 All right next question is from forever strong Cairo should food stamps be banned from use on junk food? Well, this is a this is a actually a fair question because you're already giving people Money and telling them that they can only buy one type of thing with it, right? So when you get a food stamp that literally says it must be used on food So it's a fair question, but here's why I still don't like it. I don't think I think if we're gonna give people money It should just be money to spend on whatever you want Now I know a lot of people are gonna say oh well then some people are gonna spend it on bad stuff And this is again more attempt at control, right? So oh, we're gonna give you food stamps, but you can only buy it on this kind of food and not that kind of food And you know giving them just money means that they're gonna even have more freedom I like that because yes, some people are gonna spend it Poorly, but there are gonna be some people are gonna spend it well who knows how they'll spend it Maybe they're gonna use on education. Maybe they use it to start a business. Maybe we'll use it for daycare So no, I'm always in favor of less control. I don't like food stamps to begin with I think people should just get money if we're gonna give them anything and make them spend it But if they already had food stamps, I don't think we should add an additional control plus What is the government going to you know, you know just to decide what junk food is? If you don't think that they're being influenced by you know companies by certain brands Yeah, like this brand is considered healthy, you know, just because they call it healthy Yeah, oh, if it's if it's this many grams of saturated fat or this many grams of sugar It's considered, you know, not junk food or it's considered junk food or I remember they considered pizza To be, you know a vegetable because there's tomato sauce on it, you know at one point or whatever like I don't like this at all It's way too much control Already we're controlling people just by giving them money and saying you have to buy just food with this Yeah, when you don't know what people really really need, you know, everybody's lives are very complex If we're gonna give them anything give them money and if by the way that would save us money It would help us eliminate the bureaucracy that administers all this control money. Just give them a check Here's your money spend it how you want. I always leaned on on charity like in terms of like that's how I look at it To if I'm giving and supporting something obviously I'm gonna do my homework to see if the you know The foundation the organization is legit and they're not, you know, just scamming people But at that point, you know, allow, you know, allow people to do what they're gonna do with it Have the individual freedom rights to, you know, spend it. However, they they feel fit, you know for their situation Their upbringing, whatever, you know, like allow people to be adults and to make decisions for themselves Obviously want them to make healthy decisions. This is something that we're passionate about We try to educate people what those healthy decisions might look like, you know, wherever whatever you're, you know You're going through like a you know, what you're trying to do lose weight or gain, you know muscle mass or whatever We try to like provide information that you know is best to kind of get you towards those goals But at the same time, you're an individual you have the freedom of responsibility of yourself and I feel like that That's what really needs to be highlighted You know with this kind of stuff well not to mention that but we also consider this if you're on food stamps You're probably in dire straits Like you're you're somebody who is like at the brink of not surviving and that's that's the idea of food stamps is is Government help and support for somebody who can't get by right you can't who can't even really feed themselves They don't they're not making enough money to give them food and the truth is a lot of junk food Goes a lot further than some healthy foods, you know go buy go buy a good steak or chicken You know by the pound is so you spend it you could buy a box of something that'll last in your cupboard forever And is you know as a tent twice as many calories Which that's what they need is calories to live and survive and you're gonna get it You can get a lot more of it if it's some freaking, you know Corn corn syrup based garbage It's gonna be a lot cheaper And so you gotta if the if the person who is in real need of this that's getting that support Is trying to survive and live and and making a choice? Or making them force them into only using it for healthier foods, which potentially could be more expensive It's kind of defeating the purpose of it now I'm also in the camp of like Sal or probably even more hard about I don't I don't like it at all And I'm somebody who had food stamps, so I'm not pro food stamp I'm not for food stamps at all I think that we're we're pretty creative human beings and when we're when we're forced into those situations I think that we we find a way to overcome and my and of course this is my own bias I understand that in my experience with my family and the people that I've seen around me in this situation I saw more Manipulate it or use it and didn't need it than the other way around You know I didn't I didn't have as many people in my life that I knew that oh my god if they didn't get those food stamps They might have died, you know They might not have been a feed them and their kids and that saved their life And then it got them on got them up on their feet and then they got a job And then they got themselves going and then they got off food stamps I don't have a story to share with you that I have plenty of stories to share on the other of Examples of people that have got got it and utilized it because it's something they can get for free and that Did the opposite of motivating to get them get out and get a job they knew they could get these food stamps and they'd be fine That's what I experienced in my life So I'm not even a fan form period and if we are gonna give them okay, which we do I definitely don't agree with trying to regulate it even more. I just I just think that you're it's just a bunch of control It's more and more more control. I have no problem with people receiving Help and I have no problem giving people help I think I think that the you know the test of a good society is how they treat The people who need the help the most I'm a big believer of that But you know if you look at the whole system If you look at all the the the benefits that people can receive and you calculate them out It's a it's actually quite a bit when you add everything up right all the different subsidies and you add in all the different types of help and In food stamps and all the other things it actually amounts to a decent chunk of money But what people don't realize is to Administer all of that through the complex bureaucracies that we've created to to administer as much if not more It's it's a waste of money Yeah, what if we took all of the money that we spent on that and instead of paying a bureaucracy we said you're all fired We don't need a bunch of government officials Handing this out and saying this is for education. This is for food. This is for here's your check Spend it however you want and then we got to be okay with people Deciding on how they want to live their lives now. What's that's going to look like? Yes, I'm sure a lot of people are going to make bad decisions because people make bad decisions But I also think a lot of people are going to use that money much more efficiently You know if you're the mom If you're a single mom with two kids or three kids and you have food stamps You're like, you know what I really need I really wish I had this money so I could spend it on some child care Or I really wish I had this money so I could help myself start a business Or pay for some education for myself so I can make more money But I can't do that because You know, I have to spend it the way that they say or I have to use it the way they say I think that's totally silly. It's just more control and I tell you what Let's just go down that line and see what that would look like Could you imagine what the government would start to decide? What is considered junk food and what is not considered junk food? Yeah, they've done it real good with the food pyramid Yeah Terrible those are the worst people Good job And you don't know from case to case what somebody needs You know, like adam said, you know, what might be considered junk food is processed food Processed food has some value. It's got long shelf life. Right a very very long shelf Maybe that's what that person needs more at that moment And we're going to tell them that they can and can't spend it on whatever I say this if we're going to help people eliminate the bureaucracy that already saves us a ton of money Give the money to people. We'll figure out whatever that number is Spend it how you want. It's up to you. It's up to you. It's your exactly and see what that looks like But this yeah controlling people this way further controlling them. Yeah, and I'm not I'm not a big fan of it