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How many people working minimum wage jobs and supposedly needing government assistance have video game systems? Do you think it's a significant percentage?
Is it the job of government to make people comfortable in part-time jobs? How comfortable?
I'm happy if people in food service can afford video consoles. However, if they can afford new video game systems they don't need taxpayers to help them buy food, and stories about how bad off these workers are lose some punch.
In Wisconsin you can make so much on public assistance that it wouldn't be worth your while to take a job which paid less than $10 an hour.
I think poverty should be painful. Think of it as incentive to get out of poverty.
It is. Try cutting your food bill to the amount given in food stamps.
Why do you guys give a fuck if someone has a Xbox or PlayStation?
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something is better then nothing at all......
so long as junk food and luxury items are allowed with food stamps...i have zero pity.
something is better then nothing at all......
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Nonsense. I've seen people on foodstamps receive literally hundreds of dollars each month...more than i could ever eat. It's ridiculous.
I don't make much over minimum wage and I just bought a ps4 . I don't get government money. Yet my point is valid because i saved for it
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if you dont get any government entitlements.... i hope you enjoy your game to its fullest.
Entitlement programs in the US include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans' Administration programs, federal employee and military retirement plans, unemployment compensation, and food stamps.
Are you writing that the above folks shouldn't have video games?
something is better then nothing at all......
so long as junk food and luxury items are allowed with food stamps...i have zero pity.
I doubt they give enough to eat healthy on food stamps lol that shit is expensive
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the idea behind food stamps is to keep people from..... "starving" It is not to satisfy junk food jonesing and a sweet tooth.
I think poverty should be painful. Think of it as incentive to get out of poverty.
It is. Try cutting your food bill to the amount given in food stamps.
I'd plant a garden, or better yet, get a job.
I think poverty should be painful. Think of it as incentive to get out of poverty.
It is. Try cutting your food bill to the amount given in food stamps.
I will.
The moment I start relying on others to provide for me.
In the meantime, I'm paying for my own food and theirs. Yet, I still can't claim them as a dependent when I file my taxes.
While Entitlement programs in the US include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans' Administration programs, federal employee and military retirement plans and unemployment compensation ARE entitlements, food stamps are welfare.
In all of the former, you either paid for or became eligible through employment.
Food stamps are not contingent upon prior work.
I'd plant a garden, or better yet, get a job.
Everyone on food stamps doesn't work? Walmart, who's collected billions in tax payer subsidy helps their employees sign up for food stamps.
all said walmart employees can go out and get second job if what they are making at one job is not enough.
maybe the government should provide a second job.....community service of some sort and pay them minimum wage instead of just handing anyone a check.
Or Walmart, who's benefited from billions in taxpayer subsidy, who's cash take-home in 2012 was $15B (that's not including procurement, logistics, and transportation) can be a responsible employer like me.
i really dont care what profits walmart took in...
people work for them of their own free will. No one is holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to work. They know up front what they are asking for and what wage they will be getting Wage mind you...not profit sharing. If they don't want the job, they are free to leave at any time. If they dont think they are making enough, they are free to find another job, or a second job.
Well lets hire some private firm to knock on doors and examine if every household has a video game. Some people are so incensed about a poor person having a video game. I never collected a cent of welfare or unemployment in my 76 years on this earth. I saved enough to retire. The way I see it one needs to work hard(as a necessary evil so to speak) to attain the things to survive. But I could care less if some worker who is stuck working for a lousy, cheapskate company like walmart has a video game. If I get paid $10 an hour, I work half speed. I get paid double that, I work full speed. So a walmart worker has a video game. Or some person on welfare has a video game. Big deal. So what. They still have a low standard of living and far be it from me the criticize someone for having a lousy video game. If that makes you mad, you gotta forget about it because it really doesn't matter.
Poor has been redefined. In a third world country, poor means you have nothing or near nothing. In America being poor means earning below some arbitrary percentile of wages compared to other people. Since there will always be a bottom group of " earners", there will always be people considered poor no matter how well off they really are.
This kind of post irritates me. Because our poor doesn't live in mud huts eating rats they are not really poor? You tell a hungry kid they are not really poor because they have a apartment they are living in or their last meal wasn't road kill. Our poor by and large are better off then most the world true that doesn't mean they are not poor. All it means is our country is better then theirs
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You are irritated--sometimes the truth hurts. I can agree with you that a kid that does not have enough food to eat is poor. However, most of our so called poor have plenty of food to eat most of the time.
Poor has been redefined. In a third world country, poor means you have nothing or near nothing. In America being poor means earning below some arbitrary percentile of wages compared to other people. Since there will always be a bottom group of " earners", there will always be people considered poor no matter how well off they really are.
This kind of post irritates me. Because our poor doesn't live in mud huts eating rats they are not really poor? You tell a hungry kid they are not really poor because they have a apartment they are living in or their last meal wasn't road kill. Our poor by and large are better off then most the world true that doesn't mean they are not poor. All it means is our country is better then theirs
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You are irritated--sometimes the truth hurts. I can agree with you that a kid that does not have enough food to eat is poor. However, most of our so called poor have plenty of food to eat most of the time.
I think poverty should be painful. Think of it as incentive to get out of poverty.
This kind of post irritates me. Because our poor doesn't live in mud huts eating rats they are not really poor? You tell a hungry kid they are not really poor because they have a apartment they are living in or their last meal wasn't road kill. Our poor by and large are better off then most the world true that doesn't mean they are not poor. All it means is our country is better then theirs
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You are irritated--sometimes the truth hurts. I can agree with you that a kid that does not have enough food to eat is poor. However, most of our so called poor have plenty of food to eat most of the time.
Not to mention that going hungry in this country is nearly impossible. One doesn't even need to read or understand English to apply for foodstamp benefits, so unless the parents are selling the foodstamps for drugs, their children should be well fed.
