Replying to Cut food stamps for all people who are more than 20 pounds overweight.

From the tax cuts thread...my views on food stamps and poor people.

Lets not cut all food stamps, but instead only cut foodstamps for people who are more than 20 pounds overweight. Once they get down to less than 20 pounds overweight, they can have their precious food stamps back. This will get rid of a ton of obesity, and lower government spending.

START APPLE QUOREQuoting Apple* from Dec 9 2005 9:43:57:
Alot of poor people are overweight because they cant afford to eat properly. They eat mostly carbs and very little furits, vegatables and protiens.

If your only eating Carbs, you get fat, even though you are not getting the nutrition that you need. Its a fact of life.
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Apple, I really respect your input. Seriously, you are one of my favorite members. The thing is, I'm a poor (in a relative sense, I don't have a bunch of personal money for food) college student. I eat way more carbs than would be recomended by any diet plan (Somedays I consume half a pound or a pound of pasta), and yet I am probably in better shape than 90% or more of the population of the United States. How do I do it? Well, for one I have a high metabolism because I am 19, but more importantly, I am extremely active. I ride my bike instead of driving whenever I can. I also ski, climb, and hike many times a week. I'm not going to propose that all poor people are lazy, but instead that it is a very important contributing factor. Why not cut foodstamps for people who are so overweight that it causes a huge drain on society? If you want poor people to eat well, why not make a large portion of food stamps that can only be redeemed for fruits and vegetables? We can't make everyone fit, but we can at least make sure that people recieving food stamps (who are also the primary recipients of government health care) aren't getting fat by eating things bought with our tax money.