Voice: Charlotte B. Anderson, Mt. Morris
On Tuesday’s Oct.19 Flint Journal “Voices” page someone under the “guest voice” wrote a letter titled “Food stamps soda smackdown needs to fizzle out.”
The person said New York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, nor anyone else, should be allowed to punish poor people by not allowing them to buy pop and junk food treats. I beg to differ with him.
People on welfare food stamps are abusing a free food service given to them through the state’s taxpayers when they buy pop instead of juice and milk.
Pop has absolutely no vitamins or nutrients in its ingredients. It’s junk and does contribute to obesity and sugar diabetes when used on a regular basis.
A week ago, at a Kroger store in Flint, my friend, Mary, saw a man literally dump a grocery cart full of pop in the parking lot. He promptly returned inside the store for the bottle deposit, so he could purchase a carton of cigarettes!
She waited until he came back out to see what he was carrying. They sure know all the crooked schemes. He couldn’t have profited from a bottle of juice, or a jug of milk. What he did was a disgrace and needs to be stopped!
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 