Have. You ever tried to feed a family porterhouses and lobster while being poor? Its not easy. You have to buy whatever soda is on sale.

I knew people in college that would get food stamps and then only buy steaks with them. Since there were several of them they had steak dinners at least once a week.

The tractor is incidental. Could belong to anyone.

See the hanging banner? They obviously cator to the poor. *nod nod nod*

Now see that is BS. People abusing the system. Food Stamps should be more like WIC. Meaning instead an amount to spend as you see fit you get vouchers. No steaks and sodas stuff like that.

Pepsi hat?
EBT accepted? (or is it DEBT and the D isn't showing?)
White Eagle?

Am I dense today?

The solution: quit being an enabler.

i have a fat family member who cant put his own shoes on because him and his old lady have figured out that single moms with kids get shit loads of assistance....and fat lazy assholes can ride fer free.

750 a month in EBT. A ****in month.

they aint had gas in months but **** it they have fried coconut shrimp every night.

when the war comes, i will eat them first.

I've had a gal working for me for a while. She wanted a raise so I told her that would be no problem... Then I asked her how much she spent on cigs a week. $40 she says, which is a conservative estimate. I tell her that she takes a lot of smoke breaks - that she could easily earn a raise by quitting smoking. She'd be more efficient and effective on the job. I told her that if she quit smoking that I'd match the $40 she was saving a week for a net $4000 a year raise. Guess how long that lasted.... not one moment. Didn't even try. So, I figure she doesn't really need a raise very bad at all.

An Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card is the identification card for the SNAP/Food Stamp Program.

Stop ****ing subsizing kids, problem solved

**** this government.

As a semi-related discussion, cost of living studies have a difficult time dealing with technology change. Imagine a cost of living study in 1975 where one of the items priced was a television. You're talking probably a 19-inch set that cost a few hundred dollars. Now fast-forward to 2011 where you're pricing a television. Now it's a 40-inch high-definition TV for about the same price. The "cost of living" may not be different, but it now provides a much better lifestyle by default.

Same thing with phones. A phone in 1980 probably cost $20 a month to get your dialing phone that's hooked to the wall. Now a phone in 2011 may cost $80 a month or something, but you get internet, e-mail, texting, voice mail, a bunch of games, and Microsoft Word or whatever. Did the cost of living really go up, or are you paying more for a lot more stuff and the phone is just a little part of the mix? But if you can't get the phone without buying the other stuff, your cost of living really did go up, but you're forced to simultaneously improve your standard of living.

It's a tough problem to figure out if you're doing these types of studies.

Thank you, I didn't catch that. So that store was advertising for food stamp business. I can't blame the store. Our government is putting the money out there, they are just trying to capture their share by (irony) working for it.

Yea, thats very interesting point.

I think mainly the thing to take away from this story is that even in poverty people have it pretty good in America compared to alot of other countries poor. We also have the ability to get ourselves out of poverty. Living in poverty is often times a temporary situation until a person can create a better life for themselves. At least, thats how these social programs are designed to work?

I don't have an Xbox. Maybe I should go down to the Salvation Army.