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I recall seeing that chain letter a few years ago, so at best, the receipt is photoshopped in that regard.
i wonder if i qualify for food stamps?
oh well even if i did i doubt i could bring myself to apply
I guess you don't know anything about whats going on in this country or how food stamps came to be.
Originally the proposal for food stamps only included basic items like rice, pasta, cooking oils, etc. However, big agriculture lobbied hard, and threatened to oppose food stamps. They cried that with poor people only able to buy low profit items (of course they didn't put it that way) that they would lose business since people would subsitute food stamp foods for what they were currently buying.
Every time someone makes the suggestion to limit what people can buy on food stamps, big agriculture screams bloody murder.
Search the web and you will see plenty of proposals for just a set of basic foods for food stamps.
how is it wrong? first off, you can't do it all the time because it's too expensive to do. also, the reason why people are often on food stamps is because they work too much. they get shitty dead-end jobs to support their kids and not enough time and energy to cook or clean because of how much they need to work to make ends meet. they're getting nickeled and dimed.
According to your logic, people should be able to use food stamps to dine at four-star restaurants.
Think about that.
My sister's sister in law gets $900/month in food stamps, which she sells to buy pot. She also lives in government assisted housing. She gets a free cell phone from the government. This woman is also on welfare. She hasn't worked for as long as my sister has known her, recently bought a 42" LCD TV, she has two kids.
Gotta love the entitlement mentality and a government that rewards that mentality.
My sister's sister in law gets $900/month in food stamps, which she sells to buy pot. She also lives in government assisted housing. She gets a free cell phone from the government. This woman is also on welfare. She hasn't worked for as long as my sister has known her, recently bought a 42" LCD TV, she has two kids.
Gotta love the entitlement mentality and a government that rewards that mentality.
go ahead and apply, you don't have to be dirt poor to get food stamps - the worst that can happen is you won't get approved
The problems is people shouldn't be given food stamps in the first place.
Give them a bologna sandwich and a pack of ramen noodles and call it a day.
but then i will owe people something and i don't like owing people something
lol your sister-in-law must know my sister by that description...
Actual comment regarding purchase of T.V. from my sister and brother-in-law
ME: Hey I see you got a new 47 inch LCD tv...isn't James still off from work (going on 4 months at this point)
SISTER: Yah...
ME: So how do you afford a T.V.??? A Wii??? and a PS3??? AND a new DELL Laptop???
SISTER: The deal was too good to pass up on the T.V., we saw it and had to have it...it WAS a close out so we got it super cheap...plus we got like a 100 best buy points...
ME: Interesting...SO...who paid for all this renovation to the house you are living in for free...I mean you ARE the one responsible for maintaining the house right?
SISTER: Oh...dad bought all the stuff...he is pissing us off because we have been WAITING on him to get to work on it...
ME: ...........
"Hey! I know people who game the system when receiving government assistance!"
"Hey! I know people who abide by the rules when receiving government assistance!"
See, anecdotes are phun.
My sister's sister in law gets $900/month in food stamps, which she sells to buy pot. She also lives in government assisted housing. She gets a free cell phone from the government. This woman is also on welfare. She hasn't worked for as long as my sister has known her, recently bought a 42" LCD TV, she has two kids.
Gotta love the entitlement mentality and a government that rewards that mentality.
The problems is people shouldn't be given food stamps in the first place.
Give them a bologna sandwich and a pack of ramen noodles and call it a day.
$900 a month in food stamps? and she only ahs 2 kids? yeah..not buying it.
I heard it from my sister while speaking with her on the phone 3-4 weeks ago. I have no way of verifying the amount, but I know she did say $900 because it stuck to to me as a lot of money.
A quick search shows: http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/foodshare/fpl.htm
What if they don't get mailed their cards in time?Make all cards scan electronically, and just like health saving accounts attach limits to what can be had.
Won't happen because Al Sharpton will come to the rescue, along with the usual suspects.
