SC Waiver: Just WIC It
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has yet to submit her administration’s waiver to the federal government You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has yet to submit her administration’s waiver to the federal government You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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They’d have to drastically expand what WIC lets you get. People who have food stamps shouldn’t be barred from buying canned veggies, for instance, but WIC has no provision to allow one to buy a can of beans or corn. WIC should be limited because it is intended to force parents to only buy things that their infants and children need with it. Food stamps doesn’t require that kind of discretion.
It is far easier to categorize food and place limits on certain categories, such as junk food and meats. Expect certain lobbying groups representing junk food and meat to fight that one, though. Will pizza still count as a vegetable?
Processed food interests whether meats, milling and others, American Farm Bureau, and commodity handling and processing companies will fight any changes tooth and nail.
Most people have no idea the lobbying effort that goes into protecting the Food Stamp program, the least of which are the interests that protect the “welfare state” as many call it.
I would suggest that the farm lobby is the biggest benefactor of the food stamp program. Most certainly its biggest advocate.
They’d have to drastically expand what WIC lets you get. People who have food stamps shouldn’t be barred from buying canned veggies, for instance, but WIC has no provision to allow one to buy a can of beans or corn. WIC should be limited because it is intended to force parents to only buy things that their infants and children need with it. Food stamps doesn’t require that kind of discretion.
It is far easier to categorize food and place limits on certain categories, such as junk food and meats. Expect certain lobbying groups representing junk food and meat to fight that one, though. Will pizza still count as a vegetable?
Processed food interests whether meats, milling and others, American Farm Bureau, and commodity handling and processing companies will fight any changes tooth and nail.
Most people have no idea the lobbying effort that goes into protecting the Food Stamp program, the least of which are the interests that protect the “welfare state” as many call it.
I would suggest that the farm lobby is the biggest benefactor of the food stamp program. Most certainly its biggest advocate.
Since she has “packed on the pounds” in the last couple of years, and on the taxpayers dime, I doubt she has a clue about healthy choices.
Since she has “packed on the pounds” in the last couple of years, and on the taxpayers dime, I doubt she has a clue about healthy choices.
Some guy on Nikki’s facebook page just asked if she were expecting a baby.
Some guy on Nikki’s facebook page just asked if she were expecting a baby.
Food stamps, and other “safety net” programs remind me of the old saw about beer: you don’t buy it- you simply rent it. This Federal money that everyone gripes about is in the hands of the poor for mere nanoseconds before it is transferred to corporate America in the form of paid for goods and services.
Face it: Corporate America does a better job of liberating tax dollars from the government (either directly or indirectly, as outlined above) than a stripper does of liberating cash from a bunch of drunken bachelor partiers.
Food stamps, and other “safety net” programs remind me of the old saw about beer: you don’t buy it- you simply rent it. This Federal money that everyone gripes about is in the hands of the poor for mere nanoseconds before it is transferred to corporate America in the form of paid for goods and services.
Face it: Corporate America does a better job of liberating tax dollars from the government (either directly or indirectly, as outlined above) than a stripper does of liberating cash from a bunch of drunken bachelor partiers.