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To: BenLurkin

There should be no such thing as food stamps.

You’re needy? You get what you need “in kind”.

Go to the food bank and get your bag of beans, rice, meat, cheese and vegetables. Then go home and cook them.

If you don’t want to eat it, then go hungry. It isn’t complicated.


5 posted on 02/12/2011 5:22:00 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

In Florida you can’t use them at restaraunts or for buying prepared foods. However, I do agrees with the homeless arguement. Where are they to store meat and a pack of asparagus?


40 posted on 02/12/2011 6:11:18 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: ChildOfThe60s

You and I think a like.It should also be given in the amount needed as in for every person to feed they get so many pounds of X.


71 posted on 02/12/2011 7:56:06 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Back in the day, 1972, there was a “commodities food program”. One did not get stamps, or cards one got an actual box or two of food, including a 5 pound brick of what looked like Velveeta, but was honest to God cheddar.

Only time in my life I’ve committed welfare fraud. I tried, no way I could buy this stuff and it was so much better than sto’bought!

Totally agree with the concept; provide food, not food stamps. In Texas we have a “card” instead of “stamps” Whoopee, the junkies still trade them at 50 cents on the dollar, just like the old days. Somebody at the bar gets cheap ribeye, junkie gets cash for (meth, coke, fill in the blank).


85 posted on 02/12/2011 10:24:15 PM PST by barkeep (Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc)
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