What Is Your View On Food Stamps?
13 Answers to "What Is Your View On Food Stamps?"
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I think they're great as a temporary assist when someone is going through tough times.
I don't think they should be a permanent or long term help though. People take them for granted after awhile and instead of trying to take care of themselves, begin to think it's their right instead of a privilege.Like (4)
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It's a great safety net for those that need them ... I know when I was a kid we were on food stamps from time to time and I'm telling you eating store bought bread and milk from a carton beat the homemade bread mom would make along with the powdered milk we had to drink from the food surplus products the government provided.
I'm like some others here though, it does **** me off I see a cartload of food ahead of me filled with frozen pizzas, pop, chips, candy and cookies, then they take out a foodstamp card and pay for all that with what is allotted them each month in monies. Kids in tow are wearing $100 sneakers along with brand named jackets and jeans .. then hollering for the compulsive buy toy at the checkout line which they do get ... it's only a $5 item but it's paid with a brand new US Grant fifty or worse yet a freshly minted $100 Ben Franklin. But wait they have to have that carton of cigarettes too, so out comes more freshly minted bills to pay for that. Follow them out to the parking lot to a recently purchased vehicle ... then driving later on see that same vehicle parked at Pizza Hut. Something is screwed up here when that happens.Like (3)
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something like that, would irritate me. No, I don't know their living situation, maybe they bought the Cadillac before they went on foodstamps, I don't know but if they're loading a grocery cart up to the ceiling of food and then dumping it into an expensive car, it would definitely make me wonder.
Other than that, it's fine. I would help a friend out too, if they didn't have enough money or they didn't have enough to buy a meal, they could just live with me until they got back on their feet, or stayed and helped pay bills, if they so chose to do that.Like (3)
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I worked in a grocery store for 4 months. You would shake your head if you saw what they buy with food stamps/independence cards.
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A vital safety net for American citizens. Sure you can whine about people abusing the system but what government program doesn't have waste, fraud and abuse?
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I love seeing the baby factories roll out with a fleet of carts full of junk food and processed crap while $50 gets me 3 bags of food, even at a place like wal-mart. I could detonate.
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too many people worry about what other people are getting, we don't have food stamps here but I think it is best to mind your own business about that stuff. We never know what could be around the corner for us.
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It is my business when it is my tax dollars going to pay for those food stamps when I know there's people out there who don't need it.
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well it is my business that people are ripping of they system too as I pay taxes as well and lets not forget the rich people who rip the system off as well, they have lots of tax dodges to get out of paying too much tax and over paid politicians who don't seem to have much in the way of results for our tax dollars paid to them
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i see that when i go to the food bank which charges me and others 3 dollars now to get that food and i see people loading up their SUVs with lots of stuff as i have to huff and puff it home with my drag along cart or packsack and 2 bags the foreigners got it made over here and i often don't even have the 3 bucks to get it either
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Good when used properly.
When I see things like this, I want to kill someone.
http://paycheckeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/food-stamp-lobster-receipt.jpgLike (2)
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People like that do money laundering to get extra money and other organized crime. They don't care about how hard you work for your money, they'll use anyone. Other than than food stamps are okay for emergencies ONLY!!
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I live in the UK, money is paid direct into your bank/post office account so no one would know any different. Yes the system is abused, but what is lost there is dwarfed what big business gets away with in not paying tax. Not even looking at the rich who do that as well, although there are many of them. But when we see that google, Amazon are avoiding paying tax here in the UK it kinds stinks.
As for the kids wearings the brand trainers etc, anything expensive like that my children have, I certainly did not buy. Treated my own nephews to expensive items when I was single and childless, now family treat my own kids.Like (1)
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it helps people who reallly need it but alot of people abuse it. i have alot of friends who abuse it but i really see that they dont they are getting their money back that they put into the system.
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Posted by Hauraunah Dec 18th, 2012 at 2:39AM
The sad part is there are some out there who REALLY need it and are denied unlike the types you just described. I see it all the time.
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