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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Evil_Conservative on September 16, 2010, 12:03:51 AM
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Look what I stumbled upon. Do we really need to have commercials for WIC?
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDDHKuVTM7c[/youtube]
:banghead: :thatsright:
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WIC? Black people? Obligatory response:
:racist:
According to http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/ :
WIC provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.
Does that look like a family that needs to be on WIC? I don't think so.
Where the hell is my Toyota T100?
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According to http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/ :
Does that look like a family that needs to be on WIC? I don't think so.
Where the hell is my Toyota T100?
No kidding! But, I remember when I was in college as a single mom and we were taking no assistance (thank you), I was practically hounded by a WIC employee to take their coupons. When I told her we probably wouldn't qualify, she assured me we didn't have to be really poor and the guidelines were generous.
Apparently very generous. Ugh.
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I prefer WIC over straight up foodstamps for helping those that need it...at least it specifies what foods are recieved and they can't get Coke and Oreos.
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I prefer WIC over straight up foodstamps for helping those that need it...at least it specifies what foods are recieved and they can't get Coke and Oreos.
I hear there is a healthy trade in Baby Formula for many things including Coke.
WIC came in to being right about the time of Gerald Ford. Another program that started out as a
'pilot' program and took on a life of its own. Back in that era I worked for a federally funded state controlled training and welfare to work (make work) program which mothers on WIC were eligible for. That could have been when the phrase "who's yer daddy" became popular along with the term shacking up and shack-let. Dads were free to 'do their own thing' which in my experience was mostly to hang out, drink and smoke dope.
Here is an amazing stat to think about:
[quoteThe WIC program provides aid recipients with checks, much like food stamps, that can be exchanged for certain foods. The foods allowed include cereal, juice, and other nutritious items essential to growing children's health. 45 percent of babies born in the United States get food aid from WIC.
Read more: WIC Program - calcium, food, nutrition, deficiency, needs, body, diet, health, protein, nutrients, eating, vitamin, weight, vitamins, habits, History, How the Program Works http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Smi-Z/WIC-Program.html#ixzz0zhc25f8j][/quote]
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWmtR6EAGTg&feature=related[/youtube]
I just saw this commercial here in Texas the other day.
:thatsright:
How long will it be before they add 'Free Texting' and 'Free Multi-Media Access' to the list of services?
How many will be able to sue the government because they had an accident somewhere where THEY weren't getting service?
KC
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It must be a bitch having so much money to give away that you have to beat the bushes to find people to take it off your hands.
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I used the WIC program for the formula we could not afford it on my now ex husbands military pay. I never used nor abused it in any way
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How long will it be before they add 'Free Texting' and 'Free Multi-Media Access' to the list of services?
They're already pushing for free Wi-Fi and high-speed 'Net access for "da 'po". Guess who's paying for THAT?
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I prefer WIC over straight up foodstamps for helping those that need it...at least it specifies what foods are recieved and they can't get Coke and Oreos.
Wonderful idea, this wic, only problem as I see it, the free food frees up enough money for a few cases of Malt Liqueur and a few dime bags of the drug of the day.
:fuelfire: :fuelfire: :fuelfire:
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Everytime I see one of these commercials I have to wonder, do Blacks and Hispanics not see that the Gov thinks they are too stupid to know how to eat?
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When I told her we probably wouldn't qualify, she assured me we didn't have to be really poor and the guidelines were generous.
She was just trying to justify her meaningless existence.
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I used WIC with my 4 oldest kids. It was a royal PITA, but there was no way I could afford formula for them. I especially hated the height/weight charts. Every child in the US must be the same height and weight at every age, or Mom is doing something wrong. ::) They got so hateful about me "starving" my oldest 2 that I began to think they'd have social services out watching me feed them...so I finally brought pictures of myself and my dad to one meeting. When the woman started her normal snarling, I pulled them out and slapped them down on her desk, and said, "This is my dad, this is me. WE OUTGROW IT."
Still, I was so glad when I got out of school and could get off that program. With my 5th, I was making almost $9 an hour, so managed to cover the formula and diapers and day care myself. It literally was not worth the hassle, time and harassment for what they provided.
Just for the record, I knew quite a few people that used drugs, and quite a few that were on WIC benefits...and they weren't the same people.
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I used the WIC program for the formula we could not afford it on my now ex husbands military pay. I never used nor abused it in any way
Same here. My ex-wife and I used it for a few months after my daughter was born on 85. I was only an E-2 at the time.
Was was pretty embarrassed about it. But the cost of living in Monterey CA. was higher than I could afford as an E-2 living off base.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWmtR6EAGTg&feature=related[/youtube]
I just saw this commercial here in Texas the other day.
:thatsright:
How long will it be before they add 'Free Texting' and 'Free Multi-Media Access' to the list of services?
How many will be able to sue the government because they had an accident somewhere where THEY weren't getting service?
KC
How long before the people getting all these freebies demand unlimited minutes?
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Commercials for WIC: Democrat "get out the vote" campaign.