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Food stamps for fast food - REALLY???????
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<blockquote data-quote="flutterby" data-source="post: 459509" data-attributes="member: 7083"><p>You know, I probably don't look "poor enough". I have nice clothes, but a limited supply. I have 2 pair of jeans, 2 pairs of capris, and about 4 or 5 shirts for summer and 4 or 5 for winter. But they are nice. I also have $100 shoes - 3 pairs that I've had for 3 years. Because of the bursitis in my SI joint, hips, knees, and the achilles tendonitis and plantar fasciaitis, those are the only shoes I can wear that limit my pain. However, my mom bought those clothes and shoes for me. But why should I feel the need to explain that? It's really no one else's business. She is also paying my rent and cable bill while I wait on the SSDI process. Otherwise I would be in the street. The cash assistance that people are "raking in"? In Ohio, for 2 people it's $375 a month, and if you get child support they take it. I get child support of $374 a month so there is no point in cash assistance. I also have nice "real" jewelry that I've had for years because I wasn't always poor. And my daughter has a nice cellphone (I have a tracfone that you get free for poor people that has 64 minutes put on it a month). However, it is on her brother's plan, he bought the phone for her, and pays the $10 a month it costs to add her line. </p><p></p><p>Would it make people happy if I dressed like I lived in a shack? If my son didn't add his sister to his phone plan? You can get some good finds at Goodwill. I've gotten namebrand clothes with the tags still on them for $2.50. Hell, I just donated 14 bags of shoes and clothes - some with tags, some shoes never worn - that I have no hope of ever getting into again. We have agencies here that provide free shoes and school supplies to needy families who sign up prior to the start of a school year. I've seen kids get nice shoes from there. People donate and some donate nicely. When I was working, my employer adopted a family every year at Christmas. We didn't buy them cheap stuff. </p><p></p><p>If you don't buy the right kind of food at the grocery store it's a problem. People are critical if you buy junk, and they're critical if you buy organic, or if you buy the expensive 96% fat free ground beef - you're wasting the food stamp money. Then people are critical because you don't look "poor enough". One news station did a segment where they denounced the poor people in today's society because, one example they used, 99.6% of "poor" (and they used quotes) people own a refrigerator. 25% own a microwave. Wow. I wonder how many have running water. </p><p></p><p>But you know what? The politician's plan has worked. Everyone is worked up over alleged abuse of the welfare system by poor people, taking their attention away from all of the waste, fraud, and corruption elsewhere that is costing this country billions of dollars.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterby, post: 459509, member: 7083"] You know, I probably don't look "poor enough". I have nice clothes, but a limited supply. I have 2 pair of jeans, 2 pairs of capris, and about 4 or 5 shirts for summer and 4 or 5 for winter. But they are nice. I also have $100 shoes - 3 pairs that I've had for 3 years. Because of the bursitis in my SI joint, hips, knees, and the achilles tendonitis and plantar fasciaitis, those are the only shoes I can wear that limit my pain. However, my mom bought those clothes and shoes for me. But why should I feel the need to explain that? It's really no one else's business. She is also paying my rent and cable bill while I wait on the SSDI process. Otherwise I would be in the street. The cash assistance that people are "raking in"? In Ohio, for 2 people it's $375 a month, and if you get child support they take it. I get child support of $374 a month so there is no point in cash assistance. I also have nice "real" jewelry that I've had for years because I wasn't always poor. And my daughter has a nice cellphone (I have a tracfone that you get free for poor people that has 64 minutes put on it a month). However, it is on her brother's plan, he bought the phone for her, and pays the $10 a month it costs to add her line. Would it make people happy if I dressed like I lived in a shack? If my son didn't add his sister to his phone plan? You can get some good finds at Goodwill. I've gotten namebrand clothes with the tags still on them for $2.50. Hell, I just donated 14 bags of shoes and clothes - some with tags, some shoes never worn - that I have no hope of ever getting into again. We have agencies here that provide free shoes and school supplies to needy families who sign up prior to the start of a school year. I've seen kids get nice shoes from there. People donate and some donate nicely. When I was working, my employer adopted a family every year at Christmas. We didn't buy them cheap stuff. If you don't buy the right kind of food at the grocery store it's a problem. People are critical if you buy junk, and they're critical if you buy organic, or if you buy the expensive 96% fat free ground beef - you're wasting the food stamp money. Then people are critical because you don't look "poor enough". One news station did a segment where they denounced the poor people in today's society because, one example they used, 99.6% of "poor" (and they used quotes) people own a refrigerator. 25% own a microwave. Wow. I wonder how many have running water. But you know what? The politician's plan has worked. Everyone is worked up over alleged abuse of the welfare system by poor people, taking their attention away from all of the waste, fraud, and corruption elsewhere that is costing this country billions of dollars. [/QUOTE]
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