Food Stamps OK For Porn, Tatoos, Jewelry

[Wry Catcher]

There is no true poverty in the United States of America.
That is, material poverty. But there is spiritual poverty, poverty of character.
And there is a virulent political philosophy that encourages taking, rather than earning....
...pleading and demanding based on envy.

Food stamps for those who need food, and cannot provide for themselves...an old and honorable heritage in America: "On January 6, 1657 twenty-eight “Scottish men” signed the Laws Rules and Order of the Poor Boxes Society” in Boston, New England and formed the Scots’ Charitable Society."
http://www.linknet1.com/scots-charitable/menu1/index1.html



But what the Left has made common is a blemish on the nation and the people...

1."Mass Gov. Deval Patrick Vetoes Ban On Using Welfare EBT Cards To Purchase Porn, Tattoos, Manicures Because It Would “Humiliate Poor People”…No surprise he’s a close friend of Barack Obama (Axelrod ran his first campaign for Mass governor).

2. Patrick vetoed the reforms Sunday while signing the state’s $32.5 billion budget.

3. According to the Boston Herald, which first reported the veto, the governor berated the legislature’s stab at banning the purchase of specific items like manicures, tattoos, guns, porn, body piercings, jewelry, and bail by saying the move was “political grandstanding” at a time when such reforms are already on track elsewhere.


4. “I’m not going to do anything that makes vulnerable people beg for their benefits.This notion of humiliating poor people has got to be separated from how we make a program, and frankly separated and disposed of, from how we make a program work and work well,” Patrick said,...



5. Patrick allowed bans on the use of EBT cards in establishments known for the sale of seemingly controversial items — such as tattoo parlors, gun shops, casinos, cruise ships, and adult entertainment facilities —- to stand."
Exposing Liberal Lies: Deval Patrick OKs Porn, Tatoos, Jewelry with Food Stamps




We live in a time when the welfare industry needs to convinced well-meaning folks that there is a 'need.'
Rather it is a 'want.'


Consider the above when you vote.

Another "let's all hate the poor" post CG? I wonder how many of those purveyors of porn, jewelry and body art are small business owners who accept government 'welfare' in terms of tax incentives. Think maybe the local tattoo artist writes off his office space, ink, needles and advertising and likely votes Republican? Accepting Food Stamps in any manner for goods or services other than healthy food (oops, there's that big government reach telling others which food to buy, but I digress) is fraud. Why not argue that such white collar criminals be sanctioned? Why do you always pick on the weak? Are you a bully?

Some people need help, some of us support government providing help, others, like you, do not; therefore, Americans are not Democrats or Republicans, Liberals or Conservatives - we are simply either bleeding hearts or black hearts. How did you become the latter?

 

[rightwinger]

I would like to see evidence the left argues that poor people have to live on pizzas.

Ramen noodles are made of carbs.

The "poor" don't live on Ramen, college students live on Ramen. The poor eat like kings.

That is why everyone wants to be poor

Champagne, Lobster, Filet Mignon with an occaisional Deep Fried Twinkie thrown in

 

[rightwinger]

There is no true poverty in the United States of America.
That is, material poverty. But there is spiritual poverty, poverty of character.
And there is a virulent political philosophy that encourages taking, rather than earning....
...pleading and demanding based on envy.

Food stamps for those who need food, and cannot provide for themselves...an old and honorable heritage in America: "On January 6, 1657 twenty-eight “Scottish men” signed the Laws Rules and Order of the Poor Boxes Society” in Boston, New England and formed the Scots’ Charitable Society."
http://www.linknet1.com/scots-charitable/menu1/index1.html



But what the Left has made common is a blemish on the nation and the people...

1."Mass Gov. Deval Patrick Vetoes Ban On Using Welfare EBT Cards To Purchase Porn, Tattoos, Manicures Because It Would “Humiliate Poor People”…No surprise he’s a close friend of Barack Obama (Axelrod ran his first campaign for Mass governor).

2. Patrick vetoed the reforms Sunday while signing the state’s $32.5 billion budget.

3. According to the Boston Herald, which first reported the veto, the governor berated the legislature’s stab at banning the purchase of specific items like manicures, tattoos, guns, porn, body piercings, jewelry, and bail by saying the move was “political grandstanding” at a time when such reforms are already on track elsewhere.


4. “I’m not going to do anything that makes vulnerable people beg for their benefits.This notion of humiliating poor people has got to be separated from how we make a program, and frankly separated and disposed of, from how we make a program work and work well,” Patrick said,...



