Grocery store

[boedicca]

That was exactly my point. At least this woman isn't buying shit. Fact is, we're paying for her either way, so since we have to pay either way, I'd be more pissed off if she were just buying crap, rather than nutritionally sound stuff.

I don't begrudge anyone having decent, healthy food. But when the people paying taxes are eating hamburger, it's a bit much to see the people on welfare buying top sirloin.

Public assistance shouldn't be posher than working for a living.

In CA, some bright lights are now trying to force little farmers markets and veggie & fruit stands to accept EBT payments for welfare recipients, so they can buy produce without having to fork out cash. The problem with this is that such devices cost $1,000 a piece. The result is going to be some smaller producers just opting out. The cost of this extra equipment wipes out their small profit margin.

How wonderful. Less opportunities to purchase produce because the state wants to force EBT payment systems on sole proprietors.

 

[antagon]

It's not typical of Republicans at all. I'm a fucking Republican, okay?

you seem like a nice person, but 35 out of 40 of your thieves are too dense to acknowledge the value of any soil not directly under their feet. its your posse. i couldnt associate with it. no party affiliation in fact.

im just old enough to remember when republicans were bright-minded and would quote bill buckley and bob novak... now its beck and palin. ill give you the benefit of being of a by-gone era.

 

[AllieBaba]

I've read your post two times and have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

 

[antagon]

rehash:

alibaba was this dude in a story who had forty thieves in his clic. alliebaba has many idiots in their party of choice, while i remember it wasnt always that way. allie deals with guilt via association with said idiots.

 

[PixieStix]

rehash:

alibaba was this dude in a story who had forty thieves in his clic. alliebaba has many idiots in their party of choice, while i remember it wasnt always that way. allie deals with guilt via association with said idiots.

I don't think it has anything to do with being a republican

 

[PixieStix]

You are a fucking idiot. There ain't no farmers making a killing farming. It is thankless hard back breaking work & most live below the poverty line. The corporations like Monsanto, Potash, ADM, & Cargill make big money.

But I see grocery stores like Glazier Foods Company own The NFL team Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You know grocery is big business. The farmer receives 5 cents from every $4 box of corn flakes sold at the grocery store. From that 5 cents the farmer must pay Monsanto, BASF, glyphosate producers, Potash, Exxon, & many others.

Wall street investors always flock to consumer food staples just before a recessions because of EBT food stamps. They know profit margins rise because the major increase in food stamps issued during recessions causes a huge increased profit margins. I never totally understood that until now. They buy up Safeway, Kellogg's, Kroger, General Mills, ConAgra, Tyson, Dole, Whole Foods, Kraft, & others.

youre a comedian.

there are multi-millionaire farmers who break their back golfing just as sure as there are sharecroppers to this day breaking their back in fields. there aint no... get a clue.

...now youre getting the picture about how the entire economy benefits... although transitioning to consumer commodoties away from electronics luxuries and investment banks when the economy is sour has little to do with ebt, dork. we just live in a society where it is not necessary to starve, something which has far-reaching effects which you personally benefit from.

There are millionaire farmers, we have some around here. Michelle Bachman's family are millionaire farmers. She collects farming subsidies too. (Welfare)

Don't think anybody is forgetting that little nugget.

Farmers should be millionaires. They happen to be some of the hardest working people in the world! They are the backbone, or at least were the backbone of our nation before subsidies.

Paying someone NOT to do something..ie work or grow, is innately evil IMO

 

[boedicca]

It's funny how Some People begrudge some folks what they have rightly earned, while supporting politicians who essentially steal taxpayer money.

Go figure.

 

[AllieBaba]

rehash:

alibaba was this dude in a story who had forty thieves in his clic. alliebaba has many idiots in their party of choice, while i remember it wasnt always that way. allie deals with guilt via association with said idiots.

 

[PixieStix]

The human spirit is being crushed.

Yes, I agree. Your OP is aimed a crushing someone's spirit.

Pixie won't admit that she is wrong at all on this one. Typical Repub superiority.

If someone is on welfare or using food stamp cards, they aren't living in luxury.

My opinion will not change on this issue. Typical repub superiority?

I think it is more like, I know who I am, They call that confidence, not to be confused with the liberal idea of elitism.

I have watched people make huge decisions in their lives based on their welfare or food stamp benefits. They have decided to have more babies and not to get married and lie over and over for their little benefits. Later they regret it, after their children grow up, they are in a position of struggling to find what it is they are suppose to do with their lives.

I think it is very sad.

