re: Woman Goes Off On A Guy & His Family For Using Food Stamps!

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The Welfare Cadillac story is an invention brought by conservative politicians that poor white people eat up and claim they see it all the time.

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The Welfare "Cadillac" story is real and the fact you're far removed from "those people" makes everything theory to you.

Welfare isn't a racial issue. The current system invites abuse because it rewards stagnation, and repeated returns to welfare. It's not a helping hand, it's a glass ceiling.

56 hours on minimum wage isn't much, genius.

Its hilarious that 90% of this board claims to be conservative and yet in this thread most people are all about food stamps. No wonder the people of Louisiana act all conservative about everything and then they go ahead and elect a total welfare liberal as governor that they bitch about. Bunch of clowns that are all talk.

People like her are absolute trash.

You don't know someone's situation. You have no right judging them in that position.

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This. I'm against welfare abuse. However, welfare and foodstamps are absolutely necessary to keep the truly downtrodden from starving. I know right wingers and others would say that's the church's job, but who the frick are they kidding?

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People pissed about food stamps truly aren't that educated..

They want to be pissed, get pissed about all the other BS spending tax dollars go to.. Food stamps don't account for but a very small percentage.. and at least it's money going back into the local economy.

Food stamps often are going to elderly, disabled, and poor kids.

I understand get upset about how food stamps are spent, but it's not like many want to believe and get so pissy over.

This woman had no right judging this man like that, because you truly never know what someone is going through. I am a young guy and have a disabled sister (since her birth) Our state doesn't even cover her diapers, but she qualifies for food stamps. If this lady was judging me checking out in a line at a store I would be absolutely fricking livid. Just because I was using food stamps, doesn't mean you know my situation or what it's for. Sometimes people have to shop for others as well, especially the disabled.. Yet people see someone with cash shopping with food stamps, or driving a nice car, and they want to bitch and moan over food stamps they know nothing about.

I don't know why people can't just respect others and mind their own business. If you want to be pissed about tax spending, then as he pointed out.. go vote about it.. take it up with political figures.. but food stamps are the least of your worries.

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I don't care if if it is 100th rate, if there is one lower than that he needs to be eating that. The fact that you believe someone who works 56 hours a week with our minimum wage should get food stamps shows what a loser you are because the only way that is possible is if he has a boatload of kids and a loser wife. If you want to reward people who make minimum wage and have a ton of kids YOU are the total loser here.

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You don't know his situation. Be appreciative he does work and possibly pays back into taxes. You can work and receive food stamps, depending on your situation.. but you can't make too much money and it depends who you are responsible for and your living situation with rent and bills, etc. My goodness man.. It's such a small amount of money. It's not like this guy is not working and on some sort of welfare. At least not from the exchange here. He may be a single father who's mother just ran out on them, he's young, could be busting his arse, and still having a hard time feeding his child do any number of unexpected situations.. It could a temporary thing, it may have to be a permanent situation.. Who knows. It's not her right or your right to judge someone. Take it up with someone else.. but if he qualifies it's not your right to judge him.. but go ahead. Keep being an a-hole.

I love Louisiana, the people and the culture. I hate Louisiana's laws and crooked politics (regardless if it's JBE or the others before him)

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It is over $750 per year, per taxpayer. I hate to break it to you but that is a lot to the average taxpayer and defending that as "such a small amount of money" makes you a liberal.

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It at least makes him a Democrat.

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Its hilarious that 90% of this board claims to be conservative and yet in this thread most people are all about food stamps

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OR you are a "conservative" that has no idea what true conservatism is about. You actually play into the left's caricature that the right just hates poor people. No conservative is completely against government spending. These programs help society. Just like roads do. If we didn't do something to help out, then there would be more petty crime. You know you'd personally steal before starving. And as someone with a respected college degree and a good job, but still worried about his job in a down market, I can certainly understand how people can end up in bad positions.

And to your 56 hours a week and needing food stamps is ridiculous comment. You realize that at minimum wage, that's under 500 dollars a week!?. Definitely survivable, but if you have a kid, even just 1 kid, you'd have to put that kid in daycare to make those hours. Now you're already working behind the 8 ball. Feeding two people, rent, car, bills. It's not an absurd concept that someone needs help. We've had shop guys get hours cut and need help. I totally feel they screwed up and didn't save properly when making good hours, but I also don't want them to starve.

There's abuse. The stories of baby mama driving a car with rims, while talking in a $700 phone using food stamps is real. But that doesn't mean the programs aren't needed. The burden on society of not helping out somewhat would be far greater than the assistance being provided. Are there problems, yes, but to say we should cut it out because "I'm conservative and we should take personal responsibilty", shows why so many label Conservatives as fricking idiots.

I am going to keep this real general so I don't blow my cover. But I have a friend who is middle aged and spent a good portion of his life chasing multiple degrees with graduate level degrees from a no name college out of state. Basically one step above a mail order degree. He has put very little into expanding on those degrees to give a real effort at getting a job in that area. He has multiple kids, and the whole family is on assistance. He is in over his head in student loans. He makes cash on the side doing odd jobs, but refuses to give up on a pipe dream that a job will fall into his lap in the area he studied. He's been in this situation for ten years now. He feels he is too good to get his hands dirty and get a job that might not pay that much more than government assistance, but will give him some dignity at least.


I think that situation happens across the board, and is "the trap" that people fall into. It's not necessarily that they fell on hard times with no way out, but that they refuse to give up and go into survival mode with a job to make ends meet. There's an entire generation that exists like that.