5. Patrick allowed bans on the use of EBT cards in establishments known for the sale of seemingly controversial items — such as tattoo parlors, gun shops, casinos, cruise ships, and adult entertainment facilities —- to stand."
Exposing Liberal Lies: Deval Patrick OKs Porn, Tatoos, Jewelry with Food Stamps




We live in a time when the welfare industry needs to convinced well-meaning folks that there is a 'need.'
Rather it is a 'want.'


Consider the above when you vote.

Another "let's all hate the poor" post CG? I wonder how many of those purveyors of porn, jewelry and body art are small business owners who accept government 'welfare' in terms of tax incentives. Think maybe the local tattoo artist writes off his office space, ink, needles and advertising and likely votes Republican? Accepting Food Stamps in any manner for goods or services other than healthy food (oops, there's that big government reach telling others which food to buy, but I digress) is fraud. Why not argue that such white collar criminals be sanctioned? Why do you always pick on the weak? Are you a bully?

Some people need help, some of us support government providing help, others, like you, do not; therefore, Americans are not Democrats or Republicans, Liberals or Conservatives - we are simply either bleeding hearts or black hearts. How did you become the latter?

It is all part of the Conservative diversion of the middle class

"Pay no attention to the burgeoning wealth of the mega rich....the reason you are suffering is because poor people don't suffer enough"

 

[Plasmaball]

Are they called Gun Stamps? Or Porn Stamps? Or Tattoo Stamps?

No. They are called FOOD Stamps, and that is ALL that should legally be purchasable with them. FOOD.

Look im going to use you as an example. Its an EBT card. There is Two versions of it,but its one card.
One gives you cash and the other for food. There is a fucki g difference qnd you morons would think you would have learned this fact the last time this debate came up on here.

 

[Plasmaball]

the media will keep this under wraps.


They don't want to come off as racist, you know!

Here in ohio I have tons of white poor people who come in and use their ebt cards.lot of tye redneck variety.

 

[Uncensored2008]

That is why everyone wants to be poor

Champagne, Lobster, Filet Mignon with an occaisional Deep Fried Twinkie thrown in

College students would like to EAT like the poor.

 

[High_Gravity]

The political left has turned obesity among low-income individuals into an argument that low-income people cannot afford nutritious food, and so have to resort to burgers and fries, pizzas and the like

I would like to see evidence the left argues that poor people have to live on pizzas.

Ramen noodles are made of carbs.

1. "The food desert myth
It's an article of faith that poor people in the inner cities get fat because they lack fresh produce -- and it's dead wrong

2. Almost nobody has a weight problem in West Harlem.


3. Or at least they’re not supposed to, because Fairway is smack in the heart of it, selling fresh produce at decent prices and even offering a free shuttle service for neighborhood residents. It’s been there for over 15 years — that is, a generation of people have grown up alongside it.

4. But obesity is much more prevalent in West Harlem than in Greenwich Village. This is a problem for the idea that “food deserts” make poor people disproportionately overweight.


5. The story goes that supermarkets with low-priced fresh vegetables and fruit moved out of poor neighborhoods amidst white flight. This, we are told, left residents with paltry and overpriced produce from bodegas. The result: salty, fattening fast food and junk food as the only viable alternatives.

a. The idea is now so entrenched that undergraduates often cite it earnestly. It’s on the tonguetips of people at any Blue America dinner party. It sticks easily in the memory and even feels good, because it entails that the obesity problem is due in part to racism. The institutional kind, mind you — maybe call it injustice.

b. Hence the food desert idea is now common wisdom. Yet it’s impossible to live in New York and not suspect that something doesn’t quite work about this thesis.


6. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food desert locator, for example — unveiled in 2011 — found almost no food deserts in New York City except in some of the wide-open spaces near Kennedy airport.

7. ...academic studies only had so much to tell us about whether there was a correlation between waistline size and how far away the supermarket is. But these days, the data is in....last year, a major study under the Nutrition Transition Program led by Dr. Barry Popkin showed that proximity of supermarkets has not affected people’s eating habits,...

a. ...the evidence is becoming crushing that the emperor has no clothes. Helen Lee’s study at the Public Policy Institute now confirms the impression that a walk around New York City suggests: Nationwide, the neighborhoods with lots of bodegas and fast food joints also tend to be the ones with the most supermarkets.


8. Roland Sturm at RAND studied 13,000 California children and then middle school students nationwide. He found, both times, that a supermarket close by doesn’t make a kid thin and living far from one doesn’t make him fat. Michelle Obama’s Healthy Food Initiative is well intended. But her claim that “if people want to buy a head of lettuce” they have to “take two or three buses, maybe pay for a taxicab, in order to do it,” just doesn’t jibe with the facts.

