Anyone upset about food stamps is scum

[BlueStateSaint]

I am very bitter over the food stamp program.  I never thought I would need something like it but before I got my job we were scraping the bottom of the barrel.  I went behind my hubbies back and applied just for food stamps.  5 people and they told us we made $65 dollars too much.  I asked the woman over the phone if I could "fudge" the number down and she told me that would be fraud.  I mean Really?!!!!  I can't get anything when we were in desperate need of food yet it so easy for others to get it?  $65 bucks people and they denied me when I have paid into that shit since I was 16.  So embarrassed I even told yall.    Don't hold it against me 

Gina, you did what you felt that you had to do, at that time.  Besides--this little line is key:

they denied me when I have paid into that shit since I was 16.

You should be able to use it if you've paid into it that long.

[Gina]

Gina, you did what you felt that you had to do, at that time.  Besides--this little line is key:

You should be able to use it if you've paid into it that long.

I think so too.  It was an AA woman on the phone and it was like she took great joy in her voice to keep telling me that there was nothing she could do for me.  I bet she wouldn't have said that to another AA.

[Maxiest]

I am very bitter over the food stamp program.  I never thought I would need something like it but before I got my job we were scraping the bottom of the barrel.  I went behind my hubbies back and applied just for food stamps.  5 people and they told us we made $65 dollars too much.  I asked the woman over the phone if I could "fudge" the number down and she told me that would be fraud.  I mean Really?!!!!  I can't get anything when we were in desperate need of food yet it so easy for others to get it?  $65 bucks people and they denied me when I have paid into that shit since I was 16.  So embarrassed I even told yall.    Don't hold it against me 

I have had to use them 2 times in 15 years and I have worked ever single day of my life that I could.  If it weren't for my little rug rates I wouldn't have even bothered.  Thing is I was embarrassed as hell and I got off of them as fast as I could.  I think the whole stigma of people being embarrassed to use welfare is gone.

[Gina]

I have had to use them 2 times in 15 years and I have worked ever single day of my life that I could.  If it weren't for my little rug rates I wouldn't have even bothered.  Thing is I was embarrassed as hell and I got off of them as fast as I could.  I think the whole stigma of people being embarrassed to use welfare is gone.

Oh I know.  My face was blood red from embarrassment when I hit the submit button on my computer for them and when I talked to the woman over the phone.  IT'S EMBARRASSING.  I would not be on them long if I ever had to get on them. Apparently $65 bucks meant I was rich 

[Karin]

she took great joy in her voice to keep telling me that there was nothing she could do for me.

 I've run into that shit before.  Infuriating!  All of us have had hard times, Gina, don't be embarrassed.  Plus, you had kids to think about.  I know you'd do anything for them.  

[Maxiest]

Oh I know.  My face was blood red from embarrassment when I hit the submit button on my computer for them and when I talked to the woman over the phone.  IT'S EMBARRASSING.  I would not be on them long if I ever had to get on them. Apparently $65 bucks meant I was rich 

I had to use the EBT card, and I would put it in my wallet upside down and cover it up when swiping... so embarrassing...

[Gina]

I had to use the EBT card, and I would put it in my wallet upside down and cover it up when swiping... so embarrassing...

  it's okay  you were poorer than me 

[BlueStateSaint]

Max and Gina, H5s for doing what you had to do.

[seahorse513]

Gina and Max, Don't ever be ashamed to ask for a helping hand....Gina , as you said you have paid into this since you were 16 years old. We all have, I am sure. This is what I don't understand, what is the point of paying into medicaid / medicare/ ss/FICA, if we can't use them when we are in a temporary dire straights?

[Freeper]

As far as food stamps for folks who really need a temporary lift, I have no problem with that, that is what things like this should be there for. Now when people know how to fill out every form for every conceivable government program in their sleep, but couldn't fill out a job application, then I have a problem.

I also have a problem with democrats saying how wonderful it is that we have so many on food stamps, and how they create jobs. 

[Karin]

I also have a problem with democrats saying how wonderful it is that we have so many on food stamps, and how they create jobs. 

  That makes my blood pressure shoot through the stratosphere.  Pelosi loves saying that crap, so does Obama.  When Obama said that 1 million more weeks of unemployment is better for our economy than the Keystone XL...I nearly ran off the road.  WTF   

Here are the jobs it saves, I suppose, doesn't really create:  Some grocery store people, liquor store clerks, gas station clerks, landlords. 

[thundley4]

  That makes my blood pressure shoot through the stratosphere.  Pelosi loves saying that crap, so does Obama.  When Obama said that 1 million more weeks of unemployment is better for our economy than the Keystone XL...I nearly ran off the road.  WTF   

Here are the jobs it saves, I suppose, doesn't really create:  Some grocery store people, liquor store clerks, gas station clerks, landlords. 

