It only goes to illustrate, Government excess.
Do you doubt that Food Stamps are used to pay for $40 meals? $40 bottles of booze?
That they are available to a criminal, to pay for lobsters for resale... should tell you something.
-John
It only goes to illustrate, Government excess.I'm not going to say there isn't abuse, but this is a very extreme case and as such not a very good example:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/ss/Lobster-Steak-Food-Stamp-Receipt.htm
Purchaser resold items at a profit
On the face of it, the case does seem too flagrant and over-the-top to be true and now we know why. According to the Menominee County Sheriff's Department, local and state investigators have discovered that the reason the cardholder bought such large quantities of lobster, steak, and soda was not to "dine like a king," as some have characterized it, but to resell them for profit. And that is illegal. The accused, one Louis Cuff, has been charged with welfare fraud and faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
So some bitch is taking food stamps and complaing about it while living under mOm's roof?
Get a fucking job! If that one isn't good enough, then get another one!
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Tell her she can go cash her food-stamps, at the nearest corner store.It must vary by state, because in Illinois there are quite a few restrictions on what you can buy via food stamps.
I was behind a lady who couldn't buy a can of beans because the salt content was too high. She had to walk back to the isle and find a different, less salty, can of beans.
I will agree that the amount given for food can be a little high. In Illinois for a family of 4 the maximum is $668/month. I am able to feed a family of 2 for less than $300, and I eat quite well, if needed I could get that down to $150-$200 really easily.
Any openings at your Taco Bell?
It only goes to illustrate, Government excess.
Do you doubt that Food Stamps are used to pay for $40 meals? $40 bottles of booze?
That they are available to a criminal, to pay for lobsters for resale... should tell you something.
-John
Also, as someone else posted there are restrictions on food stamp use that vary from state to state.
Every place I go I see help wanted signs.
On the other hand, I know people that I have worked with, that have actively tried to go on the Government dole.I don't doubt that there is abuse, but on the other hand the example provided was poor as the person is being prosecuted. From my experience working in a homeless shelter for 6 years abuse like that is far from typical.
Also, as someone else posted there are restrictions on food stamp use that vary from state to state.
That's great news for Democrats who believe we can print and spend our way into jobs and prosperity.
Every place I go I see help wanted signs.
Yeah at $8 hour and multiply it by 30 hours and thats $240 a week. Take out taxes and you are at under $200 a week. Forget about getting a second job because not only are they hard to find, the only reason you got your first job is because you are available 7 days a week/24 hours a day so your schedule changes every week. On this $240 a week, you expect people to live somewhere, have transportation, buy health insurance, feed themselves, cloth themselves etc..
So start your own company.
Fuck, Im running three companies right now, two of them from my home computer.
Food stamps are obviously for the non-working, under-class of American Society.Wow, you people that think food stamps means filet mignon and lobster are severely delusional.
The problem isn't that so many working people are on food stamps, its that those jobs pay so badly that working full time there pays them so little, making them qualify. The "get a second job" thing is a piss-poor thing to say about the problem, because there are huge masses of people without even one job. Not everyone is cut out to simply pick up and move or start their own business.
If both spouses in a family take jobs and they still can't make ends meet, then we have more serious problems as a nation than "OMG XXX-million people are on food stamps!" If anything, one full time job should be enough to sustain a family of 3.
Well depends on who you talk to. Some new immigrants will tell you they can feed a family of 10 on $240 a week. Compare to where they come from, that's already decent money and they know how to tough it out. For other American with their entitlement attitude, $240 is of course not enough with their daily steak and lobster dinners.
You still drop shipping shit from China?
lmao.
Barney,Really? Break it down for me. On $1k a month for 1 person.
Let me start it off for you
$300 health care
$100 gas (that is without even going anywhere)
You got $600 left a month to pay for food, housing clothing, utilities, and misc expenses.
Wow, you people that think food stamps means filet mignon and lobster are severely delusional.
The problem isn't that so many working people are on food stamps, its that those jobs pay so badly that working full time there pays them so little, making them qualify. The "get a second job" thing is a piss-poor thing to say about the problem, because there are huge masses of people without even one job. Not everyone is cut out to simply pick up and move or start their own business.
If both spouses in a family take jobs and they still can't make ends meet, then we have more serious problems as a nation than "OMG XXX-million people are on food stamps!" If anything, one full time job should be enough to sustain a family of 3.
Barney,
Are you serious? Cause you just gave me a big lol.
Of course it starts with shelter..
then food,
then clothing,
utilities,
misc expenses...
THEN you get to health care, or gas.
-John
We cannot afford this, infohawk, morally or fiscally.We can afford this program. Let's not pretend we can't. If there's fraud, deal with the fraud don't destroy the program. For fuck's sake we put a man on the moon we should be able to feed our own people.
The underlying cause is low and underemployment among the middle and lower classes. The US economy doesn't really need them anymore as they've been replaced with immigrants and third worlders working for nothing. I see no reason to sell out my countrymen for a cheap iphone.