There must be a "convoluted" map for state initiatives pushing healthy eating habits for Americans while simultaneously cutting access to healthcare for said individuals. Do all Republicans think everyone is crazy, infused with a MAGA blueprint for brain circuits?
Certain U.S. states now prohibit the purchase of what legislators deemed "junk food" by people using food stamp benefits, known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).The following states have placed restrictions on food purchases: Texas, Iowa, West Virginia, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska, Florida, and Utah. Looking awfully red here. Ah, yet isn't it heart warming? These conservatives are so caring, wanting uninsured people to eat more healthy as uninsured people bleed to death. Robert Kennedy Jr. could not be any more pleased.
The very states denying food choices to people with SNAP benefits are the same states shredding their residents health benefits to non-existence. Oklahoma's Governor Kevin Stitt, a skilled MAGA Trump brown noser was quick to celebrate the new changes and is "excitedly" chirping how beneficial it will be for the health of Oklahomans. (Why does Jethro Bodine come to my mind...hmm). Even before Trump won the 2024 election, Stitt pushed for 200,000 people to be taken off Medicaid and indeed, all of them completely lost their benefits. Oklahoma has been ranked below 47th or lower for decades for poor healthcare outcomes. Little wonder when so many residents are uninsured plus the lack of medical experts and medical advances within the state.
From a news article it is stated "The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Oklahoma’s waiver request to exclude certain junk foods from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, called SNAP....As part of the Make Oklahoma Healthy Again Campaign, Gov. Kevin Stitt announced the state is requesting a federal waiver to exclude certain junk foods from SNAP purchases. Almost 700,000 Oklahomans participate in the program, according to the USDA."
This will include things such as hot foods, soft drinks and candy. Another reason for this change besides the Republican bogus "we care about your health" claim, is the federal cuts implemented by the Big Beautiful Bill would require all states to pick up the slack in funding the SNAP program. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see cuts will also occur on a state level as well regarding these benefits.
I personally believe it is a contemptuous punitive measure, devoid of any concern for the health of lower income people. Their goal is to stigmatize, ostracize, and demoralize the spirits of lower income people. Consider children, who often eat candy and snacks to celebrate birthdays, holidays, or may even be rewarded occasionally for good conduct or accomplishments. The implementation of these changes to SNAP will result in another way for a child to feel "different" than others, feel "less" than others, and to not be deserving to have some normalcy in their lives. Grocery stores are also concerned about the impact upon their revenues.
The Republican campaign to make America healthy again is a crock of crap. Do you think conservatives want children healthy when they have supported the Big Beautiful Bill which is going to destroy health care for millions of people? In their racist white supremacist minds, they equate SNAP benefits to non-whites; however, the majority of food stamp recipients are white.
Republicans view people in poverty and low income brackets as expendable and undesirable "elements" to society. In essence, this perspective stems from the racist concept of eugenics; an underlying current within many white supremacist groups, also seen in the history of Nazi Germany, and now the Trump administration. It is one of the reasons Trump and his constituents could care less about seniors and their social security. Such people are viewed simply as liabilities along with the disabled, including veterans. Only the superior race excels; and in the grand mental delusion of the white supremacist, those racists with the most power and wealth take steps to ensure others will not excel while claiming their "superiority". However, this notion of superiority is only institutionalized racism and the use of force through political and military control--fascism.
The new oligarchy ruling the United States does not care about the health of anyone other than themselves, and their wealthy white constituents. It's a bad joke--make America healthy again through annihilation and degradation.
