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Cannonpointer » Yesterday, 8:35 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 8:35 pm

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I was right there with ya until the candy bar argument. You need a history lesson. 

When food stamps came on, they were sold to the public as being for staples. They were to address HUNGER. You asked rhetorically about "a guy buying his kid a candy bar," throwing shades of Norman Rockwell into your argument. I mean, what kinda guy wants to slap the candy bar out of a dad's hand, and see the light leave a little boy's dejected and forlorn face? What's next - kick the kid's dog? And that's ANOTHER thing. Why can't ya buy pet food with SNAP? What kind of monster would want to force a child to watch ole Fido starve to death? We gotta fix this!

So, here's the history lesson. The reason that nice dad can buy his kid a candy bar is that Hershey Company and Mars Company spent millions on bribes to make it so. And then coke came on board, and now the fast food joints are horning in - ALL looking to get a straw into the treasury, so they can suck. 

If this imaginary dad wants to get a candy bar for his imaginary kid, he can show some **** initiative and shoplift the **** thing. Or get a side hustle - something to augment his free housing, free medical, welfare payments and food stamps (along with some WIC every time he knocks up Little Candy Bar Timmy's mom). Maybe then he can have the dignity that comes with causing cavities, diabetes, and obesity.

Food stamps should be for food. Real food. You tell me I have a duty as a citizen to not let my neighbors starve? Okay - not gonna argue. In fact, gonna agree. But when you turn around and morph it into, "And ya gotta buy the kids candy bars, or you're a **** scrooge and a hater," now you're riding mighty high with a mighty low argument. That's some **** ****. Poverty isn't SUPPOSED to be easy. And the ONE **** THING that the poor have always had going for them is that they ate right. They could not afford the food that kills the better off. And you want to take that one thing away from them, in the name of compassion and liberalism. Well, sir, I object. My soks object. That's a **** army, sir.