When I was researching retirement homes for my mother some years ago a volunteer told me that she and others in the community deliver food to low income seniors in the area. She said that there were instances of them eating cat food because it was all they could afford. How ****ing tragic is that? Point being, there are alternatives but it is tough to know what those are without the education you have and my daughter has and affordability is a huge factor. You just can't deny that given the number of people out there who struggle with this issue every day. They aren't all lazy idiots.
When I was researching retirement homes for my mother some years ago a volunteer told me that she and others in the community deliver food to low income seniors in the area. She said that there were instances of them eating cat food because it was all they could afford. How ****ing tragic is that? Point being, there are alternatives but it is tough to know what those are without the education you have and my daughter has and affordability is a huge factor. You just can't deny that given the number of people out there who struggle with this issue every day. They aren't all lazy idiots.
Please quote where I said education only.
I believe information is the best source for people to make educated choices.
Since you haven't offered any other alternative methods of providing nutrition, I'll have to guess you have none to offer.
And the left alternative is to create a ongoing drain on everybody via the government, while collecting additional tax money to make more and more people dependent on the government, while continuing to allow people to believe, nay, reinforce the thought, that what someone else makes has anything to do with what they earn themselves.
Making adequate nutrition 'available' is brought about by information and education, not by taxing other people.
what you do with your trickle down check is up to you, but stay away from my pony. i'm going to hire a security firm to guard the perimeter of my compound with the rest of my trickle down check, so that will make me a job creator, as well.
And everyone knows that food magically appears on the shelves of food banks whenever the demand for them increases because the right wingers cut foods stamps
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/u...ipate-impact-of-cuts-to-food-stamps.html?_r=0
It is their job to calculate inflation and make the information publicly available, it is the real statistics. Please tell me how the government is lying about inflation?
I posted a list of things the right wingers want to do to provide food relief to the poor. Since you don't seem to get the sarcasm of my post, I will spell it out for you - Do the opposite of what the right wingers want to do.
I don't know what this 'magically' thing is about, but I know I contribute. How about you?
Your posts are full of crap
Your list, sarcastic or not, doesn't mean they will buy what is nutritionally better for them unless they are given the tools to help make better decisions.
Why do you not want to provide those tools?
The reasonable alternative is stop allowing less than 1% of the country to monopolize the vast majority of the wealth.
I'm well aware that there are some who eat cat food. It's horrifying.
No one ever said they were lazy idiots, it's a matter of giving them as much information as possible so they can improve their food choices.
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. Terry Goodkind
Anecdotally, I was stocking up on cat food for my cats at a store where it was on sale, it was the only thing I was buying. The young man who was bagging it up looked at what I had bought and very solemnly said "God bless you' as I took my bag. It took me a few minutes to realize what he was referring to.
Yeah! Who the heck do they think they are, earning all that money, paying a ton of taxes, then they think they can keep the rest? Let's take it from them and give it to those that didn't earn it at all! Great basis for a country.
When the right cuts food stamps, the demand on food banks increase. Where do you think those food pantries are going to come up with more food to feed the increased # of poor people? Magic?
But you don't think tax dollars should go to programs like Food Stamps and WIC
Except when you get called out on your inane "Education will feed the poor"
Where the hell did you get this claptrap from? Quote or rescind it, it is patently FALSE.
And the left alternative is to create a ongoing drain on everybody via the government, while collecting additional tax money to make more and more people dependent on the government, while continuing to allow people to believe, nay, reinforce the thought, that what someone else makes has anything to do with what they earn themselves.
Making adequate nutrition 'available' is brought about by information and education, not by taxing other people.
Yeah, you never said tax dollars should not be used to help feed the poor :roll:
Or maybe you just think that Food Stamps, WIC and other govt programs are not funded with tax dollars. They're funded with money that magically falls from the sky
Yeah, you never said tax dollars should not be used to help feed the poor :roll:
Or maybe you just think that Food Stamps, WIC and other govt programs are not funded with tax dollars. They're funded with money that magically falls from the sky
Your failure to quote any such statements made by me at any point in time, in any thread, proves that you were just reading what you wanted to and not what was being said. I have never supported cutting assistance programs for those truly in need.
Perhaps when you learn your mark, you'll understand rather then attempt to play rabid dog and not even take the time to read what is put before your eyes.
And where in that quote does it say I condone the cutting of programs? I don't believe the government should increase the taxes on working people to ADD to the programs. Therein lies the difference.
SO you support the use tax dollars to provide food for the poor? You support the govt taking "what someone else makes" in order to supply food to the poor?
Oh wait! I get it
You support taking "what someone else makes" even though it makes people more dependent on the govt because the govt has been doing it for awhile now. You merely oppose allowing people who have recently become poor from getting food stamps because, unlike those hardy independent food stamp recipients from days past, the recently poor or far more vulnerable to govt dependency
Existing programs such as SNAP, WIC and food stamps which are currently funded via tax monies. Considering what programs the government has expanded, unemployment and additional give aways not involving critical needs, does create a dependency factor.
I have never argued that existing assistance programs should be eliminated or cut. Just throwing money at people doesn't do anything to fix the problem, which is why nutritional education will help people make better choices with what they do receive.
where have I said I don't support food stamps or WIC?So IOW, food stamps and WIC do not create government dependency because they do involve critical needs, but you don't support expanding Food Stamps or WIC because you're so concerned about food being unaffordable :screwy
AHh, I see! "Throwing money at people" doesn't do anything, but you support continuing both Food Stamps and WIC because they don't "throw money at people" - they just give the money to people.
where have I said I don't support food stamps or WIC?
Food stamps and WIC is not throwing money at people. They are a limited use assistance program for food. Do I really need to explain the difference to you?
Hard working poor people exist, believe it or not. These people deserve a livable income...
What kind of screwy logic is that? They offer a job at a certain rate of pay determined by the market. The person accepts, or moves on. Or takes it and looks for a better job.Wealthy corporations know they can pay their employees badly and that the government will pick up the bill...
They already are.Stop subsidizing corporations and make them pay people fair wages.
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