Trumpocalypse: No hanky/lanky

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  1. DelapThrows

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    Yeah, the Federal Gov't telling people on the micro-level what food they can buy is totally the definition of small government and freedom.
     
  2. Teflon Queen

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    I don’t see how it’s punishing anyone to not let them use snap to buy coke
     
  3. Mister Me Too

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    Sugary drinks will always be available to purchase via EBT/SNAP, former NYS governor Patterson tried to do exactly what you’re saying and he was killed for it by both parties and encouraged to not run for re-election by his own party. There’s no politician that can win a fight against Coke, PepsiCo, Wal-Mart and many other companies with big pockets that manufacture, distribute or sell sugary drinks and salty snacks.
     
  4. Schadenfred

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    Not as many as Clanga Clanga, Roll Tide, and Woo Pig Sooie... at least per capita.
     
  5. AjaxAsian

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    She not sign a nondisclosure?

    Someone get ana navarro to yell at TED zodiac killer CRUZ! How much people hate him. Even repubs and Texans
     
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  6. Schadenfred

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    Because obesity and diabetes are at Threat Level Midnight. And because...

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  7. Arkadin

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    Id much rather allocate that monry to non food essentials
     
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  8. Frank Martin

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    We often complain about food deserts for people living in low income areas.

    Shipping them healthy items would actually solve that problem.
     
  9. chuckmasterflex

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  10. citrodong

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    What the fuck is omarosa doing lol
     
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  11. Merica

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    Jesus christ that leaves so much room for cronyism. I can see giant corporate lobbyists lining up already to get their products in that box.

    Say what you will about the SNAP program, but a ton of that money goes back to small local businesses.
     
  12. dome foam

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    good lord

    yes let people buy coke, which has negative nutritional value, with their public funded food stamps. let’s also make it more expensive for the people who actually pay for coke with a sugar tax.

    great logic.
     
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  13. Schadenfred

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    I don't disagree that it's largely a political no-go. It's too bad. This country is literally going to eats it way to death. The obesity rates are staggering.
     
  14. LetItSoak

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    Should they be able to buy alcohol? Cigarettes? I think people agree there should be restrictions, it's just a matter of where to draw the line. My sister was a dietitian for WIC in Florida and saw obese children almost every day. Allowing parents to use SNAP to give 5 year olds Mountain Dew seems like a bad idea.
     
  15. Frank Martin

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    Fortunately we will reach a point where we fund a support animal for these obese children to make them feel better about being fat.
     
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  16. citrodong

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    What a time to be alive that I'm back watching fucking Omarosa 15 years later.

    Try to imagine someone telling you 3 years ago that you'd be watching Omarosa on reality TV talking to Ross the intern and Mark McGrath about inside policy info from her job under President Trump. Russia got us so fucking good.
     
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  17. Schadenfred

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    Great in theory. Guaranteed to be a fubar in practice. The plan would be contracted out to a megacorp that would cut on quality to maximize profits.
     
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  18. Frank Martin

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    Love me some republican logic. “If it’s not perfect we can’t try it.” Very similar to their arguments against universal healthcare.
     
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  19. VaxRule

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    Sweetened beverages are a top purchase of people not on SNAP too. Heaven forbid these poors start thinking they are actually adults and real people. Let’s continue to humiliate them and treat them as much like children as possible.
     
  20. DelapThrows

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    They already said it won't be fresh items.

    This isn't about getting them healthier food, it's about limiting options and imposing control.
     
  21. LetItSoak

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    Should cigarettes be included?
     
  22. Teflon Queen

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    :facepalm: no one is stopping them from buying coke with their own money
     
  23. NilesIrish

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    I would always take minutes of any meeting I ran, and record them then email everything to myself when I was in charge of that stuff. makes it so much easier. And some of this shit was "classified"(not legally, just internally). It's the only way to do it imo.
     
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  24. Frank Martin

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    That’s an unfair question. Your going to make AlternativeFactsRule talk out of both sides of his mouth.
     
  25. Schadenfred

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    Not sure if the "republican logic" comment was directed toward me, but it's not about the risk of imperfection that I don't like. It's the certainty of privatized health cutting costs to maximize profit to the detriment of the customer.

    By the by, I'm an independent who writes in for the American Solidarity Party unless I find a worthy progressive candidate. I don't believe in voting for the lesser of two evils.
     
