Water Dumping

#3
#3
Are they just laundering the FS for more versatile cash? Seems like other ways to turn $6 of FS into $2.40 of cash.
 
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volinbham said:
Are they just laundering the FS for more versatile cash? Seems like other ways to turn $6 of FS into $2.40 of cash.
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Indian casinos... you kill 2 birds with one stone. Feed the poor and help out the Indians with whatever discretionary money is left over.
 
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Regretably, I am currently living in Homestead FL. I go to the Wal-Mart here as infrequently as possible. It is the highest grossing Wal-Mart in the country, but it is the biggest dump I've ever been in. EVERYBODY that shops there, other than myself, pays with food stamps at the checkout. It is like a mob of entitled degenerates that don't work. I went to the store on one of my Fridays off around 1:30 and I couldn't get a parking spot. I go in to the store and there are 12 people in each checkout lane all paying with foodstamps during work hours on a "workday". Then when I leave Wal-Mart, I see a guy selling bottles of water for $1.00 per bottle at an intersection very close to the store. This place is like an entirely different planet compared to East Tennessee.
 
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saxvol said:
Thats not a bad return on plastic bottles, wonder if I can get that in these parts? We go threw a case a week.
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IIRC Maine has a nickel deposit (water/soda) or fifteen cent deposit(beer) for each can or bottle when you purchase so there's incentive to recycle. Supposedly 90% recycle rate. The containers are stamped so you can't bring them in from another state and redeem them.

First time I went to Maine, every town I went through had a number of small stores with Redemption Center signs. Being from the South, I mistook them as religious buildings, not recycling centers.
 
#9
#9
why do this when in some states you can just use a SNAP card like an ATM and get cash with it?
 
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Bezdomny said:
IIRC Maine has a nickel deposit (water/soda) or fifteen cent deposit(beer) for each can or bottle when you purchase so there's incentive to recycle. Supposedly 90% recycle rate. The containers are stamped so you can't bring them in from another state and redeem them.

First time I went to Maine, every town I went through had a number of small stores with Redemption Center signs. Being from the South, I mistook them as religious buildings, not recycling centers.
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the second paragraph is priceless
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There was this feller I knew who liked to drink and play pool at the same poolhall I frequented. Every so often (can't remember the frequency) he would get his foodstamp money and go to the Piggly Wiggly (best meat in town, real butcher) and buy up about 90% of his check's worth of steaks. He would then come to the poolhall and sell 'em for about $.40 on the dollar and then he would use the money to buy his beer and drugs. I used to buy some from him. Figured it was my money anyway, I was just getting a chance to get some of it back. Worked out well for everyone. And just goes to show how ludicrous the status quo is.
 
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Would rather see hot food cafeterias in place. Its really as easy as selling your PIN number for cents on tbe dollar. The water dumping is actually work.
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#14
Why allow purchase of bottled water (or any beverage for that matter) with food stamps.
They should be to keep you from starving - not to keep you living comfortably.

BUT - food/beverage lobbies would never allow common sense rules.
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TruthIsOutThere said:
Why allow purchase of bottled water (or any beverage for that matter) with food stamps.
They should be to keep you from starving - not to keep you living comfortably.

BUT - food/beverage lobbies would never allow common sense rules.
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Not to derail the thread, but this goes for all lobbies. Alcohol and tobacco don't want marijauana legalized because it would cut into their pockets.
 
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Bezdomny said:
IIRC Maine has a nickel deposit (water/soda) or fifteen cent deposit(beer) for each can or bottle when you purchase so there's incentive to recycle. Supposedly 90% recycle rate. The containers are stamped so you can't bring them in from another state and redeem them.

First time I went to Maine, every town I went through had a number of small stores with Redemption Center signs. Being from the South, I mistook them as religious buildings, not recycling centers.
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another one!
 
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