Talk:Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/Archives/2014

This statement is ridiculous

"However, according to Rossi the vitamins and minerals added to all foods ensures that food normally available to poor families is more than adequately nutritious.".

Many foods are not fortified with added nutrients. Vitamins and minerals are NOT added to all foods. Why should Rossi's opinion (as opposed to research) even be relevant in this article? Does he have proof that all foods are nutritionally fortified? 76.5.154.41 (talk) 12:16, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

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The Article Below Is Just As Bad http://news.yahoo.com/no-food-stamps-don-t-enslave-people-220355448.html Food stamps certainly do not but are a symptom of politicians who refuse to amend laws to distribute unused state land for subsistence farming (a simple instruction manual for growing and storing food will ensure there will be no hypoglycemia b.s.), and abolish taxes for the poor and middle classes. No, Food Stamps Don’t ‘Enslave’ People but there is no excuse to use the above method to remove the need for food stamps and the parasite administration which distributes food stamps and requires tax monies for rentals, and food stamp printing suppliers colluding with the local congressmen as well. a) "—is teach people to fish so they can fish. When you're at the behest of someone else, you are actually a slave to them." Thats right. But even those who learn to fish may not have that fish pond to fish from! The solution? Dig your own fish ponds on that distributed unused state land and do small scale fisheries to feed yourselves . . . think distilling your own beer and wines too, making your own jams, livestock for meat. Whats hypoglycemia? b) " . . . who recently suggested that poor students should sweep the floor to earn meals at school . . . " Lets do away with school and skip the b.s. systems. Instead let those students spend time farming their own food. c) " . . . significantly more likely to end up in the hospital at the end of the month, when their benefits run out (so the slavery ends, I guess, but just temporarily, until the next check arrives?) because of hypoglycemia. . . ." If people learn how to make jerky and dried food stuffs that they grow for free on that unsued state land, there will be no hypoglydcemia AND no need for checks and money either. Whats slavery is the refusal of Congressmen and Governors and Senators that fail to amend laws to distribute unused state land for subsistence farming and abolish taxes for the poor and middle classes. In fact, bio fuel crops could end petrol expenditures as well at every such subsistence farm. d) “So there shouldn't be any end-of-the-month increase for low-income people if tight budgets are the problem. There wasn't,” O’Brien writes. The data showed no difference between high- and low-income groups in the frequency of appendicitis from week to week. Just plain vicious. You think a threatening NLP will prevent responses to end the suffering of so many that in total is worse than appendicitis? e) " . . . it’s the condition of poverty, not the so often hampered program that helps fight it. . . . " NO. The condition is of having politicians that fail to amend laws to distribute unused state land for subsistence farming and abolish taxes for the poor and middle classes is what causes poverty. f) But the economic violence of poverty is not equal to the physical atrocity of slavery, which is why it’s a cheap, offensive metaphor to begin with. Out of context and demogoguery in a closing argument. How offensive is that when conversations circle around hypoglycemia and poverty to lower stands to addressing slavery? No relevance at all and an insult to the intelligence of the article readers and voters if anything. The voters conversely are not specifically voting for politicians who will vote in the above manner or running for candidacy when there are no politicians who will do the above. The greatest democracy flounders insanely in their own 2 tongued b.s. when they have the power to do the above solutions. Easy as ABC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:E68:4000:15:6063:E028:9CB2:1E86 (talk) 19:19, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

OR in lede?

The high cost of the SNAP program makes the Nutrition title the most expensive, and contentiously debated, title of the United States farm bill. - the source given is the FNS website [1], which is just raw data. In other words, that's a primary source, and it appears that this conclusion is just someone's original research. Removing this unless someone can point me to where this claim is actually made in the source. Volunteer Marek  05:47, 22 October 2014 (UTC)