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re: Louisiana purchase at whole foods
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:00 pm to jivy26
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:00 pm to jivy26
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Feel free to enlighten us then.
I've already posted about why the food stamp program has expanded so much. You're free to continue to direct your anger at the people using food stamps (and I would agree 100% that many of them do not need the resources because food stamps sure as hell is not about helping those in poverty). However, it's the corporations that are the true beneficiaries of the program.
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Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:00 pm to SuperSaint
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Do you realize how small of a fraction of a percent of the federal budget goes to helping needy with food stamps?
Needy
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:01 pm to jivy26
The only problem I will have is with the shopping buggies. The will have to put that thing on the wheel to keep it from leaving the lot. I hate those things.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:01 pm to brucevilanch
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Here in Alabama, convenient stores advertise that you can buy Red Bull with food stamps. Which is fricking ridiculous.
I haven't noticed that yet. What I have seen, is guys at lunch, at the food counters, buying chicken wings and pizza and other stuff with the EBT card,while a few weeks ago I saw a girl with 2 kids at walmart. She was trying to buy one of the rotiserie chickens, but that wasn't allowed on her card. That didn't really make sense to me.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:02 pm to TigerWise
it's a cart not a buggie
damn rednecks here
damn rednecks here
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:02 pm to Mo Jeaux
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it's the corporations that are the true beneficiaries of the program.
While they might get the increased revenue they are not the only beneficiary of the program.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:02 pm to SuperSaint
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Do you realize how small of a fraction of a percent of the federal budget goes to helping needy with food stamps?
Seriously. I never get the vitriol over the Food Stamp program. I know single mothers that work 40 hours a week and need food stamps to get by. It is a good program, mostly.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:04 pm to gsvar2004
Life is short. Get over it!
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:04 pm to jivy26
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While they might get the increased revenue they are not the only beneficiary of the program.
Who the hell do you think lobbies for increases in the program budget? If you think it's the poors when they get home from using all your tax money on dry-aged steaks and organic produce, you're not too smart.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:05 pm to Cold Cous Cous
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These threads always comically underestimate how much food people need to survive.
Damn, the fact that I survived grad school must be fricking miracle then, because that was my exact grocery list every week. I would switch up dinners by getting different types of uncooked meats and vegetables, which ran about another $20.
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OK kids everyone gets 1/3 a pound of ham and one apple. Try to make it last the week!
Don't have kids if you can't afford to raise them.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:05 pm to yellowfin
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damn rednecks here
Huh
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:05 pm to gsvar2004
You can use the card and go straight to the ATM... Why wouldn't you be able to use it at whole foods? 
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:08 pm to BACONisMEATcandy
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You can use the card and go straight to the ATM.
Yeah, i don't have a problem with food stamps, but this is where the problem lies. Again showing that the Gov't is incapable of properly managing any kind of enterprise.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:08 pm to UGATiger26
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Damn, the fact that I survived grad school must be fricking miracle then, because that was my exact grocery list every week. I would switch up dinners by getting different types of uncooked meats and vegetables, which ran about another $20.
A, bullshite on you eating that exact diet every week. B, you had a family of 4?
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Don't have kids if you can't afford to raise them.
Great advice. They didn't follow it. Now what?
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:08 pm to Mo Jeaux
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it's the corporations that are the true beneficiaries of the program.
Right, the entitled pos in front of me buying boiled seafood is not a true beneficiary.
I don't feel like they should be given any amount of money. Especially to spend how they see fit. What happened to the days of government cheese and the sort? They should only be provided the bare minimum to get by. Why in the hell should there be any perks to being poor? Where is the motivation to lift yourself up and better yourself if you're sitting around eating filet?
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:09 pm to gsvar2004
Are the Walmarks girls in Mr. Ghetto's video going to film at the Whole Foods on Broad St. ?
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:09 pm to Isabelle
I'm bothered much more by being able to buy prepared food with it. A few months ago, I'm standing in line to buy a can of vienna sausage. Meanwhile, a young lady fresh from a manicure (she said it) is just in front of me "buying" three pounds of boiled shrimp @$7.99/lb. She selects from one of the three EBT cards she's carrying and pays with it. I can't help but remark to myself that I just bought her that delicacy while I'm eating vienna sausage.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:09 pm to ladytiger118
That would be awesome. The could pop on the buggy girl with the tats and nose ring.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:12 pm to Cold Cous Cous
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A, bullshite on you eating that exact diet every week.
Uh, no. That was it. It's really not that hard. Those items have plenty of what you need to live.
Extravagant diet? No.
Adequate to live? Yes.
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Great advice. They didn't follow it. Now what?
I didn't get involved in this thread to debate how taxpayer money is spent. I got involved because it pisses me off that people think you need to spend $300 a week on organic groceries in order to live a healthy life.
This post was edited on 7/10/14 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:12 pm to TigerWise
rednecks call shopping carts buggies
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