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Originally posted by Dale Moser View PostRight now is the perfect time to start gutting the program. We are slap in the middle of a labor crisis, any able-bodied soul without a job right now should have any benefits cut 100% tomorrow. I could hire three people today but I can't get anyone to show up and fill out an application for less than $14 an hour.
It makes my blood boil to stand in line at Walmart behind some disgusting pig that weighs 350, dragging four fat kids around, pushing a buggy full of Dr Pepper and Doritos, and pay for it all on that EBT card or whatever it is.
Mandatory birth control would be a great place to start…
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Do you think the food retailers and manufacturers are going to let this go thru? No Way. Also lot;s of small town Grocery stores bottom line depend on customers who use the SNAP card. Should the SNAP card be harder to get and more restrictive, absolutely. But To replace it with such a pie in the sky idea is absurd.
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Originally posted by ND40 View PostDo you think the food retailers and manufacturers are going to let this go thru? No Way. Also lot;s of small town Grocery stores bottom line depend on customers who use the SNAP card. Should the SNAP card be harder to get and more restrictive, absolutely. But To replace it with such a pie in the sky idea is absurd.
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Originally posted by WTJim View PostY'all are assuming a lot that the money automatically loaded on those cards will go to buying food for kids...Many times the cards are given to drug dealers while Mommy and Daddy stack up shoulder to shoulder in Motel rooms to smoke the money away the first 3 days of the month. Here's another bubble buster reality. Many "stores" will take the card, swipe it for the maximum amount, let's say $400.00, the store gets the 400.00 and they give Mommy or Daddy $200.00 cash to spend it on whatever feel good self medicating product they choose...many of y'all would shut the whole system down if you knew what the reality is.
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I didn't even know what this program was until I started going to middle school and my dad made enough to not qualify and my lunch went from being .25 to $1.50 haha. all for helping folks in need, as we did after dad left the airforce. Lots of people abuse it though. When i worked in a grocery store they would totally waste most of the prepared food, or get some and eat most of it then try to return it. Had someone tell me I was inconsiderate for saying people should have to do a monthly drug test to recieve any benefits lol.
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Originally posted by Traildust View PostNever gonna happen. Doesn't hurt to dream though.
Originally posted by Razrbk89 View PostRednecks love EBT. This could be a major blow to their culture.Last edited by Etxbuckman; 02-13-2018, 02:02 PM.
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Originally posted by jmeghunts View PostGovernment cheese was the bomb!!! We would leave it out on the counter with a knife and eat on it all day. That powdered milk could be mixed with coco powder, powdered sugar and hot water to make some mean hot chocolate too.
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The average monthly benefit per person was $125.79 last year. To be eligible for food stamps, the maximum gross monthly income is 130% of the federal poverty level, which for a single-person household is $12,140 and $16,460 for a household of two.
In my experience you have to try to not make this much in a year.
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Originally posted by BBReezen View PostI used to know a guy that paid his neighbor cash for their Lonestar card at half value. He never would sell it to me for 10% more than what he paid for it
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I agree the grocery stores would fight this and that the buying home grown might actually end up costing more. Instead I'd like to see them do food stamps the way WIC is done. A list of items that can be purchased and then of those the recipients would be restricted to the cheapest brand available. The added benefit is that the foods purchased would be more healthy which in turn would help with medicare/medicaid farther down the road.
While we're on the subject and dreaming, While I'm almost always against expanding or creating new government agencies, I'd really like to see a welfare abuse investigation agency. I think it would pay for itself several times over. How many of us have witnessed abuses like those already posted on this thread? How many people are receiving benefits by falsely claiming to be single or that they're the only adult in a household with 3 or 4?
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Originally posted by donpablo View PostI agree the grocery stores would fight this and that the buying home grown might actually end up costing more. Instead I'd like to see them do food stamps the way WIC is done. A list of items that can be purchased and then of those the recipients would be restricted to the cheapest brand available. The added benefit is that the foods purchased would be more healthy which in turn would help with medicare/medicaid farther down the road.
While we're on the subject and dreaming, While I'm almost always against expanding or creating new government agencies, I'd really like to see a welfare abuse investigation agency. I think it would pay for itself several times over. How many of us have witnessed abuses like those already posted on this thread? How many people are receiving benefits by falsely claiming to be single or that they're the only adult in a household with 3 or 4?
Or that are on drugs or sell drugs or have more kids just so they can get more benefits...
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