Since 80% of those collecting welfare are working and the wages aren't keeping up with reality. I think the best bet would be to mandate a living wage for workers and take that the majority of that 80% off welfare entirely fixing it greatly.
Limiting what they buy doesn't fix shit because you didn't fix the situations that has them on it to begin with. You just make them more miserable where they are increasing their likeliness to resort to crime or other illegal behaviors to offset it as most of them would gladly get a better job if the option were available and for the statistical majority, it isn't.
Since we can't call out Trolls and Bad Faith posters and the Ignore function doesn't actually ignore it. Add
"mmo-champion.com##li.postbitignored"
to your ublock or adblock filter to actually ignore ignored posters. Now just need a way to ignore responses to them as well.
I agree with a lot of what you say but I would ask this: If Socialism works so great, then is the wealthiest nation not Socialist? I would argue that dragging the entire economy down, to increase the wages of the least skilled, is not something that benefits the greater good of the nation. This is further supported by the obvious fact that the least skilled will not always have the skill gap (people learn new skills and move up in the job market over time). I prefer the food stamp program, and I would even double it, instead of screwing up the economy by raising minimum wages to ridiculous levels.
Duh? Junkfood is more expensive than cooking.
The fact that people get stamps to go to fucking Mc Donalds... Holy shit arent u americans embarrased enough yet?
So how do they buy food ? If you can buy junk food you can buy veggies, they usually sell them at the same market...
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Well you can't buy prepared food with food stamps, so no you can't buy mcdonalds, but that doesn't mean they aren't lobbying for it.
Not always. If your only "grocery store" is something like a Dollar General, your only veggies are going to be canned green beans and canned corn. They don't sell fresh veggies or real meat, but they sell all the junk food you could imagine.
Other people are stuck with gas station convenience stores or pharmacies that sell a little food.
Which is why you missed the point of that map. If you don't have a car, and the closest supermarket is miles away, you walk to a corner store and buy what they have... junk food. I could walk 3 miles to the closest gas station and get a candy bar or walk 10 miles to wal-mart and buy a small handful of food that I have to carry back that 10 miles.
The entire purpose of the food desert map is to show easy access to supermarkets, not what's in the supermarkets. If you have the means to go to-and-from the supermarket (that's the distance part of the map), and the means of transporting more than a few bags worth of goods (that's the car part of the map), then you're not part of the people that map is referencing.
I was going to reply, but @Tijuana spelled it out nicely:
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
– C.S. Lewis
If it's so glaringly ignorant, show me a shopping list of "healthy" food to support your claim. I'm right, because when I do buy only healthy foods, it's really fucking cheap.
Or are you one of those people who think buying the name-brand 7-grain bread with 200 calories a slice is "healthy?"
As people implied what would be junk food ?
Hint : Pepsi or Coke would be labelled as junk...but no the other with the best team of lobbyists.
Map that shows a store further than 1 mile away, GTFO of here LOL, I walk more than that around my office. You will never convince me of that stupid shit.
Holy shit, zenkai. I try not to use the term privilege, but goddamn.
What about single parents? What about people holding down two jobs? What about people with sick/elderly relatives to take care of, or are sick/elderly themselves? There's a whole slew of reasons someone may not be able to take the time to walk ten fucking miles there and back every time they want fresh food. And guess what, most of the people who fit in that category also fit into the category of people that need EBT. Knock it off with the fucking bootstrap argument and develop some goddamn empathy.
...A slow walk is 2 mph, moderate is 3 mph. So at 2mph, that's... 10 hours round trip. At 3mph, that's 6.6 hours. So you're saying that you'd be ok with walking 6.6 hours every day for food? I say every day because you can't carry enough food for a family without a car, so really you could maybe pick up one day worth of food. Maybe two, I guess.
You spend 1/2hr walking around your office every day? Because walking a mile takes 30min. 20 if you walk with a quicker pace.
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Once again a GOP cheerleader who has been feeding at the Faux News trough of mushroom fodder spouts off BS and outright lies about SNAP (Which is the name of the program not Foodstamps).
First off I'd love to see you, or that Arkansas Lawmaker, purchase a healthy meal for the $1.40 that the average participant receives in SNAP per meal. Yes $1.40 per meal. or $126 per month, are receiving and paying for those "extravagant" you claim to have seem people buy.
Second the majority of people who receive Snap not only.work for a living but also work multiple jobs. They are the hard workers who work for the minimum wages that your friends in the GOP want to keep below poverty level so that the 1% grows richer and pay less taxes then you.
Third you are so full off bullcrap when you claim you've saw people on Snap "extravagant" foods and alcohol since alcohol isn't allowed and folks with a budget of $1.40 a meal aren't going to go hungry in order to have the "extravagant" meal!
Fourth is that that Arkansas Lawmaker, and others of his ilk, aren't telling you is that reducing what could be bought on Snap would not reduce the burden on the taxpayers. Snap doesn't spent your Tax dollars as the Farm Aid bill does! You see in order to keep the prices for grains, vegetables, and other foodstuffs high the Fed pays "Big" farmers not to grow, or buys the surplus to keep it off the market (This is why a Farmers Market prices are always lower then the Grocery Store) and then turn around and give the folks below poverty level a paltry $126 on average so they can afford foods that the Farm Aid bill has made unaffordable.
Now take that Confederate Flag because who really wants to rally behind the flag of Losers. Oh right folks who want to force others to worship or live by their racist religions do!!