We Are What They Eat
I was at the downtown Kroger this weekend at 16th and Central picking up junk food and feeding my bad habit when a woman in front of me with her two small children did something that made my blood boil. She bought a basket of junk food for her kids and used a Hoosier Works Link Card to pay for it. And to add insult to injury when she was asked if she wanted her receipt, she said “no.”
Now work with me on this one folks, a woman on public assistance is feeding her kids junk food and could care less about who’s footing the tab. I will freely admit I need to do a much better job of eating healthy, but I would never ask the taxpayers to subsidize my bad behavior. Bad eating habits only lead to worse problems later in life and this woman was not only teaching her kids to eat poorly but also not to care about other people’s money.
Someone should really change the “Link” card system and make it so only people using it can by fruits, vegetables, water, milk and certain kinds of juice. This may sounds harsh, but if you’re eating on the taxpayers’ dime, they get to pick what’s on the menu.
