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you think poor people are poor because they make good financial decisions.
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Poor are poor cause the Capitalist CEOS shipped thousands of American Factories to China and India paying the workers there 50 cents and pocketed their multi million dollar paycheck cause of the higher profit when they didnt have to pay American workers..
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The least among us (meaning) the ones with the least contribution to mankind are being enabled toward their complete reliance upon the government. Soon, the camps will be filled with them. Black & brown is correct.

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go to a market basket in Maine or NH. you wont say many minorities, but will see plenty of white people on food stamps. dont really think it is about race.
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I am not black or brown

I am white and needed the help
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Come to Indianapolis that will change your tune. If they outlawed junkfood on EBT my store would probably go out of business. That is all people buy on EBT: Cheetos, Orange or Grape Soda, Every candy you can imagine, Pork Rinds, you name it. Sad really...
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Enjoy your windfall, and stop complaining.
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What neighbourhood do you live in?
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hyde park
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Ahhh.. I will not judge. (In all honesty, I was rushing to judgment. I thought you were role-playing like the prison nurse wife guy last night) I was just wondering how an attorney lived in a neighbourhood with renters re-renting. I feel very fortunate to live in the neighbourhood in which I reside. I will read more closely.
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we moved here 6 years ago when i got the job out of law school. not too far from mayor menino, but a few blocks away. coming from Maine, the rents were outrageous here and we found a spot bigger than our last but within our budget. not kidding about my neighbor. its an on-going joke in the building. every Friday night, never fail, her Puerto rican crack dealer shows up never to fail.
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When its drugs involved though. I have no mercy. They need to test all welfare applicants for drugs and if its in their system. Immediately bar them from benefits. 6 months till theyre clean..
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You're an attorney, you work 80 hours a week, and you can not afford a $20 ice cream cake?

LOL
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very true. i represent low income criminal defendants. have not even begun to touch my student loans. but i wanted to do this to help people, and that is what i am doing. i pay the bills but not much else. my husband was laid off 3 years ago as well which doesnt help. many people (including my brothers and sisters) assume that all lawyers are rich. im sure the crooks are, but i am not.
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No, I know some attorneys that make mediocre money. However, there is no way you have to live like a pauper as an attorney. Just absolutely no way.


You can afford a $20 birthday cake.
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you have to be brown or black to get on those programs
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yea, she was white. but at the same time, i know plenty of white people who do the same shit. in fact, my neighbor has the state paying her rent, but then rents a spot out, keeps the money and buys crack every friday night.
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So you're an attorney working 80 hour weeks living next to a welfare recipient crack whore?

Really
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You're an attorney, you work 80 hours a week, and you can not afford a $20 ice cream cake?

LOL
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very true. i represent low income criminal defendants. have not even begun to touch my student loans. but i wanted to do this to help people, and that is what i am doing. i pay the bills but not much else. my husband was laid off 3 years ago as well which doesnt help. many people (including my brothers and sisters) assume that all lawyers are rich. im sure the crooks are, but i am not.
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No, I know some attorneys that make mediocre money. However, there is no way you have to live like a pauper as an attorney. Just absolutely no way.


You can afford a $20 birthday cake.
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Yeah, its like once a year? lol...

I know someone that makes their own. A 2.00 box of cake and 4.00 tub of ice cream. Leave out the ice cream to soften. and then do the rest...I had it, it was pretty good, just like the store..
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You're an attorney, you work 80 hours a week, and you can not afford a $20 ice cream cake?

LOL
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very true. i represent low income criminal defendants. have not even begun to touch my student loans. but i wanted to do this to help people, and that is what i am doing. i pay the bills but not much else. my husband was laid off 3 years ago as well which doesnt help. many people (including my brothers and sisters) assume that all lawyers are rich. im sure the crooks are, but i am not.
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No, I know some attorneys that make mediocre money. However, there is no way you have to live like a pauper as an attorney. Just absolutely no way.


You can afford a $20 birthday cake.
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If you're representing low income criminal defendants you're paid by the state. Same as welfare.
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you have to be brown or black to get on those programs
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yea, she was white. but at the same time, i know plenty of white people who do the same shit. in fact, my neighbor has the state paying her rent, but then rents a spot out, keeps the money and buys crack every friday night.
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So you're an attorney working 80 hour weeks living next to a welfare recipient crack whore?

