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You sound like a liberal Democrat. Eat what I tell you to eat. What a bunch of hypocrites on this forum.Oh, so because someone is poor, they aren’t entitled to some ice cream once in a while?

I hope you never have to get in a position to use food stamps. On second thought - I hope you do. Then you wouldn’t be so quick to run off at the mouth and tell others what they can and can’t eat or drink.

Yes, there is some abuse in the system - I’ve seen it - but, you hypocrites on here want to punish those who really need the help because of a few who take advantage of every thing.

No, Jesus wasn’t talking to the U.S. government, but, neither have the churches and so-called CHristians done what he has instructed them to do. Some have food pantries, which are never full enough to help all those who need it. So, when the church doesn’t do what its supposed to do - someone has to pick up the slack. Everyone who has ever paid taxes helps those out - and Jesus also told us to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars, and unto God the things that are Gods. SO, your argument is mighty weak and puny. The government is made up of people - it isn’t a non-human entity.

So, what have some of you control freaks on here done to help the poor, other than run your mouths because they are getting help when needed?

You sound like a liberal Democrat. Eat what I tell you to eat. What a bunch of hypocrites on this forum.Oh, so because someone is poor, they aren’t entitled to some ice cream once in a while?

Start exercising your mind a bit and you may work away some of that crust. A liberal Democrat tells you what you can eat with your own money. Are you familiar with the founding fathers' attitude toward using public money as a means of charity? It was not to be used this way at all. If someone who is "poor" (which most so-classified in the United States are not by almost any historical measure) is relying on the state to take money away from another citizen by threat of force to give to him, he should be limited in the choices available to him for the use of that money. That's not his money. If he doesn't like the restrictions, he doesn't have to take the money. And the restrictions will serve to make sure that folks (the majority of them who are on foodstamps) will use it as little as possible. For whose benefit? For us, the people the government is threatening with fines and imprisonment if we don't surrender our income for redistribution.

No, they're not entitled to ice cream. No one in this society is entitled to anything. They can scrape their pennies together (or give up high speed internet or multiple cell phones or some jewelry purchases or lottery purchases or alcohol or drug or designer clothes or shoes purchases or CDs or iPods or iTunes downloads or movies) and buy it for themselves.

So, what have some of you control freaks on here done to help the poor, other than run your mouths because they are getting help when needed?

Your self-righteousness is matched only by the extent to which you think you can read people's minds and know anything about their actions. How many tens of thousands of dollars of your own personal money have you spent on the needs of refugees? How many years have you spent carrying them around to government and doctor and dental appointments and enrolling them in schools and talking to counselors and taking them for job interviews and dealing with rotten landlords and making emergency runs to the hospital in the middle of the night or leaving work in the middle of the day to do it?

You really need to get an education in both political history and economics. Just because A has a perceived need doesn't give him any warrant at all to take something away from B to alleviate that need or to use C to take it from B to give it to him. A good moral case can be made for preventing the robbery of one person by another. There is no good moral case to be made justifying the robbery of one person by another. And it's funny that you should start out saying that I sound like a liberal Democrat when, in fact, I sound pretty much identical to the political philosophy espoused by the founding fathers of the United States and end up yourself sounding like the harping, bullying, end-justifies-the-means, my-exigency-justifies-my-robbing-you, haranguing of liberal Democrats.

Christ has said:

Luke 6:20-21 Then he looked up at his disciples and said: 'Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Therefore, Christ instructs us to be poor, hungry, and to weep, if we wish the kingdom of Heaven.

Food stamps prevent us from being hungry, therefore food stamps are against Christ's teachings.

Food stamps are a sure road to Hell. STOP SERVING SATAN AND PUSHING FOR FOOD STAMPS!