It's even worse when rich people pay with food stamps. As a teenager I worked in a grocery store located in one of the richest towns in the country. You could tell the people had money, but still payed with food stamps. They knew how to cheat the system. It used to piss us off.
I won't point the finger at the nationality of these people, but they were foreigners working as doctors in this country for the most part.
I live in a very affluent area, but trust me, not everyone has money!! Especially since that whole mortgage thing came down the tubes. Most owe more on their homes than they are worth.
I live in Rochester, Michigan. Google it. You'll see its affluent, but if I live here, not all have money...LOL!!!
It's even worse when rich people pay with food stamps. As a teenager I worked in a grocery store located in one of the richest towns in the country. You could tell the people had money, but still payed with food stamps. They knew how to cheat the system. It used to piss us off.
I won't point the finger at the nationality of these people, but they were foreigners working as doctors in this country for the most part.
I live in a very affluent area, but trust me, not everyone has money!! Especially since that whole mortgage thing came down the tubes. Most owe more on their homes than they are worth.
I live in Rochester, Michigan. Google it. You'll see its affluent, but if I live here, not all have money...LOL!!!
Trust me, they had money. If not, maybe they should have considered selling their brand new BMWs or Lexus's that they pushed their carts out to and loaded up. They were well dressed and well educated by their manorism. It was also the mid-90s. The economy was far from bad.
SHit I WISH they had a food stamp program in australia, and that it was only for specific healthy necessary items. I am so over seeing kids with no teeth, greasy hair and resembling jabba the hutt, whilst thier parents smoke thier ciggies, buy thier slabs of VB (ewww, worst beer ever) and go to thier dealer to get thier gear.
There needs to education implemented with these programs to ensure that they are used not abused, and ramifcations for those who do decide to abuse the system. I also believe that feeding your children on a diet that is high is salt, fat and sugars constitutes child abuse...they are failing to provide the necessties.
It is actually cheaper to buy healthy foods. The benefits far out way the convenience. The food tastes better, it looks better, it's healthy, and it keeps more people out of public hospitals and there saves $$$$$ in the long run.
I was at the bus stop one morning, when a woman sat next to me and started telling me about her day. She said I’m going down to housing authority, then to welfare, then to the doctor and then she was “going to get her drink on”
I felt like saying, yeah, guess where I’m going, TO WORK to earn money to pay my bills.
I was not a happy camper by the time I got to work that morning.
But i look at it this way, I accomplish good things in my job and I help people and that gives me pride. I'd rather that than be handed everything.
I was at the bus stop one morning, when a woman sat next to me and started telling me about her day. She said I’m going down to housing authority, then to welfare, then to the doctor and then she was “going to get her drink on”
I felt like saying, yeah, guess where I’m going, TO WORK to earn money to pay my bills.
I was not a happy camper by the time I got to work that morning.
But i look at it this way, I accomplish good things in my job and I help people and that gives me pride. I'd rather that than be handed everything.
but it's still frustrating.
That woman was nervy, but please don't think all are like that. Some people have disabilites. Some of the disabilities are not visible to the public, but nonetheless make it so some cannot go to work. I don't think they need to explain it to anyone either. Don't prejudge.
Wow.
From what i've read here... it sounds like the only smart people are the ones who can get all of these great services and products for free. I mean... FREE health care, brand new BMWs, jewelry... sounds like the American dream, to me.
And from the originating post... I never did find out if those people paid for the 5 carts briming over with the bounty of whole foods... with food stamps. Did they?
Or did they just look like bums... like the way I look when I go to the grocery store? I don't know, i just never seem to feel the need to get dressed up or drag a comb through my stringy hair, just to go down to the Ralph's to pick up my groceries. And yeah... I sleep in late on the weekends and sometimes am so damn lazy... I just throw a pair of shorts over my pajama pants, pull a 'not too smelly' t-shirt over my head, lace up them nasty boots and head out. I'm very scary. I guess... i really don't care what I look like. Now... i'm going to wonder if people are looking at me... and my shopping cart and that bottle of Napa Valley Chardonnay in it. Oh well... fuck 'em.
I don't know why I never see these people... maybe I'm just oblivious to what's going on... or maybe I don't concern myself with things other people are doing.
...
But... I'll tell you one thing for certain... If I knew of or saw someone pushing 2 carts of food that they paid for with 'Hundreds of Dollars' in Food Stamps to load up in a 2010 7 Series BMW... I'd take down their license plate number and send it into the government agency in charge of handing out the food stamps with a letter, explaining my concern that these people were using resources that should be going to someone who really does need our assistance... like that guy that sleeps on Fairfax every night. I feel it would be my duty to the American taxpayers to report such suspected criminal activity. If i didn't... I would feel like i was being a bad American Taxpaying Citizen (as well as a wuss) who actually allowed this possible crime be commited right under my nose. And that is something I do care about.
