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I would also add luxury items like steak, lobster, crab legs etc. I have a friend who works in a grocery store for a not so great salary who routinely sees people use food share to buy expensive items like those. It must be frustrating to see people on government assistance purchase items that she, as a working person can't afford. People buying those things with "food stamps" either don't need that assistance or they bought the cards at 50 cents on the dollar from people who sell the cards to buy cigarettes and booze instead of food for their children.
Absolutely. Able bodied people need to feel that it's better to work than be on welfare. Many people use the system as a temporary way to get by during hard times, and I support that. However, too many view it as a way of life.When the total benefits someone can get amount to more than what the person could earn based on the value of the skill set they offer, there won't be a transition. For a transition to occur, those on the dole have to want to get off of it. If someone can get more for doing nothing, they have no incentive to work a job that takes up 40+ hours/week they can have as free time and get more for doing nothing.
One other reform that might be off topic, but there needs to be a strong deterrent to people receiving benefits having more children. If you can't afford to pay for the kids you have, you sure as hell shouldn't be having more.
We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
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a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
The free food items would be set up at distribution points. All people would just have to go and pick it up.
Ya want free food? Ya just have to go and pick it up.
If recipients are able to get up out of the house to go to grocery stores, then they can just as easily go to the distribution centers.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Sirthinksalot (02-14-2018)
There is less chance of food stamps being replaced by boxes of food than all of the other claims/attempts to cut spending or eliminate useless programs. Clinton, Bush, and Obama all tried to eliminate unnecessary programs but they all have champions in Congress trying save them.
There was a subsidy for angora goats because mohair was used for military uniforms in WWII. The program was ended in 2001 but came back the next year.
https://www.politico.com/story/2010/...s-goats-038379
Stretch (02-14-2018)
That's the "etc.". A complete list would be impractical.
I've seen those that claim they can't afford to provide even the basics for themselves and/or their children have enough money to buy things like cigarettes, beer, lottery tickets. Recently, I was in line behind one of these leeches at a convenient store. The leech purchased several packs of cigarettes with cash in one transactions. In a subsequent transaction, she purchased some candy bars, M&Ms, Mountain Dew, and something similar for each of her kids with her using EBT. Sad how she can't feed her own kids but buys them junk yet can afford cigarettes.
As long as a certain ideology believes that despite someone causing their own financial problems it's the taxpayers responsibility to support them, reform won't happen.
Why should taxpayers be forced to support anyone regardless of why they are where they are? If I know someone personally that needs help, I deem it a worthwhile cause, and have the ability to help them, why shouldn't I be able to pick who gets the help? Unlike the politicians that will give away money someone else earned in order to get votes, I don't want anything in return.
Addressing those that have children they already can't afford to support getting more because they had MORE children isn't off topic. It's as much a part of the topic as the woman I saw in the convenient store. Abusing the system is abusing the system. I say have all the children you want as long as you can support them. However, to those women that say what they do with their bodies is their choice, I say if you make the choice, you get the responsibility of the costs associated with it. If one tells me to butt out of the choice as it's none of my business, don't make it my business by demanding I support something you chose to do.
I live right down the street from a local "food bank" who give out food boxes to qualifying people or families, once a month.
Their parking spaces and the parking spaces on the surrounding streets are always full.
I occasionally talk to the lady who runs the organization (they also have a nice little thrift store and take donations of all kind of items) and she's told me that at least 3 days out of the week (Monday through Friday) they have so many people show up, that they run out of food items and have to tell the people to come back tomorrow.
Now the question was raised, in this thread, of how are people supposed to get to the distribution points.
Using the food bank as an example, there are numerous ways:
1 - They drive themselves
2 - They carpool
3 - They give documentation for someone else (usually a close friend or family member) to pick up the food boxes for them.
4 - Some live close enough to walk
Therefore I would suggest that instead of proclaiming that it won't work, that maybe ideas should be formulated that would help it work.
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Stretch (02-14-2018)
They can get to the distribution areas the same way they get to the grocery store to use SNAP.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
USFREEDOM911 (02-14-2018)
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