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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]

We all know WHY people are filling their carts with sodas and other junk: Because they can. Because we are paying for it and it’s quick and easy. But as others have pointed out, we then are forced to pay for their insulin and leg amputations and everything else when they are obese with diabetes because we are allowing it. We should be making it easier for them to make better decisions by simply not buying this damaging food FOR THEM. If they want to spend their own money on it, go ahead. But we shouldn’t be buying it FOR THEM. I honestly cannot understand what is remotely controversial about that.[/quote]

I'm not disagreeing with you that soda and junk is not what we want people to be eating. Where I disagree with you is HOW to address the issue. Your solution is focused on the individual and only serves to make their lives more difficult and miserable. I'm instead suggesting that we look to addressing the SYSTEMIC issues that make junk food so cheap and accessible, that make it such that people with full time jobs need food stamps, that housing has gotten so expensive people are living in squalor without the basic kitchen equipment needed to even have a chance to store and prepare healthy food, that Americans are so miserable and despairing that we turn to food to fill the void of comfort and joy in our lives.

I don't think you fix these problems by being punitive or more control on poor people because I do not genuinely believe they choose this life. It's thrust upon them by a broken system, and the choices they make, while not ideal, make perfect sense given the full picture of the challenges they face and the privileges they lack that you and I take for granted. [/quote]
Did the rest of the family help?
Did her children do their duty and assist with chores like cleaning and looking after younger siblings or even help her cook, go to the store for her?

My mom also never learned to drive, with 3 kids we knew we needed to find a job as teenagers, we didn’t think about asking for parents to pay for extra curriculars or hobbies. Money from odd jobs was for our living expenses like bus tickets and school supplies, clothing and occasional snacks.
We didn’t think about our parents as providers and none of us even got a car and had to finance our own driving school [/quote]

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