Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
leftist article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/10/gwyneth-paltrow-food-stamp_n_7043010.html
right winger article:
http://twitchy.com/2015/04/11/grand...-gwyneth-paltrow-vows-to-live-on-snap-budget/
She's going to "attempt to survive" for one week.
I spend less than half that amount on food every week. The greens she bought can be grown on a windowsill for free, but we'd never ask poor people to take any sort of initiative or work at anything slightly difficult like gardening.
The reality of food stamps is that poor people are largely fat morons who spend whatever they are given on junk food and prepared convenience foods. Our food stamp program rules were written by lobbyists for the giant food conglomerates who peddle the junk food. Using tax dollars to let the poor buy things like diet soda is only helping the company selling diet soda. It has nothing to do with preventing hunger.
Before there was food welfare, poor families would grow a garden in the summer and home "can" what they grew. The can is actually a glass mason jar. There was a garden in every backyard and a pressure cooker and jars in every kitchen. It was a lot of work, but that is what kept poor people from starving to death in winter - their own initiative.
Food stamp welfare has completely turned that idea on its head. Expecting anyone to take initiative in their life is now considered a cruel, antiquated, close-minded, judgmental idea. That same initiative, by the way, is exactly the one thing that is required if anyone is ever going to stop being poor. So we've taken the one value that can overcome poverty and turned it into a dirty word, never to be expected of anyone, which is the best way to make sure a poor person stays poor.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/10/gwyneth-paltrow-food-stamp_n_7043010.html
right winger article:
http://twitchy.com/2015/04/11/grand...-gwyneth-paltrow-vows-to-live-on-snap-budget/
She's going to "attempt to survive" for one week.
I spend less than half that amount on food every week. The greens she bought can be grown on a windowsill for free, but we'd never ask poor people to take any sort of initiative or work at anything slightly difficult like gardening.
The reality of food stamps is that poor people are largely fat morons who spend whatever they are given on junk food and prepared convenience foods. Our food stamp program rules were written by lobbyists for the giant food conglomerates who peddle the junk food. Using tax dollars to let the poor buy things like diet soda is only helping the company selling diet soda. It has nothing to do with preventing hunger.
Before there was food welfare, poor families would grow a garden in the summer and home "can" what they grew. The can is actually a glass mason jar. There was a garden in every backyard and a pressure cooker and jars in every kitchen. It was a lot of work, but that is what kept poor people from starving to death in winter - their own initiative.
Food stamp welfare has completely turned that idea on its head. Expecting anyone to take initiative in their life is now considered a cruel, antiquated, close-minded, judgmental idea. That same initiative, by the way, is exactly the one thing that is required if anyone is ever going to stop being poor. So we've taken the one value that can overcome poverty and turned it into a dirty word, never to be expected of anyone, which is the best way to make sure a poor person stays poor.