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but it would make more sense, at least to me, to try and stretch your food dollar
especially now, no matter who is paying for it. junk food is expensive.
what a waste in every sense of the word.
Actually, junk food is cheap...that's why people on welfare/food stamps get so much of it and, in turn, is why obesity rates fr those in poverty is higher. It's cheaper to buy Oreos and McDonalds than it is to buy some fresh produce. Junk food is cheap, which is why they load up on it: they can.
Agreed... you can buy a microwave shepherds pie for less than £1. I made me own the other night and it cost way more than that per portion. You can buy a bag of chips for less than £1... a bag of potatoes often costs more than that (and half of them seem to be rotten these days). I think snacks are much cheaper to make your own... but meals... it's WAY cheaper to buy junk.
Although my sister is a super shopper, filled her trolly over Christmas for about 100euro... including about half of it was meat... things are now much cheaper at home than here in England.
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Please don't stress about your tax dollars going to food stamps or welfare moms: That money is a drop in the bucket to distract you from the fact that over TWENTY EIGHT TRILLION of your dollars has been handed over to the banks in 2008-2009. That's "trillion" with a capital trillion. Get angry at the Banksters. Whilst the populace was quibbling about social programmes, the banks robbed us blind.
Nicely put... leave the poor bankers alone... they need their bonuses to pay their third mortgages :?
'we' always tend to pick on the wrong people and blame the wrong people for everything. It wasn't people on welfare who got us into this mess... but they'll probably suffer.
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Wow.
From what i've read here... it sounds like the only smart people are the ones who can get all of these great services and products for free. I mean... FREE health care, brand new BMWs, jewelry... sounds like the American dream, to me.
And from the originating post... I never did find out if those people paid for the 5 carts briming over with the bounty of whole foods... with food stamps. Did they?
Or did they just look like bums... like the way I look when I go to the grocery store? I don't know, i just never seem to feel the need to get dressed up or drag a comb through my stringy hair, just to go down to the Ralph's to pick up my groceries. And yeah... I sleep in late on the weekends and sometimes am so damn lazy... I just throw a pair of shorts over my pajama pants, pull a 'not too smelly' t-shirt over my head, lace up them nasty boots and head out. I'm very scary. I guess... i really don't care what I look like. Now... i'm going to wonder if people are looking at me... and my shopping cart and that bottle of Napa Valley Chardonnay in it. Oh well... fuck 'em.
I don't know why I never see these people... maybe I'm just oblivious to what's going on... or maybe I don't concern myself with things other people are doing.
...
But... I'll tell you one thing for certain... If I knew of or saw someone pushing 2 carts of food that they paid for with 'Hundreds of Dollars' in Food Stamps to load up in a 2010 7 Series BMW... I'd take down their license plate number and send it into the government agency in charge of handing out the food stamps with a letter, explaining my concern that these people were using resources that should be going to someone who really does need our assistance... like that guy that sleeps on Fairfax every night. I feel it would be my duty to the American taxpayers to report such suspected criminal activity. If i didn't... I would feel like i was being a bad American Taxpaying Citizen (as well as a wuss) who actually allowed this possible crime be commited right under my nose. And that is something I do care about.
well said... very well said. It's funny how quite often we don't 'see' people when they need us... but we 'see' what's in their trollies. If people had their eyes so open when it comes to abuse, neglect, starvation, etc. the world would be a wonderful place and nobody would ever suffer.
Some of you are just so negative all the time and see the bad in people that you don't even know... but you've judged them to be doing bad stuff :roll: it's boring! Get over yourselves and your high horses.
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Wow.
From what i've read here... it sounds like the only smart people are the ones who can get all of these great services and products for free. I mean... FREE health care, brand new BMWs, jewelry... sounds like the American dream, to me.
And from the originating post... I never did find out if those people paid for the 5 carts briming over with the bounty of whole foods... with food stamps. Did they?
Or did they just look like bums... like the way I look when I go to the grocery store? I don't know, i just never seem to feel the need to get dressed up or drag a comb through my stringy hair, just to go down to the Ralph's to pick up my groceries. And yeah... I sleep in late on the weekends and sometimes am so damn lazy... I just throw a pair of shorts over my pajama pants, pull a 'not too smelly' t-shirt over my head, lace up them nasty boots and head out. I'm very scary. I guess... i really don't care what I look like. Now... i'm going to wonder if people are looking at me... and my shopping cart and that bottle of Napa Valley Chardonnay in it. Oh well... fuck 'em.
I don't know why I never see these people... maybe I'm just oblivious to what's going on... or maybe I don't concern myself with things other people are doing.
