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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:31:41 AM EDT
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Quoted: Wow, I guess I must be pretty naive, all this time I thought food stamps were only for people with dependent children. Had no idea that single, able bodied, educated people were able to get them. Soon those on food stamps will be openly mocking those who are not, it may already be at that point in some areas of the country. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:32:37 AM EDT
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Organic salmon is pretty fucking tasty. I prefer the inorganic, myself. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:35:13 AM EDT
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Okay, that's it. I'm going to spend some time on "benefits.gov" and see exactly what programs I can qualify for. Then I'll calculate my Federal tax burden and do my utmost best to get "freebies" to that dollar amount. It'll be a miracle if I even come close but, just in case, I will make it a "hard stop" at the amount I paid in Federal tax so that I'm not actually being a parasite. I can't stop them from robbing me at gunpoint but I can pick their pockets as they turn to leave. And, when they raise my taxes, I'll qualify for more. Net-neutral.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:35:44 AM EDT
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Fuck you, hipsters!
I'm eating food from fucking Aldi and I'm eating microwavable mac and cheese and I work for my goddamn food, while you get to go to farmers markets and use your goddamn food stamps for fucking triple creme cheese and Japanese eggplant. FUCK YOU! |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:35:59 AM EDT
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dbl tapped it
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:38:14 AM EDT
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The rugged capitalists that run bodegas, stop-and-robs, and ghetto grocery stores will never allow meaningful food stamp reform. The food manufacturers will not either. Any attempt will be beaten back by pictures of swollen bellied youngsters, and reformers will look like Scrooge slapping bowls of gruel out of grimy hands. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:43:25 AM EDT
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I honestly think the only reform that has a chance of passing is a public registry of welfare benefits.
If CCW'rs can be outed based upon the public's right to know government workings, then welfare recipients fall under the same rubric. This would include agra-welfare as well. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:44:11 AM EDT
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Arrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
The dude has a 'part time blogging job', WTF? Get a job!!!!!!! |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:46:23 AM EDT
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The rugged capitalists that run bodegas, stop-and-robs, and ghetto grocery stores will never allow meaningful food stamp reform. The food manufacturers will not either. Any attempt will be beaten back by pictures of swollen bellied youngsters, and reformers will look like Scrooge slapping bowls of gruel out of grimy hands. Sadly, it is just another subsidy now. Nothing more. A subsidy they can buy votes from the card holders AND the companies that manufacture junk food. It is brilliant if you think about it. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:47:34 AM EDT
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I remember when I was a kid that being on any kind of public assistance was "the family secret."
How far we have fallen when being on the doll becomes brag worthy.  |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:52:32 AM EDT
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The rugged capitalists that run bodegas, stop-and-robs, and ghetto grocery stores will never allow meaningful food stamp reform. The food manufacturers will not either. Any attempt will be beaten back by pictures of swollen bellied youngsters, and reformers will look like Scrooge slapping bowls of gruel out of grimy hands. Sadly, it is just another subsidy now. Nothing more. A subsidy they can buy votes from the card holders AND the companies that manufacture junk food. It is brilliant if you think about it. Government cheese death mask of the Republic. We've been a Euro- socialist country for more an two decades, albeit one of very mixed efficiency. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:54:55 AM EDT
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Motherfuckers eat better than I do, and I have a steady income. Fuck those hipster cocksuckers with a burning iron rod. Fuck the Free Shit Army. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:58:27 AM EDT
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They formulate this sort of bland and boring ration bar that they start handing out by the case to civilians. Here's the kicker: They are purposely made to taste like ass so as to avoid people becoming overly dependent. Didn't the army do the same thing with the emergency D-ration bar, back in the day? IIRC, the guy who put out the request said it should taste "little better than a boiled potato". ETA: I'd be way into people chow, too. Seems like a fine idea, to me. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 6:59:54 AM EDT
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Eats better meals than I do........  Magida, a 30-year-old art school graduate, had been installing museum exhibits for a living until the recession caused arts funding — and her usual gigs — to dry up. .................
Mak, 31, grew up in Westchester, graduated from the University of Chicago and toiled in publishing in New York during his 20s before moving to Baltimore last year with a meager part-time blogging job and prospects for little else. Would you trade places with either of these two losers? They're trapped not so much by the economy but by their prior choices and their current mentality. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 7:05:03 AM EDT
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Maybe they can get jobs as cooks.. or get free money from the gov to set up their own restaurant business..
Seared Rabbit with Lemongrass Risotto.. side of crushed garlic and drawn butter.. sparkling water.. and Maple Pecan Pie a la Mode.. that kind of shit. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 7:07:59 AM EDT
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Many here talk about "Going Galt" in order to bring down the system. Getting on the dole in addition to denying the government tax revenue would accelerate the process.
