Woman A Leading Authority On What Shouldn’t Be In Poor People’s Grocery Carts

[Rakehellion]

I don't see how the government paying boeing to build them a stealth plane is in anyway comparable to the government giving people food stamps for doing well nothing. To call the government paying companies to perform services or build goods for them welfare is silly; welfare is getting paid for not providing goods or services.

Big corporations get billions in tax breaks. That isn't paying for a service, that's getting free money.

 

[alkemyst]

I love this SO much.

A few years ago, my oldest (who is very finicky) was in Kindergarten and was buying lunch almost every day - trying new foods, getting a cookie for a treat if he tried something new, etc.

2 years after the new lunch laws are put into effect and he brings his lunch almost every day because he won't eat what they serve at the school.

The lunch aides were telling me that whole lunches get thrown away, but they aren't allowed to serve the kids anything else.

That's sort of messed up, we have a very good lunch program down here that kids like to eat.

That said if you are in a poor district, the food will probably be cheese sandwiches or a salad.

 

[crashtech]

It's more specific. They're making fun of people who small-mindedly fixate and obsess over the stupid, self-defeating food choices of schlub-loser poor people, which is a drop in the tax dollar bucket compared to the mega-billions that the politically connected ultra-rich, huge corporations, and other fat-cat special interests slurp down in the form of tax breaks, pentagon contracts, and other forms of gubmint welfare.

Can you even begin to understand the transparent deflection that goes on, and the ideological ignorance that supports it?

No, I can't even begin to understand anything, really, not in the context of omniscience, anyway. So I still don't get the point. Therefore I will continue to think it is fair game for people to object to waste and excess that they personally witness, while not objecting (at least as viscerally) to misdeeds with which they aren't directly involved.