It's not enough that hard-working folks fund food stamps for the jobless in Orange County.
Our government officials also feel the need to supplement that spending with additional expenses.
How so?
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On September 21, the Orange County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to
vote to spend $223,000 in federal tax dollars on a nine-month public relations
campaign designed to influence how food stamp recipients spend the
currency.
The goal? They want to convince food stamp recipients to eat more fruits and vegetables, and “increase” physical activities.
County bureaucrats back the proposal, claiming it will dramatically alter eating habits in the target group.
The plan is part of a California Department of Public Heath and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy “to coordinate and support regional nutrition.”
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.