Im sorry Im old, food stamps are not food stamps?

[Zundfolge]

If we're going to buy this BS that government should have some sort of hand in paying for poor people's food then we need to do away with this EBT crap and open up a chain of Government Stores where poor people can go pick up their free food. Then it will be healthy and cost effective.

My wife and I are frugal, we tend to buy mostly the store brand versions of food and we buy pretty healthy food. Often we end up in line behind one of these welfare queens buying nothing but over priced, less healthy "Name Brand" foods, whipping out a huge wad of cash to pay for the few things EBT won't cover and then following them out to the parking lot where they invariably get into a car that cost 3 times what mine does (with aftermarket wheels that probably cost more than my car).

Too many people in the cart, not enough pushing ... eventually those of us pushing the cart are going to get fed up walk away (or worse, start shooting those in the cart).


What we really need to do is go back to the old way of doing things ... private charity to help the downtrodden. Once upon a time we had plenty of "mutual aid societies" and churches that fed the hungry, clothed the naked and sheltered the homeless. It was seen as charity and not something the poor were entitled to so the plus (and the real reason for charity) is that those that had connected with those that didn't so that the bonds that hold a society together were strengthened and those that didn't have were taught to be better and wanted to be better.

You don't have to believe in God or be a Christian to see the wisdom in 2 Thessalonians 3:10.

[Ronin13]

If we're going to buy this BS that government should have some sort of hand in paying for poor people's food then we need to do away with this EBT crap and open up a chain of Government Stores where poor people can go pick up their free food. Then it will be healthy and cost effective.

My wife and I are frugal, we tend to buy mostly the store brand versions of food and we buy pretty healthy food. Often we end up in line behind one of these welfare queens buying nothing but over priced, less healthy "Name Brand" foods, whipping out a huge wad of cash to pay for the few things EBT won't cover and then following them out to the parking lot where they invariably get into a car that cost 3 times what mine does (with aftermarket wheels that probably cost more than my car).

Too many people in the cart, not enough pushing ... eventually those of us pushing the cart are going to get fed up walk away (or worse, start shooting those in the cart).


What we really need to do is go back to the old way of doing things ... private charity to help the downtrodden. Once upon a time we had plenty of "mutual aid societies" and churches that fed the hungry, clothed the naked and sheltered the homeless. It was seen as charity and not something the poor were entitled to so the plus (and the real reason for charity) is that those that had connected with those that didn't so that the bonds that hold a society together were strengthened and those that didn't have were taught to be better and wanted to be better.

We need to go back to the old way, this way isn't working. I remember a time when I was taught that it's embarrassing to be on food stamps, now one of my cousins is on welfare and food stamps and she's proud of this... WTF? So you can't provide for yourself and your son without government help, and you're PROUD of this fact? I would be ashamed and doing my damnedest to be getting out of this shitty situation.

[sniper7]

If you are living off the others (tax-payers), you should be living under their rules. My rules would be no kids, no junk food, absolute necessities, public transportation and a monthly inspection just like a jail. if you don't like living under those rules...get a fucking job.