Four States Have Asked USDA to Let Them Ban Soda, Candy From Food Assistance Program

[ShazzieB]

60. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Unless all the lawmakers who want to institute restrictions like these are willing to swear off eating or drinking ALL of the restricted items (which I'm SURE they are not), they're nothing but a bunch of big old hypocrites afaic.

Mark my words: these people don't give 2 whoops in Hades about poor people being healthy! If they did, they'd realize the amount of the monthly benefit is not enough to keep anybody healthy.

This is about people who can afford to buy food without help resenting the help provided to those who need it and wanting to limit the amount of pleasure poor people are able to derive from that help. It comes from a stingy, meddling mentality that isn't beneficial to anyone.

The funny thing is, Republicans like to scream about the so-called "nanny state" when they think someone on the other side of the aisle is moving too far in the direction of controlling personal behavior (like requiring everyone to wear seatbelts or passing "clean indoor air" laws that ban smoking in public indoor spaces). But they're happy to push nanny state b.s. like this when it happens to suit them.

Hypocrites. They're all hypocrites.