Needed: Food Stamps Reform

I was in a convenience store the other day and a young very overweight, even obese mother with her approximate 6 year old very overweight daughter was in front of me, buying big Fountain soft drinks, bags of chips and hot dogs, paying for them, of course, with food stamps.

I know, I know it's seemingly really none of my business, but if this woman has a right to buy whatever she wants with tax payer funded food stamps, then I have a right to get mad about it, both from the aspect of what she is buying and the point that this woman and her daughter are going to be burdens on the healthcare system (not to mention the welfare system). The damn shame of it is that the daughter
doesn't know any better and relys on her mom to take care of her. Well, like I have been told "you don't have to pass a test to be a parent."

Another thing to get mad about is a grocery recepit found in a parking lot in Michigan,....all bought on tax payer funded food stamps mind you.

In case it's hard to read the receipt lists: Five 24 can packs of (sugar laden) Mountain Dew, a bunch of Lobster and Porterhouse Steaks,....

You tell me with a straight face that we don't need food stamp reform. Drug testing for receiptants, for sure. Credit card type Food Stamp Photo Identification cards with a spending limit and has to be re-charged at a HHS office so the benefits cannot be sold or bartered for alcohol or drugs,...damn right. Let's include income means testing and visits by HHS investigators as well.

Food Stamp and Junk Food Debate

I am sure everyone has been in the grocery store with a person in front of you using Food Stamps or the State level equivalent Did you every think "This person is poor, on food stamps but buying liquor, sodas, potato chips and other junk food with a tax payer's subsidiary?"

Well, that kind of thought is now open debate across the airwaves brought on by New York's plan to disallow the purchase of soda pop with food welfare coupons.

Kinda of a two edged sword, ain't it?

On one hand we don't want any more Government intrusions into our lives,.... and the cry for no more regulations is deafening.

On the other hand why should tax payers fund poor people's terrible eating habits, only to see these same people getting obese and developing Adult Onset Diabetes which the treatment of further depletes tax payer dollars and drives up health care costs?

I, for one, would support some type of reasonable, easy to enforce, ban on using tax paying funded food coupons to purchase liquor and junk food. How about you?