She paid for her groceries with food stamps.

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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    Of course it's your business. It's your tax dollars that are paying for it. I'm not against anyone needing help. But with the country being as poor as it is, food stamps should be regulated. Getting just enough to divide it by 4 weeks and feed your family for the week on low costing groceries. That would also give people more incentive to get out there and make more money. Why go look for a job when you can eat steak and crab legs for free?
    perhaps one meal (perhaps) of crab legs & steak is enough to piss ppl off?
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    we're still in america where if you wanna buy crab legs with your food card & it is fully legal how can I tell someone to eat bologna or perch or carp or hotdogs or shit & urine
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    They are regulated. One has a fixed amount to buy food. Not alcohol, not cigarettes - food. That's what this person was doing. Not a very balanced diet but if she prefers to buy steak instead of fresh fruit and veg for the same amount of money, it's her business -it's food.
  • QuarterToTen
    QuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,651
    Sad to say, we reward bad behavior in this country. We facilitate people's existence by paying them
    not to work. The abuse of the system is rampant and becoming more and more blatant.

    If I didn't have a mortgage, have to buy food or pay for insurance, all from my own pocket,
    I could eat filet mignon every night too.

    Seems a bit counter productive.
    Nice shirt.
  • OnTheEdge
    OnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    chadwick wrote:
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    Of course it's your business. It's your tax dollars that are paying for it. I'm not against anyone needing help. But with the country being as poor as it is, food stamps should be regulated. Getting just enough to divide it by 4 weeks and feed your family for the week on low costing groceries. That would also give people more incentive to get out there and make more money. Why go look for a job when you can eat steak and crab legs for free?
    perhaps one meal (perhaps) of crab legs & steak is enough to piss ppl off?


    I hear ya. The only problem is there are many many stories just like this one.
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    How do foodstamps work? Could she have been shopping for someone else?
    her disabled mother, yes/no?


    Even if she is shopping for someone else should that person be able to eat better than me when I work 15 hours a day? Obviously if someone is buying crab legs with their foodstamps they are getting too much.

    But please, keep defending your wel-fare president, it's quite entertaining :corn:

    so is listening to the words of the (self) righteous.
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • OnTheEdge
    OnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    so is listening to the words of the (self) righteous

    Wow. Still bothering you that I believe in God huh? Get over it!
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    so is listening to the words of the (self) righteous

    Wow. Still bothering you that I believe in God huh? Get over it!

    no one's beliefs bother me. my wife is catholic. only hypocrisy bothers me.
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • donnaruhl
    donnaruhl Posts: 2,157
    It must have been for a special occasion.One she probably couldn't afford otherwise.
    Maybe she couldn't afford a gift,so a dinner is what she could supply. I'm sure it set her back
    a dinner or two.Don't think for one minute that it's a walk in the park to hold your head up
    while slipping through the crack's of society. And when you're on assistance,That's exactly where you stay.
    Because the government only give's you enough to keep you from falling Between. Those who speak poorly
    of,Or stand in judgment of,Are those who have never been. Oh! and don't forget to give to the true homeless person on the corner Because You my friend could one day, Be one paycheck away from sharing that same corner with your own little sign. Where has compassion gone?
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    donnaruhl wrote:
    It must have been for a special occasion.One she probably couldn't afford otherwise.
    Maybe she couldn't afford a gift,so a dinner is what she could supply. I'm sure it set her back
    a dinner or two.Don't think for one minute that it's a walk in the park to hold your head up
    while slipping through the crack's of society. And when you're on assistance,That's exactly where you stay.
    Because the government only give's you enough to keep you from falling Between. Those who speak poorly
    of,Or stand in judgment of,Are those who have never been. Oh! and don't forget to give to the true homeless person on the corner Because You my friend could one day, Be one paycheck away from sharing that same corner with your own little sign. Where has compassion gone?
    i was homeless a few times and bounced between couches. slept in my car, slept in a baseball field's dugout & had no idea what was going on other than I am in deep shit but it's ok because I like deep shit & I cannot die so fuck you my sorry ass life. i'll sleep somewhere & eat vitamins. what time is it?
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    donnaruhl wrote:
    It must have been for a special occasion.One she probably couldn't afford otherwise.
    Maybe she couldn't afford a gift,so a dinner is what she could supply. I'm sure it set her back
    a dinner or two.Don't think for one minute that it's a walk in the park to hold your head up
    while slipping through the crack's of society. And when you're on assistance,That's exactly where you stay.
    Because the government only give's you enough to keep you from falling Between. Those who speak poorly
    of,Or stand in judgment of,Are those who have never been. Oh! and don't forget to give to the true homeless person on the corner Because You my friend could one day, Be one paycheck away from sharing that same corner with your own little sign. Where has compassion gone?

