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Lots of people use food banks and such as supplemental food sources. You might be surprised how many of these people are also on SNAP.
I'm calling bunk on your first story. If you were working as a cashier, how did you have time to watch the customers go to their cars after they left? Wouldn't you be taking care of the next customer? I mean, I've heard these stories about Mercedeses and Escalades over and over again. How do you "take money out of the program" and then give it to someone else to buy beer or cigarettes. Isn't it all EBT cards now?
I used to work with low income mothers, lots of them teens. I would have been happy if some of them had bought steaks and such with their (then) food stamps. For the most part, they bought a lot of prepared foods like mac and cheese in a jar, Chefboyardee spaghetti in a can, stuff like that. Many really didn't know how to cook.
I just want to comment that they don't know how to cook and yet they know how to breed children they cannot care for adequately. Says a lot about how broken our culture is.
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Originally Posted by LKJ1988
They used to hunt and fish trish. Let em all die for all i care. No work no food. I can understand if a hard working fam falls on hard times and needs help for a while. But the morons just laying around just need to get real neal and work.
LMAO! I used to work at a grocery store as a cashier, and it really ticked me off to watch people have $400-$800 in food stamps, use the money to buy junk, and then go out and get into a brand new Mercedes or Cadilac Escalade. We would even watch them take money out of the program, and then give it to a friend to go and get beer or cigarettes. I have no doubt, people use these programs honestly, but I have seen more people being dishonest with these programs than being honest.
Sure, Jan. You and the author of anonymous emails circulating since the internet was born.
You checked people out, then followed them to the parking lot to see their cars? Did you only have one shopper at a time in this grocery store?
And you are an expert in cars, able to immediately identify the newest model of each make at a glance?
What were the specific steps involved in “taking money out of the program” to give to a friend to buy beer and cigarettes? And again, how did you have the time to track the actions of one customer in such detail?
Did you report this possible fraud to the appropriate authorities?
The income levels needed to qualify for $400 or $800 is significant. Were there two people - one spent $400 and one spent $800? Or several people who spent in the range of $400 and $800? And they all drove Escalades and Mercedes?
How many years ago was this? You must have an amazing memory to remember the grocery purchases and cars of multiple people.
Meh. I live in a rural area and there are multiple charities that provide food, clothing, etc. to those in need. Several even deliver to shut ins.
As I said earlier, many people use food banks and the like as a supplement to SNAP. If you're talking about Meals on Wheels, sorry to burst your bubble but that's a federal food program.
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Originally Posted by exm
No more beer and steak for them. They actually have to eat canned food and drink water. Shocker.
You can't buy beer or any alcohol with SNAP money. Nor are many people buying steaks, which actually are a pretty good value for the money. Lots buy canned food now, canned mac and cheese, spaghetti, and the like.
Then what exactly do you think people will do if they're hungry and unable to earn enough money to eat (If they don't have access to charity services and if begging doesn't work)?
Do food banks not hand out food anymore?? I donate food to the local food bank all the time, if they aren't handing it out to people in need, I wonder what in the heck they're doing with it??
Please refer me to where I can find "social contract" in the Constitution or The Bill of Rights? Anywhere? Liberal buzz words and talking points aren't law.
If you pay taxes you contribute to the social contract.
Do food banks not hand out food anymore?? I donate food to the local food bank all the time, if they aren't handing it out to people in need, I wonder what in the heck they're doing with it??
It's good you're donating food. Be aware that food banks can't provide total needs for everyone in need.
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