[lbo-talk] Food Stamps make people fat

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Thu Apr 24 08:23:10 PDT 2003



> > A bit old, but if you're looking for some fuel for America-bashing,
> > here's some: Kate O'Beirne wondering why we spend all this money on
> > Food Stamps when poor people are so damned fat:
> > <http://www.nationalreview.com/kob/kob.asp>.
> >
> > Doug

This piece may be disingenuous, but is not it that the main beneficiaries of government subsidies are junk food manufacturers and slum lords (section 8)? It is easy to turn this argument around and finger point at these two industries rather than the federal programs.

Wojtek



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