Anytime you take money from the government, they can make all kinds of rules and conditions.

It is amazing.

I mean, after all, that's taxpayer money they're throwing around.

Just lock these GOP bastards in a cell and feed them bread and water.

Unless they specify that welfare can only be used to pay for a coffin or a one way ticket out of town, I don't really have a problem with restrictions.

it never fails to disgust me, the amount of hate and begrudging nastiness that repukes have for the poor.

just horrific.

If WIC is almost all of your food budget, spend it to maximize nutrition. The occasional treat won't hurt.

If you have additional funds, there's no real difference between WIC and those funds other than how you manage them. WIC for beans, cash for Twinkies.

Since WIC and such are often intended for the welfare of the children, it's something I have fewer problems with than others. "Food insecurity" is rampant but hunger isn't. Poor childhood nutrition is also rampant.

if maybe someone shouldn't investigate Ronda Storms' childhood. Something had to happen to her.

Now let's see here...Susie is a TANF recipient who lives in Jennings, Fla. (I had to use Google Maps for this example, sorry.) According to the internets, Jennings has fewer than 900 people in it. Now, I don't know if you the reader have ever actually lived in East Bum Fuck, but I grew up in one of Idaho's East Bum Fucks and I assure you, prices in those places are much higher than they are in larger cities. (And the smaller said community was, the higher the prices were...right now, you can go to St. Maries, the specific EBF I was raised in, and spend $3.50 for a gallon of milk that costs less than $2 in a town an hour away.) If Susie wants value for her dollar she's got to go to a larger community, and there happens to be one just half an hour away.

If Ronda's bill passes, Susie's problems get monumentally huge: that larger community is Valdosta, Ga. If she goes there and spends TANF money, she's in trouble. If she goes there and spends money she earned at a job, and if Susie has two kids she can earn $3,182 (http://coverageforall.org/pdf/FHCE_FedPovertyLevel.pdf) per month and still be eligible for TANF, she's in trouble because one of the dollars she spent in Georgia might have come from TANF and there's no fucking way she can prove otherwise.

Hasn't anyone told Ronda group punishment doesn't work?

There are so many offensive assumptions embedded in the bill that it's hard to know where to start.

One - that all poor people live in a neighborhood where you can even BUY the food they're talking about.
Two - that poor people aren't already making decisions appropriate for their circumstances.
Three - that poor people have the large amounts of free time that homemade food requires
Four - that a punitive approach is going to engage people in learning from the program - the poor, for some reason, learn better that way
Five - that all poor people have the ability to store a large variety of food and cooking utensils
Six - that poor people never encounter emergencies where they are where they are, and someone is hungry

I could go on for as long as I care to - the entire array of disrespect capitalism has for the actual human being is embedded in this situation.