    :clap:
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Wow. She paid for groceries with food stamps. Get a load of that. She's taking advantage of the system because she wants to eat. And then I can cast assumptions, judgment and full on hate when I know absolutely nothing about her. That - right there - says a lot about a person in itself. Those are the people I avoid when I go out in public because I'm disabled and I need to eat as well.
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,946
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Wow. She paid for groceries with food stamps. Get a load of that. She's taking advantage of the system because she wants to eat. And then I can cast assumptions, judgment and full on hate when I know absolutely nothing about her. That - right there - says a lot about a person in itself. Those are the people I avoid when I go out in public because I'm disabled and I need to eat as well.
    She is milking the system.
    No doubt in my mind.
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Wow. She paid for groceries with food stamps. Get a load of that. She's taking advantage of the system because she wants to eat. And then I can cast assumptions, judgment and full on hate when I know absolutely nothing about her. That - right there - says a lot about a person in itself. Those are the people I avoid when I go out in public because I'm disabled and I need to eat as well.
    She is milking the system.
    No doubt in my mind.

    always a good idea to pass judgment when knowing virtually nothing about a situation, eh?
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • badbrains
    badbrains Posts: 10,255
    Here's a different view....You guys ever hear of people who BUY food stamps from others at a massively reduced price. Then they go and buy all the food they want. So it's kind of like flipping. Bunch of food stamp flippers in the real world. Mite be something like that..... :corn:
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    badbrains wrote:
    Here's a different view....You guys ever hear of people who BUY food stamps from others at a massively reduced price. Then they go and buy all the food they want. So it's kind of like flipping. Bunch of food stamp flippers in the real world. Mite be something like that..... :corn:
    I love I mean love corruption. I find corruption fascinating. not that it all is good... no.

    corruption gives many an erection
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    chadwick wrote:
    badbrains wrote:
    Here's a different view....You guys ever hear of people who BUY food stamps from others at a massively reduced price. Then they go and buy all the food they want. So it's kind of like flipping. Bunch of food stamp flippers in the real world. Mite be something like that..... :corn:
    I love I mean love corruption. I find corruption fascinating. not that it all is good... no.

    corruption gives many an erection

    You must love politicians, then? :lol:
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,946
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Wow. She paid for groceries with food stamps. Get a load of that. She's taking advantage of the system because she wants to eat. And then I can cast assumptions, judgment and full on hate when I know absolutely nothing about her. That - right there - says a lot about a person in itself. Those are the people I avoid when I go out in public because I'm disabled and I need to eat as well.
    She is milking the system.
    No doubt in my mind.

    always a good idea to pass judgment when knowing virtually nothing about a situation, eh?
    She is milking the system.
    No doubt in my mind.
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • OnTheEdge
    OnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    so is listening to the words of the (self) righteous

    Wow. Still bothering you that I believe in God huh? Get over it!

    no one's beliefs bother me. my wife is catholic. only hypocrisy bothers me.

    ok. thanks for the clarification. feel free to point out where i'm being a hypocrit.
  • OnTheEdge
    OnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    donnaruhl wrote:
    It must have been for a special occasion.One she probably couldn't afford otherwise.
    Maybe she couldn't afford a gift,so a dinner is what she could supply. I'm sure it set her back
    a dinner or two.Don't think for one minute that it's a walk in the park to hold your head up
    while slipping through the crack's of society. And when you're on assistance,That's exactly where you stay.
    Because the government only give's you enough to keep you from falling Between. Those who speak poorly
    of,Or stand in judgment of,Are those who have never been. Oh! and don't forget to give to the true homeless person on the corner Because You my friend could one day, Be one paycheck away from sharing that same corner with your own little sign. Where has compassion gone?

    That's a good assumption. But thats exactly what it is. It's just as easy to assume she's ripping off the system as it is to think maybe it's legit because we don't know her and we shouldn't cast judgement. Regardless, we know it's a corrupt system and many people abuse it therefore hurting the entire country or maybe making it harder for people that really need it. I'll try to blame the system and not the abuser in this case.

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