H/T to Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org
See his take here:
“End ‘Food Stamps’
The screaming is getting louder and more-desperate by the day..”
http://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=229979
it’s like obamacare at the grocery store.
Either transfer wealth or don’t. Adding strings is against personal liberty.
The way they use their EBT cards is criminal.
Yep. It’s their human right to have the government steal from us on a permanent basis. And then they get to buy whatever they want with the money that is stolen from us.And you are a dirty rotten low-down SOB if you say boo about it.
It’s so they won’t feeeeeeeeel bad you see.
Is this from The Onion?
I guess hundreds of people standing in bread lines is bad PR. Out of step with our “soaring” economy. LOL.
It's not your Money. And there's a high percentage of people using those cards
to buy steak and lobster only to sell it for a lower price to buy drugs and booze.
Enough already. I hope this catches on nationwide.
Because the government treats them like criminals.
Lobster-Eating Food Stamp Recipient Refuses Hannity’s Job Help
http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/03/13/welfare-surfers-saga-continues-lobster-eating-food-stamps-recipient-refuses-hannitys-help
Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores and X-rated shops
http://nypost.com/2013/01/06/welfare-recipients-take-out-cash-at-strip-clubs-liquor-stores-and-x-rated-shops/
From what I can tell they are not being treated any worse than the people who have to pay for the benefits.
After working at the grocery store for a number of years and seeing first hand, the vast majority of food stamp recipients loading there carts up with crab legs, steaks and convenient foods, I firmly believe food stamps should be ran like WIC programs, just the essentials, milk, cheese, peanut butter, rice, beans, with the addition of veggies. It is both nutritious and cost less to eat healthy.
First of all, it's their business if they're paying for it.
Second of all, we now have state and federal governments that want to use taxes to raise the price of stuff they think we shouldn't eat, even though we pay for it ourselves.
So either find money to buy what you like or else STFU and eat what other people are willing to buy for you, and be thankful about it.
Lord, this entitlement mentality is killing our country and our society.
Here is a bigger question. Why does a state like Missouri with 6 million people have 1 million on food stamps?
So if they can’t afford to buy it even if they wanted to, what’s the problem.
BTW, bucko, I have spent weeks eating nothing but Top Ramen or 2 for a dollar chicken pies, because that’s what my wallet ordered me to eat.
Show a little gratitude that you’re getting money in your wallet for nothing.
It is a program to supplement food purchases. So if $1.41 is added to what you can spend on every meal, yes you can eat better than I do.
Make them buy crap that Moo decrees to be healthful and PC. White House Mama Moo knows all.
The Bible says you don’t lend at interest to a poor person, you are to return him his cloak before sundown if you have taken it to secure repayment and you’re too leave the growth of your Sabbath year as food for them.
Why all the anger? Poor people don’t break the law, curse or spit on those who help them. There seems to be more anger at them than at rich people who get away with it.
As though they did something to deserve such treatment.
Let’s stop the whining and do away with snap and the EBT card entirely except for the TRULY disabled.
Go back to handing out basic food commodities to others down on their luck.
Then they won’t have to feel bad going into grocery stores.
Taxpayer funded assistance is supposed to be a helping hand - not a multi-generational family business.