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Old 05-19-2018, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
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Originally Posted by StillwaterTownie View Post
It sure doesn't cancel out in Oklahoma. My disabled friend says his food stamps got reduced from $16 a month to $8. I bet in many other states the food stamps benefits for singles go over $100 a month and the overall cost of food there isn't much more than double, compared to Oklahoma City, if that much.

Do I need to explain how taking one anecdote (and one with incomplete information, at that) and extrapolating it out to apply to an entire state's worth of experiences, is a wildly inaccurate way of assessing conditions in general?
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Old 05-19-2018, 01:23 PM
 
Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Do I need to explain how taking one anecdote (and one with incomplete information, at that) and extrapolating it out to apply to an entire state's worth of experiences, is a wildly inaccurate way of assessing conditions in general?
That's why I narrowed it down to the value of food stamps and cost of food, but evidently too narrow to suit you.
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