Posted on 12/08/2014 8:41:14 PM PST by boycott
It’s obvious the cop hasn’t missed any meals. That makes his actions even more admirable. He doesn’t know what it’s like to be hungry.
‘Never judge a book by it’s cover’, maybe he has been hungry and now overcompensates with food. So my guess is he is paying it forward due to experience...or not. Most people who are generous have done without at some point.
I was giving him kudos for helping someone even if he couldn’t empathize. But after I read the entire story he says when he was a kid there were times when his mother had a hard time finding him and his sister food. So, he does know what it’s like. God bless this man.
If those on here condemning this woman would read the whole story they’d be a little more understanding. She’s on welfare and was several days away from getting her check. It gives the amount of welfare and it ain’t much. They’d been out of food for 3 days. She went to the store with $1.25 to buy eggs but they cost more than that. So, she put 5 eggs into her pocket. They broke. And employee saw her take the eggs and asked her if she had taken them and the woman told the truth.
So, if she had gone to jail I guess it would have for breaking store merchandise. But can you imagine how defeated she felt when she tried to steal 5 eggs to feed the kids in her charge and they broke? God help these people.
If you cook from scratch, I believe food budgets go a little further. Here are some numbers I got off the ND website:
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefit Computation Sheet
ND DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES/FSP
SFN 362 (Rev. 03-06)Household Size
41. Gross monthly earned income. $400.00 2. Multiply line 1 by 80% and enter here $320.00 3. Monthly unearned income $0.00 4. Add Line 2 and Line 3 $320.00 5. Expenses: a. Farm loss offset - averaged $0.00
b. Standard Deduction $163.00 c. Monthly medical costs for elderly/disabled household members
Total Medical: $0.00 minus 35.00 =Not Elderly or Disabled d. Dependent care costs $0.00 e. Child support paid to non-household members: $0.00 Total Lines 5a thru 5e. $163.00 6. Subtract Line 5 from Line 4. $157.00 7. Shelter costs: a. Rent or mortgage $500.00 b. Property tax and homeowners insurance $0.00 c. Plus HLSU - $590, LUSA - $217, MU - $181, TL - $36 $0.00 d. TOTAL $500.00 e. 1/2 of Line 6. $78.50 Subtract Line 7e from line 7d
(up to allowable maximum)$421.50 8. Subtract Line 7 from Line 6.
(net adjusted income)$0.00 9. Enter Thrifty Food Plan for household size $632.00 10. Multiply Line 8 by 30% $0.00 11. Subtract Line 10 from Line 9 and round down by dropping cents. $632.00 12. NET BENEFIT. $632.00
The cop showed mercy and that was admirable.
Went through the Fed snap calculator for AL, got the same results:
http://www.snap-step1.usda.gov/fns/
She could have stood outside the Dollar Store and asked strangers for change for the buck to feed her kids.
She could have maybe tried to steal something less frikking conspicuous than a 12"x5" carton of eggs.
Obviously not the brightest bulb in the pack. But I am sure her dealer gets paid.
Seems like every time I go into a Dollar Store I get hit up to buy something for a food-bank.
And you would have every moral right to do so (assuming you had no way to earn them through work). I’ll probably get flamed for that but oh well.
With all that said though, there is absolutely no reason anyone should be stealing anything in this country to feed themselves or their family. We have a social welfare program nearly out of control and broke itself.
If I found myself in such a situation, and there was no way to earn food through work, I’d do everything I could to find such assistance (then get off it as soon as possible) before I resorted to theft.
This is of course assuming the system were still functional. In a few years, who knows may have all collapsed under its own weight...
Seems like every time I go into a Dollar Store I get hit up to buy something for a food-bank
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Know what you mean...it does get tiring.
On my ‘Safeway’ discount card(?) I wrote NO DONATIONS on it.
I usually just shake my head at ‘the Dollar Store’ but I did tell one clerk ‘That I thought may ‘understand’ the words’..
“Seriously if I could afford to back every project like that I wouldn’t be shopping here”.
(I like the Salvation Army) but I will not put into the pot EVERYTIME I see one, ..other day walking into Walmart and the guy ‘solicited’ me (I think I ‘know’ him) and I told him to catch me on the way out. On the way out, I told him - “Sorry you should have got me on the way in, when I had some money”...
At least the VFW and LEGION give you a poppy for your donation so you don’t feel ‘guilty’ when you pass by ten other guys.
(NO fair using that poppy you got 10 years ago)....
Unh hunh.
Wife and I are going out to buy some toys for needy kids. I told her our first stop will be Dollar General Stores because they didn’t press charges against a woman for TRYING to steal 5 BROKEN eggs because she was only trying to feed 5 people.
But, that’s just us.
I tried to poste a private reply to you. my account is to new for that.... I hope your wife got he in-laws arested
Nope. They ended up in Mississippi where they had connections.
I have heard so many stories of police reaching into their own pockets to help someone in need. It never ceases to amaze me. On top of this, lets understand that police in general are at a lower end of the monetary pay scale, and this is why many do overtime or outside work. So for them to give, and give, and give, at their own personal expense is overwhelming to me; and usually shows my personal lack of grace and generosity.
Thanks:) It would be extremely satisfying. Good luck with Coach McElwain, I think he is a good hire.
That’s right:) Roll Tide!
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