food stamps? was Re: [fla-left] Bloody

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that's what i thought, from way over here...  in fact i thought food stamps
would generally be registered as a defeat for the working class, since
they've always been resisted here on such grounds.  but i thought i must
have been missing something.

anyone have a potted history of food stamps in US welfare struggles?

Angela
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kelley wrote:


>know.  food stamps weren't the result of leftist struggle.  there was
some,
but most of the program is the result of the growing ind. ag lobby. they
saw this as a way to subsidize purchase of their products.    and clearly,
the policy was designed to police because rather than give people money to
spend as they chose, they were given coupons that they could only spend on
food.  this would be why?  yes, that's right:  b/c the poor can't check
their impulses toward immediate gratification and will end up buying
unhealthy junk food instead of  good healthy food.  moreover, best give
them as little as possible [amt wise] so they'll have to learn to budget
like good white, successful amercians who know how to budget to make poor
richard proud<