What do you buy with food stamps?

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Do you use them for food or whatever?

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  • Ummitsme
    5 years ago | pl

    Fois gras and caviar

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  • [Old Memory]
    5 years ago | pl

    If ppl on food stamps (or any government assistance for that matter) are spending their time in IIN, they really need to take a hard look at themselves and their morality.

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    • Ellenna
      5 years ago | pl

      Why? Only people in paid employment should be on the internet?

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      • [Old Memory]
        5 years ago | pl

        Priorities. If they need govt assistance for food, they shouldn’t be paying $90-$200 a month for cable tv and internet access (or more for mobile data on a smartphone). That money would buy a lot of food staples.
        If they are gaining free access from a public library, they should be searching for gainful employment versus browsing IIN for the latest poop post and using a computer that there is always someone else waiting to use.

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    • [Old Memory]
      5 years ago | pl

      People should be taking a look at their morality regarding capitalism and the money system. It's not a coincidence that it's always pro capitalist people who sneer at disabled people.

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      • [Old Memory]
        5 years ago | pl

        Are you suggesting socialism where everyone is taxed at 50%+ or perhaps social communism where they just put disabled and undesirable ppl in an institution or prison?
        What is a pro capitalist? Someone who works in a capitalist country? That’s a lot of ppl sneering.

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        • [Old Memory]
          5 years ago | pl

          I live in a socialist country and needy people aren't put in institutions here anymore. Also, many people who live in capitalist countries are still anti capitalist, you just don't have a choice, unless you were to move to a mountain or forest by yourself.

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          • [Old Memory]
            5 years ago | pl

            As long as you're happy, and donate your time and money to the needy you’ll be fine.

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    • charli.m
      5 years ago | pl

      Why?

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      • [Old Memory]
        5 years ago | pl

        See my answer to Ellenna.
        Would have answered you first, but notices aren’t working for me.

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        • charli.m
          5 years ago | pl

          But they are entitled to downtime too.

          Many people on SNAP have disabilities, are military families, are children, are families with parents working full time but on minimum wage, which is not a liveable wage in your country.

          When I was last in the US, I got my new smart phone (my battery overheated and died on the flight. Hurrah :/ ) for $80ish plus tax, and a month of unlimited calls and data for $45. Would have been cheaper if I hadn't had to get international calls, like $30, I think. Nowadays, people need phones for various reasons, including obtaining and maintaining a job.

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          • [Old Memory]
            5 years ago | pl

            Minimum wage varies by state so in some states it is a living wage. There is also the opportunity for every minimum wage worker to get a second job if needed. Plenty of my friends are salaried and work 60-70 hours a week which is the equivalent of two full time jobs at 35 hours a week.
            Anyway, I’m talking about ppl who game the system (crank out fatherless kids for additional welfare payments, get SNAP to gorge on junk food, get a govt supplied cell phone/plan, govt paid housing, and raid the local food pantry too etc), not those who honestly need assistance. Some of the gamers live better than the lower middle class ppl who work their asses off to put food on the table and pay the rent with zero assistance, and they certainly don’t spend time in IIN.

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            • charli.m
              5 years ago | pl

              Fair enough.

              But people shouldn't have to work 70hrs a week just to live.

              I'm sure there are many who fuck the system. But it's unfair to label and punish all for the fact that a small group within the whole are shitty people.

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  • megadriver
    5 years ago | pl

    I hope I never find out...

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  • pendletonGibbs
    5 years ago | pl

    Use an EBT card at Costco to buy economy size boxes of candy and sell them individually at a little below retail cost.

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  • Ellenna
    5 years ago | pl

    We don't have food stamps in Australia: are they actual stamps you hand over in shops instead of money?

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    • [Old Memory]
      5 years ago | pl

      They used to be stamps and were treated like money. Now it is more like a debit card.

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  • jethro
    5 years ago | pl

    I have a job. I don't get food stamps.

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    • [Old Memory]
      5 years ago | pl

      The elites are the real parasites.

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      • jethro
        5 years ago | pl

        Look up the definition of parasite and try it again troll.

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        • [Old Memory]
          5 years ago | pl

          It's true. Wealth isn't distributed at the top, it's devoured. Trickle down economics is bullshit.

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          • jethro
            5 years ago | pl

            That still doesn't define the term parasite.

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            • [Old Memory]
              5 years ago | pl

              It's the same principle, people at the lowest rung of society are scapegoated as the problem, when it's the complete opposite.

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  • Hateful1
    5 years ago | pl

    I thought SNAP, or food stamps, could only be used for food.

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    • [Old Memory]
      5 years ago | pl

      Problem is that 14 gallons of Mountain Dew, 10 bags of “family size” potato chips, and 32 candy bars counts as food.

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      • Hateful1
        5 years ago | pl

        Good point.

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      • Checkmate_King
        5 years ago | pl

        plus any bodega in the 'hood will cash them in for 50 percent face value so taxpayers money can fund drugs

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        • [Old Memory]
          5 years ago | pl

          Yep, but we mustn’t control use of our tax dollars and infringe on people’s rights to game the system. Or impede a family of walruses charging the junk food isle in 7-11 when their card is reloaded and after they’ve just wiped out the local food bank.
          Maybe we should just drop cash from a helicopter.

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  • Anonymous Post Author
    5 years ago | pl

    Food stamps can be sold for money to buy drugs and other illegal things. Boxed food is harder to sell for drugs.

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    • CozmoWank
      5 years ago | pl

      Cuz boxed food can't be stolen off someone's stoop and resold?

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      • [Old Memory]
        5 years ago | pl

        Stoop? That has a sweet aroma of one of the 5 boroughs.

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  • RoseIsabella
    5 years ago | pl

    A can of collard greens.

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