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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: May 04, 2013, 06:41:46 AM »

http://www.thestate.com/2013/05/03/2754637/senate-budget-proposal-would-ban.html

In response to Gov. Haley's efforts to restrict what kinds of food can be bought using Food Stamps, Sen. Darrell (D-Richland) has managed to get a proviso attached to the budget restricting the Governor's Mansion to buying only those foods that can be bought using Food Stamps.  Note that at this point, the budget has only passed the committee stage.  I doubt it will survive into the final bdget, but it very well might.  There are enough Republicans who have been rubbed the wrong way by Haley, it could actually stay as a way to tweak her.
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« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2013, 02:58:36 PM »

I agree with both sides and hope they both get their way.


wait, Governors don't buy their own food?
Must be a South Carolina thing.

In Rhode Island, the governor doesn't even have an official residence.

And I know the President has to pay for all the food they eat/serve at the White House..

The tendency here is to have the actual salary of public officials to be kept low but shower them with bennies that don't attract as much attention as the salary numbers.  In cash pay, Haley in the bottom quartile of salary among U.S. governors.
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« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2013, 06:52:22 PM »

You literally cannot afford to sustain yourself in healthy foods on a food stamp budget. For this kind of policy to work, benefits will either have to be raised or the government stand up to big agriculture and reform the farm subsidy system to favor more fruits, vegetables, fish and chicken.

Neither of which either political party is willing to do.

You definitely need to give up most prepared foods and basically replace meat with beans for most meals.  However, it takes time to make food from scratch, which is something the working poor are usually short of.
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« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2013, 06:03:10 PM »

First, who defines what is considered "junk food"?

Haley has said her goal is to combat obesity by preventing the use of food stamps to buy “candy and chocolate, sodas and chips,” as the Republican governor put it during a February news conference.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2013/05/03/2754637/senate-budget-proposal-would-ban.html#storylink=cpy
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