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Hipsters on Food Stamps
http://www.salon.com ^ | MAR 15, 2010 | JENNIFER BLEYER

Posted on 11/11/2012 5:42:54 PM PST by huac

"...Gerry Mak and Sarah Magida sauntered through a small ethnic market stocked with Japanese eggplant, mint chutney and fresh turmeric...Magida, a 30-year-old art school graduate...she’s used her $150 in monthly benefits for things like fresh produce, raw honey and fresh-squeezed juices from markets near her house in the neighborhood of Hampden, and soy meat alternatives and gourmet ice cream from a Whole Foods a few miles away..."

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To: huac

“Magida, a 30-year-old art school graduate...”

Well, there you go.


21 posted on 11/11/2012 6:03:59 PM PST by ari-freedom
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To: momtothree

So, how was he surviving before food stamps?


22 posted on 11/11/2012 6:06:12 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: huac

RED DIAPER DOPER BABIES


23 posted on 11/11/2012 6:06:40 PM PST by Fred (http://thebubblefilm.com/)
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To: huac

Foodstamps for hipsters is commonplace. What’s most amazing about this story is SALON is still publishing.


24 posted on 11/11/2012 6:06:52 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: huac
He earned income and paid plenty of taxes for 10 years, fell on hard times, signed up for food stamps.

Is it the proposal to cast this former taxpayer out on the street to starve now that we can't suck more taxes out of him?

25 posted on 11/11/2012 6:08:19 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: huac

They’re young, they’re broke, and they pay for organic salmon with government subsidies. Got a problem with that?
http://www.salon.com/2010/03/16/hipsters_food_stamps_pinched/


26 posted on 11/11/2012 6:09:38 PM PST by Fred (http://thebubblefilm.com/)
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To: huac
This is a perfect, disgusting, argument of why it is time to stop pulling the wagon full of looters. It really is time to go Galt and sign up for benefits ourselves if we can. This will not end well, but we are nothing but serfs at this stage.
27 posted on 11/11/2012 6:09:55 PM PST by Truth29
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To: muawiyah
Butter is pretty hum drum stuff ~ and so is tarragon.

Have you purchased butter lately? It's approaching $4.00. And if that's fresh tarragon, it's certainly not in my budget.

28 posted on 11/11/2012 6:12:30 PM PST by mplsconservative (Barack Hussein 0bama has American blood on HIS hands!)
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To: huac
"... toiled in publishing..."

Sure. The same way Obastard "toiled" at community agitating. It's hard work.

Somehow I don't think Mark was "toiling" at changing plates, refilling ink or changing 5 ton rolls of paper in the pressroom.

29 posted on 11/11/2012 6:13:17 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Fred
it's referred to as WILD SALMON. I've been buying frozen chunks at $4.75 a pound for the last year ~ each 1 pound chunk breaks up nicely into four full servings for adults.

Steak costs more, and hamburger, though available at lower price, doesn't go as far as salmon.

I shop at ALDI ~ along with the welfare mothers and hootchie mommas.

30 posted on 11/11/2012 6:13:47 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

It doesn’t sound like he “fell” on hard times. It sounds like he “sauntered” over to them, leaving a job behind (working is so 20th century) and discovered that not working is quite satisfying as long as others pay to support him.


31 posted on 11/11/2012 6:14:41 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: huac

Did Gerry Mak and Sarah Magida, happen to tell you to get the hell off the computer and get back to work so they can eat better?


32 posted on 11/11/2012 6:15:54 PM PST by Typical_Whitey (The political mirage of something for nothing; has ruined many a nation.)
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To: mplsconservative
60 cents for a pack of seeds ~ I once had so much of the stuff growing around here the odor was making me sick.

Assuming you need to buy this stuff in a store is probably wrong with the former taxpayer. He was surviving somehow ~ and he may have turned to urban farming.

33 posted on 11/11/2012 6:16:20 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: huac

From the USDA website : “Thirty-five states have abolished asset test”

“Households may have $2,000 in countable resources, such as a bank account, or $3000 in countable resources if at least one person is age 60 or older, or is disabled. However, certain resources are NOT counted, such as a home and lot..”

So just go spend down your bank account and buy some 22” spinner rims for your Escalade, and you’ll be fine.


34 posted on 11/11/2012 6:16:34 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Being a pressman is not exactly ‘publishing’ ~ it’s more a vanishing semiskilled trade ~ the whole printing industry is going down the tubes


35 posted on 11/11/2012 6:18:01 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

What a retarded question! You must be a liberal. Only a liberal would seriously think that this guy has only two options:

1. Starvation; or,

2. Insist that us taxpayers buy him organic salmon, fresh turmeric, triple-creme cheese, and organic asparagus.

F**K THAT GUY! Anyone on aid who acts like that doesn’t need the help.


36 posted on 11/11/2012 6:18:03 PM PST by dinodino
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To: Truth29

I will never sign up for government benefits. I know it’s an old-fashioned artifact these cynical post-modern days, to be sneered at as being stupid, not taking what’s there to be had, but there is such a concept as honor. Useless, outmoded, almost a luxury item now, if there was a market for such a useless thing.


37 posted on 11/11/2012 6:18:33 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: huac

I probably met their Dad on a chair lift in the Sierras in 1975. The guy next to me on the lift was bragging about how he worked only enough in the fall to buy a new pair of skis, boots and season pass. In the spring, he worked just enough to buy a new surfboard. He lived on welfare during the skiing and surfing season. At the time, I was working 60 to 80 hour weeks. I still have dreams of pushing the bastard off the chair when we were about 150 ft off the ground.


38 posted on 11/11/2012 6:18:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: huac

I probably met their Dad on a chair lift in the Sierras in 1975. The guy next to me on the lift was bragging about how he worked only enough in the fall to buy a new pair of skis, boots and season pass. In the spring, he worked just enough to buy a new surfboard. He lived on welfare during the skiing and surfing season. At the time, I was working 60 to 80 hour weeks. I still have dreams of pushing the bastard off the chair when we were about 150 ft off the ground.


39 posted on 11/11/2012 6:19:18 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: huac

I would tell Mak that I suggest that Atlas should shrug, go get his EBT card and Obamaphone head out to Colorado where he can smoke a joint while waiting in line for his Obamacare doctor to put him on permanent Social Security Disability after that he can head out to Washington State and marry his life partner Hercules where they can raise their eugenically created daughter Julia as a slave to government programs and assistance perpetuating the cycle of dependency.


40 posted on 11/11/2012 6:19:34 PM PST by Typical_Whitey (The political mirage of something for nothing; has ruined many a nation.)
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