  26. VaxRule

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    Cigarettes aren’t food
     
  27. triceratops

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    The food box idea is one of the few ideas the admin has proposed that is at least worth discussing.

    Logistically, I am not sure it could work, but if you could provide say $150 of quality food for equivalent of $100 then that would be a good deal for both the people on SNAP by giving them more quality food for the same amount of money and the government doesn't pay any more while hopefully reducing health expenses for people not eating junk. It seems it would work better with commodity essential non-food products.

    I would imagine poor people waste a lot of money buying toilet paper from gas stations in small packs and it costs 5x the amount of buying in bulk as Costco. It also will not spoil.
     
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  28. LetItSoak

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    Alcohol then? Both have calories and are bad for you
     
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  29. Schadenfred

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    If you're humiliated by going through the check-out line without Mountain Dew, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Monster drinks, then it's a "you" problem... not a taxpayer problem.
     
  30. triceratops

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    Team limit SNAP to actual nutritious food items (or at least a high percentage) sort of like WIC.
     
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  31. citrodong

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    All Americans should get access to free basic healthy food. A bag full of Bread, cheese, veggies, lean meat, fruit, vitamins.
     
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  32. PeterGriffin

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  33. Frank Martin

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    Well said.

    It really isn’t a terrible idea like his normal ideas.
     
  34. Merica

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    I just don't understand the point of this thing. If you're a conservative, the one argument you can make for SNAP is that it benefits local small businesses. And you want to do away with that one benefit?

    The only possible argument one could make for this is that you can provide more nutritional meals, but the problem is that you actually have to have the time to cook those meals. A lot of SNAP beneficiaries are working all the time. So many Blue Aprons go to waste because people thought they'd be able to cook but couldn't find the time before the meals rotted.
     
  35. triceratops

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    Plus it is more humiliating to drive around the grocery store with a cart filled with that crap anyway.

    Way more humiliating than paying for a cart of fresh vegetables with SNAP.
     
    #120735 triceratops, Feb 13, 2018
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  36. DelapThrows

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    I get that it's worth discussing... but we all know (as stated by someone earlier in the thread)... that it would just lead to the LCD and the foodstuffs arriving would be of the lowest quality possible for the price. It won't include fresh fruits, vegetables, or meats.
     
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  37. VaxRule

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  38. Frank Martin

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    Well you can’t buy premade food on SNAP anyway. So this is a fallacious argument.

    You’re going to have to cook at some level on your snap benefits. Unless you’re just making chips, soda, cookies etc.
     
  39. Gaknight

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    Did you expect anything else from her?

    LMAO if they didn't get her to sign a non disclosure.
     
  40. VaxRule

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    Would you wait two weeks to do it though?
     
  41. Schadenfred

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    I don't disagree. If only regulatory capture and crony capitalism didn't infest policy...
     
  42. Frank Martin

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    But the proposal isn’t to take away the full snap benefit. They would still have a leftover amount to buy the fresh meats, fruits and vegetables.
     
  43. triceratops

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    It already infests SNAP which is why you can buy junk food with it.

    There is no logical argument for allowing people to buy soda except for the sugar and food lobby.
     
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  44. Teflon Queen

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  45. Hoss Bonaventure

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    The government needs to stay out healthcare, but having it regulate food is ok.
     
  46. Merica

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    I think your last statement is the main problem.

    Hell if we go this route, I'd want it to be pre-cooked meals. I just think so much food would rot if we shipped fresh groceries.

    I don't hate the idea though. It has merit. I like the idea of doing essentials like tp and tampons and stuff. It does leave a fuckload of room for corruption though.
     
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  47. zeberdee

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    I think in general the idea could be good, but I have zero confidence this administration would execute it in a way that would be beneficial to the American people rather than to line the pockets of their corporate buddies.
     
  48. pez

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    It cuts money is the other one I read. In part because the federal government is not responsible for delivery of the boxes. So they can package together food cheaper than what they give out now, but then leave it to the states to figure out how to get it to the people
     
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  49. Merica

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    The Trump wing of the Republican party has no qualms with government spending.

    They just don't want to actually pay for it.
     
  50. Teflon Queen

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    It would be pretty funny if the party of communist bogeymen pushed predetermined food rations
     
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