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land O'Lakes butter is filled with GMO's from Monsanto now.
fwiw I agree with desertdetroiter and others
Entire premise of thread is based on lies.
I see young girls buy "WIC" items at Kroger, it is all basic carbs. People need help and I'd rather be in a society that doesnt throw people into the streets.
Its called having empathy and class in a civilization, which the far right lost a long time ago.
Kahlil Gibran - “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
As I remember, WIC: you got peanut butter, cheese, (maybe butter) infant rice cereal, infant formula, certain boxed cereals, and a few other things....How far off am I? (it might have changed some).
I posted this in another thread but I love to post this so i'll do it again:
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Originally Posted by emerald_octane
We should start a new website called "s**t that people w/ foodstamps get that I can't" because I swear everytime one of these topics come up then everyone comes out and starts telling their stories about some lady that was in front of them in the grocery store with a new iphone (always a new iPhone, no other brand) getting into the back of a custom late model sedan or late model luxury SUV (ALWAYS, never a honda). mmhmm...
Yes once I was at WHOLE FOODS and I saw this LADY and her 3 kids buy frozen salmon steaks and imported french wine , paid for with FOOD STAMPS and loaded into the back of her 2013 JAGUAR XJ..umm..SPORT with CUSTOM RACING STRIPES and a license plate that says "PD4BYU".
[kerosene] Oh yes. Did I mention that she was using her iPHONE 4[S] to check whether or not the payment on her AMERICAN EXPRESS PLATINUM..no no..CENTURION CARD had posted yet? Yeah, the one you need to spend $250,000 ANNUALLY on? Yeah she had that one too. Pending payment of $10,000.[/kerosene]
There. Now you all can sit back and mentally stimulate yourselves with this completely true life tale featuring the agony and extacy of welfare fraud...
...Come on folks of course there are incidences of fraud in many cases but lets not make it seem like everyone or even a majority of the ppl on food stamps are gaming the system because that's just not the case. You cannot even get a new car or a whole bunch of stuff (INCLUDING AN iPHONE) at a low rate without decent credit (atleast with ATT; they will make you pay a deposit if your credit is insufficient). I'd wager that most of the folks on food stamps aren't sporting credit scores of 820+ (meaning, no lates, long average credit history over 10+ years, low/no inquiries, low/no balances on revolving accounts, etc). Poor people didn't cause the financial meltdown....
Somehow the same folks complaing that "the foodstampers are eedin' too good" and rage when they seem FS being used at whole foods and trader joes are the very.same.ones that get upset when they're at safeway or something and see FS being used on junk food. Basically, if you're on FS, you can eat, but don't eat better than I do, and since I eat pretty crappy anyway, I would feel better if you just went off and died.
Sorry to get so OT op i just couldn't resist.
My other favorite quote on this, which should apply to the topic in its entirety:
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Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv
It depends. Was she Mexican? Freeloader.
Was she black? 3rd generation freeloader.
Was she white? Well she was down on her luck, of course.
I think many conservatives actually have a pamphlet that describes these situations and how to react accordingly.
Just view food stamps as a monthly allowance from the government that they spend as they wish.
Then you won't angst so much over it.
If the government wanted to limit them to healthy foods they would. Instead we have fast food trying to get into the game.
Food stamps/TANF...it's a monthly allowance to the poor.
Throughout my life I've off and on had someone come in to help me with the housecleaning (since I detest housecleaning - I'd rather get a second job and have someone else do the cleaning, than do it myself). Unfortunately, having someone to help me with the cleaning has always been a torture for me, because I end up feeling guilty that the ladies are so poor, and that they're doing such menial work. The good side is that I am always exceedingly grateful, pick them up from home or wherever they are, drive them back home, pay rather well, and end up giving them extra.
In any case, one of those ladies who helped me was a black lady with 5 kids. Her husband/boyfriend had left her years before, so it was just her and the kids. She was one of the hardest workers I ever met. She cleaned several homes, and was out most of the day. Her daughter remained at home caring for her siblings and her own child. Meanwhile, this lady had to take public transportation to the homes she cleaned. Waiting for the bus wasted a tremendous amount of time. By the time she got home, it was so late, that there was barely any time to prepare meals. It was almost more expedient for her to pick up something from a fast food restaurant than to prepare meals, since preparing meals would cut into her sleeping time, and humans need sleep or they eventually break down physically, mentally, and emotionally.
People who hate the poor don't take into account that those who do menial jobs and have no car, spend a huge amount of their day waiting for public transportation (where there is some - lots of places have none and that requires walking or spending a lot of money on transportation paying others to drive one back and forth, or using those group-taxis available in certain neighborhoods). All that wasted time takes away time from doing the necessary things to upkeep their own home, and prepare foods. In any case, when there's no car and little money, and many jobs are needed, sometimes fast foods is all that can be managed.
I don't know a single state which allows alcohol to be bought with food stamps and I for a fact that the state I am in does not. The claims that people are buying wine or liquor with food stamps are just made up lies.
I don't know a single state which allows alcohol to be bought with food stamps and I for a fact that the state I am in does not. The claims that people are buying wine or liquor with food stamps are just made up lies.
No no. They know you can't get alcohol on food stamps. See everyone who is on food stamps drives an Jaguar and also qualifies for TANF (temporary assistance for needy families). So they walk over to an ATM and pull out the TANF cash and buy booze, crack, and Cambodian child brides. Some registers will let you pull the TANF cash at the register so it's the only difference is that it's two seperate transactions.
Unicorns also fly out of the cashier's rear and escort the welfare recipient to their Jaguar.
No no. They know you can't get alcohol on food stamps. See everyone who is on food stamps drives an Jaguar and also qualifies for TANF (temporary assistance for needy families). So they walk over to an ATM and pull out the TANF cash and buy booze, crack, and Cambodian child brides. Some registers will let you pull the TANF cash at the register so it's the only difference is that it's two seperate transactions.
Unicorns also fly out of the cashier's rear and escort the welfare recipient to their Jaguar.
While in college, I had an internship at a crisis prevention center, and I helped many people apply for gov't assistance. It's virtually impossible to get TANF unless you are pregnant, have a documented mental illness (addiction does not typically count, although can complicate documented disabilities already present in the individual), or have a profound physical disability that prevents you from working. When talking about physical disabilities, I mean that wheelchair bound means you can get a desk job, and are therefor turned down... it's not made easy as many would have you believe.
A lot of these people wept out of embarrassment and disappointment that they were no longer able to support themselves. In fact, many actually talked of the days when they spoke how people whom required gov't assistance as lazy crackheads.
If it makes you feel better, just imagine that my taxes covered this supposed lobster and your's covered the milk.
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