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Should people on food stamps be allowed to buy sugary drinks?
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POSTED: Friday, October 8, 2010 - 7:22am
UPDATED: Saturday, October 30, 2010 - 9:40am
42 million Americans are on food stamps right now, a record number. That totals $6 billion in spending on food stamps a year.
The number of people on food stamps is up 20% in just the last year.
In an effort to stop obesity, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Governor David Paterson are calling for a ban on sugary drinks for those on food stamps.
Items such as alcohol and cigarettes are already banned.
Should people receiving food stamps be allowed to buy sugary drinks?
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No. If it can be controlled it should be. If you gave 100.00 to a beggar, you hope that they would buy something good with it. A shower & a hot meal, a warm bed to sleep in even 4 1 nite. They will prob buy drugs, booze, & cigs. You cant control that. When you hear reports of how the government is spending money on BS, that is your money people! GOVERNMENT doesnt pay for anything! YOU DO! Reports should say "The people have paid for this or that." NOT THE GOVERNMENT HAS PAID! Its brainwashing.
Fruit juices have natural sugars in them. So if you banned any drinks with sugar in them that would include some fruit juices. Now would that be fair? If you look around over half the population is overweight. Who's fought is that but their own. They have just let themselves go. And they eat like pigs. Come on look at yourself in the mirror if you are getting larger its not the mirror.I know everybody is not on food stamps so whats their problem.
FOR ONE THING I AM ON FOOD STAMPS. I PAY TAXES AND I BUY SODAS ON THEM. I am not on them because I want to be. I am on them so my family don't go hungry. Do you want them to ban tea and sugar to. If your knew how tried you get of water then you would see how it fells. Most people on food stamps work for people that will not pay them anough. I have tried a all vegs and fruits for a month you try it. I am so feed up with people trying to tell me what to do.You live the way you and I will to
EiceBleu October 8, 2010
at 2:58pm
Sugary drinks, zero nutrition, therefore NOT food.
In fact they're as poisonous to your liver as alcohol.
I realize this will date me, but yes, I AM as old as dirt! Modern day people need to get back to the basics when money is tight and in short supply. I have felt for a very long time that sugary drinks, and other non-essential food items should be banned from the food stamp program, nationally! If Mr. Bloomberg wants to change the obesity percentage, then lets get back to the foods that the Food Stamp Program was innitially started for. It is perfectly alright to tell yourself, and the kids, NO!
If people on food stamps wish to buy soft drinks for themselves and thier familys it's their busniess. Noone should have the right to say what people can buy with their food stamps or money. If they are not buying alcohol or drugs then it shouldn't matter to anyone what is in their kitchen. Bloomberg and Peterson just want more attention and if they really mean to stop the sales of soft drinks with food stamps then I think they might not be in office much longer. But that's just my opinion
they should have a limit of about 125.00 a month total if anything at all.that would give the lazy do nothing system riders that want to lay around and have babies by 10 different people,get a job and work and be productive like it should be.government needs to quit enabling lazya** people!!!
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