So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have an obesity epidemic, especially among lower income. There isn’t food scarcity, there is food over abundance.

Healthy food is expensive. Unhealthy, preservative-laden foods are cheaper. Plus poor people often lack access to good grocery stores, along with often suffering from stress, lack of sleep, lack of access to healthcare and many other issues that contribute to poor health which can also lead to obesity.

Basic heathy food is not expensive, nor is it elusive. Next excuse?

The only way to become obese is to consume an excess of calories, continuously, over a long period of time. Hard to buy the narrative we have so many starving people that are 50+ lbs overweight

Your assignment for today - drive to inner city and walk to closest corner store. Buy $20 worth of healthy food.
Drive to rural area and find small market and buy $20 worth of healthy food. Report back.

DP. What’s your point?
Food costs less in suburban and rural areas, but the wages are also lower in rural areas and urban areas have higher wages and more opportunities.

The same laws of supply and demand apply either way. The stores sell what people will buy.
The problem is 100% cultural.
Healthy diets can be easily based on rice, beans, tortillas, potatoes. Add in some veggies. Eggs, chicken, and ground beef provide a lot of nutritional bang for the buck. Apples, carrots, and cabbage keep well and do not cost that much.
Again, 100% cultural that people buy bags of cookies and chips instead of real food.
Don’t know how to cook? Learn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have an obesity epidemic, especially among lower income. There isn’t food scarcity, there is food over abundance.

Healthy food is expensive. Unhealthy, preservative-laden foods are cheaper. Plus poor people often lack access to good grocery stores, along with often suffering from stress, lack of sleep, lack of access to healthcare and many other issues that contribute to poor health which can also lead to obesity.

Basic heathy food is not expensive, nor is it elusive. Next excuse?

The only way to become obese is to consume an excess of calories, continuously, over a long period of time. Hard to buy the narrative we have so many starving people that are 50+ lbs overweight

Your assignment for today - drive to inner city and walk to closest corner store. Buy $20 worth of healthy food.
Drive to rural area and find small market and buy $20 worth of healthy food. Report back.

DP. What’s your point?
Food costs less in suburban and rural areas, but the wages are also lower in rural areas and urban areas have higher wages and more opportunities.

The same laws of supply and demand apply either way. The stores sell what people will buy.
The problem is 100% cultural.
Healthy diets can be easily based on rice, beans, tortillas, potatoes. Add in some veggies. Eggs, chicken, and ground beef provide a lot of nutritional bang for the buck. Apples, carrots, and cabbage keep well and do not cost that much.
Again, 100% cultural that people buy bags of cookies and chips instead of real food.
Don’t know how to cook? Learn.

Republicans of course just cut the program that taught SNAP recipients how to stretch their snap dollars farther and make healthier meals. That was one of their pay fors for more tax cuts for billionaires. Can’t even make this crap up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have an obesity epidemic, especially among lower income. There isn’t food scarcity, there is food over abundance.

Healthy food is expensive. Unhealthy, preservative-laden foods are cheaper. Plus poor people often lack access to good grocery stores, along with often suffering from stress, lack of sleep, lack of access to healthcare and many other issues that contribute to poor health which can also lead to obesity.

Basic heathy food is not expensive, nor is it elusive. Next excuse?

The only way to become obese is to consume an excess of calories, continuously, over a long period of time. Hard to buy the narrative we have so many starving people that are 50+ lbs overweight

Your assignment for today - drive to inner city and walk to closest corner store. Buy $20 worth of healthy food.
Drive to rural area and find small market and buy $20 worth of healthy food. Report back.

DP. What’s your point?
Food costs less in suburban and rural areas, but the wages are also lower in rural areas and urban areas have higher wages and more opportunities.

The same laws of supply and demand apply either way. The stores sell what people will buy.
The problem is 100% cultural.
Healthy diets can be easily based on rice, beans, tortillas, potatoes. Add in some veggies. Eggs, chicken, and ground beef provide a lot of nutritional bang for the buck. Apples, carrots, and cabbage keep well and do not cost that much.
Again, 100% cultural that people buy bags of cookies and chips instead of real food.
Don’t know how to cook? Learn.

