Wisconsin passes bill banning poor from buying ketchup, pickles, potatoes and more

[Igel]

48. No, actually, not "banning tortillas."

The federal regulations from early in the Obama administration (12/2009) ban white bread.

Tortillas are fine, as long as they're "soft corn or whole wheat tortillas."

Hence taco shells are a no-no, because they're not "soft corn."

The usual flour tortillas are a no-no because they're not whole wheat.

Remember Michelle Obama's "we need to eat healthy" kick? Yeah. You're looking at her influence in the regs. We liked it when it was being imposed ... on others.

However you have to work damned hard to figure out who, exactly, your outrage really should be directed at. Not only do you have to read the short little Republican bill that's the subject of rage here, but the long-standing Wisconsin statute that it refers to, and then the Federal regulations last updated by the Obama administration in late 2009 that the Wisconsin statute refers to. And in the Federal regs you have to look down in the footnotes. Elections have consequences.

The only change this little cowplop of a bill makes in the law is to prohibit things that some people just find expensive--shrimp, oysters, crabs, lobster, crawfish, other shellfish; and to allow white potatoes.

It ain't what you know that hurts you, it's what you know that ain't so.

Then again, what you don't know can also hurt you, can't it?

A lot of people are just in a world of hypervigilant hurt.