Living on a Food-Stamp Diet

[E20]

So, you can use food stamps at McDonalds and fast food joints?

[gtownspur]

gtown is among the many people in this country that think they know what it is to be poor but have no idea whatsoever.

Help those who help themselves.

This means that everyone should be given a chance to recupirate, but if they repeatedly make the same mistakes, give to those who really are in need.


There's a difference between being charitable and being a sucker.

[SA210]

And you're among the many people in this country that thinks it's everyone's job to take care of the lazy...err....less fortunate.

Sure some people need assistance but I see a LOAD of people that are just straight up lazy and would rather sit at home and watch Springer then get a ing job.

Help those who help themselves.

This means that everyone should be given a chance to recupirate, but if they repeatedly make the same mistakes, give to those who really are in need.


There's a difference between being charitable and being a sucker.

You know, if you get foodstamps, you are required to work.
(unless of course you are legally disabled)
Of course, these are things that you would like to ignore or simply just don't know.

[gtownspur]

You know, if you get foodstamps, you are required to work.
(unless of course you are legally disabled)
Of course, these are things that you would like to ignore or simply just don't know.

Okay, that does not help your argument.


155 dollars per person is enough to feed people with work as a supplement.

Gtown 1

Sa210 O

[E20]

Somebody answer my question. .

[PixelPusher]

Okay, that does not help your argument.


155 dollars per person is enough to feed people with work as a supplement.

Gtown 1

Sa210 O

Yeah, you tell her Gtown! It's not like they have to spend any of their their work income on rent, transportation, clothes...

Seriously, did poor people take a dump on your lawn or key your car? Why the hostility?

[gtownspur]

Yeah, you tell her Gtown! It's not like they have to spend any of their their work income on rent, transportation, clothes...

Seriously, did poor people take a dump on your lawn or key your car? Why the hostility?

Did poor people give you a good ass ing, seriously why all the slobbing on their knobs part.

[gtownspur]

Somebody answer my question. .

Ask SA210

[Nbadan]

Somebody answer my question. .

no.

[E20]

no.

Why not? Foodstamps are used to buy Food Products, right?

I will list some items and tell me if it is food products or not:
French Fries/Onion Rings/Nachos
Coke/Dr.Pepper/Cherry Coke/Pepsi
Quarter Pounder/Big Mac/Whopper/Single Classic/Jumbo Jack/Grilled Stuffed Burrito
McFlurry


Someone tell me why Food Stamps cannot buy you food that is made fast. That is a contradiction of the name of the currency.

If no one can answer this or they don't change it then this country isn't so great after all.

[TDMVPDPOY]

you can basicall buy a box of noodles mi goreng which only cost like 20-30cents at ur local asian grocery store, just stock them up with SPAM, lettucs, eggs...and you can tank it

[RandomGuy]

gtown is among the many people in this country that think they know what it is to be poor but have no idea whatsoever.

That is pretty much it in a nuts .

I think it would be a fun experiment to give him an infant, plop him down in detriot or some other city far away from his family and see how well he does on his own while trying to take care of that kid until the kid is 18.

Not that I would wish gtown on a hapless infant... (poke in the ribs)

[RandomGuy]

So, you can use food stamps at McDonalds and fast food joints?

No. You are pretty much limited to the grocery store.

[01Snake]

I think it would be a fun experiment to give him an infant, plop him down in detriot or some other city far away from his family and see how well he does on his own while trying to take care of that kid until the kid is 18.

Here is a better idea. DON'T HAVE A KID IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO RAISE IT! Geez, I'm broke as and can barely get by on my own so you know what? I'm gonna go have me a kid. I know if I do, Uncle Sam will support me so I'll actually be even better off than I am now.

I can feel for the disabled and elderly but I'd like the see the breakdown of exactly who is permanently attached to the Government .

[Soul_Patch]

All i know is i cannot leave the damn grocery store for under 100 bucks anymore.


and half the time its a hundred bucks worth of bull . Im the worst grocery shopper ever.

Why is it i go to my moms open the cabinet and she has a bounty of crap...alll this stuff i never even knew existed at the grocery store. She could literally go for about 4 months without ever going back to the store.


I come home after spending 180 dollars, and i got some spaghetti, cat food, a few cans of green beans, and these bad ass granola bars ill finish by tommorrow morning.