Again, I'm just sayin'... |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 7:12:37 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: They formulate this sort of bland and boring ration bar that they start handing out by the case to civilians. Here's the kicker: They are purposely made to taste like ass so as to avoid people becoming overly dependent. Didn't the army do the same thing with the emergency D-ration bar, back in the day? IIRC, the guy who put out the request said it should taste "little better than a boiled potato". ETA: I'd be way into people chow, too. Seems like a fine idea, to me.  |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 7:19:02 AM EDT
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Exactly! Get home from work, throw a can of bachelor chow in the food dish and mic it for a couple minutes while I crack open a crisp, flavorless Löbrau.. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 7:21:43 AM EDT
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 For many years I've answered questions about what I like to cook by saying I just pick up 25 pound bags of Bachelor Chow. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 7:24:58 AM EDT
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Many here talk about "Going Galt" in order to bring down the system. Getting on the dole in addition to denying the government tax revenue would accelerate the process. Again, I'm just sayin'... This would essentially be using a Cloward-Piven strategy. The problem is that when the system breaks, whoever is the best organized are going to be the ones positioned to set up the new system. The left is VERY good at organizing, and have been attempting to enact a Cloward-Piven social welfare overload since the 1960's. While it could potentially work, we are VERY late to that game. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 7:30:12 AM EDT
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We should all just suck it up, swallow our pride and get on the bandwagon. Let's all get all we can from the government and get this shit over sooner. Setting our country back 50 years by going the route of Greece is not a smart option. You may not like the SHTF option as much as you think when we finally get it. The last election was won by a sliver. The margin of victory was considerably less than 2008. Things did move in the right direction regardless of what the pundits are saying, just not far enough. We need to press on and keep drilling the message that Obama owns the mess he is creating. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 7:44:17 AM EDT
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The program needs to be changed to "staple foods only". Nothing exotic or expensive. Or better yet, axed entirely. Hunger makes you more willing to work. CJ This. Dried beans, flour, rice. Make the fuckers fix it themselves. Years ago, on the Pournelle forum on GEnie, Dr Pournelle related how he'd eaten Purina Monkey Chow from the primate lab as a starving graduate assistant. Said it actually made good cereal. We then discussed as a solution to food stamps, instead having free 25 lb bags of "Purina People Chow" on pallets at the front of every grocery store. Bland, nutritious, free. I would like to try this "monkey chow".... |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 7:58:51 AM EDT
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Maybe it's just me but for some reason I thought they'd qualify for a lot more?
150 for one person and 200 for the other doesn't seem like as much as I assumed they'd get, although I completely agree they should be buying bulk packs of ramen noodles and 10 lb bags of rice and beans |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:03:53 AM EDT
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If I could get food stamps I would.
Hell.......I have paid enough into the system....and the sooner we can crash the system........well you get the idea. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:07:16 AM EDT
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First, look at their fucking jobs. An art school grad and a pro blogger? No fucking wonder they're broke. They have no marketable skills (that they went to school for anyway). It's heir own damn fault for not getting some real skills. On the flip side, I'm glad that at least using the money for actual quality food. I'd rather see them eat healthy and not end up in a hospital for a heart attack or diabetes because they ate at mcdonald every fucking day.... An art school graduate has tons of marketable skills. Commercial art is a huge business, as Andy Warhol so effectively noted. He just doesn't want to do it. Yep. A former Girlfreind of mine does a lot of artwork and design for pharmaceutical companies to use in advertising. She specializes in that sort of flat pastel style they use with womens products. She hates every minute of it, but admits she's making bank, so its a wash in the end. Chick in the OP wasn't doing any of that, just set up art exibits. If they're paying your ex an arm and a leg for her talent, then she must be damn good at it. I get the feeling this women is a fucking clueball. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:22:08 AM EDT
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FUCKING FREE SHIT ARMY!!! http://weaselzippers.us/2012/11/12/nauseating-hipster-brags-about-using-food-stamps-for-roasted-rabbit-with-butter-tarragon-and-sweet-potatoes/ I really didn’t need another reason to hate liberal hipster toolbags.
Via Salon:
They’re young, they’re broke, and they pay for organic salmon with government subsidies. Got a problem with that?
In the John Waters-esque sector of northwest Baltimore — equal parts kitschy, sketchy, artsy and weird — Gerry Mak and Sarah Magida sauntered through a small ethnic market stocked with Japanese eggplant, mint chutney and fresh turmeric. After gathering ingredients for that evening’s dinner, they walked to the cash register and awaited their moments of truth.
