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Unless Tea party House Republicans are computers...they aren't are they?
Yes you liberals always blame anyone and everyone and now a STATE computer for the failings of the federal government. It is right here on display in this thread how pathetic you folks really are. Unreal is all I say and all you say is...............who else can we blame.
You can be on Social Security and "welfare". And most older people are indeed on both.
Tell me you don't really believe that and are just being contrary so I don't have to tell you how ignorant a statement that is. Better yet, post your source.
From the Washington Post, Sep. 18, 2012, "Last year, about 29 percent of households received Medicare benefits and 31.6 percent received Social Security. Meanwhile, about 32 million households, or 27.1 percent, benefited from at least one means-tested poverty program."
All those percentages are well beneath "most." I don't know what kind of area you live in but where we live we've yet to know one senior on welfare and being seniors ourselves, we know a lot of them.
It is possible to get jobs through temp agencies that pay at the end of each day. One could try to find some yard work or such walking around the neighborhood, babysit, etc.
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Originally Posted by dsjj251
poor 99 year old grandma, i guess she just needs to get off her #%$ and get a job instead of laying around the house all day.
"Meals on Wheels" or a food pantry. Call a local church for assistance. At 99 years old if she is still living in her home, this is one wise grandma that will know how to survive!
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Originally Posted by Ghostly1
I feel somewhat sorry for those who depend on SNAP to feed their families and the grocery industry as well. When the card doesn't go through that's a lot of restocks that have to be made and remember, not everyone on SNAP is unemployed. Many are minimum wage and under-employed.
This has to be embarrassing for those whose cards are rejected due to the computer glitch and devastating for the parents who were, say, picking up a birthday cake and a few other items for a modest party for a young child who had invited a few friends over for their birthday.
I've been the working poor without SNAP and welfare benefits. I decorated my son's birthday cake, made from scratch (flour, eggs, vanilla, etc) and usually put animal crackers on it. I have the photos. He never knew the difference, never knew we had any less than anyone else. He made Lt. Colonel on October 1 at age 36!!! I guess it didn't give him an inferiority complex.
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Originally Posted by malamute
Yeah sure -- a $40 store bought birthday cake when the working people buy a $1 box of cake mix or make a cake from scratch.
Now the welfare crowd can see what the rest of us go through.
This is actually true though. We have all seen them buying the items that we passed up in order to make our dollar go further. Now, the only time I see someone shop wisely is when they are smart and have been laid off. They shop the first weekend and buy enough basics for the month, anything left over is spent the last couple of days.
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Originally Posted by jimazee
In this economy
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Originally Posted by malamute
Yes, haven't you heard? Obama fixed the economy with his bailouts and Obamacare. I know that because the liberals say he did.
Jobs are actually quite plentiful now -- there's no excuse any more not to work.
That was my thought. There are jobs, maybe the greatest and highest paying but many of us started out that way. Three years ago when my husband was laid off, he ended up working at Wal-Mart in janitorial, not his field but still helped to pay the bills.
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Originally Posted by theunbrainwashed
I don't know how many times I have to say this until it sinks into your collective heads. You can never have 0% unemployment without implementing socialist policies like price controls or having a socialist economy like Cuba's. You need unemployment in order to keep inflation in check. The most optimum unemployment rate is 3%-4%. So, you're always going to have people that don't have money for food. Get it through your collective thick skulls, unless you guys are willing to embrace socialism, which I doubt you will. Otherwise, get a clue, all of you. Welfare is here to stay, whether in the form of EBT or jailing hungry criminals and providing them with 3 meals a day anyway, at taxpayer expense.
You can darn close. Two things: 1. Cut welfare benefits 2. E-verify. Many with their SNAP cards don't want to do menial labor and why bother when welfare pays as good or better?
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Originally Posted by Chimuelojones
for all those not in the know...Food stamps existed before Obama and will exist after Obama is gone.
Crapping on Obama for food stamps is freaking insane.
Seriously, there is a whole list of things to "crap" on Obama about. Like, many of these un and under employed are in that position because of his Affordable Health Care Act, not but they may be able to land a part-time temp job still and put food on the table.
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Originally Posted by dsjj251
You can be on Social Security and "welfare". And most older people are indeed on both.
I don't think most older people are on both. Actually none that I knew/know are.
Can you imagine? Obvoiusly there is that option and millions of illegals coming over the border have no trouble finding work although it might not be the highest paying jobs they find. You would think that if it came down to feeding their kids or even buying them a birthday cake, they'd at least consider doing some work.
Its very difficult to get a job especially if you are over 50.
I read a recent study re over 50 unemployment. Basically if you are unemployed for more than a year it doesn't matter who you are, where you went to school, how many degrees that you might have, whatever your field and previous job title your chance of finding a job is 10% or less.
People who have not looked for a job in the past 10-15 years have absolutely no idea whats involved in looking for a job and just how competitive the job market is today.
"That's a problem. There's a lot of families who are not going to be able to feed children because the system is being maintenanced," Colman said. "No one should put maintenance in during the daytime."
My God! How unprepared and stupid are these food stamp people, anyway? How on earth can one 'not feed their children' because of the free food system being down for a few hours?
If they're that freaking dependent on the government, I don't want them anywhere near me!
Dude, pay closer attention. Nobody here said that.
Backtrack all you want tunaman. You claimed "hey aren't foodstamps a state run thing" bla bla bla or something along those lines? YES you did. So go give some tuna to some starving kid in your state and pat yourself on the back..............I mean all you libbies do is care about the children right..........unless you have to defend Obama then you blame everyone and everything else. Pathetic lot you are.
My God! How unprepared and stupid are these food stamp people, anyway? How on earth can one 'not feed their children' because of the free food system being down for a few hours?
If they're that freaking dependent on the government, I don't want them anywhere near me!
These are the people who voted for Obama and folks wonder why our country is in the situation it's in.
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