How Many People Around You Receive Food Stamps?

[star seed 7]

I have never seen someone using food stamps

neither have i.  strange, since apparently they are so common.

well, i did see a young mother getting milk with WIC or something once.  i don't know if that counts.

[Emo EMAW]

Food stamp people use them during the day when us tax payers are at work.

[star seed 7]

Food stamp people use them during the day when us tax payers are at work.

FSD isn't a taxpayer?   

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I can understand why a child or a moron would think that using food stamps means exchanging something that resembles a postage stamp for food.  As for the resident pittards, well I guess I understand that too.

People that don't think, aren't gonna think, and there's nothing you can do to make them.

[kim carnes]

19%

[star seed 7]

THEY AREN'T ACTUAL STAMPS?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[steve dave]

THEY AREN'T ACTUAL STAMPS?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

:mind blown:

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Literally posted right above

I have never seen someone using food stamps

neither have i.  strange, since apparently they are so common.

well, i did see a young mother getting milk with WIC or something once.  i don't know if that counts.

Y'all are very bad at this

[Rage Against the McKee]

I have never seen someone using food stamps

neither have i.  strange, since apparently they are so common.

well, i did see a young mother getting milk with WIC or something once.  i don't know if that counts.

I'm pretty sure the WIC card is food stamps. I've seen it 4 or 5 times.

[star seed 7]

I have never seen someone using food stamps

neither have i.  strange, since apparently they are so common.

well, i did see a young mother getting milk with WIC or something once.  i don't know if that counts.

I'm pretty sure the WIC card is food stamps. I've seen it 4 or 5 times.

it was a paper check/coupon looking thing.  not a vision card.  that's why i didn't know if it counted.

and my reaction wasn't "omg, i can't believe this bitch is mooching off my taxpayer dollars to buy milk for her young kids", it was more like "oh, i'm glad that program is available so her kids can have some milk".  she was also white, so maybe FSD wouldn't have cared about it in this instance.

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[Rage Against the McKee]

I have never seen someone using food stamps

neither have i.  strange, since apparently they are so common.

well, i did see a young mother getting milk with WIC or something once.  i don't know if that counts.

I'm pretty sure the WIC card is food stamps. I've seen it 4 or 5 times.

it was a paper check/coupon looking thing.  not a vision card.  that's why i didn't know if it counted.

and my reaction wasn't "omg, i can't believe this bitch is mooching off my taxpayer dollars to buy milk for her young kids", it was more like "oh, i'm glad that program is available so her kids can have some milk".  she was also white, so maybe FSD wouldn't have cared about it in this instance.

Yeah, I don't judge. I'm pretty sure most food stamp recipients either have a job, are elderly, or are children, anyway. I do have some fundamental issues with the way food stamps are handled, though. People who receive the benefits have enough money between their paycheck and the food stamps to get healthy food. People should not be allowed to use food stamps to purchase items that will make them obese.

[GCJayhawker]

You all are taking the wrong approach to FSD on this issue.  The real important thing to note is that FSD shops at Sam's club. I mean my god he must not be 

[sys]

21%, 2nd highest in ca.   


and i see people buying food with food stamps all the time, btw.

[felix rex]

21%, or a healthy 140,295 people.

Fortunately, thanks to gentrification, I don't actually have to interact with them. (I let Whole Foods discriminate for me).

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I view the increase of the use of food stamps as a symptom of a much larger problem, and generally don't fault people for accessing the public assistance they can access.

That being said, public assistance shouldn't come no strings attached and shouldn't be used to buy things that are to the detriment of the health of the buyer (soda, junk food).  Allowing that only increases the burden on the public in future when these people have type 2 diabetes and use further public assistance to drain the healthcare system.


In case you're wondering who the problem is, its the guy who chose to make access to this assistance even more abundant and no strings attached, and is a piano on the back of the economy.

[jmlynch1]

DYK that you can use food stamps at papa Murphy's?

[Rage Against the McKee]

DYK that you can use food stamps at papa Murphy's?

No. 

[8manpick]

21%, or a healthy 140,295 people.

Fortunately, thanks to gentrification, I don't actually have to interact with them. (I let Whole Foods discriminate for me).

Cairo county?

[felix rex]

21%, or a healthy 140,295 people.

Fortunately, thanks to gentrification, I don't actually have to interact with them. (I let Whole Foods discriminate for me).

Cairo county?

Well, I used the county where I pay taxes. Cairo would be much higher since basically the entire country is on a bread subsidy.

[AbeFroman]

DYK that you can use food stamps at papa Murphy's?

I've seen less people eat Papa Murphy's than I've seen use food stamps.

[steve dave]

DYK that you can use food stamps at papa Murphy's?

I've seen less people eat Papa Murphy's than I've seen use food stamps.

both zero for me

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

I have never seen someone using food stamps

I have. Was waiting in line at checkout. Woman in front of me whips out the EBT card. They're just credit cards, and the only reason I noticed is that she was having trouble getting it to read. So then I start looking at the conveyor belt. Several two-liters of non-diet, brand name soda (kudos for saving money on the two-liters, I guess), cookies, bags of chips, etc. I was all And then she said "hold up a sec" and grabbed a rough ridin' candy bar.

Why the eff do we allow people to spend tax dollars on soda and candy? Any time a conservative brings it up, you get this entitled sneer "Why shouldn't I be able to get a birthday cake for my kid's birthday?" What a crock of crap.

[michigancat]

I have never seen someone using food stamps

I have. Was waiting in line at checkout. Woman in front of me whips out the EBT card. They're just credit cards, and the only reason I noticed is that she was having trouble getting it to read. So then I start looking at the conveyor belt. Several two-liters of non-diet, brand name soda (kudos for saving money on the two-liters, I guess), cookies, bags of chips, etc. I was all And then she said "hold up a sec" and grabbed a rough ridin' candy bar.

Why the eff do we allow people to spend tax dollars on soda and candy? Any time a conservative brings it up, you get this entitled sneer "Why shouldn't I be able to get a birthday cake for my kid's birthday?" What a crock of crap.

agreed, the government should take more control here.

[sys]

people can have cash benefits on their ebt card as well as food stamps.

btw, economists nearly unanimously agree that that the most effective benefits are those that allow the recipient complete discretion on what they use them for.