...
But... I'll tell you one thing for certain... If I knew of or saw someone pushing 2 carts of food that they paid for with 'Hundreds of Dollars' in Food Stamps to load up in a 2010 7 Series BMW... I'd take down their license plate number and send it into the government agency in charge of handing out the food stamps with a letter, explaining my concern that these people were using resources that should be going to someone who really does need our assistance... like that guy that sleeps on Fairfax every night. I feel it would be my duty to the American taxpayers to report such suspected criminal activity. If i didn't... I would feel like i was being a bad American Taxpaying Citizen (as well as a wuss) who actually allowed this possible crime be commited right under my nose. And that is something I do care about.
well said... very well said. It's funny how quite often we don't 'see' people when they need us... but we 'see' what's in their trollies. If people had their eyes so open when it comes to abuse, neglect, starvation, etc. the world would be a wonderful place and nobody would ever suffer.
Some of you are just so negative all the time and see the bad in people that you don't even know... but you've judged them to be doing bad stuff :roll: it's boring! Get over yourselves and your high horses.
if someone owns their own "trollie," i'd suspect they are doing quite fine without my assistance, thank you.
Wow.
From what i've read here... it sounds like the only smart people are the ones who can get all of these great services and products for free. I mean... FREE health care, brand new BMWs, jewelry... sounds like the American dream, to me.
And from the originating post... I never did find out if those people paid for the 5 carts briming over with the bounty of whole foods... with food stamps. Did they?
Or did they just look like bums... like the way I look when I go to the grocery store? I don't know, i just never seem to feel the need to get dressed up or drag a comb through my stringy hair, just to go down to the Ralph's to pick up my groceries. And yeah... I sleep in late on the weekends and sometimes am so damn lazy... I just throw a pair of shorts over my pajama pants, pull a 'not too smelly' t-shirt over my head, lace up them nasty boots and head out. I'm very scary. I guess... i really don't care what I look like. Now... i'm going to wonder if people are looking at me... and my shopping cart and that bottle of Napa Valley Chardonnay in it. Oh well... fuck 'em.
I don't know why I never see these people... maybe I'm just oblivious to what's going on... or maybe I don't concern myself with things other people are doing.
...
But... I'll tell you one thing for certain... If I knew of or saw someone pushing 2 carts of food that they paid for with 'Hundreds of Dollars' in Food Stamps to load up in a 2010 7 Series BMW... I'd take down their license plate number and send it into the government agency in charge of handing out the food stamps with a letter, explaining my concern that these people were using resources that should be going to someone who really does need our assistance... like that guy that sleeps on Fairfax every night. I feel it would be my duty to the American taxpayers to report such suspected criminal activity. If i didn't... I would feel like i was being a bad American Taxpaying Citizen (as well as a wuss) who actually allowed this possible crime be commited right under my nose. And that is something I do care about.
well said... very well said. It's funny how quite often we don't 'see' people when they need us... but we 'see' what's in their trollies. If people had their eyes so open when it comes to abuse, neglect, starvation, etc. the world would be a wonderful place and nobody would ever suffer.
Some of you are just so negative all the time and see the bad in people that you don't even know... but you've judged them to be doing bad stuff :roll: it's boring! Get over yourselves and your high horses.
if someone owns their own "trollie," i'd suspect they are doing quite fine without my assistance, thank you.
:? huh? I'm guessing you don't understand what a 'trollY' (trollies plural) is? People don't own them... you borrow them, fill them with stuff that you're planning on owning and then leave them where you got them. If someone owns their own trolly they'd be a shop.
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if someone owns their own "trollie," i'd suspect they are doing quite fine without my assistance, thank you.
:? huh? I'm guessing you don't understand what a 'trollY' (trollies plural) is? People don't own them... you borrow them, fill them with stuff that you're planning on owning and then leave them where you got them. If someone owns their own trolly they'd be a shop.
not sure about you. but i own 3 trollies and they are each parked in my driveway right now.
Maybe english isn't your first language. Let me help Trolly=Cart. Or grocery cart if you still aren't getting it. Then again maybe you were just being sarcastic but it certainly came off differently.
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Maybe english isn't your first language. Let me help Trolly=Cart. Or grocery cart if you still aren't getting it. Then again maybe you were just being sarcastic but it certainly came off differently.
:? huh? I'm guessing you don't understand what a 'trollY' (trollies plural) is? People don't own them... you borrow them, fill them with stuff that you're planning on owning and then leave them where you got them. If someone owns their own trolly they'd be a shop.
not sure about you. but i own 3 trollies and they are each parked in my driveway right now.
:? weirdo!
