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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 hate to break it to you but most of these poor people as you call them will no doubt take less from the system as you term it… because they will die statistically early deaths and no doctors will offer heroic and expensive end of life care to extend their lives… nor will they receive expensive treatments along the way that might actually delay or prevent the onset of serious illness.

You most likely will however have $100s of thousands of medicare dollars spent on life extending treatments that will maybe net you an extra 3-6 months, or a year or 2 at most. Or you will drag your pops in for open heart surgery at 72, $100+k easily,  make him suffer, and then he kicks off anyway in a year or two but not before he too racks of $300k in end of life care.

This will repeat over and over until your final farewell where you too will really sock it to the taxpayers to the tune of about $300K… for a few weeks of care because your kids who deem your life so valuable won’t want to let you go.

To the tax paying youth, who are supplementing the last 10-20 years of your life, via medicare and SS, you are a non productive suck of resources, entirely non productive in anyway that helps them. After all old women bare no fruit!

At least those poor people are raising future revenue generators to pay for your future of expensive healthcare that will produce diminishing returns.

Oh and aren’t you sucking up insurance benefits that in one way or another we all pay for? You just don’t see it that way. Because after all your life is more valuable. Knee and hip replacements because you refused to believe that running will ruin your hips and knees, or therapy because navel gazing happens when you have time to waste, or that expensive treatment that your kid needs because they inherited a genetic disorder or were a preemie, or you couldn’t conceive naturally but you really wanted a mini me, so you did IVF, and now nature being nature your kids are developmentally delayed and they suck up an inordinate amount of school resources that we all pay for.

Do you think that money goes to poor kids whose parents don’t have the resources to work the system.

So those poor people of whom you speak of with such derision aren’t nearly the collective drain that you think they are, and you aren’t at all the individual gift to society that you think you are. You’re a cog in the machine and a whiny, entitled, dull and not very useful cog at all really.

And no arguments about how you paid into the system so you are entitled! That’s b.s., as explained above, you’ll suck out way more than you ever put in.

So since you will be and are sucking up my money shouldn’t I have a say in how you use it? It’s a free for all so let’s all jump on the most vulnerable. That may include you and yours at some point. So DNA tests for all. If you have any issues that may cause the taxpayers burden then sterilize or euthanize.

So do us all a favor when you turn 68 throw yourself off of a cliff into the sea, make sure your family knows no taxpayer money is to be spent on recovery efforts. That would definitely save all of the remaining productive and useful taxpayers a ton of money. And be good for the environment too.

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