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Discussion: Thoughts on Food Stamps
Member Since: 12/30/2011
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I see them abused all the time. I think very few people actually deserve to be on food stamps. I think the majority are just lazy.
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
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A blessing. I don't have food stamps anymore but I did when I was younger. I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for food stamps. Anyone saying otherwise has no idea how hard it is out there 
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Member Since: 7/9/2010
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It's fine if they have to use it time to time, but if they abuse the privilege and are capable of at least applying for jobs... 
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Member Since: 9/12/2012
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Originally posted by RatedG²
A blessing. I don't have food stamps anymore but I did when I was younger. I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for food stamps. Anyone saying otherwise has no idea how hard it is out there |
This. My family would be homeless without them.
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Member Since: 6/28/2010
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I have worked at a grocery store and I am sorry to say but due to my experiences with people with SNAP, foodstamps, or anything like that, it is safe to say for myself that it is mostly an abused program. People on food stamps are the rudest, laziest, meanest, people I have ever met. Most of them are young and able to work to pay the bills and make money to live yet they leech off of others for money. As a worker these customers do not bag their own groceries and expect to be waited on hand and foot while at the grocery store so that they do not have to lift a single finger to do anything. They always have Coach purses, nails done, Iphones, and other designer items, yet cant afford food? That is crazy to me. They always start fights within the store over financial matters with me, when I myself am working to pay for their food everyday.
Overall to me I am working so that you can have that card. You will respect me at the very least for being somebody to actually get off their ass and do some work.
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
Posts: 71,871
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Originally posted by Razr
I have worked at a grocery store and I am sorry to say but due to my experiences with people with SNAP, foodstamps, or anything like that, it is safe to say for myself that it is mostly an abused program. People on food stamps are the rudest, laziest, meanest, people I have ever met. Most of them are young and able to work to pay the bills and make money to live yet they leech off of others for money. As a worker these customers do not bag their own groceries and expect to be waited on hand and foot while at the grocery store so that they do not have to lift a single finger to do anything. They always have Coach purses, nails done, Iphones, and other designer items, yet cant afford food? That is crazy to me. They always start fights within the store over financial matters with me, when I myself am working to pay for their food everyday.
Overall to me I am working so that you can have that card. You will respect me at the very least for being somebody to actually get off their ass and do some work.
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This whole post is just...  but especially the bolded part. While you should be commended for having the decency to get a job and work your ass off (that's really a good achievement and I'm not being sarcastic) but making that statement saying that is ludicrous. You should also respect them for being able to accept their shortcomings and ask for help when needed because that alone is hard to do. I mean gyal if it was easy to get a job you think people would be starving on the streets and would choose to be homeless? Most people don't have the opportunities you have. Sure it's an abused system but just because you ran into a bunch of knuckleheads at your job proves nothing. And its hilarious that you can't have nice things and be on food stamps, like the buffoonery for even thinking such is just 
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Member Since: 6/28/2010
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Originally posted by RatedG²
This whole post is just... but especially the bolded part. While you should be commended for having the decency to get a job and work your ass off (that's really a good achievement and I'm not being sarcastic) but making that statement saying that is ludicrous. You should also respect them for being able to accept their shortcomings and ask for help when needed because that alone is hard to do. I mean gyal if it was easy to get a job you think people would be starving on the streets and would choose to be homeless? Most people don't have the opportunities you have. Sure it's an abused system but just because you ran into a bunch of knuckleheads at your job proves nothing. And its hilarious that you can't have nice things and be on food stamps, like the buffoonery for even thinking such is just |
The point I am trying to make is that, your money should be spent on basic life necessities, before you go out and buy high end products. The majority of the users are abusers and it is absurd to me that money is taken from me to pay for people who do not deserve help.
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Member Since: 9/12/2012
Posts: 26,389
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Although my family does not abuse them, I honestly have only met 1 other family that had food stamps and did not sell them for drugs. That says more about the type of place I live than the food stamps system itself, but...just thought I would put both sides out there. 