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Thanks Horos... I know... but nobody translates to make things easier for us so I thought maybe he'd figure it out... shoulda know better
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no. but sometimes i drive by soup kitchens on the way so i will pick up homeless people from time to time and drop them off. it's a very rewarding experience.
god damn it. my trolley would not start today so i had to take the bus to work. :x
Hmmm... did you try pushing it? Usually works
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god damn it. my trolley would not start today so i had to take the bus to work. :x
Hmmm... did you try pushing it? Usually works
no. the engine would not start. it's just sitting out in my drive way (where we park our cars in america).
anyone know a good trolley guy?
your trollies have engines????????????? :shock: Supermarkets must be super scary places in America
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Trust me, they had money. If not, maybe they should have considered selling their brand new BMWs or Lexus's that they pushed their carts out to and loaded up. They were well dressed and well educated by their manorism. It was also the mid-90s. The economy was far from bad.
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I live in Rochester, Michigan. Google it. You'll see its affluent, but if I live here, not all have money...LOL!!!
Trust me, they had money. If not, maybe they should have considered selling their brand new BMWs or Lexus's that they pushed their carts out to and loaded up. They were well dressed and well educated by their manorism. It was also the mid-90s. The economy was far from bad.
There needs to education implemented with these programs to ensure that they are used not abused, and ramifcations for those who do decide to abuse the system. I also believe that feeding your children on a diet that is high is salt, fat and sugars constitutes child abuse...they are failing to provide the necessties.
It is actually cheaper to buy healthy foods. The benefits far out way the convenience. The food tastes better, it looks better, it's healthy, and it keeps more people out of public hospitals and there saves $$$$$ in the long run.
I felt like saying, yeah, guess where I’m going, TO WORK to earn money to pay my bills.
I was not a happy camper by the time I got to work that morning.
But i look at it this way, I accomplish good things in my job and I help people and that gives me pride. I'd rather that than be handed everything.
but it's still frustrating.
You should have.
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From what i've read here... it sounds like the only smart people are the ones who can get all of these great services and products for free. I mean... FREE health care, brand new BMWs, jewelry... sounds like the American dream, to me.
And from the originating post... I never did find out if those people paid for the 5 carts briming over with the bounty of whole foods... with food stamps. Did they?
Or did they just look like bums... like the way I look when I go to the grocery store? I don't know, i just never seem to feel the need to get dressed up or drag a comb through my stringy hair, just to go down to the Ralph's to pick up my groceries. And yeah... I sleep in late on the weekends and sometimes am so damn lazy... I just throw a pair of shorts over my pajama pants, pull a 'not too smelly' t-shirt over my head, lace up them nasty boots and head out. I'm very scary. I guess... i really don't care what I look like. Now... i'm going to wonder if people are looking at me... and my shopping cart and that bottle of Napa Valley Chardonnay in it. Oh well... fuck 'em.
I don't know why I never see these people... maybe I'm just oblivious to what's going on... or maybe I don't concern myself with things other people are doing.
...
But... I'll tell you one thing for certain... If I knew of or saw someone pushing 2 carts of food that they paid for with 'Hundreds of Dollars' in Food Stamps to load up in a 2010 7 Series BMW... I'd take down their license plate number and send it into the government agency in charge of handing out the food stamps with a letter, explaining my concern that these people were using resources that should be going to someone who really does need our assistance... like that guy that sleeps on Fairfax every night. I feel it would be my duty to the American taxpayers to report such suspected criminal activity. If i didn't... I would feel like i was being a bad American Taxpaying Citizen (as well as a wuss) who actually allowed this possible crime be commited right under my nose. And that is something I do care about.
Hail, Hail!!!
Although my sister is a super shopper, filled her trolly over Christmas for about 100euro... including about half of it was meat... things are now much cheaper at home than here in England.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
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'we' always tend to pick on the wrong people and blame the wrong people for everything. It wasn't people on welfare who got us into this mess... but they'll probably suffer.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Some of you are just so negative all the time and see the bad in people that you don't even know... but you've judged them to be doing bad stuff :roll: it's boring! Get over yourselves and your high horses.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
if someone owns their own "trollie," i'd suspect they are doing quite fine without my assistance, thank you.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
not sure about you. but i own 3 trollies and they are each parked in my driveway right now.
you english people need to learn english.
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Thanks Horos... I know... but nobody translates to make things easier for us so I thought maybe he'd figure it out... shoulda know better
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
no. but sometimes i drive by soup kitchens on the way so i will pick up homeless people from time to time and drop them off. it's a very rewarding experience.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
no. the engine would not start. it's just sitting out in my drive way (where we park our cars in america).
anyone know a good trolley guy?
Verona??? it's all surmountable
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Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
buying food stamps.
good stuff.
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