If you’d done the assignment, you find few of those products in the stores I mentioned. It’s a loss to a small store owner, who would have to pay to purchase and power refrigerator and freezers.
I can’t believe the ignorance shown on this thread. Refusing to go and find out for yourself. You scared of the inner city? Scared of rural hick America?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have an obesity epidemic, especially among lower income. There isn’t food scarcity, there is food over abundance.

Healthy food is expensive. Unhealthy, preservative-laden foods are cheaper. Plus poor people often lack access to good grocery stores, along with often suffering from stress, lack of sleep, lack of access to healthcare and many other issues that contribute to poor health which can also lead to obesity.

Basic heathy food is not expensive, nor is it elusive. Next excuse?

The only way to become obese is to consume an excess of calories, continuously, over a long period of time. Hard to buy the narrative we have so many starving people that are 50+ lbs overweight

Your privilege is showing. You've apparently never heard of food deserts, where there are no farms or farmers markets, where there are no regular grocery stores or supermarkets, only convenience type stores which don't sell fresh chicken or fresh vegetables, and where the only way to get them is to have a var or to have to pay for mass transit and lug your groceries around, possibly for miles.

[Anonymous]

What these fools don’t understand is that propaganda only works so far when people are starving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What these fools don’t understand is that propaganda only works so far when people are starving.

I have every expectation that the government will find a way to stopgap food stamps before Nov 1. If we’ve learned anything it’s that politicians on both sides are scared of pissing off old people and poor people. Even if their poverty is the result of their own terrible decisions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What these fools don’t understand is that propaganda only works so far when people are starving.

Except, nobody is "starving". They simply have to make other choices with respect to procreation, employment, spending, and the kind of food they purchase and consume.

[Anonymous]

When I was in college, we had to do a poverty simulation activity. We were placed in family groups and given our family’s background and an individual role. I was the mom of two teens. The names were changed but based on real families. Without internet or a car, we were given everyday tasks such as getting kids to school, picking up paycheck and/or assistance, paying bills, buying groceries, getting kids home from school - all while factoring in public transit expenses. We also dealt with unexpected expenses such as broken fridge. We had to complete our tasks for the day without ending up in the red. Families started stealing from each other in desperation. Some families decided to move in together to save money. Some cheated. Kids ran away from home to live with another family. During the debriefing that followed, the kids reported that they had no idea what the teacher had taught. They were too stressed about whether their parents could get those groceries and bills paid and pick them up from school on time.

This activity really stuck with me. So when crime goes up next month, think about who deserves the blame and how far YOU would go to protect your family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What these fools don’t understand is that propaganda only works so far when people are starving.

Except, nobody is "starving". They simply have to make other choices with respect to procreation, employment, spending, and the kind of food they purchase and consume.

I hope you never have to learn how naive and out of touch this comment actually is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have an obesity epidemic, especially among lower income. There isn’t food scarcity, there is food over abundance.

Healthy food is expensive. Unhealthy, preservative-laden foods are cheaper. Plus poor people often lack access to good grocery stores, along with often suffering from stress, lack of sleep, lack of access to healthcare and many other issues that contribute to poor health which can also lead to obesity.

Basic heathy food is not expensive, nor is it elusive. Next excuse?

The only way to become obese is to consume an excess of calories, continuously, over a long period of time. Hard to buy the narrative we have so many starving people that are 50+ lbs overweight

Your assignment for today - drive to inner city and walk to closest corner store. Buy $20 worth of healthy food.
Drive to rural area and find small market and buy $20 worth of healthy food. Report back.

DP. What’s your point?
Food costs less in suburban and rural areas, but the wages are also lower in rural areas and urban areas have higher wages and more opportunities.

