spindles

Build a 60 storey building with no publicly accessible elevator and put the office that distributes food stamps on the 60th floor. See? forced exercise!

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I know this sounds like a crazy idea, but what about drinking water? Why do people need to drink something sweet in the first place. I can get pretty good tasting water out of my tap for next to nothing...

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This is only a what if scenario for me, as I don't think Australia has a food stamp system. People eligible for assistance in Oz get cash in their bank account with little or no strings attached.

I think there is a huge argument in favour of limiting what people spend 'food stamps' on. If they don't know how to prepare these raw ingredients, perhaps there should be government provided cooking tuition.

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Baraka_Guru

I think the problem is much wider than this. This is too myopic: a mayor banning a single food product to a distinct set of people.

The problem is with the food system itself. Junk food is often cheaper than healthful food, and that's because to a large extent the taxpayers help pay for it.

I think I have the craziest idea of all: how about we stop subsidizing for cheap meat, dairy, and corn, and start subsidizing for cheap organic fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains?

Am I fucking crazy or what? Somebody stop me!

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Anthony Wiener has come up with a unique idea which is to basically allow food stamp users to buy produce at 50% off. Basically it will charge their food stamp card 50% the price, and they will buy the government for the rest of the money separate. Making healthy food more affordable.

While this is potentially viable, it obviously will increase our costs, does nothing about how we subsidize farms already, and does not account for the abuse that it may have.

When I worked in an insurance company that dealt with Medicare, one of the biggest fraud scams in pharmaceutical stores that sell food is people would purchase food, with a prescription. Basically if the store would get $50 for a prescription of Viagra, they would bill insurance for that amount, and you go buy anything you want in the store for $50. The pills then can be sold if they want to order them on the streets. This has the same method, what is to stop a store from doing similar just ringing up prime rib as tomato, lettuce and cucumbers. The store gets more money, the buyer gets more food.

By the way that scam is rampant in very poor neighborhoods, a good friend of mine is a director that deals in Medicare fraud, and he still says it is one of the top 3 fraud methods, even with them knowing about it and trying to catch them.

On a positive note at least they are trying to come up with alternative solutions to entice people to be able to eat healthy and make it financially feasible.

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what if the only way they were able to get food stamps was by running a certain distance on a treadmill?

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Originally Posted by canuckguy Pretty simple really, do your own thing as long as it does not fuck with anyone's enjoyment of life.