Do We All Want a Better Country?

Since Ronald Reagan decided that politics was more his style than B movies, we've heard the stories about those "Welfare" and "Food Stamp Queens".
As I stood in line at the grocery today, behind a young, polite, intelligent woman w/ a pre-toddler aged child, I observed her trying to use her W.I.C. voucher (which is supposed to help supply milk, cheese, bread and juice to families w/ young children).
I MUST say...I felt her pain. Let us leave behind the fact that in the early 1990's, when I was in the process of leaving my abusive husband, I too had W.I.C. What I watched today was, to my mind, sad and appalling.

*This young woman tried to buy two (2) gallons of milk. Unfortunately, W.I.C. allows 1 gal & 1 qt. Every person who shops for there family knows....a quart costs cents less than a gallon.
*She tried to buy healthy bread, I believe the brand in question was Growheat (sic), which most moms know has a higher fiber content. Unfortunately, NO...not allowed. Please go get that stuff that is akin to fluff...much better for...what? 
*She tried to buy Cranberry Juice, which I totally get. Has a higher Vitamin C content, fights urinary tract infections (which may be troublesome when little ones are still in diapers) sugar content the same or less, but...NO...must buy imitation Apple Juice!

Hello,... Fellow Citizens of the Unite States! None of the choices she was forced to make had much to do with nutrition for her child...just as they did not when I found myself in, what I can only surmise, was a similar situation.


If we want to lower 1) health care costs 2) up the educational advantages of our children 3) better the health, through prevention, of our fellow Americans 4) Hell, increase our GDP even (which, obviously I care less about)...what kind of crap is this?

While I was waiting for all of this to be sorted out, I was tripping down memory lane. This young woman actually turned to me and apologized for taking so long. I could only say, "I wish this wasn't constructed to be so hard...and to make you feel so...unempowered in life. Please negate that feeling, for you and yours"..because that is how it is!