U.S. farm agency allows six more states to bar some items from food aid

[niyad]

9. Goddess forfend that people using SNAP assistance should be able

to purchase a little pleasure. How fuckIng DARE they buy a candy bar, a soda, a treat?? Why aren't they growing their own food??

Honestly, the self-righteous, self- congratulatory, judgmental finger wagging about "healthy choices" from people at all levels who are not reichwing is fairly sickening. This kind of rhetoric one expects from them. I expect/demand better from our politicians and friends. Food deserts, meaning limited access to grocery stores and healthy and fresh food sources, for example, are a real thing. Do not attempt to justify it by saying you don't want to pay for someone else's poor choices. A: you don't know/don't care about their circumstances. B: as a society we are paying for many poor choices, including war and what our regulatory agencies are allowing corporations to do to us. So, before you congratulate yourselves, you governors, legislators, concerned citizens, think about how much of your stance is based on a desire to control an easy target, rather than addressing a whole host of bedrock issues.