Should You Be Allowed to Buy Junk Food With Food Stamps?

by SodaHead News Posted 2012/01/30 06:00:00

Related Topics: Food Stamps, Junk Food, Restrictions, Ronda Storms, Florida, Lifestyle, Family, Potato, Cookie, Food, Los Angeles, soda, Cookies, Healthy

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The U.S. is simultaneously low on jobs and incomes, and consuming large amounts of unhealthy food. You might think the problems would be mutually exclusive, but according to Florida senator Ronda Storms, health is a problem even for those using food stamps to get by. She recently sponsored a bill that proposes to regulate what kinds of food items are allowed to be purchased with food stamps.

Storms said, "If we're going to be cutting services across the board, then people can live without potato chips, without store-bought cookies, without their sodas." According to the Los Angeles Times, she decided to sponsor the bill when she saw shoppers purchasing "fatty, highly-processed treats" being bought with taxpayer money. Similar bills have been rejected in the past, while some organizations are trying to encourage healthy buying with reimbursements.

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keymanjim 2012/01/30 16:24:00

No

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Only in American can you be poor and fat. And then DEMAND a nonexistent right to become fatter as someone else pays your bills.
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Cherry Bloom 2012/01/30 09:07:22

Yes

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There is a marked relation between poverty and obesity. Let's try and get the costs of healthy food lowered and make it more readily available in forms most consumers want to buy. Then we can tell them they can't buy chips and soda.

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Franklin to Cherry ... 2012/01/30 16:52:15

food stamps have a direct impact on food cost - prices go up when food stamps go up . its a funny world liberals live in where the problem stems from the cost of something so the answer can be found in having the Gov-Ment pay for it....

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rustyshackelford 2012/01/30 08:29:58
Darkitec 2012/01/30 08:16:35 (edited)

Yes

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This is how government takes away our rights. One step at a time under the guise of doing things that are best for us.or my favorite (for the children) This is how we've ended up with anti trans fat, anti salt laws....... Obama care is scheduled to be fully enforced by 2016, are you willing to allow government to decide that since it's paying for your health care, you can no longer eat ice cream, or chocolate, or french fries, a ding dong or a twinkie?? Millions are on food stamps not by choice, but because government meddling in our economic system has come crashing down and put them out of work. I'm sick of government telling me what to do, I don't want it to be telling anyone else what they can or cannot eat either.

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Grabitz to Darkitec 2012/01/30 17:09:04

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I totaly agree , but yet these people call for less government all the wile creating more .

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Keichi Morisato 2012/01/30 08:06:39

No

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people need to spend more money on the things they need not what they want.

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Cherry ... to Keichi ... 2012/01/30 09:09:18

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healthy choices are not cheap and are not readily available to the consumer in a manner that they will buy.

Until then, I'll kill anyone who touches my chips!!

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Keichi ... to Cherry ... 2012/01/30 09:40:48

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i know just as much as anybody. i live just on the poverty line and i can't get benefits i know a lot of people who have get food stamps and if we got that kind of money we'd be able to live well enough and still eat fairly healthy and yeah i agree healthy food aren't readily available mostly because its whats in this health foods craze. because of that they jack the price right on up.

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Franklin to Keichi ... 2012/01/30 16:56:34

Junk food is only cheap and available because of market trends and mass production (BTW most of it is imported) Junk sells so stores stock junk - if Food stamps did not pay for JUNK we would see a shift in what stores stock -

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Franklin to Cherry ... 2012/01/30 16:54:12

nice try , your not eating chips because they are cheap !!!!!! Your eating them because you want them + you want the government to give them to you for FREE -

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Vive le Canada Libre!!! 2012/01/30 08:04:05 (edited)

Yes

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That choice should be up to the individual how they use their food stamps.

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Franklin to Vive le... 2012/01/30 16:57:01

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its NOT your choice when its NOT your money !

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Grabitz to Franklin 2012/01/30 17:17:25

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I am not on food stamps but have to disagree with that . If I ever do have too be on food stamps then I feel that I have paid in plenty of Dollars to consider that it is my money and would not appreciate you telling me what to eat .

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Vive le... to Franklin 2012/01/30 20:48:29 (edited)

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It is up to them to make their own choices without the help of the public.

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Franklin to Vive le... 2012/01/31 02:07:51

...last three words HELP OF THE PUBLIC . Food stamps started off to offset the price of buying REAL food for poor families ...now its just a way for people to buy crap they don't need and have the "rich" pay for it

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Darkitec to Franklin 2012/01/31 03:47:56

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I under stand your point of view. Just a couple of years ago It was also my opinion. However after exhausting my unemployment, my savings, selling off my belongings, and finally cashing in my retirement programs, I was forced to start using the food stamp program 4 months ago to survive. (I would much rather be working) but just because the economy has made people suffer, should they also be forced to forgo a few treats and pleasures?

