Monday, August 11, 2008
10 comments:
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Shayne said...
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Shameful. I'm sorry, but some people are actually hurting. If you're going to have a program to feed the poor, don't abuse them.
I can understand only allowing certain purchases, but not to toast a sub??? Pul-eeeze! -
8/11/08, 7:18 PM
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Anonymous said...
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You should only be able to buy fresh food/nothing processed with food stamps ever.
And nothing at a fair with them.
If someone's "hurting" then they don't get a $3 roasted ear of corn or a $4 gawddamned hot dog.
I'm not sorry. -
8/11/08, 9:25 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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SondraK for Queen of Germany!
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8/11/08, 9:42 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Yes, SondraK. Just yesterday I followed a perfectly healthy young woman through the checkout who used a food stamp card. Purchases were all junk--2 different kinds of cookies, a chip assortment pack, some of those new-fangled sodas, 3 cans of sardines, but no staples, milk or fruits or veggies. Too bad you are not in charge.
mary -
8/11/08, 10:15 PM
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Anonymous said...
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80% are sold for 50 cents on the dollar for beer and drugs. The whole program is a joke.
Spanky -
8/11/08, 10:47 PM
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Bob Hawkins said...
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In the old days, a poor family would make a chicken last 3 days. Today, they don't know what to do with a chicken, they get theirs at KFC.
The problem poor people today have isn't that they don't get enough help. It's that they aren't even good at being poor. -
8/12/08, 10:49 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Here in California they give out foodtamps in the form of a debit card. You should see what people buy with them. I saw a fat family buy papers plates, cups and party supplies.
I say let them rip the pages from the book so that everyone knows they do nothing but take everything. -
8/12/08, 1:43 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Screw food stamps.
Set up a soup kitchen. Free food for you and your kids if you give up your right to vote for one year. -
8/12/08, 1:47 PM
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Juice said...
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Although most of these comments are true, I've actually seen families embarrassed and a bit ashamed of using hand-out food stamps. It was the late 80's and the families were those of displaced of logging industry workers --
in order to protect the damned spotted owl!!! Bastids! -
8/12/08, 2:32 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I remember as a kid when my stepfather was laid off, and to supplement his unemployment my mother took me down every Thursday to pick up an allotment of surplus dairy products. Milk, cheese, plus macaroni, spaghetti, etc. There were no food stamps in those days. People who were unemployed found work--of any kind--pretty darn quick!
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8/12/08, 7:47 PM
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