[RandomGuy]

Here is a better idea. DON'T HAVE A KID IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO RAISE IT! Geez, I'm broke as and can barely get by on my own so you know what? I'm gonna go have me a kid. I know if I do, Uncle Sam will support me so I'll actually be even better off than I am now.

I can feel for the disabled and elderly but I'd like the see the breakdown of exactly who is permanently attached to the Government .

You have completely missed the point.

Like it or not, kids happen. However you judge the people responsible for that, YOU STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE KIDS, YOU WIT.

Yes, we should encourage people not to have kids they can't afford.

BUT

There will be poor kids out there no matter what.

We can be judgemental and say " 'em" and then try to act all surprised when they grow up to be burdens on the system, or we can actually deal with reality and set aside useless ideology and make sure those kids are given all the chances they can get so we don't have to pay for their jails cells at 50K+ per year.

I would rather spend the money more effectively up front to make sure that all kids get decent nutrition and health care, than to piss and moan uselessly about morality and "kids these days" while ignoring problems.

[gtownspur]

You have completely missed the point.

Like it or not, kids happen. However you judge the people responsible for that, YOU STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE KIDS, YOU WIT.

Yes, we should encourage people not to have kids they can't afford.

BUT

There will be poor kids out there no matter what.

We can be judgemental and say " 'em" and then try to act all surprised when they grow up to be burdens on the system, or we can actually deal with reality and set aside useless ideology and make sure those kids are given all the chances they can get so we don't have to pay for their jails cells at 50K+ per year.

I would rather spend the money more effectively up front to make sure that all kids get decent nutrition and health care, than to piss and moan uselessly about morality and "kids these days" while ignoring problems.

you're right, IF those poor kids had recieved Spiderman Capri Sun and shrek poptarts, they wouldn't grow up to be serial killers.

[clambake]

you're right, IF those poor kids had recieved Spiderman Capri Sun and shrek poptarts, they wouldn't grow up to be serial killers.

Are you just throwing spitballs? Nobody is that stupid.

[01Snake]

Like it or not, kids happen. However you judge the people responsible for that, YOU STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE KIDS, YOU WIT.

wit??

Yep, kids just happen. This is especially true when were are taking about people who can't afford to have them. They just keep on having them. So now we have to deal with the ones we have now AND the ones they have another nine months down the road.

[gtownspur]

Are you just throwing spitballs? Nobody is that stupid.

ask Sa210, she'd probably lie about people ever cheating the system, but i've been to people's homes who have recieved foodstamps and they had more "snacks" , sugary , than i've seen in my cupboard growing up.

[gtownspur]

That is pretty much it in a nuts .

I think it would be a fun experiment to give him an infant, plop him down in detriot or some other city far away from his family and see how well he does on his own while trying to take care of that kid until the kid is 18.

Not that I would wish gtown on a hapless infant... (poke in the ribs)

I'd feed him barbacoa and corn tortillas for breakfast, and steaks and ribs for dinner on the second job i had, and turn him into a linebacker, and then get my nice suburban home in San Diego courtesy of Pete Carroll.

[SA210]

Okay, that does not help your argument.


155 dollars per person is enough to feed people with work as a supplement.

Gtown 1

Sa210 O

Scratch that.

Sa210 + 100000
gtown -100000 (from losing every other arguement ever with me)


1st of all, it's not 155 per person, only for the 1st person it's around that. Then about only 100 per person after that. But again you wouldn't really know these things.

And considering that the income they are getting isn't enough to pay anything, you are wrong about that as well.

You know, gasoline cost the same for everyone, no matter how much you make. To fill a tank for some it takes about 1-2 full days of work for that alone, then the other 2 or 3 days of work for other life and living expenses.

Then there are those who don't have transportaion who struggle hours of each day on the bus going and coming alone, trying to make time and to make ends meet along with their work schedule that fits with the daycare schedule to be able to pick the kids up, to even have time to spend for family time, homework, "to raise their kids right so they don't grow up criminals", etc.

I haven't even scratched the surface with what you guys don't know.

[johnsmith]

Are you just throwing spitballs? Nobody is that stupid.

Pot, meet kettle. That's all you ever do in this forum is throw spitballs.

[clambake]

Pot, meet kettle. That's all you ever do in this forum is throw spitballs.

Good one.

[johnsmith]

Good one.

Truth hurts doesn't it ?