Regarding "Bill bans stamps for junk food" (front page, Feb. 6): Sen. Ronda Storms is really on to something. She should take her cue from a sheriff in a nearby county who wants to serve jail inmates a nutritious, but monotonous, diet of tasteless goop every day in order to make jail even more unpleasant. Perhaps a steady diet of spinach, peas, carrots and unrecognizable "meat" will remind recipients they are not as good as regular folks who can afford items such as steaks, lobster and potato chips.
Restricting what people on the public food trough eat to what people such as Storms think they deserve is an excellent way of teaching them to go forth and be self-sufficient. Instead of empty calories, they should ingest what prisoners eat: a well-balanced but selected-for-punishment menu.
Leonard Martino
Tampa
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