Or Watch What You Eat.

A Daily Agitation

Before I begin I want to inform those that are not political junkies such as myself…..Sotomayor will be confirmed…the CIA has been carrying out covert ops since its inception…..now you can give your mind a break from the cable catnip that is playing daily.

The health care issue is being hotly debated…both sides are trying desperately to be heard.  The Repubs have offered up their special plan for health care it is called ” The People’s Choice Act”,  in case you would like to check it out.

I read it and since I have plenty of time to comtemplate the stuff that was put into it…I would like to talk about the part that got my attention over most of the other stuff.  It is the part on food stamps and nutrition.  Paragraph 1 in this section reads:

(1) IN GENERAL- Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall, based on scientific, peer-reviewed recommendations provided by a Commission that includes public health, medical, and nutrition experts and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, develop lists of foods that do not meet science-based standards for proper nutrition and that may not be purchased under the food stamp program. Such list shall be updated on an annual basis to ensure the most current science-based recommendations are applied to the food stamp program.

Okay with that posted it sounds like the “Food police” will be looking into your eating habits.  According to this, unhealthy foods could be bought with food stamps…that will mean that since the healthy foods are more expensive that the poor’s food dollar will not go as far in feeding their family.  I have written posts stating that healthy foods should be made more attractive to the poor by making them less expensive than the unhealthy varieties.  But just making it illegal to buy certain foods will not make them healthier.  Just like making drugs illegal did not make their use go away.

One of my more avid readers, Sue, had a good point….let the ones making these outrageous acts, have to live on the same amount that the people getting food stamps would have to do…..then these millionaires might learn some humility, by learning that they are morons for even attempt such crap.