Did he say that? I thought he, like me, is just tired of paying for welfare fraud. What with us being tax payers and all.
if you can eat a filet mignon every day you deserve to die. Have you ever actually computed how much you spend on the groceries you actually eat each month? the food stamp program is heavily means tested that's why a man who is on food stamps who gets a min wage job loses almost all of his food stamps so instead of making $7.25 at his new job, it is more like making $6.25 and on the other side, we still subsidize the workers at Walmart. Walmart pays them a little, and we the taxpayers pay them a little more in food stamps. remember that the next time you are looking for a good steak at Walmart, because their beef isn't worth shit. It's mostly salt and water.
Actually I know exactly what I spend on everything every month. That's one reason I was able to retire so much earlier than most. And I don't look for steak at WalMart. In fact, I don't go to WalMart at all.
just curious, what do spend on food groceries? Only those approved by food stamps. Not paper towels or dishwashing liquid. Only food you could buy with food stamps.???
I'm not on food stamps, but I have friends who are. If you really want to know how much I spend on food every month, I could break down my monthly receipts, but why would I want to do that? I don't even know who you are.
Actually I have a very good grasp of the issues facing households who endure 'food security' issues. The worse victims are children in these households -- in many of them the children only get fed from the free lunch programs at schools - and never get much at home. Why is this do you ask? It is because their guardian has traded the family EBT benefits for drugs or cash instead of feeding the children. The measures that I outlined above would make it more difficult for the guardian to misappropriate the EBT program benefits and not feed the children. Do you have something against measures that will help children get fed?
ok, but they gave me $180/mo, and there is no way I can eat that much, and I doubt you can either. otherwise, I am all for food stamps. I think everybody should be on them. It is the least of our problems as a country. I don't know how much of my tax bill on April 15 goes to food stamps, but it's probably not one iota enough to make a difference in my lifestyle. That's why I say it is chicken shit to bitch about people getting money for food. And it costs me the same whether they use it for food, or they have figured out some way to use it for drugs. So, as far as my tax bill, it is a moot point.
the whole reason I was on food stamps was because of substance abuse. I think you underestimate the ingenuity of an addict. I can just buy food legally and sell it at a discount to you and pocket the profit and use it to buy whatever I want. So good luck, just write another goddamned law. Lord knows we have enough of them, why not add a few more?
I do not underestimate the ingenuity of an addict. However putting measures in place that ensure that only the person listed on the benefit card are obtaining the benefit is a step in the right direction to promoting the integrity of the system. If an addict needs to first buy the food before selling some of the food for drugs -- then they may at least save some of the food for the children in the household... which is the entire intent of these rules. Keep in mind that the original intent of the food stamp program was to feed families with children... not to feed individuals with no under-18 children.
While I am at it... let me provide a link to a post in an earlier thread. The entire thread is interesting but the post provides some insight into the percentage of fraud involved in various social benefit programs. http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index...face-tough-choices.279490/page-8#post-3895474