Food Stamps To Be Cut?

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People need to get off the government's teet and get a JOB.
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We've got this imprecise language again - are they cutting (reducing) the amount spent or slowing the increase (spending more but "cutting" the growth rate. Most likely the latter.

Congress never cuts the amount to be spent (year on year reductions).
 
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San Diego Vol said:
People need to get off the government's teet and get a JOB.
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My grandfather that just had his foot cut off due to diabetes can't get a job. So he needs food stamps. But these 22 year old chicks with 8 kids running around here need to get a job!!
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Coach Grizz said:
My grandfather that just had his foot cut off due to diabetes can't get a job. So he needs food stamps. But these 22 year old chicks with 8 kids running around here need to get a job!!
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disability is a different animal, but needs to be monitored more strictly.
 
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Coach Grizz said:
My grandfather that just had his foot cut off due to diabetes can't get a job. So he needs food stamps. But these 22 year old chicks with 8 kids running around here need to get a job!!
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Sorry to hear Grizz. I agree with you, they shouldn't cut it out for everyone but certainly for those abusing it
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volinbham said:
We've got this imprecise language again - are they cutting (reducing) the amount spent or slowing the increase (spending more but "cutting" the growth rate. Most likely the latter.

Congress never cuts the amount to be spent (year on year reductions).
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Ding Ding Ding
 
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I'm not sure that the article's title, or therefore the thread title, is correct.
 
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good. there was a lady in from of me at Kroger the other day. She was buying sushi and gormet food and paid with it, in part, with food stamps!
 
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I'm all for food stamps - I don't want anyone to starve in this great country! However - I'm also for huge food stamp limitations.

Right now you can buy almost any food with food stamps. I used to work at Pilot on the strip in college. People used to com$e in there to "grocery" shop! Brand name Doritos! Brand name candy! Eggs that cost 10 times as much as they do at Kroger. Candy bars! Man - I've got a damn good job and I don't buy that stuff - especially not in a convenience store.
People on food stamps - take your ass to the grocery store and buy - bread, milk, eggs, cheese, raw (un cut/sliced) veggies and fruit, cheap stew meat and chicken leg quarters, dry rice, dry beans, and that's f'in it!!!

Vote on it now and sign it into law!
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golfballs03 said:
good. there was a lady in from of me at Kroger the other day. She was buying sushi and gormet food and paid with it, in part, with food stamps!
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Seriously, why waste food assistance money on ****ty store sushi? I don't get the point. I would rather eat cardboard and ramen noodles.
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TruthIsOutThere said:
I'm all for food stamps - I don't want anyone to starve in this great country! However - I'm also for huge food stamp limitations.

Right now you can buy almost any food with food stamps. I used to work at Pilot on the strip in college. People used to com$e in there to "grocery" shop! Brand name Doritos! Brand name candy! Eggs that cost 10 times as much as they do at Kroger.
Candy bars! Man - I've got a damn good
job and I don't buy that stuff - especially not
in a convenience store

People on food stamps - take your ass to the grocery store and buy - bread, milk, eggs, cheese, raw (un cut/sliced) veggies and fruit, cheap stew meat and chicken leg quarters, dry rice, dry beans, and that's f'in it!!!

Vote on it now and sign it into law!
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I'm assuming most get a certain dollar value of food assistance a month?
So if you spend up all of your dollar value on high priced items isn't that just stupidity on that individual's part?

I don't see how limiting foods would matter much.
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wounded mullet said:
I'm assuming most get a certain dollar value of food assistance a month?
So if you spend up all of your dollar value on high priced items isn't that just stupidity on that individual's part?

I don't see how limiting foods would matter much.
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I see your point, but if they can afford to use it on junk, then they don't "need" it.
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TruthIsOutThere said:
I see your point, but if they can afford to use it on junk, then they don't "need" it.
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I think most fundamentally agree with a safety net. Most even hate the abused system. All politicians want the votes being bought with the huge pile of money being pisse away for other than true needs.
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Truthisoutthere, good idea. Now there just needs to be incentive for grocers to open up shop in poor areas.
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The vast majority of people in this country are overfed. All you need to do is look at the emerging wasteline. The worst ones are the overweight people with sign up asking for money to eat. When they look like they havent missed a meal in years.
 
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TruthIsOutThere said:
I'm all for food stamps - I don't want anyone to starve in this great country! However - I'm also for huge food stamp limitations.

Right now you can buy almost any food with food stamps. I used to work at Pilot on the strip in college. People used to com$e in there to "grocery" shop! Brand name Doritos! Brand name candy! Eggs that cost 10 times as much as they do at Kroger. Candy bars! Man - I've got a damn good job and I don't buy that stuff - especially not in a convenience store.
People on food stamps - take your ass to the grocery store and buy - bread, milk, eggs, cheese, raw (un cut/sliced) veggies and fruit, cheap stew meat and chicken leg quarters, dry rice, dry beans, and that's f'in it!!!

Vote on it now and sign it into law!
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Because that is what those people do. All of them.
 
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TruthIsOutThere said:
I'm all for food stamps - I don't want anyone to starve in this great country! However - I'm also for huge food stamp limitations.

Right now you can buy almost any food with food stamps. I used to work at Pilot on the strip in college. People used to com$e in there to "grocery" shop! Brand name Doritos! Brand name candy! Eggs that cost 10 times as much as they do at Kroger. Candy bars! Man - I've got a damn good job and I don't buy that stuff - especially not in a convenience store.
People on food stamps - take your ass to the grocery store and buy - bread, milk, eggs, cheese, raw (un cut/sliced) veggies and fruit, cheap stew meat and chicken leg quarters, dry rice, dry beans, and that's f'in it!!!

Vote on it now and sign it into law!
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People weren't starving prior to the current food stamp program that began in the 60's or 70's. Private programs worked. They were not permanent hand outs but rather hand ups. They were not as easy to abuse or scam. They were considered acts of good will/charity and not "entitlements" to the wealth of other people.

This is a program that needs to be shrunk and eventually eliminated.
 
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milohimself said:
Truthisoutthere, good idea. Now there just needs to be incentive for grocers to open up shop in poor areas.
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Businesses have to have security. The culture/ethics/morals in those communities has to change. Social programs like food stamps subsidize the perpetuation of attitudes that should not be.
 
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overseasorange2 said:
You say that like it's as easy as clicking your ruby slippers 3 times. The unemployment rate is 9.1%, and most people think it is really closer to 15%.
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This is a chicken/egg scenario. Is gov't action required because the job market is poor or is the job market poor because of gov't subsidizes and punishes the wrong things?

I know people who have turned down jobs because continuing to draw made more economic sense. These people could be paying taxes but instead are drawing benefits.

I know a family that owns a farm and makes close to $100K per year total. Because the father and mother aren't married... she gets food stamps. I personally know able bodied people who have walked off good jobs that they could have kept with a little effort because they knew "the safety net" would catch them.

These programs were well intended. But the unintended consequences and costs are just too high. These programs were born out of a distorted view of human nature and society AND the ability of man to engineer "more desirable" social results. Progressive programs and ideals are like trying to get a barge to NOLA by heading north on the Mississippi during a flood. Your going against the current and even if you do manage to succeed... you won't get to where you want to go.
 
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