I found out the other day, and this is ridiculous to me, that food stamps cover fast food.  Are you kidding me?  I mean obviously if they only buy prepackaged foods in the store, you can’t really help that. But they are giving more than enough money in food stamps for people to buy plenty of healthy foods, I think a few hundred bucks whereas in college I survived on $50 groceries per month.  This because I wasn’t bothering with the prepackaged crap.  But this being said, we have a nationwide obesity epidemic, it’s that simple.  We also have a lot of national debt.  So when a single person is getting several hundred dollars a month in food stamps, no one person needs to eat that much.  And moreover, when it can be applied to fast food, how much more obvious can you get!  It’s frustrating for me, because while some people need more fat and realize it, most of us definitely and obviously don’t.  Most of us could do with much healthier foods, and if they could control the types of food you buy in the grocery store, that wouldn’t be a bad thing.  But it’s frustrating, because my tax dollars are already paying for more healthcare, which is ironically more prevalent in homeless and otherwise poor populations.  But now you see why!

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