http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/05/21/wic-killing-children-with-kindness/
WIC: Killing children with kindness
By Michael Hampton
Posted: May 21, 2007 3:20 am
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The United States Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, commonly known as WIC, distributes vouchers for food for low-income families. Among the food distributed is about half the infant formula in the entire U.S. According to a study from the University of Hawai’i, WIC’s distribution of infant formula not only distorts the market for infant formula, it puts these infants at risk of illness and death.
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Unfortunately, like many federal aid programs administered by the states, WIC has a vigorous lobby group — National WIC — made up of the thousands of state and local government officials that run the program.
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Isn’t that the usual standard for a gooferment program?
It doesn’t work. It actually harms those it seeks supposedly to help. Turns out to be a welfare program to some business or another, maybe even a industry. And, is protected by a huge lobby of gooferment bureaucrats that it supports.
And, you – the reader; yes, you, on the otherside of the glass! — defend this gang of thugs that is killing poor children in your name. with your money?
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Clarifying update at 2007.05.22 0730 edst
The original wording made it seem that the author Michael Hampton was the “you” in the phrase “you defend”. That’s one way for reading it; certianly not how I meant it. Considering he wrote the expose, it doesn’t make sense to take it that way. But once again, I have demonstrated the principle that two people can read the same text and often come away with many different meanings.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at
I sure as hell don’t defend them.
Friday, August 22, 2008 at
I breastfed all 3 of my children. Unfortunately, 2 of the 3 had milk allergies. I had to stop breastfeeding them because of this. The formula I had to buy was $16-$20/can (depending on where I purchased it). WIC helped me to be able to afford to provide the formula they needed without being broke and not being able to provide in other areas.
Someone had commented on nurses “pushing” WIC on people and promoting formula feeding. I am a nurse and I can tell you that I do neither. I feel that breastfeeding is the best but it is also a woman’s right to choose. As for us supposedly pushing WIC on people, we don’t. We want EVERYONE to be informed of the services that can be provided in the instance that they need to use them. It is better for us to let our patients know there are services available than for a child to go without!