"I have $80 bucks left!” Magida said. "I’m so happy!”
"I have $12,” Mak said with a frown.
The two friends weren’t tabulating the cash in their wallets but what remained of the monthly allotment on their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program debit cards, the official new term for what are still known colloquially as food stamps.
Magida, a 30-year-old art school graduate, had been installing museum exhibits for a living until the recession caused arts funding — and her usual gigs — to dry up. She applied for food stamps last summer, and since then she’s used her $150 in monthly benefits for things like fresh produce, raw honey and fresh-squeezed juices from markets near her house in the neighborhood of Hampden, and soy meat alternatives and gourmet ice cream from a Whole Foods a few miles away.
"I’m eating better than I ever have before,” she told me. "Even with food stamps, it’s not like I’m living large, but it helps.”
Mak, 31, grew up in Westchester, graduated from the University of Chicago and toiled in publishing in New York during his 20s before moving to Baltimore last year with a meager part-time blogging job and prospects for little else. About half of his friends in Baltimore have been getting food stamps since the economy toppled, so he decided to give it a try; to his delight, he qualified for $200 a month.
"I’m sort of a foodie, and I’m not going to do the ‘living off ramen’ thing,” he said, fondly remembering a recent meal he’d prepared of roasted rabbit with butter, tarragon and sweet potatoes. "I used to think that you could only get processed food and government cheese on food stamps, but it’s great that you can get anything.”
"... toiled in publishing...." What a joke. We're supposed to have sympathy for these assholes?
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:27:54 AM EDT
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This thread is proof that its all over. Just tally up the 'program should be changed to only x and y' responses we're seeing.
For fucks sake, thats still redistribution of wealth. You're just arguing that you can do it more efficiently. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:31:18 AM EDT
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I remember when I was a kid that being on any kind of public assistance was "the family secret." How far we have fallen when being on the doll becomes brag worthy.
Yup. Around here they called it "goin' on the County" –– and it was a horrifying to be avoided at all costs thing. The republic is dead. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:35:38 AM EDT
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First, look at their fucking jobs. An art school grad and a pro blogger? No fucking wonder they're broke. They have no marketable skills (that they went to school for anyway). It's heir own damn fault for not getting some real skills. On the flip side, I'm glad that at least using the money for actual quality food. I'd rather see them eat healthy and not end up in a hospital for a heart attack or diabetes because they ate at mcdonald every fucking day.... An art school graduate has tons of marketable skills. Commercial art is a huge business, as Andy Warhol so effectively noted. He just doesn't want to do it. Yep. A former Girlfreind of mine does a lot of artwork and design for pharmaceutical companies to use in advertising. She specializes in that sort of flat pastel style they use with womens products. She hates every minute of it, but admits she's making bank, so its a wash in the end. Chick in the OP wasn't doing any of that, just set up art exibits. If they're paying your ex an arm and a leg for her talent, then she must be damn good at it. I get the feeling this women is a fucking clueball. It's likely. I visited my ex frequently while she was attending art school (I was in the Marines at the time, so it was essentially a 'hey I'm on leave' booty call) and while the stuff she was working on was really awesome (she did these charcoal works that were acid treated afterwards that were amazing) many of her dorm-mates stuff was.... well, I think they have a future in painting carnival rides in third world countries. The worst ones were always the works that were trying to be politically edgy. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:41:05 AM EDT
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The worst ones were always the works that were trying to be politically edgy. I think it was Fatbert who said "beware anyone involving themselves in politics as a form of self-therapy." |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:42:05 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:43:53 AM EDT
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Fuck you, hipsters! I'm eating food from fucking Aldi and I'm eating microwavable mac and cheese and I work for my goddamn food, while you get to go to farmers markets and use your goddamn food stamps for fucking triple creme cheese and Japanese eggplant. FUCK YOU! Social Justice my friend. Perhaps this is the revenge Hussein was referring to 10 days ago...
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:44:27 AM EDT
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This article is about 2 or 3 years old. I'm sure the problems only gotten worse. I called out a hipster kid at a grocer once, but everyone looked at me like I just shit on the floor. As I read it, I thought it sounded familiar. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:45:21 AM EDT
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I would rather the money be spent on quality food (organic salmon) than Pringles and Dr. Pepper. I would rather wipe my ass witho that money , after taking a dump on their starving bodies , while eating a sandwich |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:47:26 AM EDT
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The program needs to be changed to "staple foods only". Nothing exotic or expensive. That wont happen, the food companies have lobbied to make luxery items food stamp items to increase sales. Now whos to blame? The FSA, food companies, or corrupt politicians? |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:47:48 AM EDT
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After reading this thread this morning, I went to the snap website to see if I qualified.