9. The key point is that supermarkets have never been inaccessible to poor people in the way that we have been told.... How you eat is due as much to cultural preferences as to how far away a supermarket is.

a. For black people... the problem is more a matter of history than where the Key Food is. ...Southern blacks brought their culinary tastes north. Zora Neale Hurston used to bless her friend Langston Hughes with fried chicken dinners.

b. It’s what soul food is, and it’s unclear to me that anyone would deny its centrality to black culture. If I am at an event where one of the main reception snacks is fried chicken drummies, it is almost certainly a black one. The person who makes collard greens with hamhocks is usually not white.


10. Another thing to target is what people consider a schlep to be. One typical “food desert” piece interviews a woman of 50 who considers 12 blocks a daunting distance to the supermarket. But I’m 46 and that’s how far the nearest supermarket is from me.Are we who work out and pride ourselves as walking New Yorkers doing poor people a favor by calling it racism when the supermarket is a 15 minute walk down the road?

11.... the studies are clearly showing that we have to put on a different pair of glasses for this issue. ...we must do this with the welfare of the people in mind, not as a way of making ourselves feel good about our own enlightenment.

Poor people do have access to healthy food: This is good news. If anyone finds it unwelcome, inconvenient or even just unengaging, we must question their motives."
The food desert myth - New York Daily News

The author of the piece is JOHN MCWHORTER. I've read several of his books. You might be more impressed if you researched McWhorter.




Now...what other areas in which you need instruction?

Soul food is tasty but if you eat it everyday you will be fat, same with Mexican food. You have to exercise regularly also.

 

[francoHFW]

Like voter ID, a stupid cure for a disease that doesn't exist...

The OP is BS, this is EBT CASH, not food stamps.

As far as people who have enough money to use EBT cash like this- let Pubs stop cutting investigators- DUMB!

 

[The T]

Like voter ID, a stupid cure for a disease that doesn't exist...

The OP is BS, this is EBT CASH, not food stamps.

As far as people who have enough money to use EBT cash like this- let Pubs stop cutting investigators- DUMB!

What are FOOD STAMPS but Vouchers ya moron?

 

[g5000]

The poor eat like kings.

Evidence?

You don't pay attention to anything but your prejudice, do you?

PC has posted a plethora of evidence, if you were interested you would have read it.

No one has posted a lick of evidence the poor are eating like kings.

And I can guarantee you I am more familiar with what the poor eat than anyone here, having actually fed many hundreds of them myself.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Soul food is tasty but if you eat it everyday you will be fat, same with Mexican food. You have to exercise regularly also.

You'll hit an age where exercise just doesn't do it anymore.

So I had a tomato and a handful of arugula for lunch. (it was actually pretty tasty - home grown tomato.) When you get old, you have to modify the diet.

 

[Uncensored2008]

What are FOOD STAMPS but Vouchers ya moron?

What is Franco, but a hack?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Are they called Gun Stamps? Or Porn Stamps? Or Tattoo Stamps?

No. They are called FOOD Stamps, and that is ALL that should legally be purchasable with them. FOOD.

Look im going to use you as an example. Its an EBT card. There is Two versions of it,but its one card.
One gives you cash and the other for food. There is a fucki g difference qnd you morons would think you would have learned this fact the last time this debate came up on here.

Just a heads-up, as I try to look out for our lesser brethren....

When you attempt to paint another as a "moron"...

...it would behoove you to take a tighter rein on your language, typing and spelling:

"There is a fucki g difference qnd you morons..."


'Else, you'd engender the kind of laughter you will hear if you put your ear to the computer screen....

 

[The T]

Are they called Gun Stamps? Or Porn Stamps? Or Tattoo Stamps?

No. They are called FOOD Stamps, and that is ALL that should legally be purchasable with them. FOOD.

Look im going to use you as an example. Its an EBT card. There is Two versions of it,but its one card.
One gives you cash and the other for food. There is a fucki g difference qnd you morons would think you would have learned this fact the last time this debate came up on here.

Just a heads-up, as I try to look out for our lesser brethren....

When you attempt to paint another as a "moron"...

...it would behoove you to take a tighter rein on your language, typing and spelling:

"There is a fucki g difference qnd you morons..."


'Else, you'd engender the kind of laughter you will hear if you put your ear to the computer screen....

PlasmasDork is good for a laugh.

 

[The T]

What are FOOD STAMPS but Vouchers ya moron?

What is Franco, but a hack?

To the POINT.

 

[JohnA]

There is no true poverty in the United States of America.
That is, material poverty. But there is spiritual poverty, poverty of character.
And there is a virulent political philosophy that encourages taking, rather than earning....
...pleading and demanding based on envy.

