It’s strange that in America less poor people are afflicted by lack of food than by the challenges of being over-weight. The Food Stamp Program entitlement given to the poor make no exceptions for fatty foods and high sugar treats. More of them are dying from obesity. 70% of the poor are overweight. For more information see The Food Stamp Program Federal food assistance program.
TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO
HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF
AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED
OVER AND OVER
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail":
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but "G" movies.
He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.
Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn’t get sued for discrimination.
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.
When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it’s gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.
He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.
When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn’t the Ritz/Carlton. If you don’t like it, don’t come back."
He bought Al Gore lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.
When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Republican, he replied that a Republican lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.
Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.
"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It’s inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It’s 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn’t commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"
Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it’s time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can’t afford to have for themselves.
If you agree, pass this on. If not, pass it on anyhow.
Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Now the news is that vitamins are no good for you. Vitamin supplements A, E, C may do more harm than good according to a study by the Information Resources at Copenhagen University who analyzed 47 studies among 180,938 people.
The death rate is higher for those taking vitamins. The anti-oxidant vitamins work only when they are in food, not vitamins.
Now the news is that vitamins are no good for you. Vitamin supplements A, E, C may do more harm than good according to a study by the Information Resources at Copenhagen University who analyzed 47 studies among 180,938 people.
The death rate is higher for those taking vitamins. The anti-oxidant vitamins work only when they are in food, not vitamins.
