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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in the Midwest in the 1970s, in the urban core. My mother was a SAHM. My father was self-employed. They struggled to make ends meet. When we went to the grocery store, my mother would sometimes comment after we left, how full the grocery carts would be of the people using food stamps (no EBT card at the time). And how they usually bought junk my mother couldn't afford to buy. And they had more children, sometimes in diapers and no shoes. And they would buy cigarettes. I think the buying of the cigarettes was the kicker. LoL. Lots of judgment. [/quote]

Actually her personal judgment and behavior seems pretty good. [/quote]

I agree actually. We should be providing people with enough food to eat but not junk food or cigarettes.[/quote]

SNAP beneficiary here. Once someone is getting snap, more money is freed up to buy junk or whatever stupid things 
I don’t  know the answer to this one [/quote]

There is a lot of research about how much SNAP is used to purchase soda and other junk.  You will see lots of posters defending the right of poor people to enjoy themselves.  But someone else is working and budgeting to provide SUSTENANCE to poor people.  Their freedom to choose junk needs to come when they are footing the bill.

This is old (2017) but I don't want to waste time searching...
"For SNAP shoppers, “sweetened beverages,” “prepared desserts,” “salty snacks,” “candy,” and “sugar” accounted for 22.6 percent of purchases. These junk food items thus accounted for $15 billion of SNAP purchases in 2016, if the study is representative of all SNAP purchases."

https://www.cato.org/blog/snap-15-billion-junk-food
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Not to mention what it’s costing us in diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol meds and medical visits. I mean, most of these folks are not exactly thin or fit looking.[/quote]

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