 

[AllieBaba]

I've seen it too.
But that has nothing to do with feeling irrational anger towards a woman in the checkout aisle. That points to unresolved issues of your own.

 

[PixieStix]

I've seen it too.
But that has nothing to do with feeling irrational anger towards a woman in the checkout aisle. That points to unresolved issues of your own.

Give it a rest Allie.

Nothing irrational about my posts. Anger toward big daddy government? Yes indeed

 

[AllieBaba]

It's funny when people start an obnoxious thread, then tell people to "give it a rest" when they respond.

 

[PixieStix]

It's funny when people start an obnoxious thread, then tell people to "give it a rest" when they respond.

You have time and again throughout this thread said that I hated on this woman, I did not. You obviously have not encountered true raw hate.

You are simply repeating yourself, it is getting old

 

[AllieBaba]

I call it like I see it. And you're repeating yourself, too.

 

[PixieStix]

I call it like I see it. And you're repeating yourself, too.

Cause and effect

 

[AllieBaba]

You posted first.

 

[PixieStix]

You posted first.

Yes, I made a thread

 

[Dis]

The point is, that WIC covers her buying the veggies and fruit. That is some expensive eating these days. The steaks were T bones and filets. She could plan her meals better. Oh and they pay cash for their beer
And by the way, I would be happier if she got a job.

I guess, having seen the crap people can do with welfare, while I understand your frustration of having to pay for someone else, while you can barely afford to pay for yourself, I don't really see the reason for what sounds like severe anger..

A) You have no idea why she's on welfare to begin with, but the fact that she's buying actual, healthy food would cause me to consider the possibility this is actually a temporary thing, and she's not buying any differently than she would in any other scenario..

B) I've seen people sell food stamps to get cash for drugs.

C) I see people spending their entire welfare check playing bingo/slots at the local casino, while talking about who's "minding their kids", while telling their friend "Gimme a fitty ($50), and I'll git choo some food when we gits to da stoe'".

Sorry, but I'd rather see someone do what she's going, and buying actual food than see any more of the crap I've seen in the past. If I'm forced to foot the bill, at least it's something I'd spend money on...

Alot of times they buy those expensive steaks because they can. It's not their money anyway. However I used to work in a grocery store and sometimes they come back several hours later and ask for a refund. They want cash for the steaks which sometime amounts to alot. $60-100 can buy alot of beer.

I don't know about where you live, but I know here, that general store policy is that if you want a refund, it's refunded in the same manner you paid - so, if it's one of those EBT cards, that's what it goes back on. No cash.

 

[Ravi]

Yes, I agree. Your OP is aimed a crushing someone's spirit.

Pixie won't admit that she is wrong at all on this one. Typical Repub superiority.

If someone is on welfare or using food stamp cards, they aren't living in luxury.

My opinion will not change on this issue. Typical repub superiority?

I think it is more like, I know who I am, They call that confidence, not to be confused with the liberal idea of elitism.

I have watched people make huge decisions in their lives based on their welfare or food stamp benefits. They have decided to have more babies and not to get married and lie over and over for their little benefits. Later they regret it, after their children grow up, they are in a position of struggling to find what it is they are suppose to do with their lives.

I think it is very sad.

I think you're full of shit.

 

[Ravi]

I guess, having seen the crap people can do with welfare, while I understand your frustration of having to pay for someone else, while you can barely afford to pay for yourself, I don't really see the reason for what sounds like severe anger..

A) You have no idea why she's on welfare to begin with, but the fact that she's buying actual, healthy food would cause me to consider the possibility this is actually a temporary thing, and she's not buying any differently than she would in any other scenario..

B) I've seen people sell food stamps to get cash for drugs.

C) I see people spending their entire welfare check playing bingo/slots at the local casino, while talking about who's "minding their kids", while telling their friend "Gimme a fitty ($50), and I'll git choo some food when we gits to da stoe'".

Sorry, but I'd rather see someone do what she's going, and buying actual food than see any more of the crap I've seen in the past. If I'm forced to foot the bill, at least it's something I'd spend money on...

Alot of times they buy those expensive steaks because they can. It's not their money anyway. However I used to work in a grocery store and sometimes they come back several hours later and ask for a refund. They want cash for the steaks which sometime amounts to alot. $60-100 can buy alot of beer.

I don't know about where you live, but I know here, that general store policy is that if you want a refund, it's refunded in the same manner you paid - so, if it's one of those EBT cards, that's what it goes back on. No cash.

Here, too...or if you don't have a receipt they give you store credit. If muddy was giving them back cash he's guilty of a felony.