re: Georgia reportedly kicks 8000 people off food stamps

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Nearly 8,000 residents lost their SNAP benefits between April and October, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. That’s a 20-fold increase from last year.

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I think more to do is made over food stamps than it honestly deserves. I’m sure there are people who make it a "lifestyle" but they’re the very few. The majority of people need it to put food on the table, and in some cases more healthy food on the table. I have no problem subsidizing a poor family to have healthy food available instead of frozen pizzas every night. I also have no problem putting some sort of restrictions on snap benefits so they can’t be used for soda, cookies, or processed foods.

I question the sincerity of one who celebrates going after food stamp recipients when I highly doubt they feel the same way about corporate welfare or the giant welfare system that is the military and its accompanying industrial complex.

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Next necessary steps :

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Welfare and government spending is a fat pig that we have overfeed and the resulting product is unhealthy fatty meat that needs to be changed


The solution isn’t the give the butchers more knives. The solution is what’s in the feed.


Your solution is to spend MORE money on welfare programs and give the government more power over it. The reverse is what should happen.

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If one's on welfare unable to support oneself, becoming pregnant shouldn't happen. This should be enforced. Don't cry about civil rights.... what about MY civil rights? That my earnings go towards supporting some who are unwilling to work?

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Wow. I’m all for a more effective welfare system but what you are suggesting is expensive and horribly unconstitutional. Are you joking? I hope you are joking.

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Why would someone downvote this?

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Because some people actually need food stamps.

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The people who need food stamps and are unable to feed themselves are not who this article was about. This is about the able-bodied that choose not to attempt to feed themselves.

Keep in mind also, the S in SNAP stands for Supplemental. This means you need to mostly feed yourself, and the SNAP benefits supplement your efforts.

I wonder why there are 17 downvotes......hmmm

The wall keeps billions in our economy every year. It pays for itself in no time.

I'm glad we could clear that up.

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The wall keeps billions in our economy every year. It pays for itself in no time.

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You are not supposed to ask people that base everything on emotion and misinformation to math.

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If you can't take care of 1 and want to stick your hand in my pocket then the tube tying is a prerequisite for the handout.

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Whoa.

Who’s tubes? Vasectomies are cheaper and less invasive than tubal ligation but I don’t think any man at risk of temporarily losing their livelihood or health would vote for this.

I despise a lazy mooch.. but I wish the Americans that really believe in forced physical birth control for the poor or unemployed folk could be forced to move to China. Do these retards know what “slippery slope” means?