Good job, sweetie.
A Walpole baker — appalled that welfare abuse now seems almost as American as apple pie — is putting her whoopie pies where her mouth is in a dispute with the Braintree Farmers Market, refusing to take EBT cards for her baked treats.“To me it’s no different than nail salons and Lottery tickets,” Taber said. “It’s pastry, it’s dessert. My pies are great, but come on.”
Organizers of the farmers market insist that they just want poor people to have access to the market’s healthy, fresh foods.
“We just thought that people that were on food stamps a lot of times don’t have healthy choices,” said Braintree Farmers Market chairwoman Donna Ingemanson. “What better chance to buy healthy foods than at a farmers market?”
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What? They can buy and do have access to any number of healthier choices. I have stood behind people who have used their food stamps to buy buggy loads of ice cream,pizzas,candies,chips,
ReplyDeletesodas and much more. They can also purchase healthy foods and fruits with the same card.B.S. and the purchases of the more unhealthier foods should be stopped.
Should be essentials only. Asinine.
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