Some food stamp recipients in Louisiana went on a shopping spree when their EBT cards had a glitch lifting spending limits, wiping out supplies at a local Walmart. Should card users who abused the system be able to keep receiving benefits?
A perfect example of, not all recipients are hard working honest people that just need a little help. Way too many are just low lifes, gaming the system.
This whole issue makes me sad for our country. Food stamps are to give folks temporary help while they are going through a difficult time and helps them get on their feet. Gratitude and relief are proper reactions not entitlement and greed.
I think they should be drug tested as well and if something comes up then jail time for them! I know plenty of people who abuse their aid and choose not to work. People are so low these days.
You cheat the system,, Band for life!
If I had the say, there would be no food stamps at all! I have seen food stamp recipients bring in extra gallons of milk into work to both give away and or sell because they get too much! Abolish it !
What happens when there's an overpayment on benefits is that client can choose to pay it all at once or the amount gets taken little by little every month from the benefits they still qualify to get.
I understand the reaction it infuriates me to see people abuse the system and get handouts for nothing.
But I am also proud to live in a country that does not let their people die in the streets for want of hunger or eminent medical treatment.
Growing up I would not have eaten often if it were not for Government assistance and religious aid. I will tell you my parents were hard working people dealt a hard lot.
I am always happy to give a hand up, but reluctant to give a handout.
That's a tough call. First I think it's stealing and those people should be held responsible, but cutting benefits does not only affect those people only, sometimes it also affects children.
Really Steelcity? Even horrible parents are better than Government care. Not to mention the cost for the Gov to take care of the kids you think should be taken away.
Yeah, I'm pretty pissed about those two jackoffs, along with Gov. Mark Dayton. His parents own Dayton's and Target and I'm pretty sure this is his first real job. And the only good thing Missouri has is Lake of the Ozarks.
Those who committed the abuse are truly showing the level of appreciation they have to live in a country where they can receive welfare benefits at all.
And that appreciation level is none!
That's so sad. Once my amount was doubled out of nowhere and the first thing I did was called my case worker. Some people don't realize that while its "free money" for them, someone out there is paying for it and by abusing it they are abusing those
So members of the military & people who actually work but for sub-poverty wages shouldn't have food stamps. Nor people in a natural disaster region, like the folks who lost their homes & everything in the floods here recently. Or, say,
Well i should have included people in tough situations. But i still believe there are far too many people on food stamps. I can think of 10 off the top of my head who dont even have a job and are capable or doing some work. If you think that most
People on food stamps are working then some people may need to get a reality check. Im all for helping people out. I understand people get in tough predicaments, but when the rest of us are working 60 +hrs a week, they need to get up off of their
Butt and do some work. I undertand that not everyone can work and that some people work for low wages, but a lot of people are highly capable of working but choose not too.
I respectfully disagree. This is a true story. My 77 grandmother can only get 15$ in foodstamps a month and she still works.,... At 77!!! Yet my deadbeat aunt with 2 kids gets around 300$. Shes highly capable of working, but shes just lazy.
And im glad her children always have food. But they honestly should be taken from her. Yet the government feeds her dope addiction buy paying for her food.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, and that needs to be dealt with. I'm saying the idea that most are unworthy is honestly something of a cliché in American political culture at this point, (ftr I'm not meaning to offend, if I did I'm sorry)
Oh no not all. I enjoy the occasional debate. It basically all comes down to the way i was raised. My parents never took a handout from the government. And i honestly think my father would have starved before accepting food stamps. Im the same way.
Truelove I agree with some of your points disagree with others.
But if you think you would have starved before taking assistance.... Then u have never been that hungry.
I have gone without food and I will tell you, you will do anything to get it.
I never said that I thought most people on food stamps are working; I included 2 examples of that in the 4 off-the-top-of-my-head examples. I assume that most don't. I was suggesting that your contention that only the elderly or very disabled on
food stamps ought to have a credit card (or, alternatively, food stamps, depending on what kind of card you meant). You offered 2 examples in your own faily, 1 whom you apparently approve of getting food stamps, & 1 you don't. Even if your experience
were the absolute American average, that's still 50% of people who "deserve" them, & I believe the actual figure is MUCH higher - that people just don't notice the many people who DON'T abuse the system; the ones who do stick in our memories.
Also, if you think hunting for food is the answer to hunger in the poor, consider (1) source (urban - rats? stray cats?; suburban - squirrels, the neighbor's dog?), (2) nutritional quality (disregarding parasites & diseases, meat isn't a sufficient
I clearly did not say that it was the solution. I was just stating that i would atleast try to find some food before taking a hand out and making others pay for my self.
diet) and (3) precious time (hunting, skinning, dressing etc.), taken from what you'd rather have them really be doing: looking for a job (presuming they're capable of working & don't have to deal with childcare for small children, etc.).
I realize there are gardens, and I think that's a great idea. But people who lost their homes in floods in Colorado in September aren't going to be starting gardens somewhere in October. And I'm sad to see you say that people are too lazy to garden.
I've seen urban gardens started by poor people. And yes, they do take a lot of effort. Effort that some may be putting into going to school while their children are in day care, so they can get a job. Not always, I know, but not everyone is lazy.
Why? Many people are far too lazy to grow a garden. Its true this generation is soo lazy. Im sorry i speak the harsh reality. This generation has never been taught to work. I respectively disagree with your opinions. And do you do have some good
Um, I would like to point out that the idea "this generation is lazy" is false, and certainly isn't any more accurate than if someone said that about teens and twenty year olds in the 1960s.
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