Really
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lol
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go to a market basket in Maine or NH. you wont say many minorities, but will see plenty of white people on food stamps. dont really think it is about race.
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I am not black or brown

I am white and needed the help
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Come to Indianapolis that will change your tune. If they outlawed junkfood on EBT my store would probably go out of business. That is all people buy on EBT: Cheetos, Orange or Grape Soda, Every candy you can imagine, Pork Rinds, you name it. Sad really...
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Let them enjoy food.

I like it how you complain about the poor eating pork rinds while the rich are pulling in multi million dollar bonuses and hundred million dollar paychecks... yet no one cares or bats an eye..
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fuck the rich too. they are stealing from us just like the ebt abusers. Just frustrating to work so hard and to see others who could, not. i just dont understand why one would not want to try to be self sufficient. i just think there needs to be more limits. my family never got food stamps (at least when i was alive) but we also lived within our means, ie: on birthdays, my dad baked a cake, not buy one for $25 on tax payers dime. if you knew me you would better understand. i voted obama, i believe in helping the needy, in fact, if needed, support them for life. just see many who are supposedly needy, but are really lazy. (FYI, my husband is probably giving me bad karma for this one, as we just had this argument last night.) I understand there are opposing views. I am looking for the copy of the receipt I found in shaws parking lot recently which included 6 lobsters and 7 sirloins paid for by EBT. WTF. that i dont understand.
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I am not black or brown

I am white and needed the help
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Come to Indianapolis that will change your tune. If they outlawed junkfood on EBT my store would probably go out of business. That is all people buy on EBT: Cheetos, Orange or Grape Soda, Every candy you can imagine, Pork Rinds, you name it. Sad really...
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Let them enjoy food.

I like it how you complain about the poor eating pork rinds while the rich are pulling in multi million dollar bonuses and hundred million dollar paychecks... yet no one cares or bats an eye..
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fuck the rich too. they are stealing from us just like the ebt abusers. Just frustrating to work so hard and to see others who could, not. i just dont understand why one would not want to try to be self sufficient. i just think there needs to be more limits. my family never got food stamps (at least when i was alive) but we also lived within our means, ie: on birthdays, my dad baked a cake, not buy one for $25 on tax payers dime. if you knew me you would better understand. i voted obama, i believe in helping the needy, in fact, if needed, support them for life. just see many who are supposedly needy, but are really lazy. (FYI, my husband is probably giving me bad karma for this one, as we just had this argument last night.) I understand there are opposing views. I am looking for the copy of the receipt I found in shaws parking lot recently which included 6 lobsters and 7 sirloins paid for by EBT. WTF. that i dont understand.
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I heard lobsters actually shot down in price and the lobster fisherman are protesting and the whole lobster industry is in a huge panic over a glut of lobsters.
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Time to get them now. I wont judge anyone...

You can get a package of 4 thin sirloins for ten bucks at Walmart. With sides thats 2.50 a meal. Cant beat that...
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What neighbourhood do you live in?
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hyde park
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Ahhh.. I will not judge. (In all honesty, I was rushing to judgment. I thought you were role-playing like the prison nurse wife guy last night) I was just wondering how an attorney lived in a neighbourhood with renters re-renting. I feel very fortunate to live in the neighbourhood in which I reside. I will read more closely.
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we moved here 6 years ago when i got the job out of law school. not too far from mayor menino, but a few blocks away. coming from Maine, the rents were outrageous here and we found a spot bigger than our last but within our budget. not kidding about my neighbor. its an on-going joke in the building. every Friday night, never fail, her Puerto rican crack dealer shows up never to fail.
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I have spent most my life moving back and forth between 2 states. One is VERY affordable, the other is barely affordable. The affordable state sucks, the other is a paradise. I bought a so-called "crappy" house in the affordable state, fixed it up, and flipped it. I took the money and and purchased a house in the paradise state. I took many years, and a lot of hard work, but it was worth it.
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You're an attorney, you work 80 hours a week, and you can not afford a $20 ice cream cake?

LOL
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very true. i represent low income criminal defendants. have not even begun to touch my student loans. but i wanted to do this to help people, and that is what i am doing. i pay the bills but not much else. my husband was laid off 3 years ago as well which doesnt help. many people (including my brothers and sisters) assume that all lawyers are rich. im sure the crooks are, but i am not.
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No, I know some attorneys that make mediocre money. However, there is no way you have to live like a pauper as an attorney. Just absolutely no way.


You can afford a $20 birthday cake.
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If you're representing low income criminal defendants you're paid by the state. Same as welfare.
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Ummm... no it's not. She's being PAID to do her job. Read your Constitution.
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You're an attorney, you work 80 hours a week, and you can not afford a $20 ice cream cake?

