Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom
Health Freedom Minute June 19, 2012
Obesity and $41 Food Stamp Cake One Wall Street Journal writer recently described his experience standing in line in a grocery store. The woman in front of him had a very large ice cream cake. The cashier rung it up and said, “Forty-one dollars.” He stared, but the woman just whipped out her government electronic benefits card – her food stamps – and off she went. EBT cards are used to purchase a array of food items. Only liquor and cigarettes are forbidden and food stamp benefits are so rich that people sell their cards for cash or use them to shop for others. Politicians say theyʼre concerned about obesity but with 48 million Americans with EBT cards, why arenʼt they trying to restrict what can be purchased with food stamps? “Food Stamps and the $41 Cake,” Warren Kozak, The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2012.
Presented daily by Twila Brase, President, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom. The Health Freedom Minute is now heard in 37 states: Mornings M-Th at AM1280 (The Patriot) in MN and 91.5 AM WHKC (FreedomFM) in OH, afternoons on American Family Radio, and daily on the Bott Radio Network. CCHF ● 161 St. Anthony Ave. ● Suite 923 ● St. Paul, MN 55103 ● 651-646-8935 ● www.cchfreedom.org CCHF supports patient and doctor freedom, medical innovation, and the right of citizens to a confidential patient-doctor relationship.
