SNAP is a federal program that exists to assist lower-income households by helping them purchase healthy food options.
The proposed bill would prevent recipients from being able to purchase everyday kitchen staples including white rice, rice noodles, canned vegetables, baked beans, refried beans, chili beans and even butter.
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Looks to me like this bill is bass ackwards. The foods it'll prohibit ought to be the only kinds of foods they could buy using SNAP benefits.
Personally, I think they should go back to the way it originally was, where they were given butter, cheese, and other basic food items, instead of letting them choose what they buy.
ReplyDelete100%! They should only get the staple foods, that’s it. If you know how to cook, they go a long way. Then, you make those types go get jobs. Those that are completely unable to work because of physical (real) disabilities could get more, but this gravy train has got to end.
DeleteThis is understandable.
ReplyDeleteWhen buying meat it is impossible to determine the gender of the animal you are consuming, even a DNA test won't help.
Maybe we should ask the slaughtered cattle, just before they're killed, for their preferred gender and include that on the store label.
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List is based on what items are approved for the WIC program, so yes only tuna and salmon are listed, they are allowed brown rice, frozen veggies, several types of canned beans, dried beans and cheeses (block type and string cheese is allowed). SNAP is supplemental not your entire food budget. WIC list here: https://hhs.iowa.gov/sites/default/files/portals/1/userfiles/184/235_20%20iowa%20wic%20approved%20foods%20list%20new%20format%20%28kk%207_1_2022%29.pdf
ReplyDeleteNot so sure about that.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of boilerplate and legal definitions to go through, but it looks more like Iowa's expanding the SNAP program.
They're adding a catagory called supplemental nutrition to approved foods.
These are things not normally bought in grocery stores such as produce available at farmer's markets.
Looks like they're also adding a few requirements about having to get off one's ass and doing something for the $$$.
Nothing in here that I can find restricting food purchases.
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At least they can still buy Coke, Hot Cheetos and Ice Cream. Ya know, the necessities...
ReplyDelete...Otherwise known as "EBT..." My kid was a cashier at a supermarket and dealt with many a ghetto blaster paying for lobster and high-end steaks with those damned cards. More than once one of the dindus would say something like "Heh-HEHHHH! EEATIN' BETTAH T'NIGHT!!!" as my kid literally paid for the porch monkey's food with his own labor...
ReplyDelete...Being a cashier was a real eye-opener for my kid...
If you know how to cook and shop (which neither the well-off liberals who run welfare departments nor many of their clients do), the EBT/food stamp budgets have always been rather generous. It leaves the ones who do cook from scratch and shop like they're spending their own money with a substantial surplus, so either they commit fraud and sell the excess, or buy some luxury goods.
DeleteAmost 45 years ago, I married a single mother, who was working for 20 cents above minimum wage. (We're still married.) So she got food stamps, and had a freezer full of steaks and roasts. The welfare workers got upset if she didn't spend all the food stamps.
But she had a friend who wasn't so sensible, and was married to a loser who repeatedly got fired for stealing from his job. They drank Coke by the liter, ate cartons of Twinkies, and went hungry the last few days of each month. We'd cook a huge pot of rice + cream of mushroom and assorted cheap meats (fish, chicken, or whatever) and take it over to them. It's always been possible to live on very little if you work at it and have some imagination.
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A pet pevee. I go to the store and see these obese people in electric carts. They will have two shopping carts heaped with junk. I mean not one nutritious meal. And yes I look. Years ago ya pulled your brand of smokes off a shelf. Then the bastards getting free stuff stole so many that now you have to go to a counter to get them. Well ya go to the counter and the very theives are there buying their lottory tickets so you have to wait for their bullshit. Years ago, the first of the month, they would be pulling hundreds out of their wallets and flashing it all around. All of them loud as shit talking, "I gots my numbers". I've seen them drop three and four hundred dollars on lottery tickets. Dumb sons a bitches. Man that used to piss me off.
ReplyDeleteI can understand your rant about the lottery, but I'm inclined to not worry about it so much. They're simply taking govt. money and giving it right back to the govt.(The govt. giveth - the govt. taketh away) It's the ultimate in recycling, as they seldom, if ever win anything substantial. The only real cost, or waste, is in the production of the tickets.
DeleteThe lottery is a tax on stupidity.
DeleteBuddy of mine owns a country grocery store. He says the EBT people buy expensive items like crab legs and sell them at half price for cash. This bill will do nothing.
ReplyDeleteWhere I grew up in East Tennessee, people would buy cases of coke with food stamps, then sell them back to the store owner at 50% of the price for cash to buy cigarettes.
DeleteMaybe the government should stop the Snap shit and issue them 20 year old C Rats. Lots of good protein in Ham & Motherfuckers.
ReplyDeleteStop buying the votes of parasites?! Heaven forbid!
DeleteIf you see some of the people on snap the cards are not the problem. Asking the government to solve society problems is a receipt for disaster.
ReplyDeleteHm. I wonder if the Iowa GOP is following up its successful voter roll sweep leading to a democrat wipeout with a squeeze on living democrat voters-welfare leeches.
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It'll help Iowa, it'll take awhile but there will be a migration to MN, WI, and IL don't expect any of them to pay their own way.
ReplyDeletea solution to the problem..food loaf.
ReplyDeletehttps://up-ship.com/blog/?p=6864
Unlike food stamps, free food loaf would seem to be immune from corruption and scams. First off, very few people would actively try to seek it out. Second…. it’s free. It’s impossible to have an underground economy using a medium of exchange that’s freely available to all. While someone might try to score a bag of crack using a bunch of food stamps – because in the proper hands food stamps can be turned into cash – food loaf would be useless as a medium of exchange, since the drug dealer could get his own free for the taking.
Replacing food stamps with food loaf would seem to be a winner on many levels. It would be cheaper. It would reduce bureaucracy. It would be healthier. It would incentivise getting *off* the government dole. It would reduce options for crime, corruption and scams. It would naturally stockpile vast amounts of storable food useful during disasters. And it would separate those in actual need (who will eat it, and be happy to have it) from those who are simply trying to scam the system.
If it's free, someone will figure out a way to brew liquor from it. Also, you'd be feeding half of the dogs and cats in the country.
DeleteI think it's a good start on controlling the abuse of Snap. You see these people with Snap in grocery stores with their carts full of Premium meats and junk food. Meats to sell, junk food for the kids. I always said Snap programs should have their own store and only people with Snap cards can shop there.
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