Your tax dollars at work. (849 hits)
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Submitted by Disektor <random.address.com> (View user info) at 2004-06-10 02:06:16 EDT
It takes a lot to get me pissed off, but there is one thing that gets me going every time.
That thing is people who use their food stamp cards to pay for junk food. If you aren't familiar with the food stamp card it's a card which is provided to low income families and each card is alotted a certain amount depending upon the financial standing of the family and how many kids there are.
The idea in itself is good, but pretty much all restrictions per use of the card have dissapeared. The only thing you can't buy with a food stamp card to my knowledge is Tobacco, Alcohol, Dog food, Hot Foods - like food from a fast food place, or general items that aren't related to the food category.
The ONLY thing I have ever seen people use those cards for is candy, pop, or other junk food that you don't need in the first place.
Today for instance, a kid probably around the age of 17 came in along with his sister, or daughter.. not sure which, to buy some "food."
After stacking up around 10 king size candy bars they went off in search of chips. To their dismay we didn't have the vinegar and onion kind, or whatever shitty type they were looking for, so the boy gets on his walkie-talkie and calls his mother who is infuriated that we are out of those chips. Every time I heard the little static from the walkie-talkie go off it'd be her bitching about something. God forbid you can't stuff your fat face with food paid for by people who actually work.
The occasional candy bar every now and then.. I can deal with that, but knowing my tax dollars go to pay for $20 worth of candy and snacks, I do have a problem with that.
I'm not trying to say people who use food stamps are bad, I think they serve a good purpose to the people who actually use them for legitimate means.
Anyways, that's it. Sorry for ranting.
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Submitted by AvrilLaPete (user info) at 2004-08-16 18:12:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
its true though, these fat ass people who won't go and get a job are using our tax money to buy their junk food to make them fatter and more lazy. I don't understand. I work at a easy ass job, a job that anybody can get, and I pay for my own food, have a phone, use roadrunner, pay my own rent, drive a camaro, and a bunch of other bs. nothing was bought for me. why can't these lazy sobs go get a job and start paying for their own shit too?? bastards.
Submitted by kai070169 (user info) at 2004-08-16 17:45:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
wow
Submitted by Disektor (user info) at 2004-07-26 01:27:49 EDT (#)
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I should actually, thank you.
Submitted by honeycake (user info) at 2004-07-26 01:15:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Shouldn't you be off buying midget porn?
I don't get it...
Submitted by RapSupaStar (user info) at 2004-07-11 07:10:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
FUCK THIS POST SUCKS..DO UBER A FAVOR AND DONT TYPE..ANNOYING STUPID TOPICS...FUCKING LONG AND BORING.. RICH BITCH FROM THE SUBURBS.. PROLLY GETS PUNKED ALL THE TIME..
Submitted by SilvrWolf (user info) at 2004-07-09 12:56:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I hate welfare rats. A guy in line in front of me once tried to buy dog food with his food stamps. When they refused him, he went and grabbed 10 pounds of ground beef. No way was his fucking dog going to eat better than I do! I made a huge scene and ended up buying the dog food for him. Then I had to go home that night and eat... hamburgers. Once again, irony kicked me in the nutsack.
Oh. I'm rambling... Sorry.
Submitted by comicbookguy (user info) at 2004-07-09 12:36:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
as promised
Submitted by Disektor (user info) at 2004-06-29 04:38:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I said tax dollars you dolt.
I'm 99.99999% sure you don't have a job. The .00001% chance is that some McDonalds somewhere hired you to clean their bathrooms, a task which certainly is fitting for a person who shares your lack of mental capacity. Although even the art of cleaning a bathroom may be a bit complex for you to understand. I take back my 99.99999% and now say I'm 100% sure you do not have a job.
Do me a favor and shoot yourself.
Yours truly,
Disektor
Submitted by RapSupaStar (user info) at 2004-06-29 04:22:47 EDT (#)
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can anything actually bore me to death... -2 for trying... try harder...
Submitted by Disektor (user info) at 2004-06-10 16:23:21 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2004-06-10 09:21:27 (#)
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"The ONLY thing I have ever seen people use those cards for is candy, pop, or other junk food"
#1. Where in the hell do you live?
#2. Do you work as at a grocery store to be able to witness all this food stamp action?
#3. I think you're full of shit, and the above statement is proof of that.
1. I live in Montana. Judging from peoples responses it happens more places than just here. Maybe if you hadn't had your head stuck so far up your ass you'd have realized that. Try reading next time.
2. No, I sit around and beat off all day then make up stories like these in a pale attempt to make everyone think I have a grasp of what goes on in the world. Wow, either you didn't read or you are just extremely inept at grasping a concept and putting 2 and 2 together.
3. Yes.. you're right. I lied. Someone bought a gallon of milk with their popcorn and candy once. Oh how you've proved me wrong.
Why get so upset anyways? Are you on food stamps? If so.. a little advice. Stop paying for the internet so you can post your idiotic responses to peoples messages, get a job, and shut the hell up. Three simple steps.
