GOP Bill Aims To Ban Food Stamps For Steak And Lobster In New York

[UK2K]

Anyone have a legitimate reason why this shouldn't be a law. I've said this same thing for years....

If you are going to be given free money for food, given how fat our country is already, you at least need to be eating healthy foods. Not to mention, parents on food stamps will inevitably set the example of healthy eating habits for their children, who hopefully will carry on those habits throughout life.

I think this is a win/win for everyone. There's no logical reason it wouldn't pass except that its a GOP bill and Democrats are voting on it... Amazingly, NYC was able to litigate how big your soda can be, so I would think this should pass with ease, right?

[QUOTE]A state senator in New York wants to stop food stamp recipients from using their benefits on lobster, steak and candy bars.

"Many of these items aren

[NumberSix]

Meh. If the taxpayer is paying for your food and paying for your health care, you can't complain about them "regulating" what you can eat. Beggars can't be choosers. You want to eat what you want? Spend your own money.

[Nick Young]

good

[TheSilentKiller]

i'm defo for this

[HitandRun Reggie]

I can see lobster and candybars, but steak? Unless it's filet mignon or some Japanese rib eye type sh!t, I think it's a bad idea. A pound of rib eye or NY cut, runs about $8-$12, about the same as a fast food meal but healthier. I didn't read the whole article, maybe it has a cap of $20/pound or something similar but on it's face this seems like a bad idea to include steak and I imagine it will face stiff opposition from many other GOP members.

[Nick Young]

I can see lobster and candybars, but steak? Unless it's filet mignon or some Japanese rib eye type sh!t, I think it's a bad idea. A pound of rib eye or NY cut, runs about $8-$12, about the same as a fast food meal but healthier. I didn't read the whole article, maybe it has a cap of $20/pound or something similar but on it's face this seems like a bad idea to include steak and I imagine it will face stiff opposition from many other GOP members.
Why should people on food stamps get to eat luxury steak dinners, when people who work actual jobs on minimum wage can't?

All that does is incentivize people to go on food stamps rather than get jobs.

[DeuceWallaces]

OP spends post whining about Dems who are living rent free then posts excerpt from article where the bulk of the quotes are O'Bama supporting similar legislation. That moron is shook to the core.

Anyway, lobster and candy OK, but steak is some of the cheapest and leanest food you can buy.

[HitandRun Reggie]

A $10 pound steak isn't exactly a luxury. Look at the protein per dollar ratio, and compare it to other cheaper staples first. If it is, you are on the road to banning things like mangoes, avocados and certain juices from being bought with EBT.

Don't get me wrong. I think the whole food stamp program has been ridiculously changed around. Supposedly 1 in 6 children were going home hungry every night which is absolute BS. I'm just questioning why steak is being singled out.

[Nick Young]

A $10 pound steak isn't exactly a luxury. Look at the protein per dollar ratio, and compare it to other cheaper staples first. If it is, you are on the road to banning things like mangoes, avocados and certain juices from being bought with EBT.

Don't get me wrong. I think the whole food stamp program has been ridiculously changed around. Supposedly 1 in 6 children were going home hungry every night which is absolute BS. I'm just questioning why steak is being singled out.
To many people working minimum wage it is. You are speaking from a position of wealth. Check your class privilege.

[Nanners]

i think the gop should be focusing on more important things than what poor people buy with their food subsidies

[ISHGoat]

A $10 pound steak isn't exactly a luxury. Look at the protein per dollar ratio, and compare it to other cheaper staples first. If it is, you are on the road to banning things like mangoes, avocados and certain juices from being bought with EBT.

Don't get me wrong. I think the whole food stamp program has been ridiculously changed around. Supposedly 1 in 6 children were going home hungry every night which is absolute BS. I'm just questioning why steak is being singled out.

So I gotta work over an hour to cook one steak for myself? What if I wanna feed my wife and 2 kids? I gotta work 4 fuking hours for that shit?

Check your privilege.

