Anonymous
10/27/2025 10:56
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At food pantries, people snap up the fresh produce when it is available. The claim that people choose to eat junk is in part false and in part true due to generational poverty and people tending to follow patterns. The programs around SNAP have been working to fix those root problems and now they are gone. You have no idea how hard it was, and how much effort and lobbying it took to get people to be able to use their snap benefits at a farm market. It wasn’t allowed at all until very recently. When it was allowed farmers invented the mobile farm truck to get the food into neighborhoods that don’t have those markets.
The food pantry I volunteer in has most of the fresh foods left behind and not taken. Meat and dairy will go- but fresh fruits and vegetables are not taken by most
That’s because we’re all addicted to cheap junk food laden with salt, sugar and fat. And lower income people even more so given this sh*t is cheaper and easier to access than fresh fruits and veggies.
Let me see. Apple of dubious freshness that counts as an item in my total and provides 60 calories, or a bag of biscuits that will survive the end times and nets 1,000 calories. Which one should I choose for my hungry kids?
Anonymous
10/27/2025 10:51
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At food pantries, people snap up the fresh produce when it is available. The claim that people choose to eat junk is in part false and in part true due to generational poverty and people tending to follow patterns. The programs around SNAP have been working to fix those root problems and now they are gone. You have no idea how hard it was, and how much effort and lobbying it took to get people to be able to use their snap benefits at a farm market. It wasn’t allowed at all until very recently. When it was allowed farmers invented the mobile farm truck to get the food into neighborhoods that don’t have those markets.
The food pantry I volunteer in has most of the fresh foods left behind and not taken. Meat and dairy will go- but fresh fruits and vegetables are not taken by most
That’s because we’re all addicted to cheap junk food laden with salt, sugar and fat. And lower income people even more so given this sh*t is cheaper and easier to access than fresh fruits and veggies.
Anonymous
10/27/2025 10:46
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At food pantries, people snap up the fresh produce when it is available. The claim that people choose to eat junk is in part false and in part true due to generational poverty and people tending to follow patterns. The programs around SNAP have been working to fix those root problems and now they are gone. You have no idea how hard it was, and how much effort and lobbying it took to get people to be able to use their snap benefits at a farm market. It wasn’t allowed at all until very recently. When it was allowed farmers invented the mobile farm truck to get the food into neighborhoods that don’t have those markets.
The food pantry I volunteer in has most of the fresh foods left behind and not taken. Meat and dairy will go- but fresh fruits and vegetables are not taken by most
Oh, which food pantry was this?
Anonymous
10/27/2025 10:46
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When you give the government power to feed you, you give them the power to starve you.
That's why socialism or communism never works. Ever.
So everyone on the planet is supposed to be a subsistence farmer so they never have to depend on others for food? How does that work?
SNAP is a subsidy for corporations who refuse to pay a living wage. That’s why capitalism always rots from within.
Those arguments are just disingenuous weirdos or bots, and to be ignored.
Really? NP here. Clearly the system is broken if 40 million receive SNAP. I’m a social worker. The people I’ve helped sign up for SNAP benefits are primarily working at low paying jobs or are 65+ who have worked in the past. Unfortunately the free market is not working for them.
Only 19% of snap recipients are over 60
You can work 40 hours a week at McDonald's and still be in the poverty level or borderline to it. Family of 4 can not survive on that income.
Anonymous
10/27/2025 10:38
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:At food pantries, people snap up the fresh produce when it is available. The claim that people choose to eat junk is in part false and in part true due to generational poverty and people tending to follow patterns. The programs around SNAP have been working to fix those root problems and now they are gone. You have no idea how hard it was, and how much effort and lobbying it took to get people to be able to use their snap benefits at a farm market. It wasn’t allowed at all until very recently. When it was allowed farmers invented the mobile farm truck to get the food into neighborhoods that don’t have those markets.
The food pantry I volunteer in has most of the fresh foods left behind and not taken. Meat and dairy will go- but fresh fruits and vegetables are not taken by most
Anonymous
10/27/2025 10:37
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When you give the government power to feed you, you give them the power to starve you.
That's why socialism or communism never works. Ever.
So everyone on the planet is supposed to be a subsistence farmer so they never have to depend on others for food? How does that work?
SNAP is a subsidy for corporations who refuse to pay a living wage. That’s why capitalism always rots from within.
Those arguments are just disingenuous weirdos or bots, and to be ignored.
Really? NP here. Clearly the system is broken if 40 million receive SNAP. I’m a social worker. The people I’ve helped sign up for SNAP benefits are primarily working at low paying jobs or are 65+ who have worked in the past. Unfortunately the free market is not working for them.
Only 19% of snap recipients are over 60
Anonymous
10/27/2025 09:26
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
At food pantries, people snap up the fresh produce when it is available. The claim that people choose to eat junk is in part false and in part true due to generational poverty and people tending to follow patterns. The programs around SNAP have been working to fix those root problems and now they are gone. You have no idea how hard it was, and how much effort and lobbying it took to get people to be able to use their snap benefits at a farm market. It wasn’t allowed at all until very recently. When it was allowed farmers invented the mobile farm truck to get the food into neighborhoods that don’t have those markets.