LOL
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very true. i represent low income criminal defendants. have not even begun to touch my student loans. but i wanted to do this to help people, and that is what i am doing. i pay the bills but not much else. my husband was laid off 3 years ago as well which doesnt help. many people (including my brothers and sisters) assume that all lawyers are rich. im sure the crooks are, but i am not.
 Quoting: Shellbe


No, I know some attorneys that make mediocre money. However, there is no way you have to live like a pauper as an attorney. Just absolutely no way.


You can afford a $20 birthday cake.
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If you're representing low income criminal defendants you're paid by the state. Same as welfare.
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I dont do court appointed work. I charge more money for clients who have more money to cover those who dont, like a sliding scale. I am not saying i am poor, last year i brought in about $45,000. However, it is unbelievably expensive to live in the city. When i visit my family in NH i shop there which helps, but my husband is laid-off. ive done the math. after bills, i have about $30 extra a week, and we both smoke. for two of us, i spend about $120 a week in groceries. however, when i can, i shop outside of the city which saves about $60 a week.
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you have to be brown or black to get on those programs
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yea, she was white. but at the same time, i know plenty of white people who do the same shit. in fact, my neighbor has the state paying her rent, but then rents a spot out, keeps the money and buys crack every friday night.
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So you're an attorney working 80 hour weeks living next to a welfare recipient crack whore?

Really
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really!
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you have to be brown or black to get on those programs
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yea, she was white. but at the same time, i know plenty of white people who do the same shit. in fact, my neighbor has the state paying her rent, but then rents a spot out, keeps the money and buys crack every friday night.
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So you're an attorney working 80 hour weeks living next to a welfare recipient crack whore?

Really
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i love how people just assume shit based on stereotypes. my parents where 17 when i was born. 5 more came after me. i have worked and paid for everything on my own. my husband and i have been together since i was 18. he worked as a mason through my school to support us. when i got the job in boston, went from a $450 a month 2 bedroom to $1000 a month one bedroom. im not full of shit, just being honest. maybe i could make more if i only took cases from high paying clients, but that is not why i do what i do.
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you have to be brown or black to get on those programs
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yea, she was white. but at the same time, i know plenty of white people who do the same shit. in fact, my neighbor has the state paying her rent, but then rents a spot out, keeps the money and buys crack every friday night.
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you must be a shitass lawyer if you cant afford to not live next to crackheads
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you have to be brown or black to get on those programs
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yea, she was white. but at the same time, i know plenty of white people who do the same shit. in fact, my neighbor has the state paying her rent, but then rents a spot out, keeps the money and buys crack every friday night.
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So you're an attorney working 80 hour weeks living next to a welfare recipient crack whore?

Really
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i love how people just assume shit based on stereotypes. my parents where 17 when i was born. 5 more came after me. i have worked and paid for everything on my own. my husband and i have been together since i was 18. he worked as a mason through my school to support us. when i got the job in boston, went from a $450 a month 2 bedroom to $1000 a month one bedroom. im not full of shit, just being honest. maybe i could make more if i only took cases from high paying clients, but that is not why i do what i do.
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just moving to the city alone was a big deal to the people i knew and grew up with.
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Come to Indianapolis that will change your tune. If they outlawed junkfood on EBT my store would probably go out of business. That is all people buy on EBT: Cheetos, Orange or Grape Soda, Every candy you can imagine, Pork Rinds, you name it. Sad really...
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Let them enjoy food.

I like it how you complain about the poor eating pork rinds while the rich are pulling in multi million dollar bonuses and hundred million dollar paychecks... yet no one cares or bats an eye..
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fuck the rich too. they are stealing from us just like the ebt abusers. Just frustrating to work so hard and to see others who could, not. i just dont understand why one would not want to try to be self sufficient. i just think there needs to be more limits. my family never got food stamps (at least when i was alive) but we also lived within our means, ie: on birthdays, my dad baked a cake, not buy one for $25 on tax payers dime. if you knew me you would better understand. i voted obama, i believe in helping the needy, in fact, if needed, support them for life. just see many who are supposedly needy, but are really lazy. (FYI, my husband is probably giving me bad karma for this one, as we just had this argument last night.) I understand there are opposing views. I am looking for the copy of the receipt I found in shaws parking lot recently which included 6 lobsters and 7 sirloins paid for by EBT. WTF. that i dont understand.
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I heard lobsters actually shot down in price and the lobster fisherman are protesting and the whole lobster industry is in a huge panic over a glut of lobsters.
'
Time to get them now. I wont judge anyone...