[NumberSix]

i think the gop should be focusing on more important things than what poor people buy with their food subsidies
Whatever. The rule should be "eat healthy or pay for your own health care". You want free food and health care? There's gotta be some strings attached.

[Nick Young]

i think the gop should be focusing on more important things than what poor people buy with their food subsidies
De-incentivizing people on food stamps is a decent way to try to motivate people on welfare to get jobs.

[oh the horror]

As Reggie said I don't know how "privileged" steak is but the cost of lobster is pretty damn high. What else should people eat that's healthy? Generally I pair steak up with veggies on occasion. I mean I'm not chowing down steaks every night by any means but to outright ban it with food stamps?


Then again on the other hand, when you're getting free vouchers for food you eat whatever they tell your ass to eat. Don't like it? Then work and move up to eat whatever you'd like. There SHOULD be limitations to what one can get with food stamps. And sure as HELL shouldn't be getting candy.

[oh the horror]

De-incentivizing people on food stamps is a decent way to try to motivate people on welfare to get jobs.



I agree with this. Food stamps should be essential survival food meant as a temporary solution for someone that is having a hard time. Not a permanent means to eat whatever you want.

[DeuceWallaces]

So I gotta work over an hour to cook one steak for myself? What if I wanna feed my wife and 2 kids? I gotta work 4 fuking hours for that shit?

Check your privilege.

A serving of animal protein is 3-4 oz.

[UK2K]

Why should people on food stamps get to eat luxury steak dinners, when people who work actual jobs on minimum wage can't?

All that does is incentivize people to go on food stamps rather than get jobs.

I don't even see it as a luxury, I see it as a health issue.

If someone is paying for your food AND your healthcare, then they should be allowed to regulate one in order to afford paying for the other.

[UK2K]

i think the gop should be focusing on more important things than what poor people buy with their food subsidies

More important than the health of our society? Isn't rising health care costs a concern?

I think it is. What better way to cut down the healthcare spending then by having people change their diets? Instead of having 40 million people eating cookies, we'd now have 40 million people eating fruit and vegetables.

You disagree with that idea?

[Styles p]

about time, i get crabs like 3 times in the summer because they're expensive and kind of a treat to myself. it never fails when i go pick up my 2 dozen cooked and cleaned there's always some low life in there getting a bushel on their "family first" card. :mad:

[KnittingRyu]

What to they qualify as steak? There are some cheap strips of beef that I don't think should be a problem.

[sammichoffate]

Meh, just go vegetarian. Health problems solved as long as you're not a retard with your diet. Oh wait, ppl don't like to cook do they? :confusedshrug:

[Godzuki]

people on food stamps should be thankful to have someones leftovers. i'm tired of how bratty the poor in our country act. let them mf'ers really starve and lets see them bitching about what kind of food they get :coleman:

[Nanners]

More important than the health of our society? Isn't rising health care costs a concern?

I think it is. What better way to cut down the healthcare spending then by having people change their diets? Instead of having 40 million people eating cookies, we'd now have 40 million people eating fruit and vegetables.

You disagree with that idea?

This has nothing to do with health. If it was about health they would be going after things like potato chips, frozen fried crap, anything with partially hydrogenated fats.... in the grand scheme of things you find at your local grocery store, lobster and steak are relatively healthy.

What this is really about is stoking the fire between the low iq whites that make up the gop base and poor minorities. Politicians are trying to rile you up and you eat that shit up- "whadya mean these minorities are buying fancy steak and lobster with their benefits while I have to eat hamburger helper, it's not fayur dey took mah jerb"

When Michelle Obama tried to make school lunches healthier you people treated her like she was hitler. Don't pretend that this is about health because is not.

[Godzuki]

This has nothing to do with health. If it was about health they would be going after things like potato chips, frozen fried crap, anything with partially hydrogenated fats.... in the grand scheme of things you find at your local grocery store, lobster and steak are relatively healthy.

