Gohmert: Cutting food stamps not evil because poor people buy king crab legs

[booley]

49. lets say this is true

lets say that there are using food stamps to buy crab legs.

And it's not where sea food is unusually cheap because they live on a coast.

NOW, let me tell you my experience from working where we sell food and take food stamps. This isn't what i have heard. This is what I have SEEN with my own eyes.

No one buys crab legs or lobsters. of course we don't sell that at my store so that's a given. We do sell frozen shrimp. Though I have never actually seen anyone buy it with food stamps.

Some people do buy junk food with stamps. Cookies and candy and soda. The worst example I think I ever saw was one woman who bought generic orange soda and poured it into a bottle for her baby to drink.

The bulk of purchases however are things like bread, milk, baby food. One should also consider that my store sells more junk food then good, so even the bad examples may not represent as much of food stamp users as it appears.

In short, yes there are some who make choices we don't approve of with their food stamps. But we have to ask are these people enough reason to punish the ones who aren't?

Cuts to social programs are notorious for their bad aim. The one's who are buying milk are going suffer for these cuts in greater numbers then the ones buying candy and crab legs.