You can get a package of 4 thin sirloins for ten bucks at Walmart. With sides thats 2.50 a meal. Cant beat that...
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very true this time ofr year, although the receipt i saw was from december. in main last week, my husbands father got a bakers dozen for $50.
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very true. i represent low income criminal defendants. have not even begun to touch my student loans. but i wanted to do this to help people, and that is what i am doing. i pay the bills but not much else. my husband was laid off 3 years ago as well which doesnt help. many people (including my brothers and sisters) assume that all lawyers are rich. im sure the crooks are, but i am not.
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No, I know some attorneys that make mediocre money. However, there is no way you have to live like a pauper as an attorney. Just absolutely no way.


You can afford a $20 birthday cake.
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If you're representing low income criminal defendants you're paid by the state. Same as welfare.
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Ummm... no it's not. She's being PAID to do her job. Read your Constitution.
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not to mention that court appointed lawyers on average make $40 an hour, and those are only the hours that are billable, ie: court wait time which could be up to 6 hours is not paid. while a corporate attorney in Boston bill on average about $500 per hour. And that $40 an hour also has to cover office over head, office expenses, and health insurance. Believe me, court appointed attorneys are not making much more than me.
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One of my first jobs was a cashier at a supermarket. I was shocked at what people would buy with food stamps. I saw lobsters and steaks bought and I could never understand how they could by that but not toilet paper! Now I see people with new cars, name bags and clothing..sun glasses and weaves. Unfortunately now many people don't need them..it's fun money. In the fifties or maybe sixties, my mothers great aunt was in her 70s and lost her husband years earlier( he was ran over by a city truck) and they gave her $15,000. which she was screwed out of her her brother in law ) She worked a little job until she couldn't travel anymore (3 buses each way) and after a few years of just living off of basics, she needed some help. Embarrassed she had to apply, they told her her social security check was ONE DOLLAR over the guide lines and if she wanted to fight it she had to GO TO WASHINGTON D.C.
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you have to be brown or black to get on those programs
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yea, she was white. but at the same time, i know plenty of white people who do the same shit. in fact, my neighbor has the state paying her rent, but then rents a spot out, keeps the money and buys crack every friday night.
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you must be a shitass lawyer if you cant afford to not live next to crackheads
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actually i do pretty good. i win about 65% of my motions to suppress ( I do mostly drug cases), which the average is like 35%. the problem is my clients have no money.
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I don't understand.

If a person gets "food stamps" (SNAP) and decides to spend their money on something you see as a "luxury purchase", how does that give them more money to continue buying "luxury purchases" with their "food stamps"?

How is using the money allotted to them abuse?

How is lobster an abuse of "food stamps"?

It's food isn't it?

Abusing the system would be people getting these benefits when they aren't qualified (fraud) or selling their benefits for cash (fraud).

Using it as intended is not fraud.
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One of my first jobs was a cashier at a supermarket. I was shocked at what people would buy with food stamps. I saw lobsters and steaks bought and I could never understand how they could by that but not toilet paper! Now I see people with new cars, name bags and clothing..sun glasses and weaves. Unfortunately now many people don't need them..it's fun money. In the fifties or maybe sixties, my mothers great aunt was in her 70s and lost her husband years earlier( he was ran over by a city truck) and they gave her $15,000. which she was screwed out of her her brother in law ) She worked a little job until she couldn't travel anymore (3 buses each way) and after a few years of just living off of basics, she needed some help. Embarrassed she had to apply, they told her her social security check was ONE DOLLAR over the guide lines and if she wanted to fight it she had to GO TO WASHINGTON D.C.
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i think thats the problem. the people that really need it, dont have the knowledge to work the system, but those who have been educated on the system cash out.
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I have to say, im all for food stamps for those who need it, but if you are buying whoopie pies, do you really need them? I just baked my husband a cake for his birthday. cost $3 for the mix at shaws. These cakes cost $5. I see people in the store buying $20 icecream cakes with ebt. I am an attorney working 80 hours a week and i cant afford those fuckin cakes. WTF
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The ability to buy "select" items is protected by, get this, the very freedoms that the food stamps strip away...but in the long run, anything that will boost the economy makes Bambam happy...even if the US Government pays for over 1/3 of the reported growth. What a joke!
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One of my first jobs was a cashier at a supermarket. I was shocked at what people would buy with food stamps. I saw lobsters and steaks bought and I could never understand how they could by that but not toilet paper! Now I see people with new cars, name bags and clothing..sun glasses and weaves. Unfortunately now many people don't need them..it's fun money. In the fifties or maybe sixties, my mothers great aunt was in her 70s and lost her husband years earlier( he was ran over by a city truck) and they gave her $15,000. which she was screwed out of her her brother in law ) She worked a little job until she couldn't travel anymore (3 buses each way) and after a few years of just living off of basics, she needed some help. Embarrassed she had to apply, they told her her social security check was ONE DOLLAR over the guide lines and if she wanted to fight it she had to GO TO WASHINGTON D.C.
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i think thats the problem. the people that really need it, dont have the knowledge to work the system, but those who have been educated on the system cash out.
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Bambam said it best: "...by hook or crook"
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I don't understand.

