Study shows how 42M recipients spend their food stamps - and they're not buying broccoli

Who do you think is the greatest beneficiary of the healthcare in this country? A bunch of grape soda drinking EBT folks on Medicard showing up in ER. Now Joe's illegals gonna get in on the action. They already got their EBT debit card in NYC. The medical professionals are making off like bandits. Nurses are clearing $200K.

Also snacks and junk food is expensive as f*ck.

Wrong. A bag of frozen veggies is under $2. Beans are $1 and rice is cheap. So is fruit on sale. And fresh veggies are cheap too. What the heck is a health food section?? You don’t need to buy organic!
Chips are now $5 a bag and so is ice cream. They’re just gluttons who shovel unhealthy food in their mouth because they want to. Your statement is just a typical trite overused excuse that holds no water.

The idea of healthy food being more expensive came about when idiots started comparing dollars/calorie. Turns out, the number of calories does not determine whether a food is healthy or not.

I can spend the money I earn anyway I want. Taxpayers funding freeloaders should get a say in how their taxes are spent. With a flip of the switch soft drinks can be banned from SNAP purchases just like tobacco purchases. Let's start there.

Some nurses were making a killing during covid especially if they were willing to travel and worked critical care. Exclude California and advanced practice nurses and very few nurses make over $100K excluding overtime now.

Yes, on a budget, it is cheaper to get filled up on a lot of unhealthy calories containing lots of fats, sugars, etc.

npr.org

The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier

The way many Americans eat is fueling chronic disease. Here are seven big ideas from the White House's upcoming nutrition conference for how to improve Americans' diets.

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I disagree with some of this. I'm Low-Income & a large portion of my diet is fruits & vegetables which I find to be very affordable even in this high food inflation environment. For example, Walmart's 'Great Value" brand has a wide variety of organic beans (USDA organic certified) that are affordable. I eat one can of organic kidney beans mixed with organic onions every evening with my dinner.

I don't consume any junk or processed food. That's where things get costly, and obviously very unhealthy fueling the obesity epidemic.

And these poorest of the poor know darn well that eating junk & processed food is unhealthy. The problem is junk & processed food tastes so good while fruits & vegetables don't to them. They have no discipline & follow their taste buds.

It's far easier for them to sit in front the TV wolfing down a processed frozen dinner & bag if chips than preparing a salad that contains a bunch of organic vegetables. 😉

Those four "dominate welfare grocery lists"?

Top Ten Items (per your linked article)

1) Soft Drinks

2) Milk

3) Ground Beef

4) Bag Snacks

5) Cheese

6) Baked Breads

7) Cold Cereal

8) Fresh Chicken

9) Frozen Handhelds and Snacks

10) Lunchmeat

Ice Cream comes in at # 15. Cookies at # 17

You've got a rather odd definition of "dominate". Did your cross country team also dominate your district races?

lots of people live places where the tap water is toxic. Ever heard of Flint Michigan?

And Pripyat, ifyaknowwhatimean.

It is a direct quote from the article. Not necessarily the OP's opinion.

You guys are so funny. People on food stamps are eating the same sh1t as the rest of Americans. You don’t suddenly become a clean diet guru because you are now on government aide. They should probably also exercise, but the average American isn’t doing that either.

Also, have you ever seen the broccoli selection in da hood?

Yup, he served McDonald's to a college football team visiting the White House. Look at the guy in the second picture stacking up the burgers. . .

foxnews.com

Trump serves burgers, fries and pizza to college football champions Clemson

What do you feed a pack of victorious Tigers? If you're President Trump and the Tigers in question are the college football playoff champion Clemson Tigers, the answer is obvious.

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you clods who want to make this into a racial issue should know that

circa half of food stamp recipients are white

and the remaining share is distributed among different ethnic groups.

So if it makes you feel better that your own race is getting the biggest share of free stuff, go with that.

Now match it up with the percentage of the population. If I recall correctly, about 42% of section 8 recipients are white, 38% are black, about 18% are Hispanic, and the rest are Asian or other.

All I'm saying is that your math 'skills' are Baltimore level.