What this is really about is stoking the fire between the low iq whites that make up the gop base and poor minorities. Politicians are trying to rile you up and you eat that shit up- "whadya mean these minorities are buying fancy steak and lobster with their benefits while I have to eat hamburger helper, it's not fayur dey took mah jerb"

When Michelle Obama tried to make school lunches healthier you people treated her like she was hitler. Don't pretend that this is about health because is not.


LOL :facepalm

do u even live in America? food stamps and the government programs are so abused in general its stupid. inner city smoothie shops make a killing off of food stamps :coleman:

GTFO here like its some made up political stunt.

[NumberSix]

This has nothing to do with health. If it was about health they would be going after things like potato chips, frozen fried crap, anything with partially hydrogenated fats.... in the grand scheme of things you find at your local grocery store, lobster and steak are relatively healthy.

What this is really about is stoking the fire between the low iq whites that make up the gop base and poor minorities. Politicians are trying to rile you up and you eat that shit up- "whadya mean these minorities are buying fancy steak and lobster with their benefits while I have to eat hamburger helper, it's not fayur dey took mah jerb"

When Michelle Obama tried to make school lunches healthier you people treated her like she was hitler. Don't pretend that this is about health because is not.
Don't care. People getting shit for free have no right to complain.

[Nick Young]

people on food stamps should be thankful to have someones leftovers. i'm tired of how bratty the poor in our country act. let them mf'ers really starve and lets see them bitching about what kind of food they get :coleman:
If you give a mouse a cookie, it will ask for a glass of milk.

[longtime lurker]

The GOP are really a bunch of losers fussing over this :lol No wonder their party is being taken over by an doofus and blow hard.

[Nick Young]

God forbid people de-incentivize food stamps! How dare they! The sheer gall of it!

[warriorfan]

Next bill will mandate that food stamps will only be accepted for stale bread and porridge.

[longtime lurker]

God forbid people de-incentivize food stamps! How dare they! The sheer gall of it!

Yes because that's so much more effective than addressing the root cause.

[NumberSix]

Yes because that's so much more effective than addressing the root cause.
There is no root cause. Different people are poor for different reasons. It's not a one size fits all.

[bigkingsfan]

So they're just banning new york steak, can just get ribeye.

[UK2K]

This has nothing to do with health. If it was about health they would be going after things like potato chips, frozen fried crap, anything with partially hydrogenated fats.... in the grand scheme of things you find at your local grocery store, lobster and steak are relatively healthy.

What this is really about is stoking the fire between the low iq whites that make up the gop base and poor minorities. Politicians are trying to rile you up and you eat that shit up- "whadya mean these minorities are buying fancy steak and lobster with their benefits while I have to eat hamburger helper, it's not fayur dey took mah jerb"

When Michelle Obama tried to make school lunches healthier you people treated her like she was hitler. Don't pretend that this is about health because is not.
They are. Obama is doing the same thing. Steak was brought up because it's expensive, AND not all that healthy.

Basically, they made it a political piece so people like you would think they're going after the poor. But Obama can do the same thing (read the article) and it's no big deal cause he has a (D) next to his name.

[UK2K]

Yes because that's so much more effective than addressing the root cause.
Which is?

[NumberSix]

Which is?
Slavery or racism or Dylan Roof or Halloween costumes or something.

[navy]

There is no root cause. Different people are poor for different reasons. It's not a one size fits all.
This right here is why government always ends up failing. Can never manage different people/reasons correctly.

Anyways, I dont think asking people on foodstamps to eat healthy foods is unreasonable.

[Jailblazers7]

Whatever. The rule should be "eat healthy or pay for your own health care". You want free food and health care? There's gotta be some strings attached.

You better be ready to fork over some serious tax dollars if you want to enforce that.

[Draz]

Fun fact: Lobster was a peasant meal only the poor used to eat. Now, it's considered an expensive dish for the upper class or wealthy.

[Dictator]

:facepalm All of fcked up things in the world and their focus is this? So two out of thousands of horrible foods are such a big deal? :coleman: Seems like IQ level of the US population is going lower and lower.