Food Stamps...

[Quail_Antwerp]

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Well, that shouldn't be hard to do considering that seeds and most food bearing plants are considered food by the goverment, so can be purchased with the EBT cards. They can plant backyard gardens for their own family if they don't want to share with the community.

That is to much like work for the people I know.

That really is a shame. Really it is.

 

[Crusty McPottydoodle]

Wow! Judge much?

It's always really easy being on the outside looking in.

Seems to me there are some cycles that could do with breaking. Sitting at home on a computer isn't really doing much to help accomplish that, is it?

Some of these people are doing what they have learned growing up and don't know how to function any other way.

Some of these people have got into a rut - better the devil you know than the devil you don't. Don't we all know how hard it is to get out of a rut?

Some of these people may be dealing with mental health issues.

It drives me crazy that the working poor can't get what they need (it drives me crazier that there is such a thing as the working poor), but judging those who aren't working (for whatever reason) and receiving assistance is not helpful to anyone. All it does is work people into a frenzy and perpetuate a climate of poor bashing.

Perhaps those of you who are so concerned about the shopping habits of those on assistance could offer to run a non-judgemental workshop on healthy shopping, cooking, preserving etc.

Stepping off my soap box now.

Cheryl

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

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Are you talking to me?? Because if you go back to earlier posts, you'll see that I am one of those who receive assistance, and I give in detailed print as to WHY.

I wasn't judging. I was merely pointing out that it is possible for people on FS to buy vegetable seeds and garden plants to plant.

 

[cthrash1]

We had to go on food stamps once when my DD was a baby(course this was 18yrs ago)... Hubby had just started working for his dad and hadn't been paid yet for various reasons...Took us about 3 months to get to where we didn't need them anymore and I went in and told them thank you for helping us when we needed it but we are fine now... They still made us use the remainer of our 6 month stretch(crazy huh)...at the time they went 6 months at a time.

 

[Crusty McPottydoodle]

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I wasn't speaking to any one person. I was making a general statement to the comments on this thread that ARE judgemental.

Cheryl

 

[Julie08]

Well, I am most certainly judging the people I personally know are abusing the system, using it is one thing but abusing it is competely unacceptable so yes Im judging but only the people I know personally that are doing the wrong thing.

 

[PattiXmas]

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EXACTLY!! If you noticed in my posts, I have stated the exact same things. That the families that do need it, can't get the helping hand.

 

[PattiXmas]

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Mental health issues? The only mental health issues I see with the people who cheat and fraud the government is the thought process that this is their right, they are owed this. These people who learned how to work the system from birth. It does no good to report or turn these people in, as the vast majority of the people receiving assistance are guilty of committing fraud on the TAXPAYERS.

To address your comment of offering a workshop, gee, if they are adult enough to have children, shouldn't they also be adult enough to develop a budget, to learn what is healthy, how to stretch their dollars. That the kid doesn't need the newest most expensive sneakers, but could make do with a cheaper brand and maybe use the difference to purchase something more healthy then Ramen noodles?

 

[thechickenchick]

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EXACTLY!! If you noticed in my posts, I have stated the exact same things. That the families that do need it, can't get the helping hand.

I agree with what they said.

I was referring to my own sister, no assumptions there, I know what I see AND this is not a cycle for her, she was NOT raised this way nor does she have any mental health issues.

 

[Julie08]

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Mental health issues? The only mental health issues I see with the people who cheat and fraud the government is the thought process that this is their right, they are owed this. These people who learned how to work the system from birth. It does no good to report or turn these people in, as the vast majority of the people receiving assistance are guilty of committing fraud on the TAXPAYERS.

To address your comment of offering a workshop, gee, if they are adult enough to have children, shouldn't they also be adult enough to develop a budget, to learn what is healthy, how to stretch their dollars. That the kid doesn't need the newest most expensive sneakers, but could make do with a cheaper brand and maybe use the difference to purchase something more healthy then Ramen noodles?

I would certainly volunteer to do this if I wasn't working so many hours to pay for people ABUSING (again note not using) the system!