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
Posts: 20,576
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Originally posted by Smartypants
It's not the food stamps themselves that I don't like, but it's the dependency that arises. People get lazy when they realize they're getting handed free food for doing nothing, even though they might be perfectly capable of getting a job somewhere. But the 1 year limit would give people just enough time to find a job and become independent of the government. |
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Originally posted by JonnyϟLightning
If you want food, go work for it I say. Or at the very most, they should make foodstamps only last 1 year... If by the end of that year you can't get it together and get a job that supports your needs, tough luck. Foodstamps create dependency.
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This post makes no sense. I hate to use anecdotes but I have to this time. An aunt of mine was a teacher, she was laid off her job even denied to provide pension to all teachers and they were not notified that the school was gonna be shut down. Now she's on unemployment and food stamps because she can not find a job, its been over a year now. If it was under your rules she would now have nothing to eat. Once a middle class working women with plenty now a poor woman with nothing. How do you Judith that? Let her starve even though she's been looking (and she won't get hired because of age even though she has young children to feed).
You people have to realize its hard to get a job right now, the unemployment rate isn't that great. Take into consideration it doesn't add the discouraged workers too. So you wanting to have it for a year is ridicolous that even a republican will scoff at it.
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Member Since: 6/28/2010
Posts: 5,647
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I do not mind money being given to people who truly deserve help. But when I see young people purposefully having kids, and cheating the system every day for more money all the time, it just irritates me beyond belief that my money is given to these people.
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Member Since: 12/30/2011
Posts: 15,778
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Originally posted by Razr
I have worked at a grocery store and I am sorry to say but due to my experiences with people with SNAP, foodstamps, or anything like that, it is safe to say for myself that it is mostly an abused program. People on food stamps are the rudest, laziest, meanest, people I have ever met. Most of them are young and able to work to pay the bills and make money to live yet they leech off of others for money. As a worker these customers do not bag their own groceries and expect to be waited on hand and foot while at the grocery store so that they do not have to lift a single finger to do anything. They always have Coach purses, nails done, Iphones, and other designer items, yet cant afford food? That is crazy to me. They always start fights within the store over financial matters with me, when I myself am working to pay for their food everyday.
Overall to me I am working so that you can have that card. You will respect me at the very least for being somebody to actually get off their ass and do some work.
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I agree!
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
Posts: 20,576
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Originally posted by Razr
I have worked at a grocery store and I am sorry to say but due to my experiences with people with SNAP, foodstamps, or anything like that, it is safe to say for myself that it is mostly an abused program. People on food stamps are the rudest, laziest, meanest, people I have ever met. Most of them are young and able to work to pay the bills and make money to live yet they leech off of others for money. As a worker these customers do not bag their own groceries and expect to be waited on hand and foot while at the grocery store so that they do not have to lift a single finger to do anything. They always have Coach purses, nails done, Iphones, and other designer items, yet cant afford food? That is crazy to me. They always start fights within the store over financial matters with me, when I myself am working to pay for their food everyday.
Overall to me I am working so that you can have that card. You will respect me at the very least for being somebody to actually get off their ass and do some work.
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Are people really this ignorant when it comes to these issues. This most reeks of stupidity. Did you care to think that there's more people on food stamps then what you observed? Many of them barely get by with it. Take it away and what will they do? You should know that many on it are the elderly, and they are usually poor and unable to work.
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
Posts: 71,871
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Originally posted by Razr
I do not mind money being given to people who truly deserve help. But when I see young people purposefully having kids, and cheating the system every day for more money all the time, it just irritates me beyond belief that my money is given to these people.
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People purposely having kids? I don't think they have kids JUST to get food stamps. The burden heavily outweighs any outcome of getting a few dollars a month for food 
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Member Since: 3/5/2012
Posts: 5,547
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This thread is full of "I think" and "I believe" and "I've seen," attempting to use personal beliefs and experiences to demonize 47.5 million low-income citizens. What a bombastic way to spew misinformation.
I could talk about how 76% of SNAP households include a child, elderly person, or disabled person, or about how overpayment of benefits are steadily decreasing, or about how 96% of SNAP recipients started working within a year of entering a program, or about how the SNAP program can help families increase their incomes and get back on their feet, or about how less healthy foods are cheaper and more easily accessible to low-income families, but at this point, I've reached the conclusion that if you've never had to live on welfare, your degrading opinions on the programs and the people who need them are irrelevant and moot.
