Posted on 08/25/2011 4:48:09 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Buying bottles? I haven’t heard of that since I was a kid. We used to pick up Coke bottles to raise candy money.
I did not know that they have deposits on water bottles in some places. No wonder water is $6 there; a 24 pack of Nestle water here is about $3.25
So THAT’S how we get the “bang for the foodstamp buck” Pelosi was talking about....../s
I can’t imagine doing all of that for a measley $2.40. And what can you get for $2.40? Can you even get drugs for that small amount of money??? I just can’t imagine being that hard up for money.
Unintended consequence of environmentalism.
The funny thing is, the ‘bottled’ water is just the same as regular water. Here in Houston the bottled water comes from the very same Lake Houston (or Lake Livingston, or Lake Conroe) that the city water comes from.
Idiots.
I didn’t get it either, but now I understand from the comments.
What a pathetic use of time and waste of taxpayer money.
“Would it not be simpler and more profitable to ask a friend to do some of his shopping with your food stamps?”
It would if you had friend who were not also already on food stamps. :)
Actually, I think they do what you describe too. Or at least they used to when it was actual food coupons. You could buy them at some discount to their face value.
Hey C’mon! I don’t blame them! Have you seen the price of cigarettes lately? Or beer??? It’s outrageous! They had to get the money somehow! /s
I saw a girl buying canned salmon for her pets because food stamps can’t be used for pet food.
Why didn’t those water dumpers just sell the bottled water for 25 cents a bottle and have even more cash?
Are there places in America without treated drinking water from the tap?
Running water from the tap? Hmm. Ever use a handpump on a well?
Why on earth bottled water is covered by food stamps is beyond me.Food stamps, apparently now including bottled water, is welfare but not for who you think.
Food stamps, issued by the Dept. of Agriculture (not the welfare dept.) are a farm susbsidy.
Many of these people lived in automobiles ~ along with their families.
Went to school with kids with no shoes.
No need to go over all that but I have seen things that would make grown men cry ~ and those things happened to a lot of people I came to know.
There was no bottled water in those days ~ wasn't an American custom ~ and no food stamps ~ but I bet ten dollar bills to doughnuts that if you asked many of the folks who ever had to live that way if they thought bottled water should be able to be purchased on food stamps they'd say yes.
Then there's always the disaster relief situations.
Sometimes life is not pretty and neat.
We are massively in debt. Tough choices have to be made. In a plea for shared sacrifice, I suggest that we allow the handpumpers to get by with what they have. I oppose food stamps being used for bottled water.
Call me cruel, but I don’t think bottled water should be on the approved purchase list for food stamps.
Hope that it was worth it to them.
Got the job done, but I shudder to think of it, nowadays. Bleaugh.
San Francisco has a reporter who found that people getting free food at the food banks were going a few blocks away & re-selling the food for what ever they could get. They got video footage of this & broadcast it a couple of nights ago on Fox station.
Free food is handed out to people with no proof of residency or ID of any kind.
Another San Francisco Liberal mistake.
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