I've depicted what your response might be like to save you the time from responding yourself.
"-2 because you just posted what I wrote in the first place. If you wrote anything else after that I was too busy being a dumb bitch to read it."
Submitted by Thanatos (user info) at 2004-06-10 10:10:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This happens all the time. My brother worked at a grocery store when he was in high school. He said the people with food stamps would usually be buying a bunch of steaks with them, then going to buy a few cases of beer with cash. Its amazing how the government works.
Submitted by Speed2oo1 (user info) at 2004-06-10 09:54:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"The ONLY thing I have ever seen people use those cards for is candy, pop, or other junk food"
#1. Where in the hell do you live?
#2. Do you work as at a grocery store to be able to witness all this food stamp action?
#3. I think you're full of shit, and the above statement is proof of that.
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It's pretty obvious from his post that he works in a grocery store. I worked in one for six months when I was seventeen, and I have seen it as well. Of course, its not the *ONLY* thing, but you can't get on someone for a simple exhaggeration when their point is getting across nonetheless. The vast majority, I'd say 80%, of people who use food stamps use them for junk shit.
+2
Submitted by CaptainStach (user info) at 2004-06-10 09:26:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Few things really piss me off, but this is one of them that really do.
About a year ago I was waiting in line at Kroger's to check out. Standing in front of me were two black women. It was closer to winter, so they had their fur coats on, and they were also wearing lots of jewelry (bling). They had two baskets of groceries. One basket was full of meat, chips, snacks, cheese, and other foods, and the other was completley full of beer and wine. I mean 6 30 packs and 7 or 8 boxes of wine. When they got to the checkout clerk, they ran the basket of food through, and the total came up to 200-something. One of the two whipped out a texas card (foodstamp card) and she was good to go. THEN they ran all the liqour through. They also had the clerk get two cartons of cigs. The total came out to like 200-something, and the same lady with the texas card whipped out a FAT STACK OF CASH. I mean this thing was a half inch of 100's-tons of pocket money. She paid for the beer, wine and cigs, and her and her girlfriend left. I was so upset at the blatant abuse of the system that I felt like going on a rampage through town with a concrete and steel reinforced bulldozer-tank conversion.
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2004-06-10 09:21:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
"The ONLY thing I have ever seen people use those cards for is candy, pop, or other junk food"
#1. Where in the hell do you live?
#2. Do you work as at a grocery store to be able to witness all this food stamp action?
#3. I think you're full of shit, and the above statement is proof of that.
Submitted by freebie (user info) at 2004-06-10 09:16:28 EDT (#)
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Its true all the restrictions on crap food seem to have disappeared.
Submitted by buxton (user info) at 2004-06-10 09:10:09 EDT (#)
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+2 because I agree 100% with your point, even though you called soda "pop", and thats the one thing that always drives me crazy.
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2004-06-10 04:46:39 EDT (#)
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Oh, and Sideburns makes a good point, but if these people ate real food instead of crap, then maybe we wouldn't have to pay for their medical, too. It'd be nice if we got to use some of our OWN tax money for ourselves.
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2004-06-10 04:42:20 EDT (#)
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I couldn't agree more. My first job was in a dollar store where we took this card. I was working 10 hr days to pay for these enormously fat mothers to come in with their 8 kids from 5 different "daddies" and load up 2 shopping carts FULL of Halloween candy. I'm not kidding, nor am I exaggerating. I love the system.
Submitted by Magicaddict (user info) at 2004-06-10 03:45:32 EDT (#)
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Ho hum. +1 because I agree that buying useless crap with food stamps is shit.
Submitted by Disektor (user info) at 2004-06-10 03:43:03 EDT (#)
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I don't think $500 bills exist.. $10,000 ones do though. How about that?
Submitted by JewToastJr (user info) at 2004-06-10 03:21:09 EDT (#)
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Actually, you know what I'd enjoy more? I'll roll up a 500 dollar bill and watch you insert it in and out of your mouth. That would derive more pleasure from me than an actual oral fiasco.
Submitted by Disektor (user info) at 2004-06-10 03:18:40 EDT (#)
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For free chips I'd do anything. ANYTHING.
Submitted by JewToastJr (user info) at 2004-06-10 03:15:11 EDT (#)
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Oh, stop complaining bitch.
I'm rich. I'm the ruler of the world. I make 10 times more money than you. That means that I'M the one paying for those chips. Shut your pie hole or you won't get any chips either.
Submitted by grlpisces (user info) at 2004-06-10 03:04:15 EDT (#)
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welfare wack! food stamps wack! junkies wack! babies wack! this post wack!
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2004-06-10 02:55:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I do agree that people abuse the right of these Food Stamp cards.
But if you think about it, the government is still going to tax you regardless. Even if everybody is using their cards like they're supposed to and buying nutritional food, you're still going to get taxes taken out. It's the way it always has been.
I just deal with it. People are idiots. I'm losing the money anyway.