02-06-2012, 08:32 PM
Black wrote:
[quote=Kiva]
They don't buy fresh ingredients because they have no idea what to do with them.
If that was all that food stamps would cover, I think that knowledge would proliferate pretty quickly.
I tend to agree. You'd have to provide some sort of support, but I think you could do it. However, it's possible they would buy the approved foods, sell them, and go back and get what they want.
However, such an intervention would be the 'nanny state". That discussion is always interesting. The conservatives that hate the government the most tend to want to use the government to punish / manipulate poor people the most. Go figure.
Generational poverty is an amazing thing.