Food stamps for those who need food, and cannot provide for themselves...an old and honorable heritage in America: "On January 6, 1657 twenty-eight “Scottish men” signed the Laws Rules and Order of the Poor Boxes Society” in Boston, New England and formed the Scots’ Charitable Society."
http://www.linknet1.com/scots-charitable/menu1/index1.html



But what the Left has made common is a blemish on the nation and the people...



1."Mass Gov. Deval Patrick Vetoes Ban On Using Welfare EBT Cards To Purchase Porn, Tattoos, Manicures Because It Would “Humiliate Poor People”…No surprise he’s a close friend of Barack Obama (Axelrod ran his first campaign for Mass governor).

2. Patrick vetoed the reforms Sunday while signing the state’s $32.5 billion budget.

3. According to the Boston Herald, which first reported the veto, the governor berated the legislature’s stab at banning the purchase of specific items like manicures, tattoos, guns, porn, body piercings, jewelry, and bail by saying the move was “political grandstanding” at a time when such reforms are already on track elsewhere.


4. “I’m not going to do anything that makes vulnerable people beg for their benefits.This notion of humiliating poor people has got to be separated from how we make a program, and frankly separated and disposed of, from how we make a program work and work well,” Patrick said,...



5. Patrick allowed bans on the use of EBT cards in establishments known for the sale of seemingly controversial items — such as tattoo parlors, gun shops, casinos, cruise ships, and adult entertainment facilities —- to stand."
Exposing Liberal Lies: Deval Patrick OKs Porn, Tatoos, Jewelry with Food Stamps




We live in a time when the welfare industry needs to convinced well-meaning folks that there is a 'need.'
Rather it is a 'want.'


Consider the above when you vote.

That is interesting

What do you think we should do about it?

I don't know.....maybe have food stamps available only for FOOD!

What do you think?

then you can still buy a hair burger with them

 

[francoHFW]

EBT food can only be used for food, moron Pubtrolls (the only kind)...and the able bodied DO have to work for all of the above, min wage. Stupid brainwashed ignorant dupes/haters.

 

[The T]

EBT food can only be used for food, moron Pubtrolls (the only kind)...and the able bodied DO have to work for all of the above, min wage. Stupid brainwashed ignorant dupes/haters.

YOU didn't READ the OP...but that is typical for YOU, isn't it?

YOU need to be put in a HOME for wayward dipshits.

 

[francoHFW]

No poor in USA? Stupid arrogant a-holes...and thanks for the depression, tools of greedy rich/corporations...

 

[PoliticalChic]

That is why everyone wants to be poor

Champagne, Lobster, Filet Mignon with an occaisional Deep Fried Twinkie thrown in

College students would like to EAT like the poor.

I didn't want to add this...but you've dragged it out of me:

"1. Mak, 31, grew up in Westchester, graduated from the University of Chicago and toiled in publishing in New York during his 20s before moving to Baltimore last year with a meager part-time blogging job and prospects for little else. About half of his friends in Baltimore have been getting food stamps since the economy toppled, so he decided to give it a try; to his delight, he qualified for $200 a month.

“I’m sort of a foodie, and I’m not going to do the ‘living off ramen’ thing,” he said, fondly remembering a recent meal he’d prepared of roasted rabbit with butter, tarragon and sweet potatoes. “I used to think that you could only get processed food and government cheese on food stamps, but it’s great that you can get anything.”

2. But they also note that recent changes made to the program as part of last year’s stimulus package, which relaxed the restrictions on able-bodied adults without dependents to collect food stamps, have made some young singles around the country eligible for the first time.

“There are many 20-somethings from educated families who go through a period of unemployment and live very frugally, maybe even technically in poverty, who now qualify,” said Parke Wilde, a food economist at Tufts University who has written extensively about food stamp usage and policy.


3. And in cities that are magnets for 20- and 30-something creatives and young professionals, the kinds of food markets that specialize in delectables like artisanal bread, heirloom tomatoes and grass-fed beef have seen significant upticks in food stamp payments among their typical shoppers."

4. “You’re hosting dinner parties and buying cases of wine — on taxpayers’ money!” one person wrote. “Your attitude is so objectionable that you’re like a trainwreck; it’s hard to look away.” (One cannot, in fact, buy wine with food stamps, though dinner party ingredients are fair game.)
Hipsters on food stamps - Salon.com


Yup....in the Liberal mag Salon.....


This is the level of character that the Obama folks would love to see as ubiquitous.
Read the article....your blood will boil!