Food Stamps

anyone who gets food stamps is a lazy douche.

"MOST food stamp recipients are slugs, leeches, lazy scum who think it the government (our money) owe them this. I was in the food industry for 18 years. Witnessed the abuse first hand.  " ---This is the STUPID STUPID GENERALIZATION COMMENT I HAVE EVER READ. It shows how uneducated and clueless are you about the society today. Read scalabrine's for englightment.

u must b mad cause u is not getting food stamps. go and try

I stand by my statement.  I offer up  18+ years of practical experience in the grocery business dealing with these slime.  What do you refute that with?  Nothing, nada, 0.  You use "whats his names" quote to battle with.  Most likely because you haven't got enough intellect to have a thought of your own.  Don't lose that one last brain cell.

From the CATO institute;  (look it up, if you can figure it out)  FOOD STAMPS:  This welfare program is a target for fraud because it is so large and comples.  The govt must keep track of millions of of individuals to accurately document their eligibility while keeping tabs on the 160,000 retailers who deal in food stamps to look for illegal trafficking.  In the past, the program spawned a huge black market (scum/leeches, my words) as recipents exchanged their food stamps for cash on the black market.  Today, food stamps are issued on electric cards, and fraud levels have been somewhat reduced (only because they figured out a way to curb these illegal and unmoral activities).  NONETHELESS, the programs improper rate is still about 6%, or 1.7 BILLION annually.

This report adds, in conlcusion, fraud and abuse is a serious shortcoming of many federal programs.  It is appalling that $100 BILLION a year, OR PERHAPS MUCH MORE, of benefits a misappropriated by people NOT ENTITLED to them.  

Now, what was that about generalizations?  I believe if we were all HONEST, we could admit to witnessing "funny business" regarding people on govt assistance at LEAST once.   I have witnessed it way too often.  Work is good for the soul.  Any kind of work is better than none.  I honestly don't believe MOST of these folks DO not try hard enough.  They believe they are entitled.  I have over heard young ladies more than once discussing how to get out of their parents house, by just getting pregnant and getting your own apartment, for free.  FREE???  Where the hell does that money come from???   

For food stamps, most improper payments are caused by food vendors and errors by government caseworkers.  So instead of stopping welfare fraud by targeting those at fault, most attention is unfairly on reducing benefits for welfare recipients. 

Another myth is that welfare recipients are lazy.  Actually, many have  jobs but still qualify for welfare because of low income.   Welfare doesn't reduce the desire to work because payments are too low to cover the bare necessities of living.  

The Gov isn't smart enough to realize that they are being defrauded AND it is often in the best interest of their employees to look the other way. A broader base of need/use = more power.

Wise up...................

Scalabrine I would pay to hear you speak  ... you should be a politician 

Quote Originally Posted by potter36:

As I read this post I am standing in the self check out line at a large chain grocery store.  Woman standing in front of me has cart contents of 2 cases of milwaukees best, what appears to be about 15 donuts in a box, 2 boxes of poptarts, rottis. chicken, loaf of bread and bag of m&m's.  Beer is paid in cash and rest is paid with govt card.  Said woman is extemely overweight and wearing purple pants.

Why do middle class pick on the poor. They are so worried how much the poor are 'ripping them off', what about the big bosses on wall street getting almost a billion dollar annual salary. 

well said.

I was being sarcastic.  Best believe, I'll never be on that shit.  Drastic actions will be taken before I'd ever consider it, and I'll never consider it.

Maybe you noticed the big red "have" in the post that you quoted me on.  I was simply quoting Scal's comment when he said that people have to be on welfare.  If somebody has to do something, that means all other options have been exhausted and they must do that one thing.  Nobody has to go on welfare - it's a choice. 

I am the poor, and i take offense at you nonsense

my federally taxable income is about 34k for calender year 2011. I grew up with our family of six in a two bedroom crammed ass apartment before moving to a two BR house. Whites were the minority at my HS, as if i need to prove where my positions come from.

These are government phenomena, plain and simple, and i can illustrate the implications that lead to these so called problems. The truth is, some of what you perceive to be problems, aren't actually problems.  A problem is only a problem, if there is a solution, otherwise, it is what it is. "Nessuna soluzione, nessun problema"

"racism" that you rail about is an evolutionary trait. It is natural for a human to see someone that is different and take caution, this was birthed out of our early tribal days, and for many, nothing has changed.  I understand that which you confuse, that you are Brendan Fraser living in Blast from the Past, and that your flogging the dead racism horse, hurts the cause you pretend to fight for, more than it helps. THe war of today is being fought against the poor, regardless of skin color. Wealthy black people are accepted in wealthy white neighborhoods, and they all laugh at the poor just the same, again, regardless of skin color

I had a thread that you ruined last christmas, where i referred to someone looking all 'gangsta'. You went off on one of your tangents about how white america denigrates the blacks blah blah blah, when in fact, the kid was white. He just happened to be dressed like a gangst with his pants hanging around his knees.  If he would have heard your insane ramblings, he likely would have taken offense to you trying to say that he wasn't gangsta enough.

My advice, put down the keyboard and go spend some time with the poor, you could certainly use some perspective. I would shed some of your assumptions before hand, otherwise you will learn nothing

To say food stamps are a necessity in a Capitalist system, proves you conflate words to whatever meaning you wish them to have.  What you have lived thru your entire life, is not Capitalism. If you need a term, it is a Rentier State, with gov enforced land monopolys, decadent capitalism, fascism, take your pick, they all apply.

Capitalism involves an open market system of trade, which we don't have. We have a purely state run command economy, and those nasty things will always be teeming with graft, an aristocracy with a technocratic lackey class, that all thrive off of the thievery of the productive classes labor.  You have no desire to learn, so i won't waste anymore time in a failed attempt to inform someone so close minded