People use FOOD STAMP CARDS for food & their cash for CIGARETTES, ALCOHOL & LOTTERY

The problem is, you have not, will not, will never earn your own hard earned money.

Just by being born in one of the richest most powerful countries in the world you have an advantage over all else.

You have roads you use, schools, lights, power systems, infrastructure, that you have never paid for.

When you live in a society you are expected to be a part of it.

You can't pick and choose the benefits you get and not pay for others.

you forgot hookers. $10 000/night hookers. They better be good for that price.

Oh right bollox!
I work I earn I get stolen from so others can play without doing the same.
It's not existential, its real so buggar off with your adolescent entitlement semantics.
Life is real whatever you earn you earn. Whatever is stolen from you is stolen. Whatever you have had taken from your family is now given to someone elses. There is no perfection and no equality so quit with that foolishness. Govt steals to curry favour with rats and looters who are used to intimidate the productive to seek protection from govt that lives off the cash flow it extorts

I used to work at a gas station when I just moved back to the east coast from California. I lived in a lower/middle class neighborhood. Nearly EVERY customer who came in to buy junk food (honey buns, doritos, donuts, etc) would drop a &20 or a $50 and in one case I remember a &100 dollar bill, and purchase Lottery tickets, cigarettes & cases of beer.

I began wondering...why the hell are these people using my tax money to buy unhealthy junk food and using their cash to buy what I would consider privileges?

People would come in and complain about the price of gas and health insurance. If you didn't spend your money on cigarettes, lottery, scratch tickets and alcohol you'd HAVE money for gas and health insurance.

I worked out the numbers.

The average cost of a pack of cigarettes across america right now is $5.65

if you smoke a pack a day that's $150.00 a month you spend on something that can kill you. The case of bud light at the store I worked at was about $14.00 for a 12 pack. If you buy even two a week thats around another $100.00 a month. Lottery and megabucks is unpredictable, but if your gambling with your cash you have a serious problem anyway.

anyway my point, is that it's not that prices are high or that the rich are greedy, it's that the poor are more often than not STUPID with their money. With $300-$400 a months you'd save by not drinking, smoking & gambling you would have plenty of money for a gym membership, the best health insurance money can buy and still have some left over to put towards other bills.

I'm sick of this. I see people doing this shit everyday and pisses me off!

It's not a matter of the rich keeping poor people down, it's the poor needing to sacrifice their addictions & cravings of luxury consumption. You can't afford it don't buy it.

Not to mention if you didn't drink and smoke so dam much you wouldn't have to complain about the cost of health care because you'd be a whole lot healthier. Not to mention if you're going to buy food with my taxes can you at least buy healthy food? Salads, fruits, vegetables etc? Instead of potato chips and donuts?

My two cents.

yeah ben goin on fer years once worked at convenience store cross from housing project they sell them for like 40-50 cent to the food stamp.

go be born in Ethiopia, become the same person you are today, then you can say you earn your own. otherwise, STFU

I used to work at a gas station when I just moved back to the east coast from California. I lived in a lower/middle class neighborhood. Nearly EVERY customer who came in to buy junk food (honey buns, doritos, donuts, etc) would drop a &20 or a $50 and in one case I remember a &100 dollar bill, and purchase Lottery tickets, cigarettes & cases of beer.

I began wondering...why the hell are these people using my tax money to buy unhealthy junk food and using their cash to buy what I would consider privileges?

People would come in and complain about the price of gas and health insurance. If you didn't spend your money on cigarettes, lottery, scratch tickets and alcohol you'd HAVE money for gas and health insurance.

I worked out the numbers.

The average cost of a pack of cigarettes across america right now is $5.65

if you smoke a pack a day that's $150.00 a month you spend on something that can kill you. The case of bud light at the store I worked at was about $14.00 for a 12 pack. If you buy even two a week thats around another $100.00 a month. Lottery and megabucks is unpredictable, but if your gambling with your cash you have a serious problem anyway.

anyway my point, is that it's not that prices are high or that the rich are greedy, it's that the poor are more often than not STUPID with their money. With $300-$400 a months you'd save by not drinking, smoking & gambling you would have plenty of money for a gym membership, the best health insurance money can buy and still have some left over to put towards other bills.

I'm sick of this. I see people doing this shit everyday and pisses me off!

It's not a matter of the rich keeping poor people down, it's the poor needing to sacrifice their addictions & cravings of luxury consumption. You can't afford it don't buy it.

Not to mention if you didn't drink and smoke so dam much you wouldn't have to complain about the cost of health care because you'd be a whole lot healthier. Not to mention if you're going to buy food with my taxes can you at least buy healthy food? Salads, fruits, vegetables etc? Instead of potato chips and donuts?

My two cents.

So the people abusing the system will die off sooner? I have no problems with this.

You’re talking about addictions, and the people who profit from getting people addicted, and I’m sure they don’t care where the money comes from.

OP, its duddly do right mother fuckers "just like you" that make these simple jobs so much harder for the average worker. Fuck givin these companies my eternal soul for minimum wage. Come, do your minimum wage job. Leave...don't think about it too much ok? Its guys just like you these companies will go through 100 dudes to get just one like you. One that will close every night...work swing shift...etc. Making EVERY company expect this... ALL for minimum wage.

Lmao The best healthcare money can buy for 300 a month? keep dreaming,also you working at a gas station i doubt you pay any taxes and if you do it gets refunded so i dont know how much right you have to bitch about what your "tax dollar" is paying for

self righteous people hould be executed for the sake of society.

You can't buy health insurance for $300-400 unless your 20
years old and have never been sick in your life.

My thought exactly. I've got decent health insurance, but it costs me $1,300 a month. And I don't drink smoke or gamble.

Not to mention if you didn't drink and smoke so dam much you wouldn't have to complain about the cost of health care because you'd be a whole lot healthier. Not to mention if you're going to buy food with my taxes can you at least buy healthy food? Salads, fruits, vegetables etc? Instead of potato chips and donuts?

My two cents.

Throw us a bone. How do we hook up with this deal?