Wisconsin lawmaker seeks to restrict what can be bought with food stamps
http://www.fox11online.com//dpp/news/local/fox_cities/wis-lawmaker-wants-healthier-use-of-food-aidMADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin state lawmaker wants food stamp users to eat healthier -- whether they want to or not.
Rep. Dean Kaufert, a Republican from Neenah, would cut the use of food stamps on junk food. In other words, for people in FoodShare, the state's nutrition assistance program, it's out with the Cheetos, Coca-Cola and Suzy Qs and in with the leafy produce.
"The system is being abused," Kaufert said. "Some people are not spending their benefits wisely."
It's an idea that's been tried before with no success. States aren't allowed to set their own definitions of what's "healthy," or "junk," and Kaufert's bill doesn't actually name any products or food groups. The state also can't change what FoodShare covers without a waiver from the federal government.
So, how does one define "healthy food," and how will they keep up with all the new food products that get introduced every day?
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Michele Obama's attempt to get people to eat better is considered communism (or worse) by repugs.
Actually, I would think North Korea would want to keep people addicted to bad things, as eating can be an addicitive thing and keeping ones mind controlled to a vice is being just that.
So a North Korea would in your example, be in my example the NRA or the Cigarette companies and/or ANY of those 1% corps which want to mind control everyone, which is what vices do-they control people.
It's all how you frame the issue.
Frame it as freedom and liberty.
Vices make one a prisoner and take away your freedom and liberty.
It amazes me that the two of us are indeed on the same side, but are looking at the same
exact thing so completely opposite.
Giving up Yodles, and ringdings and twinkees and cheez doodles and Trix cereal and/or Twix candy bars and 48 ounce real soda and a big tub of buttered (fake butter at that) popcorn, is the adult thing to do. Not to fight to keep eating these things that adults unlike children, just know know is not good for you.
And if it takes a nanny to prod it out of my own fingers, as opposed to a kind hearted grandmother telling me eat, eat, eat, have fun, don't worry, one more Devil Dog won't kill you...well, I sure wish all four of my grandparents were here,(last saw any of them now 30 years or more ago), however, it has nothing to do with my now knowing that every single one of them I might want to eat, makes it one day longer that my road to wellness takes.
And what Grandmother or grandfather wouldn't want their grandkid in reality, to live another day well over a temporary few second fix of gobbling down a Yodel? (and come on, get one of those things in ones hands, and its gone in a flash, but the guilt comes in and lasts longer than the taste to savor.)
I know, I know.
Yes, the politician is an ahole for scoring political points like this. I 100% agree, that person has no right to take a select few and force it.
So make it all of the population, then it is fair.
See, we agree. If we walk around a block we meet in the middle. I am walking left.
If you are also walking left, we are walking together in the first place.
or
to use another example-we are driving 2000 miles and you are in a kool sport car, and speed ahead of my dull boring regular car at the start.
You just know that somewhere 550 miles from New York City, we are at the border of the
Carolinas, and we both make a pit stop at the same exact gas station at the same exact time.
Time and again I have made that drive and seen it to be true.
I do a double take, but its the same car. And though it seems impossible in any time line,
both of us are once again together in the same place, 550 miles from the start.
But they want to force people living off food stamps to eat better. Fucking hypocritical douchebags. 