The questionairre told me I did not make under the amount of $ to qualify, THEN they told me the number. So, of course, I resubmitted, and was prompted to apply.
Do you suppose they check? 
ETA, I did NOT apply, nor will I. 
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:49:34 AM EDT
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Quoted: If the hipster wants to eat rabbit and organic veggies, great! GiveSell him a snare wire and some seeds and tell him to knock himself out.  |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:50:37 AM EDT
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We need to bring back soup kitchens. If you're going to go on the fucking dole, you should have to stand in line and experience the disgrace of being fed by people better than you.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:55:53 AM EDT
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Parasites. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:56:02 AM EDT
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The program needs to be changed to "staple foods only". Nothing exotic or expensive. That wont happen, the food companies have lobbied to make luxery items food stamp items to increase sales. Now whos to blame? The FSA, food companies, or corrupt politicians? I put it on the Politicians. They were elected to be good stewards of the publics money and have failed in that role. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 8:58:46 AM EDT
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The program needs to be changed to "staple foods only". Nothing exotic or expensive. That wont happen, the food companies have lobbied to make luxery items food stamp items to increase sales. Now whos to blame? The FSA, food companies, or corrupt politicians? I put it on the Politicians. They were elected to be good stewards of the publics money and have failed in that role. Concur. Every politician is crooked, and so is every industry.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 9:00:42 AM EDT
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The program needs to be changed to "staple foods only". Nothing exotic or expensive. Or better yet, axed entirely. Hunger makes you more willing to work. CJ Beans and 'tators only! (That's beans and potatoes for those who don't understand Hillbilly) |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 9:01:46 AM EDT
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Quoted: This thread is proof that its all over. Just tally up the 'program should be changed to only x and y' responses we're seeing. For fucks sake, thats still redistribution of wealth. You're just arguing that you can do it more efficiently. 'But there are people that really need it!' Necessity has no bearing when theft comes into play. The proper counter-argument to that is to say that the original party also needs it. As soon as the rebuttal of 'but they don't need it as much' or the proposed welfare recipient 'needs it more than they do', they've handily demonstrated the from-each/to-each wealth distribution commie bullshit.  |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 9:07:29 AM EDT
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"Bashes head on keyboard"
The level of DERP in that article is so extreme its breaking the laws of physics. 
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Posted: 11/13/2012 9:09:33 AM EDT
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If you guys only knew what people do to get EBT (foodstamps) and what they do when they get it your heads would explode. Hipsters buying gourmet foods is wayyyy down on the list.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 9:12:02 AM EDT
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If you guys only knew what people do to get EBT (foodstamps) and what they do when they get it your heads would explode. Hipsters buying gourmet foods is wayyyy down on the list. Explode our heads brother. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 9:17:22 AM EDT
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If you guys only knew what people do to get EBT (foodstamps) and what they do when they get it your heads would explode. Hipsters buying gourmet foods is wayyyy down on the list. Explode our heads brother. I had a gal last month getting 2 allocations of food stamps for both her and her two children under her americanized name and her Vietnamese name. She owns 2 nail salons. She was also geting .gov money for providing in home care for her grandmother who worked at the salon. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 9:18:10 AM EDT
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If you guys only knew what people do to get EBT (foodstamps) and what they do when they get it your heads would explode. Hipsters buying gourmet foods is wayyyy down on the list. Explode our heads brother. I had a gal last month getting 2 allocations of food stamps for both her and her two children under her americanized name and her Vietnamese name. She owns 2 nail salons. She was also geting .gov money for providing in home care for her grandmother who worked at the salon.
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Posted: 11/13/2012 9:20:16 AM EDT
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This thread is proof that its all over. Just tally up the 'program should be changed to only x and y' responses we're seeing. For fucks sake, thats still redistribution of wealth. You're just arguing that you can do it more efficiently. 'But there are people that really need it!' Necessity has no bearing when theft comes into play. The proper counter-argument to that is to say that the original party also needs it. As soon as the rebuttal of 'but they don't need it as much' or the proposed welfare recipient 'needs it more than they do', they've handily demonstrated the from-each/to-each wealth distribution commie bullshit.
You've both got a good point here, but its also important to point out that the FSA tends to get looty and burny when suddenly cut off from their free shit. Think of America like a heroin addict and what we are suggesting like methadone. |
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Posted: 11/13/2012 9:21:44 AM EDT
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"Here's some powdered milk, flour, sugar, beans, salt, pepper, powered eggs, and 4 whole chickens for the month."
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