense spending increased by 50%. Suppose that GDP was $10 trillion. 2% of $10 trillion is $200 billion. 3% of $10 trillion is $300 billion. Defense spending increased $100 billion. That is a 50% increase in defense spending
As a percent of GDP, defense spending increased by 1% of GDP. (100 billion is 1% of $10 trillion.)
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You really don't understand do you?