And no, millionaires, that does not include you.
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Member Since: 8/3/2012
Posts: 5,200
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Originally posted by JonnyϟLightning
If you want food, go work for it I say. Or at the very most, they should make foodstamps only last 1 year... If by the end of that year you can't get it together and get a job that supports your needs, tough luck. Foodstamps create dependency.
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You say this so easily like congrats to you for not experiencing any hardships in your life. But no everyone is born into some rich family. A large portion of the people who receive food stamps have a job but they don't earn enough to support there needs. Like $8 an hour for minimum wage isn't going to be enough for an apartment and utilities. Not to mention things like a phone, gas money, insurance, clothes etc...
These people aren't lazy. I had family members that were on it and it was because they didn't make enough even with both husband and wife working. Even a measly little 1 bedroom apartment would cost like $1500 a month.
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Member Since: 3/14/2013
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A lot of these posts I agree with about the typical abuse you see. Though not all families or individuals are like that; some just simply can't work due to multiple factors. And in some places like where I live, getting a job is impossible because every work place is infested by political agendas; you have to be associated with the right party in office to get one.
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Member Since: 12/30/2011
Posts: 15,778
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Originally posted by RatedG²
This whole post is just... but especially the bolded part. While you should be commended for having the decency to get a job and work your ass off (that's really a good achievement and I'm not being sarcastic) but making that statement saying that is ludicrous. You should also respect them for being able to accept their shortcomings and ask for help when needed because that alone is hard to do. I mean gyal if it was easy to get a job you think people would be starving on the streets and would choose to be homeless? Most people don't have the opportunities you have. Sure it's an abused system but just because you ran into a bunch of knuckleheads at your job proves nothing. And its hilarious that you can't have nice things and be on food stamps, like the buffoonery for even thinking such is just |
Most people who are homeless are homeless due to drug and alcohol addiction. That's why they tell you to buy them food instead of giving them money.
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Member Since: 6/15/2012
Posts: 1,415
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Originally posted by RatedG²
This whole post is just... but especially the bolded part. While you should be commended for having the decency to get a job and work your ass off (that's really a good achievement and I'm not being sarcastic) but making that statement saying that is ludicrous. You should also respect them for being able to accept their shortcomings and ask for help when needed because that alone is hard to do. I mean gyal if it was easy to get a job you think people would be starving on the streets and would choose to be homeless? Most people don't have the opportunities you have. Sure it's an abused system but just because you ran into a bunch of knuckleheads at your job proves nothing. And its hilarious that you can't have nice things and be on food stamps, like the buffoonery for even thinking such is just |
Even though the economy is not necessarily booming right now, there are still jobs out there. It bothers me when people throw the "no jobs" card, because there are in fact jobs out there to be obtained. It's a matter of how interested you are in finding a job. And if you're too good to work at somewhere like McDonald's or Walmart, than you most certainly do not deserve food stamps.
And what Razr was referring to when he talked about the "nice things" was that many food stamp users often have possessions that are higher end than the average person would have. It is strange when one whips a food stamp card out of her Louis Vuitton, something most working people can't even afford.
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
Posts: 71,871
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Originally posted by Konichiwa
This thread is full of "I think" and "I believe" and "I've seen," attempting to use personal beliefs and experiences to demonize 47.5 million low-income citizens. What a bombastic way to spew misinformation.
I could talk about how 76% of SNAP households include a child, elderly person, or disabled person, or about how overpayment of benefits are steadily decreasing, or about how 96% of SNAP recipients started working within a year of entering a program, or about how the SNAP program can help families increase their incomes and get back on their feet, or about how less healthy foods are cheaper and more easily accessible to low-income families, but at this point, I've reached the conclusion that if you've never had to live on welfare, your degrading opinions on the programs and the people who need them are irrelevant and moot.
And no, millionaires, that does not include you. |
I see
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Member Since: 3/22/2012
Posts: 25,520
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Originally posted by Razr
I do not mind money being given to people who truly deserve help. But when I see young people purposefully having kids, and cheating the system every day for more money all the time, it just irritates me beyond belief that my money is given to these people.
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Exactly.
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