US becoming a food stamp nation.

chickaree wrote: Go into a store in the poor section of town. You won't find milk, eggs, oranges and brocolli. You'll find chips, sugary drinks, hot dogs and candy. You expect a single working mom without a car tosomehow get on a bus to the 'burbs and buy a weeks worth of groceries. Oh wait. I forgot. You don't care, you just hate anyone who might actually need assistance from their fellow man. Only the strong should survive in that world.

THIS - what is the "budget" grocery in the same complex as Casa Bonita - is it a Save More, or a Save a Lot or something like that? Been in there - huge cuts of pork, lots of tripe and other assorted meat parts most people here would not eat (myself included, thanks to childhood anemia, I will not eat tongue, kindeys or liver, and tripe is just squicky to me) and LOTS of junk food. No fresh veggie section at all. Lots of beans and rice and pasta.

chickaree, soup lines in town don't serve fast food or quicky stop crap either. Why do you believe the government can do better than a local charity?

How timely....


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/24/federal-government-tries-to-stop-food-stamp-water-dumping-fraud/

But, this is from Fox News so it CAN'T be true

I don't believe anyone here who advocates Food Stamps said anything about condoning fraud.

Reminds me of that lesson taught in the old historic book that liberals seem to ignore.....

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for life".

Give a man a welfare card and he will eat until he gets the next one, teach a man to grow his own food and he will eat for life.

Hmmmm....where in the tenements of a major city are they going to grow this food? What program is going to teach them. Who would have thought RT would be advocating a new government program to teach people to grow their own food. Very cool RT.

archer wrote: Hmmmm....where in the tenements of a major city are they going to grow this food? What program is going to teach them. Who would have thought RT would be advocating a new government program to teach people to grow their own food. Very cool RT.

Lots of area could be utilized....and why a govt program? There are tons of gardeners who would love to help teach people how to do this...no govt involved.

Why is it that you assume govt has to be involved?

Local_Historian wrote:

chickaree wrote: Go into a store in the poor section of town. You won't find milk, eggs, oranges and brocolli. You'll find chips, sugary drinks, hot dogs and candy. You expect a single working mom without a car tosomehow get on a bus to the 'burbs and buy a weeks worth of groceries. Oh wait. I forgot. You don't care, you just hate anyone who might actually need assistance from their fellow man. Only the strong should survive in that world.

THIS - what is the "budget" grocery in the same complex as Casa Bonita - is it a Save More, or a Save a Lot or something like that? Been in there - huge cuts of pork, lots of tripe and other assorted meat parts most people here would not eat (myself included, thanks to childhood anemia, I will not eat tongue, kindeys or liver, and tripe is just squicky to me) and LOTS of junk food. No fresh veggie section at all. Lots of beans and rice and pasta.

And people want to blame this on the store, but the customers are partially to blame. If they bought the fresh vegtables and fruit, the store would offer it. Higher margins, but meat, canned food, beans and pasta have a longer shelf life and more people buy it.

And people like to condemn Wal-Mart, but the super Wal-Mart on Colfax and Wadsworth does offer fresh veggies and fruit for their customers.

They already have alot of community gardens in the urban areas of Denver and Aurora.

There are community gardens all over town, and more importantly, anyone can learn to grow in movable pots in their own home. As for how to, try the internet, libraries and neighbors. No need to create more government as archer so hopes.