The same laws of supply and demand apply either way. The stores sell what people will buy.
The problem is 100% cultural.
Healthy diets can be easily based on rice, beans, tortillas, potatoes. Add in some veggies. Eggs, chicken, and ground beef provide a lot of nutritional bang for the buck. Apples, carrots, and cabbage keep well and do not cost that much.
Again, 100% cultural that people buy bags of cookies and chips instead of real food.
Don’t know how to cook? Learn.

Food is not always cheaper in rural areas. I live in DC and visit a rural (town is 350 people) area in the Midwest every summer. It is difficult and expensive to buy fresh veggies there. This fall they opened a new Dollar Store with fresh produce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What these fools don’t understand is that propaganda only works so far when people are starving.

Except, nobody is "starving". They simply have to make other choices with respect to procreation, employment, spending, and the kind of food they purchase and consume.

I hope you never have to learn how naive and out of touch this comment actually is.

I hope they do, since apparently it's the only way these types learn. Their empathy is broken. They have no ability to see other people, just themselves. Only if they suffer it, will they get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in college, we had to do a poverty simulation activity. We were placed in family groups and given our family’s background and an individual role. I was the mom of two teens. The names were changed but based on real families. Without internet or a car, we were given everyday tasks such as getting kids to school, picking up paycheck and/or assistance, paying bills, buying groceries, getting kids home from school - all while factoring in public transit expenses. We also dealt with unexpected expenses such as broken fridge. We had to complete our tasks for the day without ending up in the red. Families started stealing from each other in desperation. Some families decided to move in together to save money. Some cheated. Kids ran away from home to live with another family. During the debriefing that followed, the kids reported that they had no idea what the teacher had taught. They were too stressed about whether their parents could get those groceries and bills paid and pick them up from school on time.

This activity really stuck with me. So when crime goes up next month, think about who deserves the blame and how far YOU would go to protect your family.

Poverty simulators are great. They should make Congress go through one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What these fools don’t understand is that propaganda only works so far when people are starving.

Except, nobody is "starving". They simply have to make other choices with respect to procreation, employment, spending, and the kind of food they purchase and consume.

I hope you never have to learn how naive and out of touch this comment actually is.

I hope they do, since apparently it's the only way these types learn. Their empathy is broken. They have no ability to see other people, just themselves. Only if they suffer it, will they get it.

Come on now everyone! The VA state AG election shows us people aren’t allowed to hope that Republicans learn empathy the hard way. We’re supposed to only hope for the best for those folks while they starve babies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have an obesity epidemic, especially among lower income. There isn’t food scarcity, there is food over abundance.

Healthy food is expensive. Unhealthy, preservative-laden foods are cheaper. Plus poor people often lack access to good grocery stores, along with often suffering from stress, lack of sleep, lack of access to healthcare and many other issues that contribute to poor health which can also lead to obesity.

Basic heathy food is not expensive, nor is it elusive. Next excuse?

The only way to become obese is to consume an excess of calories, continuously, over a long period of time. Hard to buy the narrative we have so many starving people that are 50+ lbs overweight

Are you an MD? Because yes, obese people can be both obese and malnourished. Even our produce is much less nutritious than it used to be. Thanks factory farming.

Also - special recognition to big business, who polluted the crap out of our soils and oceans so our kids can’t even safely eat rice and fish multiple days per week anymore.

I suggest that when you have no idea what you’re talking about, that you shut up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have an obesity epidemic, especially among lower income. There isn’t food scarcity, there is food over abundance.

Healthy food is expensive. Unhealthy, preservative-laden foods are cheaper. Plus poor people often lack access to good grocery stores, along with often suffering from stress, lack of sleep, lack of access to healthcare and many other issues that contribute to poor health which can also lead to obesity.

Basic heathy food is not expensive, nor is it elusive. Next excuse?

The only way to become obese is to consume an excess of calories, continuously, over a long period of time. Hard to buy the narrative we have so many starving people that are 50+ lbs overweight

Imagine having access to millennia worth of knowledge right in your pocket, and yet being so uninformed and wrong.