If a person gets "food stamps" (SNAP) and decides to spend their money on something you see as a "luxury purchase", how does that give them more money to continue buying "luxury purchases" with their "food stamps"?

How is using the money allotted to them abuse?

How is lobster an abuse of "food stamps"?

It's food isn't it?

Abusing the system would be people getting these benefits when they aren't qualified (fraud) or selling their benefits for cash (fraud).

Using it as intended is not fraud.
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ive always assumed food stamps were meant to provide needed, otherwise unavailable nutrition, there is no nutrition value in whoopee pies. not to mention the fact that if someone is really that hard up, they would not be buying lobster or sirloin.
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When I was on food stamps and down on my luck

I budgeted and planned my meals so that my pitiful 130 dollars a month would feed me...

I had no money no income and life sucked... but i had foodstamps and could eat...

I would buy big bags of rice and pinto beans and made each cent count...

Foodstamps roll over each month... kinda like unused AT&T mobile phone minutes...

Each month I would try to "save" a few "stamps"

and every 2 months I would buy myself a steak... thats all i got... the only way I could enjoy life... every 2 months...

I didnt abuse the system... i just ate pinto beans and rice... so I could afford a 10 dollar steak once in a while

More people do that you would imagine...
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Kudos to you, i have heard so many stories about welfare leeches that BLOW all the cash aid then go to their social worker and tell them they can't pay rent, friggin ridiculous. Or spend all the foodstamps on a few good meals, and be ass out for the rest of the month, back to big bro with their hands out.
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also meant to add, when my father was a kid, his father was injured and out of work for about a year. with 5 kids they ended up getting food stamps temporarily. However, it was a stigma, and they did all they could to get off. At one point, my grandmother bought salted pork with them, and was told "that was a luxury and they could not purchase it with food stamps.” When did this change? part of the reason i am where i am is because my father drilled it into us that we needed to go to school and take care of ourselves so that we would never live like that. When the fuck did this change? Don’t mean to rant, and again, I strongly believe that we should help those in need, but this is really pissing me off lately. One time I tried to help my best friend get temporary assistance when she was 6 months pregnant and her boyfriend thought heroin was more important than the baby (she left him). It was one of the most difficult things to get, and in the end, she gave up. So how the fuck do all these people get away with this?
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Kind of like how in this country I get enraged when at the grocery store I see morbidly obese people who have to drive in store-issued motorized carts because they're too big to walk, have their baskets filled with cases of Coke, Chips Ahoys and multiple loaves of white bread. And I pay for their health care. Insanity.

People's priorities and sensibilities are totally out of whack, and the social safety net enables this.

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also meant to add, when my father was a kid, his father was injured and out of work for about a year. with 5 kids they ended up getting food stamps temporarily. However, it was a stigma, and they did all they could to get off. At one point, my grandmother bought salted pork with them, and was told "that was a luxury and they could not purchase it with food stamps.” When did this change? part of the reason i am where i am is because my father drilled it into us that we needed to go to school and take care of ourselves so that we would never live like that. When the fuck did this change? Don’t mean to rant, and again, I strongly believe that we should help those in need, but this is really pissing me off lately. One time I tried to help my best friend get temporary assistance when she was 6 months pregnant and her boyfriend thought heroin was more important than the baby (she left him). It was one of the most difficult things to get, and in the end, she gave up. So how the fuck do all these people get away with this?
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Your FATHER being the key word! Most of this generation "80s babies" grew up during the crack epidemic! Most of us had no father or father figure. I had my grandpa (pap) so I've turned out a little bit old school and knowing working hard is more important than most could understand.

The sooner you realize you are more fortunate (not better) than the person buying a $20 cake, perhaps for a child's birthday. The better off you will be!

Sure they could have baked a similar cake for 25% of that. But who the fuck are you to judge? Remember you are an attorney not a judge!

Not to mention if you work 80 hours and can't afford a fucking ice cream cake, wtf are you spending your money on?





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