Shoot, it’s just pop!
by digby
Does everyone remember this adorable little gag?
Sure you do. How about this?
On the September 15 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh responded to a caller who discussed her own diet and claimed that “it won’t be long, after that call — she talked about what food she’s going to fix and how she’s going to prepare it and where she’s going to get it — that woman will be reported to Michelle Obama. In the not-too-distant future, monitors assigned by the White House to listen to this show will have to report that woman because she is going to be considered a part of the obesity problem in the United States.”
Right wingers just hate the nanny state infringing on individual freedom, particularly when it comes to the food we eat.
Well, unless you’re a poor person in which case Republicans are perfectly happy to tell them exactly what they can and cannot eat:
Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday proposed legislation that would require people using federal food stamps to buy only healthy food.
The Healthy Food Choices Act, H.R. 3073, reflects a long-standing criticism that the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) allows people to buy billions of dollars worth of junk food.
A 2012 study found that food stamps enable about $2 billion worth of junk food purchases each year, and that more than half of all SNAP benefits are used to buy sugary drinks.
Efforts to curb these purchases have been opposed by anti-hunger groups. But Roe said some states are already exploring ways to curb junk food purchases through the SNAP program, and argued that the federal government needs to take steps as well.
I’m not a big proponent of eating or drinking a lot of sugar, but with Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity and their ilk going completely bonkers over the government making people buy soda in smaller cups and mildly suggesting that children should eat their vegetables it’s pretty obvious that they see this as a form of punishment.
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