Don't forget all the bureaucrats sucking the government teat to handle the welfare cases.  Also they help to keep state lotteries running.

[JohnnyReb]

Don't forget all the bureaucrats sucking the government teat to handle the welfare cases.  Also they help to keep state lotteries running.

Back about 1962/3 I was in high school. I used to read magazines in the library, Life, Look, Saturday Evening Post. Well, one of them had an article and a cartoon on "The Welfare System". The cartoon was a full page drawing of a Rube Goldberg machine. You put a welfare dollar in at the top of the machine and 3 cent fell out the bottom for the poor to fight over. At that time it seems that 97% of the welfare dollars were eaten up by government workers.

[AprilRazz]

I was watching our local news this morning and found a gem.
It seems that my state is looking at the possibility of testing those on welfare for drugs. The first comment was a woman who argued that the state does not give her enough to feed her kids now.
Back in my misspent youth I was known to smoke a little pot. It was going for about $25-35 for a small bag. That was close to 20 years ago so I know inflation has taken it's toll as well and those numbers are higher.
Last I checked $35 would buy food for one child for several days.

Only someone that is bleeding the beast could come up with that kind of logic.

Comment at video:
http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/politics/tests-service-may-await-welfare-jobless-benefits

[franksolich]

At that time it seems that 97% of the welfare dollars were eaten up by government workers.

Uh huh, "overhead" and "administrative costs."

And in places run by corrupt Democrat machines, both include payoffs.

Political corruption costs money.  A lot of money.

[MrsSmith]

Interesting that so many military family's qualify and have qualified for many years.  I would guess it is difficult for a a store worker or civilian to know who the person buying foods with these cards are, civilians or Military.

Many bases have closed down, no more big commissary's for dependents to shop at, or the retired that because of circumstances have to live on just the retirement pay.   They are in some cases living in an area where taxes are high and do actually come in under the food stamp movement.

To lift an eyebrow at a stranger using food stamps is the same as looking weird at people using coupons.   That fat lady with 3 kids may be waiting for hubby to come home from his 3rd. deployment to the Middle East as a ground ponder.

I know next to nothing about food stamps but that our service men and woman need them, such is the pay for serving  and dieing for America.  Hell, some service people that get out of the military have it better, get to stay home, family's are fed and they have no worries about being shot and killed every day they wake up. 

Had a store up the street I went into once with a Ghetto about 3 blocks away.   It was I found out 2 days before food stamps were issued for the month.   Had to have been 6-8 people raising the prices on canned goods and toilet paper.   I though this was just a small operation until I noticed the big chain markets doing the same.

The inner city folks that get the stamps really have no choice where to shop, I know of only one Supermarket in down town DC on Q street.   The poor in other cities are SOOL , they have to shop for food within a few blocks and WOW do they get taken.   

More to food stamps and what ever this new card is, not every poor person is on drugs, the majority are in a hole and every time they try to climb out, some crook comes along and shovels more dirt on them.

As Jesus told Mary Magdalene ----the poor will allways be amongst us-----This when she question Jesus on using expensive oil that could be given to the poor.

MRS.Smith help me out on this, was this in the Bible or a tall tale I heard years ago ???

It is presumed that Mary Magdalene was the one that annointed Christ with the expensive oil, and wiped his feet with her hair.  Someone else questioned the use of the oil when it could have been sold and the money used for the poor...I think that may have been Judas because he kept the money for the whole group.


When my first husband was in the Air Force, we found out we could get food stamps.  We applied and got them for a couple months, then just dropped out of the program.  We didn't feel we really needed it and figured they could use the money for those that really did.

[MrsSmith]

I am very bitter over the food stamp program.  I never thought I would need something like it but before I got my job we were scraping the bottom of the barrel.  I went behind my hubbies back and applied just for food stamps.  5 people and they told us we made $65 dollars too much.  I asked the woman over the phone if I could "fudge" the number down and she told me that would be fraud.  I mean Really?!!!!  I can't get anything when we were in desperate need of food yet it so easy for others to get it?  $65 bucks people and they denied me when I have paid into that shit since I was 16.  So embarrassed I even told yall.    Don't hold it against me 

When I went back to college with 3 kids, we had $650 a month to live on.  $133 went to the car payment, $125 to lot rent, (Thank God I owned the 10x50 trailer!!), then utilities, the cheapest possible phone, gasoline, clothing, food, medical expenses.  When I applied for help, I was told I didn't even qualify for heating assistance because 2 of my kids had an inheritance...(that was all locked up by the court, and couldn't be touched until they were 19.)  Our judge told me the state couldn't consider the children's inheritance, but they did, and we never got anything.  I went to college with a woman who was on welfare, her kids had 10x what mine had.

