[at-l] Y2K food finally comes out of the closet..

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In a message dated 4/2/01 7:22:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
texas12step@hotmail.com writes:


> The food stamp program was created, in part[*], at the behest of
> the commercial foods industry to give welfare recipients taxpayer
> money to buy their stuff. So instead of doling out inexpensive
> bulk foods such as canned meats, dry beans, sacks of flour and
> the ever-popular brick of welfare cheese -- things from which a
> good balanced diet can be derived with a little effort and cooking
> skill -- we now get to pay retail for single-serving microwaveable
> spaghettios, pizza pockets and Fruity Pebbles.
> 

I don't know if you have ever been on food stamps but I know a lot of people 
that have been.  I don't know a single person that wouldn't trade a high 
paying job for their food stamps.  People don't want to be on food stamps.  
We have the finest distribution of goods system in the world.  You think it 
would be cheaper to set up a completely separate system.  Food stamps were 
developed to solve the distribution of commodity problems in rural America.  
     My mother was the county sheriff in rural northern Michigan.  She used 
to send deputies to people's houses with what was called surplus.  This is 
the system that you think is more efficient?  The microwave oven may a device 
designed by the devil I don't know, but food stamps were a God send to poor 
people that had to wait for people to take them to the stores on the weekend.
   And if you don't think this is trail related...  The trail we made through 
the woods, delivering commodities, when we were kids is now part of a 
federally designated trail.
Clyde



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