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There is a specific listing of foods allowed to be purchased and many, many not allowed including tobacco/alcohol.....but the amount of food stamps given out is very very limited and tough to get.....so a shopper ( especially in poor neighborhoods with poor grocerery stores) are not likely to obtain lobster.....
Wally world sell lobster...do you actually GO to supermarkets????
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nor would they choose to, as it is so expensive that they would be unable to buy the items they desperatly needed to buy for their families as all the month worth of value was used up on the lobster.
Well obviously someone did...
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This abuse came about through typical fraud and shouldn't have occured...but does on occasion.
No,the fraud was trying to sell the food afterwards....otherwise it was perfectly legal.
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But anti-poverty people LOVE to jump all over these ridiculous abuses to make themselves look superior.
No,just pointing out a system easily gamed to those who do not seem to know much of anything about the system...
Its called a single payer option that everyone will have to contribute to as a government option that keeps costs low like our very successful Medicare system.
Small point but everyone does not have to contribute,only those who can afford to do....the 'poor' would not.
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Public schools educated everyone for a very long time and still do, up until the radical right makes it impossible and leaves us with ignorance galore.
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Shelter is still being worked on....but we have a bunch of old military bases that already have basic housing tht could be turned into homless housing....Basic needs...hmmm food, shelter, education, health care. That should cover it
I think you missed my point,the 'poor' have ALL that...RIGHT NOW.
And they didn't..they specifically said "moderate poor".
The absolute poor, the destitute are NOT part of this.
These are moderate poor, poor relative to the middle class.
These are probably poor that "could" exist without government help but would have to cut back and watch their pennies.
It's the government's definition of poor that includes too far of a range.
Very similar to how $250K is lumped in with $200Million as being "rich".
There is a compromising middle ground....you and I are very similar in our views. Moderate poor.....lower middle class.....could be the same thing or next door neighbors. Most could and would choose to always make it on their own, but off and on in peoples lives unforseen tradgedy happens and temporary help is needed....be it food, education, transporation, safety, housing, (the list goes on). Government programs were designed and built on this being the case. Temporary help that morphed into generational welfare for a couple decades became a problem....but this was stopped by Prez Clinton. as well as stopped in I think...all the states. Some kept more programs than others, others dropped many programs feeling as though they were too much. The governments position of what constitutes poverty isn't really wrong, its probably actually too low in this economy but something we all have to deal with. But more and more people are one or two paychecks away from extreme distress even homelessness. Granted many due to bad decisions, but many more due to extreme bad breaks that gave them no recourse.
I agree with the 250 being too low to be millionaire as well.
WELFARE recipients get "welfare" (CASH) and FOOD STAMPS. Both are distributed through the "ACCESS" CARD. (This CARD has a different name in each state.)
FOOD STAMP recipients get FOOD STAMPS on their CARD. If they do not also have WELFARE, they don't get any CASH.
Welfare comes in more ways than a cash benefit. If you are getting Food Stamps/WIC, you are getting welfare. If you are on Medicaid you are receiving welfare. People will look you straight in the eye and tell they are not getting welfare if they are not receiving cash from the government. Anything you receive from Social Services is welfare.
People have been known to die in apartments during heat waves. A huge percentage of the poor are elderly. A/C isn't a luxury in most states, it's a necessity for life.
Psst,A/C was virtually unknown back a few decades....
Welfare comes in more ways than a cash benefit. If you are getting Food Stamps/WIC, you are getting welfare. If you are on Medicaid you are receiving welfare. People will look you straight in the eye and tell they are not getting welfare if they are not receiving cash from the government. Anything you receive from Social Services is welfare.
If it is a system that doesn't require a person to pay into it before receiving payments it is welfare...at least in my opinion.
There is a copy of the one fraud case that cost the taxpayers $149.00.....oooooooohhhhhhhh........those horrible poor people. Now, lets see Countrywide Mortgages cost us ????? in just one illegal mortgage bundling deal?
There is a copy of the one fraud case that cost the taxpayers $149.00.....oooooooohhhhhhhh........those horrible poor people. Now, lets see Countrywide Mortgages cost us ????? in just one illegal mortgage bundling deal?
so we should ignore the former because of the latter?
Psst,A/C was virtually unknown back a few decades....
Carry on with the righteous outrage.
It was a little more than a few decades ago. Residential air conditioning took off in the 1950s.
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