The FACTS on Food Stamps

[shintao]

Actually, the one who's getting trashed is you.

It's not a loaded question, it's a yes or no question. And like most leftard loons, you resent yes or no questions...because you know what the answer is, but you want to spin it in a way that's contrary to the truth.

Hmm, if it is a FACT, lets see some evidence. Surely you can produce tons of evidence of this with all the SNAP people eating lobsters these days. Do they also buy some wine to cook it in, and have a side of caviar?

If you want something to piss and moan about, try the FACT you are subsidizing low wage workers with SNAP from your taxes, while corporations walk away with billions of profits.

 

[Luissa]

You can only buy fast food with your food stamps if you live in Arizona, parts of California, and Michigan. Kentucky was working to allow it also, not sure if it passed yet.
And you have to be elderly, disabled, or homeless.
You cannot withdraw cash from your food stamps. You can withdraw cash if you were given a TANF grant. And that is obvious why. It's hard to pay bills etc.. With your EBT card.

I find this whole discussion about lobster ridiculous. If someone is buying things like lobster with food stamps, it is rare, not a typical thing. If people did that, they'd run out of their food stamps in a week, or in a day even. There will always be people who abuse any system; you don't eliminate the system because of those who may abuse it.

As well, what if people buy junk food with food stamps. What gives Americans, most of whom live on tons of junk food and are over weight, the right to say that only they can do such things, that poor people must be punished for being poor by only eating rice, beans and vegetables? Get a life. The food stamp budget isn't breaking America's back: stupidity is what is doing that.

Stupidity like the vapid tripe you just wrote.

It is not rare. It is prevalent.

Nobody is punishing anyone. It's a program meant to prevent starvation, and as an entitlement program (which means it isn't earned) we can give free food in any manner we choose. If we choose to only provide beans, rice, milk and 10 lbs a meat, we can do that. If people don't like it, they can get their own food.

That's the way it works the best.

The whole idea that people have a *right* to free lobster and ribeye is ridiculous. They don't. If they did, then I would be getting mine as well...

What you are saying is that FOODSTAMP RECIPIENTS have a right to FREE DELICACIES that nobody else can afford.

They don't.

Not it isn't prevalent.
Stop spreading hate with little facts to back it up

 

[RKMBrown]

ok... simple question... yes or no.

can you buy lobster with snap?

No, it's a loaded question and one you've already been trashed asking. This is school yard stuff.....I hear you're a respected poster here.....how about getting your game back up to snuff.

its not a loaded question

can you buy lobster with food stamps/snap?


yes or no.

Sure you can. First you get a list of food items desired by a "friend." You explain to them that you will give them the receipt and they can pay you cash. You go to the store and put the lobster in your cart and the goods that your friend wanted. When you get to the register instead of paying for the goods in your cart with cash you pay for the food with your EBT card, then you use your cash for the lobster. You then drop off the goods at your friends who pays you cash for the items. You keep the lobster.

Result... EBT user's cash is back in her pocket EBT money is gone and lobster is in the pot back at the happy EBT user's home.

Unlikely? Nah, from my memory most of the EBT/Food Stamp users do this. Almost all of them have two sets of purchases at the store. One with a set of EBT illegal items and another set of EBT legal items. Oh these other items are for my "boyfriend" or "neighbor" or "mom"...

Classic shell game.

 

[Luissa]

No, it's a loaded question and one you've already been trashed asking. This is school yard stuff.....I hear you're a respected poster here.....how about getting your game back up to snuff.

its not a loaded question

can you buy lobster with food stamps/snap?


yes or no.

Sure you can. First you get a list of food items desired by a "friend." You explain to them that you will give them the receipt and they can pay you cash. You go to the store and put the lobster in your cart and the goods that your friend wanted. When you get to the register instead of paying for the goods in your cart with cash you pay for the food with your EBT card, then you use your cash for the lobster. You then drop off the goods at your friends who pays you cash for the items. You keep the lobster.

Result... EBT user's cash is back in her pocket EBT money is gone and lobster is in the pot back at the happy EBT user's home.

Unlikely? Nah, from my memory most of the EBT/Food Stamp users do this. Almost all of them have two sets of purchases at the store. One with a set of EBT illegal items and another set of EBT legal items. Oh these other items are for my "boyfriend" or "neighbor" or "mom"...

Classic shell game.

Most people on food stamps do not get enough to last the month, and can't afford to take advantage of the system.
Why does the right lie about the poor so much?

 

[JoeBlam]

ok... simple question... yes or no.

can you buy lobster with snap?

No, it's a loaded question and one you've already been trashed asking. This is school yard stuff.....I hear you're a respected poster here.....how about getting your game back up to snuff.

its not a loaded question

can you buy lobster with food stamps/snap?


yes or no.

You've been watching too many Perry Mason reruns.

