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Let's take the SNAP program. What educated genius includes snack foods and soft drinks for a demographic that doesn't need more sugar, fat, and salt in their diet. Twenty percent of the SNAP allowance is spent on these items.
I don't think school kids have 'snack breaks' during the school day. I never did.The problem with programs like these are that they are wide nets which would be very hard to narrow down more.
Kids need snacks during the day, it would be far too cumbersome to evaluate each and every item to determine if it were a "healthy" snack or not. Is a granola bar ok but cookies not? Is there really much of a difference these days.
I don't think school kids have 'snack breaks' during the school day. I never did.
Just start by eliminating sugary soft drinks, how hard can that be. If poor people want soda, they can waddle down to the store and pay for it themselves.
That would require Congress to change the law as it is written. It has nothing to do with the people hired to run the program, they can only follow the rules they are given.
The state of Florida attempted to do this for their system, but the bill died in the rules committee.
It seems your blame is pointed the wrong direction.
Because food company lobbyists make it so.Let's take the SNAP program. What educated genius includes snack foods and soft drinks for a demographic that doesn't need more sugar, fat, and salt in their diet. Twenty percent of the SNAP allowance is spent on these items.
Lobbied by the snack companies.Primarily the USDA. Snack foods are another way to market agricultural products.
Congress has certain rules and guidelines but the states largely run the program.
To my point. How hard is it to eliminate one product from the list of approved "foods"? The SNAP program rules are basically rewritten every year as the economy changes.
Poor people would be healthier if they used the 20 percent now spent on junk foods to buy better foods.
Nothing on your resume, either. Got it.I am not the one claiming that schools have failed.
Rules can be changed by the rule makers.
Congress doesn't make all the regulations. The various agencies present changes for approval and Congress rubber stamps them. Whether they understand the import of them is questionable. Upon learning that 20 percent of SNAP allowances were spent on junk food the Republicans wanted to reduce the allowance by 20 percent. The Dems wouldn't allow it. They prefer their voters to be obese and diabetic.Indeed. Then blame them and not the Fed Employees who are just the rule followers
Congress doesn't make all the regulations. The various agencies present changes for approval and Congress rubber stamps them. Whether they understand the import of them is questionable. Upon learning that 20 percent of SNAP allowances were spent on junk food the Republicans wanted to reduce the allowance by 20 percent. The Dems wouldn't allow it. They prefer their voters to be obese and diabetic.
Everything that comes out of government is political. The Republicans wanted to trim the fat from the SNAP program. The Dems and the media condemned them for wanting to starve people to death.and here I thought we could have a discussion without stupid partisan politics.
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Everything that comes out of government is political. The Republicans wanted to trim the fat from the SNAP program. The Dems and the media condemned them for wanting to starve people to death.
Just Like Kids Won't Study But Don't Know That Class-Biased Education Is the ReasonI'm a decade older than the boomers.
Whichever Side You Pick, Its Rulers Will Leave You on the Sidelinesa willingness of the people to want them solved
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