metalpeter - 10/23/10 15:42
I can admit that I don't know anything about SNAP. That being said if the government chooses the foods that make the cut then any place that sells them you should be able to use the card. Rite Aid does sell some good food along with walgreen's. Just playing devils advocate here, but what is wrong with a little candy it has Chocolate and Sugar and can be used as a treat, can you get it with food stamps? It would be better if people used it at someplace cheaper, but what is the government supposed to do pick every single retailer that is allowed to use the card, that would never work.......

jbeatty - 10/23/10 13:40
I agree that the state should not be subsidizing someones sweet tooth under the guise of a healthy eating subsidy. According the website:

"Soft drinks, candy, cookies, snack crackers, and ice cream are food items and are therefore eligible items

Seafood, steak, and bakery cakes are also food items and are therefore eligible items"

This seems to me like another failed government program. Looking at the eligible retailers in my neighborhood :::link::: it seems fairly obvious that some places should absolutely not be included. It's mostly convenient stores and drug stores. The only places that in my mind even qualify as actual grocery stores is the Lexington Coop and Price Rite. That's out of ten qualified retailers. I'm sorry but Rite Aid doesn't have a single healthy item.

paul - 10/23/10 12:47
On the radio I heard a talk show host say that by limited this we are limiting people freedom. This is not about freedom. They, like anyone else, are free to buy whatever they want. But when the state provides the food as a free nutritional supplement, it should be nutritional.

Things with little or no nutritional value should not be included. Otherwise, we end up paying for the crap to go into the people and then for their medical expenses to treat the diseases associated with eating crap.

libertad - 10/23/10 11:11
That is all very controversial right now. They want to do away with allowing benefits to be used for soda. Lots of strong arguments for and against. It could get really complicated if they started to limit which food items you can and cannot get. They do it to some extent by not allowing beer purchases.

james - 10/24/10 14:11
awesome!

metalpeter - 10/21/10 17:44
I prefer Pepsi to Coke my Self. That being said There is something more Classic about coke. Like if you go to a soda bar or if you can find the glass bottles coke is better. Also Cherry Coke is better then Wild Cherry pepsi but there is some new cherry vanilla Pepsi that is pretty good. Wish around here you could get Vanilla Coke in a form other then cans but you can't. But why do they have Glass Bottles in all the good Coke and Coke Zero ads?

jbeatty - 10/21/10 13:36
Nothing goes better with a coke than a cigarette!

tinypliny - 10/20/10 21:47
lol - I am still composing my BIG opposition post but I have been cooking in between. I want to put all my PDFs in there so that everyone can see for themselves that coke is the new cigarette.

KeithT - 10/22/10 12:15
I say make look a like fake parking tickets. Inside will be a map of how the drive way works.

jbeatty - 10/21/10 13:40
Oh missed Jason's comment

jbeatty - 10/21/10 13:37
Install spike strips that can be removed with a padlock.

metalpeter - 10/20/10 18:43
Maybe You could find someone with out a job and they could stand out there and charge $5 to park there ? I mean someone you know and could trust not just some homeless guy...........................

jason - 10/20/10 15:33
Time to break out the spike strip.

leetee - 10/20/10 10:13
i wish i knew, (e:Paul). Frustrates me that people do it to you and to us. Must be a Buffalo thing, because i have lived in other cities, bigger ones with more parking issues, in which drivers don't do this.......