 

[BlueGin]

Actually, the one who's getting trashed is you.

It's not a loaded question, it's a yes or no question. And like most leftard loons, you resent yes or no questions...because you know what the answer is, but you want to spin it in a way that's contrary to the truth.

Hmm, if it is a FACT, lets see some evidence. Surely you can produce tons of evidence of this with all the SNAP people eating lobsters these days. Do they also buy some wine to cook it in, and have a side of caviar?

If you want something to piss and moan about, try the FACT you are subsidizing low wage workers with SNAP from your taxes, while corporations walk away with billions of profits.

Lobster tails you can since they are seafood. Live lobsters you can not. You can also not buy alcohol.

And as an aside. Lobster tails can be found at the grocery store relatively cheaply....last I priced them was at $ 6.99 lb. That is not any worse than buying chicken, pork or steak.

Talk about a non issue.

 

[Vox]

Let's put it another way. 1 out of 6 people face hunger. America is not as wealthy as people would like to believe.

baloney.

that's why the epidemic of morbid obesity is an ever-American issue.

 

[Vox]

people who face HUNGER are NEVER obese or overweight.

 

[BlueGin]

Let's put it another way. 1 out of 6 people face hunger. America is not as wealthy as people would like to believe.

baloney.

that's why the epidemic of morbid obesity is an ever-American issue.

Not anymore. I think we rank someone in the top 10 but we are not #1.

 

[Vox]

No, it's a loaded question and one you've already been trashed asking. This is school yard stuff.....I hear you're a respected poster here.....how about getting your game back up to snuff.

its not a loaded question

can you buy lobster with food stamps/snap?


yes or no.

Sure you can. First you get a list of food items desired by a "friend." You explain to them that you will give them the receipt and they can pay you cash. You go to the store and put the lobster in your cart and the goods that your friend wanted. When you get to the register instead of paying for the goods in your cart with cash you pay for the food with your EBT card, then you use your cash for the lobster. You then drop off the goods at your friends who pays you cash for the items. You keep the lobster.

Result... EBT user's cash is back in her pocket EBT money is gone and lobster is in the pot back at the happy EBT user's home.

Unlikely? Nah, from my memory most of the EBT/Food Stamp users do this. Almost all of them have two sets of purchases at the store. One with a set of EBT illegal items and another set of EBT legal items. Oh these other items are for my "boyfriend" or "neighbor" or "mom"...

Classic shell game.

right on spot.

 

[Vox]

Let's put it another way. 1 out of 6 people face hunger. America is not as wealthy as people would like to believe.

baloney.

that's why the epidemic of morbid obesity is an ever-American issue.

Not anymore. I think we rank someone in the top 10 but we are not #1.

we are #2, since Mexico is #1 getting our taxpayers money sent as a help there.

 

[RKMBrown]

its not a loaded question

can you buy lobster with food stamps/snap?


yes or no.

Sure you can. First you get a list of food items desired by a "friend." You explain to them that you will give them the receipt and they can pay you cash. You go to the store and put the lobster in your cart and the goods that your friend wanted. When you get to the register instead of paying for the goods in your cart with cash you pay for the food with your EBT card, then you use your cash for the lobster. You then drop off the goods at your friends who pays you cash for the items. You keep the lobster.

Result... EBT user's cash is back in her pocket EBT money is gone and lobster is in the pot back at the happy EBT user's home.

Unlikely? Nah, from my memory most of the EBT/Food Stamp users do this. Almost all of them have two sets of purchases at the store. One with a set of EBT illegal items and another set of EBT legal items. Oh these other items are for my "boyfriend" or "neighbor" or "mom"...

Classic shell game.

Most people on food stamps do not get enough to last the month, and can't afford to take advantage of the system.
Why does the right lie about the poor so much?

If most people on food stamps do not get enough to last the month how are the 45 MILLION PEOPLE ON FOOD STAMPS continuing to survive?

 

[Pete7469]

people who face HUNGER are NEVER obese or overweight.

Unless they got fat before they ended up in poverty...

That said, there is no excuse for hunger in this country. There are hordes of people, who truly have faced real hunger, live in real poverty, that risk their lives crossing deserts to get here and work menial jobs for meager wages because of the abundance of opportunity and affordable nutrition.

If anyone is starving in this country, it's because they're on a hunger strike.

 

[Esmeralda]

people who face HUNGER are NEVER obese or overweight.

There are a lot of over weight and obese people in America.

There are also people who are hungry. And there are children who go to school hungry. It is helping those who are truly in need that the Food Stamp Program and food banks are all about. If there are those who abuse the system, there is only so much you can do about that: there will always be people who will abuse any system. But we need to be aware that there should not be hungry people in America: it is still, despite what many say, one of the richest, most prosperous countries in the world with a vast number of people who have too much to eat and should not resent the tax dollars spent on those who may not have enough.