[delilahmused]

I am very bitter over the food stamp program.  I never thought I would need something like it but before I got my job we were scraping the bottom of the barrel.  I went behind my hubbies back and applied just for food stamps.  5 people and they told us we made $65 dollars too much.  I asked the woman over the phone if I could "fudge" the number down and she told me that would be fraud.  I mean Really?!!!!  I can't get anything when we were in desperate need of food yet it so easy for others to get it?  $65 bucks people and they denied me when I have paid into that shit since I was 16.  So embarrassed I even told yall.    Don't hold it against me 

Never be embarrassed. That's what it's there for. It's the people that make it a lifestyle that are the problem. My nana doesn't qualify either and she lives on widow's benefits from my grandfather's social security.

Cindie

[RobJohnson]

All DUmmies should be killed and ate first, then we will talk food stamps!

[movie buff]

The food stamp program is another example (hope our new pet socialist reads this) where a grand theory of benevolence is splattered against the rock cliff of human nature.

No one honestly begrudges anyone eating or needing a helping hand.
What happens though once installed is the program becomes a bureaucracy that exists to grow itself with no regards to consequences or outcomes.

It may seem cruel and heartless but I do want there to be a stigma attached to using them,not to belittle a person but so that person doesn`t belittle themselves to the point of not wanting better in life.
The truth of the matter is the left never wants a person to better themselves because then government and the power wielded by it isn`t needed. 

Well- said.
There is also the problem of people abusing food stamps, such as:
1) Using them, while simultaneously having new- model cars, plasma TVs, state- of- the- art smart phones, etc..
2) Some people use food stamps to buy luxury foods (i.e. steaks, lobsters), which they then illegally sell or trade to others on the side.

[67 Rover]

Well- said.
There is also the problem of people abusing food stamps, such as:
1) Using them, while simultaneously having new- model cars, plasma TVs, state- of- the- art smart phones, etc..
2) Some people use food stamps to buy luxury foods (i.e. steaks, lobsters), which they then illegally sell or trade to others on the side.

Warning blood boiling article below.

https://bangordailynews.com/2011/08/19/news/state/food-stamp-%E2%80%98water-dumping%E2%80%99-scam-continues/

[Rugnuts]

Warning blood boiling article below.

https://bangordailynews.com/2011/08/19/news/state/food-stamp-%E2%80%98water-dumping%E2%80%99-scam-continues/

 

[NHSparky]

Warning blood boiling article below.

https://bangordailynews.com/2011/08/19/news/state/food-stamp-%E2%80%98water-dumping%E2%80%99-scam-continues/

No big surprise there.  The Boston Herald had another story about a woman in MA doing the same thing.

[Karin]

Comment from the Bangor article:

I got SNAP and sometimes buy several cases of water to dump and get money from deposats. Why do u care? I need gas for my car so I can get my methadone tretmants and use this funds for gas. Not every body is frauding, some of us r honest peaple.

 Mole?  Or considering it's Maine, legit?

A more representative comment:

This mindset of abuse is the foundation of the general welfare recipient, not the guy that just lost his job and needs a little help for his family, but the second and third generation no education high school drop outs that does not want to help themselves nor teach their children responsible actions.  Instead we get “this is how you make some money for cigs and beer, son”.  For me, I feel disgust….

I am a bleeding heart liberal who truly understands the need for welfare, but PLEASE!  I work in a large grocery store and just cringe when I see a customer with a Blackberry in one hand while pulling a Food Stamp card from a Coach purse with the other hand.  We need to continue to help the truly needy, but anyone who can afford a monthly phone plan on a Blackberry needs to be reevaluated.

The first step is admitting you’re a Liberal, the next step is realizing your tax dollars and votes are supporting stories like this?………..Come join us it’s not so bad.

Then there's somebody over there who is just mind-numbingly stupid.  Her name is Christina Berg:

•Christina Berg
Soda has nutritional value and is healthier than many fruit juices and milkshakes. Besides is your problem with the fact that soda has sugar or that it tastes good due to carbonation, it seems the latter, many food stamp recipients work , and what if a courier wants calories.

 She keeps saying that sugar is a staple, therefore a human right.    

She makes many posts.  Then we have the geniuses who say, "well, was the water spoiled?"  

Maine.  

[GOBUCKS]

I got SNAP and sometimes buy several cases of water to dump and get money from deposats. Why do u care? I need gas for my car so I can get my methadone tretmants and use this funds for gas. Not every body is frauding, some of us r honest peaple.

Bottled water is sillier than the organic vegetable scam.

I'd rather see them getting beer with food stamps. At least then there's a chance they'll drink themselves to death.