re: Food stamp prohibitions

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If that is what you want for food stamp recipients then lets do the same for Eaton Corp, McDermott International, Iberdrola, NextEra Energy, NRG energy, Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Boeing, GE. Accept all their owners, board memebers, and executives can't go to any sporting event, buy airplanes, well honestly antyhing other than necessities because they receive well over 150 Billion while SNAP if well under half that. Funny thing is 93.2% of SNAP costs go straight to recipients while corporate subsidies don't go to the workers in those industries it goes to higer salaries for executives. The crazy thing is the government who can't run anything right actually does a much more efficient job in providing SNAP than the corporations who take far more in tax payer money.

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^ whataboutism snore

Why are you guys under the impression that it would be costly to restrict purchases eligible with food stamps?

That is not a very hard thing to regulate. It doesn’t take a lot of funding to have a card decline things

We used to restrict it

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Why are you guys under the impression that it would be costly to restrict purchases eligible with food stamps? 

That is not a very hard thing to regulate. It doesn’t take a lot of funding to have a card decline things 

We used to restrict it

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Let me take a stab at it...

Because they can't come a way to get it done easily in their head, so they just assume it is too complicated and costly.

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Why are you guys under the impression that it would be costly to restrict purchases eligible with food stamps?

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That’s not the argument at hand. The argument being presented is that receiving food stamps should restrict ALL purchases you’re allowed to make, and the types of businesses you’re allowed to enter.

ETA: That was the entire premise of the OP.

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I’m not in favor of restricting where food stamp recipients can go that are indoendentof their food purchases. That IS an invasion of privacy

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Then we are in agreement. Nobody in this thread is arguing that people should be able to pay for lap dances on their EBT cards.

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ETA: That was the entire premise of the OP.

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The conversation evolved much more after that.

Not many people are agreeing that we should be taking those kind of rights away.

You are correct. I read plans and do a lot of math. Not a big reader or writer. It's funny considering my dad is a professional editor and writer you would think it got passed down oh well. I'll take math and floor plans any day.

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Bubba wants to enter the Sip-n-Strip ou on Farm Road 27 to have some suds and ogle some tiddies. Cletus the doorman cannot let Bubba enter until Cletus scans Bubba’s DL, connects to some Fed database on his 14.4 modem and awaits confirmation that Bubba is allowed to enter the building. While Bubba wairs, three more baws try to enter the building and have to wait their turn to obtain government permission to stare at bewbs.

By the end of the evening, 100 good old boys spent 20 thirsty collective hours waiting government permission to pay for lap dances, depriving hardworking single mothers of $800 in tips.

But Cletus did ID one guy on unemployment, so all is good.

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You , of course, realize how ridiculous is. I don't favor doing this, but there is no reason to be dishonest about the inconvenience to others , it would be minimal.

I myself favor a different tact.

WHy aren't we giving these people any financial training? I think we can all agree that no, someone who is on food stamps should not be having more children, nor should they be out buying the latest xbox to hook up to their 80" 12K TV. Those are the types of poor decisions that lead one to food stamps in the first place.

Again, allow me to use my little family we "helped" as an example.

For two years the kids were pretty spoiled by my wife and I , we bought them basially everything we would have bought our own kids , because well we can afford it and kids shouldn't have to do without. But the parents, the father would drink ONE beer if we were hanging out and I offered , after work or whatever when we were watching a ball game and such. He wasn't ut spending HIS money on beer while I was spending MY money trying to help his family get back on their feet.

They didn't have the biggest TV Wal Mart carried, or the fanciest shoes or any of that, no titty bars .

You know why? Because we insisted and my wife set down with them and taught them how to budget and we taught them how to grocery shop and cook at home to save money, etc etc.

Because I wanted to see a positive outcome from my monetary investment.

The difference, of course, is that no one in government cares bout positive outcomes. Just give money away and hope for the best.

It's been five years since we first took them in and they now own a home, own a new car and a 2 year old truck, the wife has graduated college , so they are a two paycheck family now . No government assistance

I'd wager most SNAP recipient stories aren't so successful.

I have no idea if she had a job or not. But she did use a SNAP card to buy a big Gulp and a Bag of skittles. That means. She used my money to buy her food. Yours too.

Not only did I contribute to that purchase but I wIll also contribute to paying for her medical treatment to pay for the result of her ingesting liquid and solidified high fructose corn syrup as her dinner.

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I have no idea if she had a job or not. But she did use a SNAP card to buy a big Gulp and a Bag of skittles. That means. She used my money to buy her food. Yours too.

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What portion of your income do you think goes to SNAP benefits?

I’m not taking anybody’s rights away. If I’m not mistaken, you actually have to sign up for snap or government housing.

Are you saying that the government is taking people’s right to smoke away because they live in government housing?

I gather some people have never heard of a means test. If you have the means to gamble, go to strip clubs, buy alcohol and smoke cigarettes then you have the means to support yourself. I’m not taking any persons rights away. When they sign up for assistance they must conform to the program being offered. If they need food assistance and want to do all the drinking, smoking and tipping they want then they need to go to the food bank or some other non-profit that will support our habit.

You do realize that all bars are and casinos are already responsible to know that their patrons are of legal age and can require proof upon request and can deny entry. Also, your drivers license has a ton of information on it already on that magnetic strip whether you know it or not. It can tell you a lot more than where you live and your age. It has your complete criminal history on it.