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re: What people on food stamps buy vs what people not on food stamps buy
Posted on 10/29/25 at 5:56 pm to stout
Posted on 10/29/25 at 5:56 pm to stout
I have four older 75+ relatives who receive SNAP benefits. They buy real food and Coca Cola. None are obese. They are the only people in my family that use SNAP.
I have noticed that the fruits and vegetables available in stores in small towns are tiny in comparison to a big city store. It could be a throwback to our history. Growing up we had three gardens and multiple fruit trees. We didn’t need to buy fruits and vegetables as we had them in abundance.
I have noticed that the fruits and vegetables available in stores in small towns are tiny in comparison to a big city store. It could be a throwback to our history. Growing up we had three gardens and multiple fruit trees. We didn’t need to buy fruits and vegetables as we had them in abundance.
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Posted on 10/29/25 at 6:08 pm to stout
I find it interesting that a website with predominantly Louisiana residents has such a genuine disdain for food stamps when Louisiana is in the top five for food stamp usage.
Please stop taking money from other states and complaining about improper spending.
Please stop taking money from other states and complaining about improper spending.
Posted on 10/29/25 at 6:09 pm to el Gaucho
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It’s crazy how they say white people don’t be season they food when ebt users buy less seasonings than the average population
Posted on 10/29/25 at 6:30 pm to AbitaFan08
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I find it interesting that a website with predominantly Louisiana residents has such a genuine disdain for food stamps when Louisiana is in the top five for food stamp usage.
Please stop taking money from other states and complaining about improper spending.
Wow...Louisiana is in the top 5 states for food stamp usage as a percentage of the population?
I wonder why?
Posted on 10/29/25 at 6:34 pm to stout
The fact that 40 MILLION frickING people on government cheese astounds me. WTF. I was expecting may 3-4 million but 40???? What the frick is going on?!!?
Unreal the level of waste in our government. It disgusts me.
Unreal the level of waste in our government. It disgusts me.
Posted on 10/29/25 at 7:40 pm to CrappyPants
Louisiana has around 850K, out of a population of 4.7M.
Posted on 10/29/25 at 7:53 pm to stout
Now do just Louisiana and Mississippi
Posted on 10/29/25 at 7:55 pm to stout
I have to pay for my own, so its (D)ifferent
Posted on 10/29/25 at 7:57 pm to auggie
This doesn’t capture the dollars that SNAP recipients spend on categories with their own discretionary income. This is just what the SNAP benefit is spent against.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 5:33 am to LouisianaLady
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Nor why you'd "let him have it" for such things.
It's illegal and is the stores responsibility to report the fraud to the USDA office.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 5:35 am to stout
The South sure is a lot "Darker" than the rest of the country
Posted on 10/30/25 at 5:49 am to whoa
A friends daughter worked at a Starbucks inside a Kroger.
Coffee from that Starbucks was eligible for SNAP/EBT purchase.
It is a system that needs to be reigned in significantly.
Coffee from that Starbucks was eligible for SNAP/EBT purchase.
It is a system that needs to be reigned in significantly.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 5:55 am to makersmark1
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It is a system that needs to be reigned in significantly.
OBBB is supposed to reign it in to the tune of $1T over 10 years making it more effective than PRWORA (Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996) if left untouched.
I am all for a social safety net but why are we incentivizing people to NOT be productive?
Posted on 10/30/25 at 6:01 am to stout
So Salmon & Chicken Wings are in the same category?
Got it.
Got it.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 6:16 am to bad93ex
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am all for a social safety net but why are we incentivizing people to NOT be productive?
They actually are process oriented like Nick Saban when it comes to applying for and qualifying for government benefits. 1965-2025 is 2, maybe even 3, generations of the model. It has created a dependency cycle and destroyed many families.
NGOs perpetuate it. Many of them exist to make sure they get all the government benefits they can- these NGOs get large grants from the taxpayers to then extract more money from the system.
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 6:23 am to LouisianaLady
quote:This is whats so wild to me, especially in S Louisiana. Go into any grocery and there's a deli case with just an array of garbage fried carbed food - and of course there's stickers all over the case saying its all good on EBT
you can’t keep the doors open at nearly any store without a robust prepared foods department.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 6:29 am to stout
My favorite is the “who are you to tell them what to buy with their money” crowd. Mother frickers thats MY money lmao
Posted on 11/1/25 at 12:33 am to Hoops
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My favorite is the “who are you to tell them what to buy with their money” crowd. Mother frickers thats MY money lmao
This well fed woman thinks she deserves food stamps because she didn’t ask for her kids…
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We should offer $50,000 cash to anyone under 30 willing to get spayed/neutered.
Posted on 11/1/25 at 6:41 am to stout
Not saying it's the case for everyone on SNAP, but I'd say it's more likely that people on it make poor choices in other parts of their lives, like diet.
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