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Food Stamp Nation: R.I. Town Shows Leftism's Dead End
Investor's Business Daily ^
| 03/20/2013
| IBD Staff
Posted on 03/21/2013 5:18:46 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer
that article actually profiled a young couple who couldn’t afford milk for 2 babies but are paying $75 a month on a tattoo parlor loan, $110 a month for cell phones and $360 a month to lease a 10 yr old car
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:22:29 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
To: IBD editorial writer
This is nothing new. There are sections of any major city and a lot of dying small towns where the economy is driven by government handouts. In the old days, these people would have moved or found other work. Now a lot of them are content to sit around watching cable TV and surfing the internet until the next government check comes in. And that’s no joke — from what I’ve seen, a lot of these people literally are happy sitting around watching TV, week after week, until the next check comes in. They exist and do nothing productive with their lives.
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:23:58 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Opinionated Blowhard
I don’t live in a particularly depressed area, but it is a rare event if I go to the grocery store and am not preceded by, or followed by, someone in the checkout line paying with an EBT card.
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:33:13 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Truth/Lies; Liberty/Tyranny--WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE??)
To: IBD editorial writer
Food Stamp Nation
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:35:06 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
To: silverleaf
“$360 a month to lease a 10 yr old car”
It oughta be illegal for people this stupid to have kids
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:38:40 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
To: IBD editorial writer
I saw a woman with two brats fill up two bags of grocery's[mostly junk food], pay with a state edt card at a gas station. At the prices they charge at the gas station she could have gotten 5 bags of junk food if she was a savvy shopper!
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:39:43 AM PDT
by
ABN 505
To: V_TWIN
Ya know, if we weren’t forced to enable stupid
by having our earnings used to subsidize stupid
at government gunpoint,
there’d be a whole lot less stupid.
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:40:09 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: ABN 505
If it requires any effort,
it is shunned by this crowd.
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:40:45 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: IBD editorial writer
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:41:01 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: MrB
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:43:30 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
To: ABN 505
Why would she care? It’s not her money.
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:43:59 AM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
To: Flick Lives
Lot of parasites in the South. I thought it would be NY, MA, CA with the biggest percentages of useless eaters.
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:47:05 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: IBD editorial writer
From the article:
No matter how well-meaning programs like food stamps are, they can end up draining the dignity and self-respect of those who rely on them.
NEWS FLASH: these people DON'T CARE about dignity or self-respect. They're living the dream on other people's money.
Even though the Census says this is a 71% white community, the Gibsmedat mentality is alive and well.
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:48:09 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
To: IBD editorial writer
Nice piece - thanks for posting.
To: Travis McGee
Gibs-Me-Dat (n.) Annuities, in the form of goods, services, or material (usually welfare checks) given predominately to blacks, in exchange for their tacit agreement to reciprocate by not burning down Americas cities.
Example:
Yo Trayvon, who you be votin' foe in 2012?
I gots to go wit Obama, baby. The democrats be givin out moe betta gibsmedat.
Synonymous with: tribute, baksheesh, Danegeld
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:50:07 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
To: Old Sarge
And reason #1 not to be near a city when the EBTs all flash error and die.
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:52:31 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Sirius Lee
Lot of parasites in the South. I thought it would be NY, MA, CA with the biggest percentages of useless eaters. In MA, at least, it's probably just a matter of it being percentages.
But yeah, our mill cities, or former mill cities, like Lowell, Lawrence, Fall River, Brockton, etc., are chock-full of food stampers. And the areas west of Worcester are very economically depressed, too - although they are populated far less densely than the areas to the east.
In my own town, I have had the pleasure of paying cash for my own groceries just after watching a woman buy groceries I could not afford with an EBT card, and then watching her pack those groceries into an SUV I could not afford. Awesome.
To: Old Sarge
The census says 71% white,
but doesn’t the article say 30% of the population is on foodstamps?
There’s nothing that says the food stamp population is a proportional demographic representation of the community.
Also, there is a distorted part time economy where SOMEONE is working at stores that supply the gibsmedats.
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:54:19 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: silverleaf
$75 a month on a tattoo parlor loanJeff Foxworthy joke about "you might be a redneck if you have ever bought a tattoo on time payments" has come to life.
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posted on
03/21/2013 5:55:28 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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