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Depsycho to Franklin 2012/01/30 23:41:13

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THANK you!! Can't people understand this is not money earned on their own time, but BORROWED from the people who pay taxes? Next they'll be wanting us to give them booze and cigarettes too!

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Grabitz to Depsycho 2012/01/31 00:27:58

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Well I started work at 13 and paid in all that time , thats 43 years worth of MY money . If I was in need of food stamps would you guys cry if I got a candy bar ?

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Franklin to Grabitz 2012/01/31 02:10:40

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yes I would ! that money and that program where put in place to buy bread eggs and milk for poor children - not so that you me or any body else can have a treat we can't (or won't) pay for ourselves

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Depsycho to Grabitz 2012/01/31 02:50:45

Yeah actually, some would. That candy bar COULD have been contributed to REAL food - an apple, a head of lettuce, even a small steak - and that would have filled a stomach a LOT more than a damn candy bar, king size or not!

Like I said, your dollar, fine, but not food stamps. HELL NO.

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Grabitz to Depsycho 2012/01/31 05:24:54

Lolz but it is my dollars . It is what I have been putting in for 43 years just in case I need it . Ill probably never collect a dime of it or SS but still 43 years worth has got to be worth a candy bar for crying out loud . You are only 23 and probably will change your mind by the time you reach my age and feed half the damn states not to mention all my money going over seas or in some worthless rich senators pocket .

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Franklin to Depsycho 2012/01/31 02:09:10

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half of the money being pissed away by the FED comes from SSI so people are spending their retirement on soda pop and they just refuse to see it -

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Darkitec to Depsycho 2012/01/31 03:48:56

That would be great. Actually I would love to see Obama care obliterated so that companies would stop sitting on their hands and start hiring again. Work would be so much more fun.

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Darkitec to Franklin 2012/01/31 03:41:22

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Please try to remember though, that a huge chunk of the people now enrolled in the food stamp program, are people that used to have jobs in construction, manufacturing, professional trades and are people that were paying taxes, and funding those food stamps.

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Marvelous Wildfire 2012/01/30 07:22:47

No

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If you are in such a shortage of food that you need taxPAYER support for feed your family; the food obtain should be as nutritious as possible.

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Angelika Insomniac 2012/01/30 07:07:56

Yes

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A: Junk food is the cheapest to buy
2: It keeps the crumb snatchers out of your hair

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middlesex1957 2012/01/30 07:06:02

No

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But it is amazing how many people went crazy when the government suggesting taxing junk food as not being a food item. All of a sudden the government was telling them what to eat and they thought it was Naziism. Never mind the rate of obeisity and diabetes in this country and the fact that people deliberately eat what they know is crap and making them sick. However, food stamps won't feed you. If you rely on them you end up eating tons of rice, beans and macaroni which make you just as fat and diabetic as living on potato chips. Why? Well, how much pasta can you buy for $3? How many fresh vegetables? $3 will get you ONE bell pepper. One tomato. It won't buy you a salad but it will buy you 2 cans of green beans. I have a relative on food stamps and it is amazing how little she gets. You can not eat healthy on that.

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(▪‿▪)Do... to middles... 2012/01/30 07:09:43 (edited)

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Agree. real food last longer and much better for you. then stupid junk food a snack is ok

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Franklin to (▪‿▪)Do... 2012/01/30 17:01:00

...I can eat junk all day and still never be full until I get some real food , I do this when I am working on the road and can't wait to get to something worth eating ...junk food is the Methadone for hunger -

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Franklin to middles... 2012/01/30 16:59:22

suggested tax ? You must not have bought a soda in the past 3 years . The democrat run congress of 06 to 2010 did in fact play both sides new punishing taxes on junk+ new rules for food stamps so they now cover JUNK ...LOL

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««Gingey, the Master Debate... 2012/01/30 07:05:25

No

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Keep it to the basics: beans, rice, bread, fresh produce/meats, flour, sugar, etc. No pre-made garbage. I guarantee you people will be healthier.

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(▪‿▪)Do... to ««Ginge... 2012/01/30 07:08:27 (edited)

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Agree. that want we buy all the time.

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sbtbill to ««Ginge... 2012/01/30 10:51:41

Pre-made food are not garbage. Just because you are a food nut doesn't give you the right to impose your ideas on someone else.

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««Ginge... to sbtbill 2012/01/30 16:53:39

A food nut? Lol. It does if my taxes are funding it.

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Yukoku to ««Ginge... 2012/01/31 17:26:50

Your taxes fund Government six figure salaries too dumbass!

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««Ginge... to Yukoku 2012/01/31 20:02:23

Bite my ass, bitch.

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Franklin to sbtbill 2012/01/30 17:01:32

O yes it does when I am paying for it !!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yukoku to Franklin 2012/01/31 17:28:27

Regulate congress people to frank because they get more in a month than most people see in a year!

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