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Did you not read what I posted? I called it budgeting, not allocating, but it's the same thing. I make sure I have enough food for the whole month and if I want to buy shrimp, which is going to make me short before the end of the month, then I eat something else that's cheaper for a week so I can afford to buy the shrimp. The state made the decision that I was eligible for food stamps, but it's my responsibility to make sure I have enough food for the month and how I do that is neither yours nor anyone else's business, as long as it gets done.
You make sure you have enough food for the month, until your food stamp benefits become available again.
That means that YOU cannot afford groceries. The taxpayers can, and they are nice enough (or have no choice but) to load more money on your card again next month.
Again, YOU cannot afford to buy shrimp. You don't have enough money to buy your own food without help. That is supposed to mean that you can't even afford Ramen noodles or peanut butter and jelly to last yourself a whole month without any assistance. Therefore, NO, you CANNOT afford shrimp, since shrimp is expensive and does not give you the most bang for your buck.
It means that you should be buying the cheapest nutritional food that you can. Your food stamp benefits SHOULD have an expiration date, so you should be preparing instead of living it up after "budgeting" money that isn't even yours in the first place.
Unfortunately, you will probably be eating shrimp and London broil off of the taxpayers' dime for the rest of your life, when you should be eating tuna, Ramen and PB&J. Or nothing after 6 months, if it were up to me, since it is no one else's responsibility to feed you but your own.
To sit their and turn up your nose at those who have kids they "shouldn't", and punish the children by not providing them with social services doesn't help the problem. At all. It just makes you judgmental and acting like you're better than. It doesn't help anyone it even the problem at hand.
I actually found the writer of this article guilty of plenty of less than stellar personality traits.
There are jobs. Fast food places, factories, etc. are pretty much hiring all the time. Plus, how can we have more jobs, more businesses, more industry and more opportunity when the liberals do everything that they can to cut businesses down? "Rich people" and "corporations" are bad, but who do you think creates jobs? I guess we're supposed to be all about the poor people, who do absolutely nothing for society other than leach off society.
And who do you think is working at fast food restaurants and factories, checking you out at the grocery store, the gas station? THE POOR! Oh wait, they're nothing but a leach on society - so how can they have a job? Hmmm, I guess you'll have to think about that for a minute....
You all get so mad about your money this, your money that. Well I don't want my money going to finance war and death, the killing of innocent people, and making weapons that cause cancer and birth defects. That's not what I want done with my money. But in this country you don't get a choice about taxes or where they go. If I have to suck it up, so do you.
And who do you think is working at fast food restaurants and factories, checking you out at the grocery store, the gas station? THE POOR! Oh wait, they're nothing but a leach on society - so how can they have a job? Hmmm, I guess you'll have to think about that for a minute....
You all get so mad about your money this, your money that. Well I don't want my money going to finance war and death, the killing of innocent people, and making weapons that cause cancer and birth defects. That's not what I want done with my money. But in this country you don't get a choice about taxes or where they go. If I have to suck it up, so do you.
It's not quite that bleak ..... we could vote in more elected leaders who would do what we wanted with our tax dollars.
Air conditioning is a luxury. Electric lights are a luxury. A car is a luxury. A microwave is a luxury. A tv is a luxury. I guess us poor people should just walk barefoot everywhere and eat rice in the dark with our hands so it will be easier to identify us.
If you didn't spend money on air conditioning, a car, a microwave oven, and or a TV, perhaps you would have money to purchase shoes and utensils?
Why should others be required/obligated to take care of you?
I think it is truly wonderful when we do, from the goodness of our respective and collective hearts, look after and assist those less fortunate. But, why should anyone be required/obligated to take care of you?
If you didn't spend money on air conditioning, a car, a microwave oven, and or a TV, perhaps you would have money to purchase shoes and utensils?
Why should others be required/obligated to take care of you?
I think it is truly wonderful when we do, from the goodness of our respective and collective hearts, look after and assist those less fortunate. But, why should anyone be required/obligated to take care of you?
Way to miss the point dude. It's called hyperbole.
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