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News: Food Stamps cut-offs to happen in November
Member Since: 9/12/2012
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Originally posted by BrittRihanna134
I agree
There should be a way to monitor what's being bought. I've seen people get debbie cakes and other snacks/junk food instead of nutritional items. Also (hope this isn't off topic) but minimum wage needs to be raised so people can live off a job without a degree.
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That brings up another issue, though. It is honestly cheaper to have an unhealthy diet. Due to the ease of making the unhealthy products, they can be sold cheaper. Not only that, but those who sell healthy foods profit huge off health nuts.
Now, if you could buy healthy foods cheaper than the unhealthy food, you'd probably see more people buying the cheap, healthy food.
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Member Since: 8/31/2012
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Originally posted by Hugamari
Actually, anyone *could* do that. All you would have to do is limit how much money you can spend on food in a month to what people on food stamps would get.
Now, people who have enough money to easily get by month to month would never do that, why should they? Although I guess you are saying it's easy to pass judgement on people when youhave not been in there shoes. That's true, but it doesn't make it any less ignorant.
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agreed. but ignorance is how we function as people. And it can be useful at times.
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Member Since: 8/29/2012
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Originally posted by Bayonsay
Hew is that in your avi sis?
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Brandon from SC
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
Law is worthless, to be honest. We have more lawyers per capita in this country than any other country, and the median attorney's wage is pitiful.
I know this because I clerked for a lawyer when I was in high school, and he made sh!t and told me not to believe the hype.
Business is a crapshoot too. Depends on the person and his/her creativity/guts. A lazy/uncreative person can do all the studying he/she wants, but they aren't going to get far in business without trying their as* off and using street smarts.
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@ Warrenc What did you study/work in? Like what field?
I know Business is a crapshoot, but I still think it's a better degree to possess rather than some social science ones. I actually thought lawyers make more but it depends on firms and type of lawyer too I guess. Engineering and Medicine are probably the best, but not everyone can excel in those fields.
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Member Since: 11/6/2011
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
That's going to kill the economy, tbh.
On a semi-related note to that: People were saying how McDonald's workers are demanding $14.00/hour for what??? flipping a burger and asking if you want honey mustard?
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Whipping out a calculator to count 34 cents in change...
"Damn this sh*t is hard work"
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by Echelon
This is America. If Rihanna can make it here, so can Shaniqua from down the block.
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nnn mess
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Member Since: 9/9/2012
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Originally posted by Echelon
This is America. If Rihanna can make it here, so can Shaniqua from down the block.
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Originally posted by warrenc
Mess.
I disagree with everything you've said.
I remain unbothered though with my degrees and the well-paying job i had lined up directly after college.
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Ignorance.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by warrenc
Mess.
I disagree with everything you've said.
I remain unbothered though with my degrees and the well-paying job i had lined up directly after college.
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Not everybody is that lucky though. You really shouldn't pass judgment onto others because it didn't go the same way for them as it did for you. That's just ignorant.
It's working out fine for me too, so far, but who would seriously be ignorant enough to think it goes that way for everybody? Almost all of my college was paid off for and I know that if it wasn't for that, my ass would be in thousands of dollars of debt right now.
Open your mind a little more.
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by SupahBass05
Brandon from SC
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I see
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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That's unfortunate. It's just 16 dollars though, it shouldn't effect people that much.
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Member Since: 8/31/2012
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Originally posted by SupahBass05
Brandon from SC
I know Business is a crapshoot, but I still think it's a better degree to possess rather than some social science ones. I actually thought lawyers make more but it depends on firms and type of lawyer too I guess. Engineering and Medicine are probably the best, but not everyone can excel in those fields.
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Not type. Just school + connections. The top 25 law school graduates make much much much more than the rest of the law school graduates on average by far, regardless of concentration.
Engineering depends on type too, and it changes with the times. Right now, it's CompSci. My friend, who went to a crappy state school and got like a C+ average in CompSci, was hired at Motorola for a $120k+ salary before he even graduated
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Member Since: 8/31/2012
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Originally posted by warrenc
Whipping out a calculator to count 34 cents in change...
"Damn this sh*t is hard work"
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dont forget to toast the buns
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Member Since: 2/16/2012
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
Not type. Just school + connections. The top 25 law school graduates make much much much more than the rest of the law school graduates on average by far, regardless of concentration.
Engineering depends on type too, and it changes with the times. Right now, it's CompSci. My friend, who went to a crappy state school and got like a C+ average in CompSci, was hired at Motorola for a $120k+ salary before he even graduated
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Ok girl claps for him. We still don't care.
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Member Since: 11/6/2011
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You act like you need a 4 year college degree to have a decent-paying job. You could attend a community college and take classes in phlebotomy or nursing classes and make more than most people.
The sad thing is that people want free handouts, or "when times get tight" but they don't want to work or try for it themselves.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by unbothered
I get food stamps, but it's only $120 and I buy nutritous foods that I can make meals that stretch and it's still is gone within a week and half or 2.
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Same with me when I was getting them. Im like wtf is $110 a month is going to do.? Even if buying the off-brand generic products, the food barely last 2 weeks.
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Member Since: 3/12/2012
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Not this thread being my first hit.
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TikiMiss is the epitome of the republican, everyone is in optimal situations from birth mess.
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Member Since: 4/7/2012
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this must have already started in VA because I just got back from walmart and I was held up in the 20 items or less line by a woman who's food stamps had not went through yet or whatever. I was hot
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Member Since: 9/12/2012
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Mess at people coming for McDonalds/fast food restaurant employees.
You know why they want $14/h? Entitled "I got my degree, and I am superior to those who don't" people go through the drive through and are not in the least bit polite. Any job where you have to work with the public is hell. ANYONE who has worked in a job like that will tell you.
I know, it's honestly hard to believe a minimum wage job is "hard", but ****, it's a job.
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Member Since: 6/25/2010
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Originally posted by iHypeMusic
And you do realize there is people who live in Projects, who have the struggle of even finishing High School because they are virtually poor. They have no way of getting there, they have struggles they have to handle at home, etc.
You seriously are silly if you think anybody and everyone can easily just go to College and let alone graduate.
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Originally posted by warrenc
Mess.
I disagree with everything you've said.
I remain unbothered though with my degrees and the well-paying job i had lined up directly after college.
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How can you disagree with that, literally, that's impossible to fail to recognize the struggles some people have.
I'm just going to leave this thread, **** like that gets said, as well as suggesting food stamps be cut and people on welfare grow their own food.
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