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This is not even close to the same. People on food stamps spend substantially less on vegetables and fruit. More on frozen food, desserts and sweetened beverages. Their diet is even more terrible than the typical American and taxpayers are subsidizing bad behavior. [/quote]

And the reason for that has already been explained many times. Fresh fruit and vegetables don't keep, they take time, skill, and a stocked kitchen to prepare, and many low income people use food as pleasure/entertainment since they cannot afford additional activities.

You're being willfully obtuse. Why us it easier for you all to believe a whole contingent of the population chooses to act entirely illogically, than it is for you to believe the mechanics of our society are broken in such a way that their unfortunate choices are the result of them trying to survive that broken system? Do you honestly, in your heart of hearts believe that people WANT to live this way?[/quote]

If they didn’t want to live this way, they wouldn’t.

For better or worse, our society maximizes freedom. This includes the freedom to make poor choices. [/quote]

Thank you for at least owning up to your moronic stance that poor people WANT to live in poverty. Until people like you dispense of this totally nonsensical notion, we'll never solve these problems.

You believe they want it and are actively choosing it, and you think yourself morally superior and therefore in a position to judge and control them.

The reality is that our economic system REQUIRES an exploited underclass. The system itself creates poverty. The people in poverty are making choices you don't understand because you literally do not understand poverty.

But stand in judgement all you like. You and most Americans are far closer to poverty than you may realize. A job loss, a health issue, any number of things could bankrupt you tomorrow. And our systems would keep you barely treading water for the rest of your miserable life. And the percentage of the population living like this only grows every year. [/quote]

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