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The thing is, if you have a half a brain in your head you can eat well even when on a budget or food stamps. I was laid off for a year in 2008 and I still ate plenty of fruits, vegetables and meat, even though money was really tight. If you coupon, look for buy-one-get-one deals, make the most of weekly specials and don't waste your money on crap, you can actually eat very healthfully. For example, at my grocery store a bag of Lay's potato chips is $3.99 while bags of frozen store-brand vegetables are a dollar each. So you could get four bags of a healthy food for what you would pay for one bag of a junk food and it would last much longer.
When you're smart with what money you have, you can make it stretch pretty far.
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The thing is, many on welfare are on drugs (not I didn't say all) but it's a full time job finding the next fix. Only if they would put that much effort into finding and holding a job.
Yes she was. But she was standing there on July 2nd, 2008, 6 years ago when GW Bush was still president. That's when that report aired. The food stamp program has changed dramatically since then. In fact congress cut some funding for the program a little more than a year ago. Kept the subsidies for agribusiness but cut the food to the poor.
The OP put up a duplicitous video designed to deceive. Want's us to think it's current. By today's standards, it's ancient history.
The thing is, many on welfare are on drugs (not I didn't say all) but it's a full time job finding the next fix. Only if they would put that much effort into finding and holding a job.
Finding a job would be too hard because then how could they get their fix in?
Yeah, bull****. I always love that right wing argument, in which they regularly see or know someone who dines on lobster while driving a luxury car on social assistance .
As usual .. uniformed I see.
There was a huge story on Surfer Dude who was doing just that.
Eating lobster and surfing .. no job!
He had no problem telling the world how he uses the system and .. I'm sure that he is not alone!
Funny you should say that when the unfree housing market is a major driver of food stamp eligibility.
It's based on income available after taxes, housing and out-of-pocket medical expenses. Homeowners generlly have not noticed that rents have soared tge ast few years in much of the country.
Because of outrage from the public, the state finally took her card away.
Yes she was. But she was standing there on July 2nd, 2008, 6 years ago when GW Bush was still president. That's when that report aired. The food stamp program has changed dramatically since then. In fact congress cut some funding for the program a little more than a year ago. Kept the subsidies for agribusiness but cut the food to the poor.
The OP put up a duplicitous video designed to deceive. Want's us to think it's current. By today's standards, it's ancient history.
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Uh huh. So if thats true.....why do you complain about them paying high taxes then?
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