 

[RKMBrown]

Actually, the one who's getting trashed is you.

It's not a loaded question, it's a yes or no question. And like most leftard loons, you resent yes or no questions...because you know what the answer is, but you want to spin it in a way that's contrary to the truth.

Hmm, if it is a FACT, lets see some evidence. Surely you can produce tons of evidence of this with all the SNAP people eating lobsters these days. Do they also buy some wine to cook it in, and have a side of caviar?

If you want something to piss and moan about, try the FACT you are subsidizing low wage workers with SNAP from your taxes, while corporations walk away with billions of profits.

Lobster tails you can since they are seafood. Live lobsters you can not. You can also not buy alcohol.

And as an aside. Lobster tails can be found at the grocery store relatively cheaply....last I priced them was at $ 6.99 lb. That is not any worse than buying chicken, pork or steak.

Talk about a non issue.

Chicken can be had for 1.49 a pound for dark meat and 2 bucks a pound for whole chickens. Same for pork and chuck steak. I'm fairly well off but consider 7 a pound to be a ridiculous price compared to chick/pork prices.

 

[Esmeralda]

Sure you can. First you get a list of food items desired by a "friend." You explain to them that you will give them the receipt and they can pay you cash. You go to the store and put the lobster in your cart and the goods that your friend wanted. When you get to the register instead of paying for the goods in your cart with cash you pay for the food with your EBT card, then you use your cash for the lobster. You then drop off the goods at your friends who pays you cash for the items. You keep the lobster.

Result... EBT user's cash is back in her pocket EBT money is gone and lobster is in the pot back at the happy EBT user's home.

Unlikely? Nah, from my memory most of the EBT/Food Stamp users do this. Almost all of them have two sets of purchases at the store. One with a set of EBT illegal items and another set of EBT legal items. Oh these other items are for my "boyfriend" or "neighbor" or "mom"...

Classic shell game.

Most people on food stamps do not get enough to last the month, and can't afford to take advantage of the system.
Why does the right lie about the poor so much?

If most people on food stamps do not get enough to last the month how are the 45 MILLION PEOPLE ON FOOD STAMPS continuing to survive?

According to what I've read: food banks take up the slack. I think what people get for food stamps is probably similar to what people get for minimum wage: just barely enough to get by and in some cases not even that much.

 

[JoeBlam]

Folks doing okay call junk food "comfort food"....poor folks call it what they can get at a 7/11 because there's no grocery stores left open around where they live. Or JOBS. Call the Fortune 500 corporations to task on this....is your chinese piece of shit hammer you paid $6 for worth what you're paying in increased taxes to keep those who lost that American hammer job above water? We on the right are just handing over millions of voters to the Rats because of the anal-retentive nature of the country club set squeezing every last nickel out of their product they can. Business didn't used to operate like this and nobody who claims they're a Christian should put up with it any longer. Bring back the JOBS, then shoot at whoever is left on welfare for all I care.....

 

[RKMBrown]

Most people on food stamps do not get enough to last the month, and can't afford to take advantage of the system.
Why does the right lie about the poor so much?

If most people on food stamps do not get enough to last the month how are the 45 MILLION PEOPLE ON FOOD STAMPS continuing to survive?

According to what I've read: food banks take up the slack. I think what people get for food stamps is probably similar to what people get for minimum wage: just barely enough to get by and in some cases not even that much.

If were to force people to "work" for a living then these folks would have a helluva lot more than just enough to get by.

 

[Vox]

people who face HUNGER are NEVER obese or overweight.

There are a lot of over weight and obese people in America.

There are also people who are hungry. And there are children who go to school hungry. It is helping those who are truly in need that the Food Stamp Program and food banks are all about. If there are those who abuse the system, there is only so much you can do about that: there will always be people who will abuse any system. But we need to be aware that there should not be hungry people in America: it is still, despite what many say, one of the richest, most prosperous countries in the world with a vast number of people who have too much to eat and should not resent the tax dollars spent on those who may not have enough.

the vast majority do not even need them. the enrollment is a way to make more Americans dependent on the government and therefore securing their votes.

The really hungry ones are never overweight or obese. EVER.

 

[Luissa]

Most people on food stamps do not get enough to last the month, and can't afford to take advantage of the system.
Why does the right lie about the poor so much?

If most people on food stamps do not get enough to last the month how are the 45 MILLION PEOPLE ON FOOD STAMPS continuing to survive?

According to what I've read: food banks take up the slack. I think what people get for food stamps is probably similar to what people get for minimum wage: just barely enough to get by and in some cases not even that much.

Yep. Most of the people I know with families also have to go to the food bank and other charities.
My one friend and his family used to get help from LDS. I will say this, Mormons are very good at helping out their members.