Anonymous
10/27/2025 08:48
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
There’s little evidence that SNAP beneficiaries eat more junk than others. All grocery stores suffer a net loss from produce that goes bad
Anonymous
10/27/2025 07:21
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When you give the government power to feed you, you give them the power to starve you.
That's why socialism or communism never works. Ever.
So everyone on the planet is supposed to be a subsistence farmer so they never have to depend on others for food? How does that work?
SNAP is a subsidy for corporations who refuse to pay a living wage. That’s why capitalism always rots from within.
Those arguments are just disingenuous weirdos or bots, and to be ignored.
Really? NP here. Clearly the system is broken if 40 million receive SNAP. I’m a social worker. The people I’ve helped sign up for SNAP benefits are primarily working at low paying jobs or are 65+ who have worked in the past. Unfortunately the free market is not working for them.
I think PP was referring to the bootstraps post. Rugged individualism is a fantasy but MAGA love to buy into it to feel manly.
Anonymous
10/27/2025 07:03
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When you give the government power to feed you, you give them the power to starve you.
That's why socialism or communism never works. Ever.
So everyone on the planet is supposed to be a subsistence farmer so they never have to depend on others for food? How does that work?
SNAP is a subsidy for corporations who refuse to pay a living wage. That’s why capitalism always rots from within.
Those arguments are just disingenuous weirdos or bots, and to be ignored.
Really? NP here. Clearly the system is broken if 40 million receive SNAP. I’m a social worker. The people I’ve helped sign up for SNAP benefits are primarily working at low paying jobs or are 65+ who have worked in the past. Unfortunately the free market is not working for them.
Anonymous
10/27/2025 06:49
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When you give the government power to feed you, you give them the power to starve you.
That's why socialism or communism never works. Ever.
So everyone on the planet is supposed to be a subsistence farmer so they never have to depend on others for food? How does that work?
SNAP is a subsidy for corporations who refuse to pay a living wage. That’s why capitalism always rots from within.
Those arguments are just disingenuous weirdos or bots, and to be ignored.
Anonymous
10/27/2025 06:47
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:When you give the government power to feed you, you give them the power to starve you.
That's why socialism or communism never works. Ever.
So everyone on the planet is supposed to be a subsistence farmer so they never have to depend on others for food? How does that work?
SNAP is a subsidy for corporations who refuse to pay a living wage. That’s why capitalism always rots from within.
Anonymous
10/27/2025 00:48
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I took my disabled son just now out to shop for the week.
We bought milk, yogurt, bagels, bananas, oranges, frozen chicken stips, frozen waffles, squash, zucchini, frozen green beans, canned peaches, bread and sandwich meat and peanut butter.
Also crackers, cookies, sugar free soda.
It is my bet that the jerks of DCUM would complain about every item on the list when you add them all up.
This is what my son can prepare and likes to eat.
Screw all of you who would take food away from him and people like him. You are just self righteous idiots.
Did you pay?
I literally see nothing wrong with this. Good for you and him for figuring out what works.
"My son paid with his SNAP card. Because I won't be alive forever, he needs to learn to shop and prepare meals on his own.
He has been looking for work for months, but it is hard to get a job when you are disabled."
Good for you. My disabled relative is in the same spot. He needs to learn to shop and prepare food too. He is 5'6" and 130 lbs. He does not buy soda or chips. He eats a lot of rice, and he received a rice cooker for his birthday. We live in VA. He lives in a "supportive care" shared apartment that is mostly funded by a private group, but he pays $825 of his $941 disability check to live there. He was receiving $78 per month in SNAP but the last payment in October was $20. No one answers the phone, so we don't know why. The USDA website used to say that a man his age needs around $400/month for food and he gets $20.
Anonymous
10/26/2025 23:54
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
"I’ve been many places.
But why on earth would I want to go to the inner city? I don’t need to go there. I believe you that fresh produce is harder to find there, but it is 100% because of supply and demand and culture. Also, even the processed crap at those corner stores is not cheap!
When I lived in Korea, it was hard to find American peanut butter, and when I did find it (usually alongside a small selection of American and British foods) it was expensive. This does not mean there was a vast conspiracy to make it difficult for me to buy peanut butter. It simply means it was not a popular product and therefore more expensive to sell. There is also no vast conspiracy to suppress low income people here by denying them vegetables.
I do a lot of shopping at Aldi, Walmart, and international groceries. I’ve noticed many different immigrants who probably don’t have much money and yet fill their baskets with vegetables and fruit and meat. Go to the international market and you’ll see. Unfortunately, many of them eventually adopt American diets and then they suffer.
Also, there is nothing wrong with frozen vegetables. Aldi literally has them for a dollar a bag. I am not poor anymore but I have been poor, and have relatives who subsist on very little money, but don’t eat processed garbage. Unless you are truly in the bottom 1% and living under a bridge I am sorry but no excuses."
It sounds like you were happier in Korea. By all means, go back.
Anonymous
10/26/2025 23:20
Subject: So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Food Pantry lines and millions of dollars in theft at grocery stores
Even if you think every food stamp recipient (including kids and seniors) are just lazy, you (general you) don’t think this is going to have far reaching repercussions for the rest of society?
That's why I think Trump would love to bring back debtors prisons right out of Dickens.
Which is absolutely hysterical as he would be first in line.