Wisconsin Assembly committee votes for food stamp restrictions.

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.wiba.com/articles/madison-news-118857/update-wisconsin-committee-votes-for-junk-11239801/

Republican Rep. Dean Kaufert, of Neenah, has amended his original bill to require people enrolled in the state nutrition assistance program, known as food stamps, to spend at least two-thirds of their monthly benefits on items such as milk, bread and vegetables. They could spend their remaining benefits on any authorized food.

Kaufert's original bill didn't specify an amount to be spent on whole foods.

Kaufert says he wants people to eat healthier, but Democrats on the committee say he's just trying to score political points.

The measure passed 7-2 Tuesday on a party line vote. The full Assembly will take it up in May.

[TDale313]

1. So beyond tired

Of seeing the poor used as political punching bags. This has nothing to do with helping those on food stamps eat healthier.

[HereSince1628]

10. But it has everything to do with prejudicial beliefs, particularly

It's everywhere in working class USA, one version or another of this...

I'm gonna make you wish you never HEARD of the food assistance program let alone apply and receive benefits that I have to pay for...I'll make it so unpleasant that you get your lazy keester back to work!

[TDale313]

12. Yep. That's absolutely the attitude.

And it'd disgusting and depressing.

[TheMightyFavog]

2. What I find interesting is that the Grocers Association has generally been against this...

And usually the grocers trade groups lobby heavily with the GOP.

[Skittles]

3. I fucking DESPISE republicans

WHAT is with their pathological need to torment poor folk? CAN WE HAVE AN ACCOUNTING OF HOW THOSE BANKER BASTARDS SPENT THEIR BAILOUT MONEY?

F***

[MrSlayer]

4. They wouldn't do it if it didn't work.

It's sad but having someone beneath you to shit on seems to make people feel better. No one ever seems to direct the anger upward to where it's deserved, the banksters and oligarchs.

[Skittles]

5. well WE do, MrSlayer

I think that is what truly binds us on DU - KNOWING WHO IS WRONG

[TheMightyFavog]

8. very true.

It's sad.

[Fumesucker]

9. DUer Davis X Machina put it well...

“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of who will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”

[olddots]

6. Dean from Neenah

can't make this shit up .

[SheilaT]

7. Huh? While I'm inclined to agree that a lot of us, myself included, could

eat a better diet, this is nonsense.

Aren't many of the foods considered "junk" , like soft drinks, already excluded?

Oh, oh. As for the bread and milk thing, how about someone who is lactose intolerant? Someone who has trouble with gluten? Personally, I can eat anything I like, meaning I have no food intolerances or allergies, but that's me, not everyone else.

[leftstreet]

11. The only people who should be drinking milk are baby cows n/t

[0rganism]

13. this disturbs me: "the measure passed 7-2 Tuesday on a party line vote"

How did a committee of the Wisconsin state assembly end up 7-2 republican? Wisconsin, a purple-leans-blue state, is so incredibly gerrymandered now, it'll take decades to turn it around. The consequences of 2010 voter apathy will be felt for the rest of my life. Very sad.