Fox News mocks people on food stamps on Thanksgiving
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[QUOTE=Fort83;38563646]Why the hell isn't it the same in the US? Has standards in the US fallen so low?[/QUOTE]
Because conservatives.
Fox fox fox such ignorance but thanks for your tax dollars because they pay for my food stamps.
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;38560529]My cousin works at a local grocery store, and today she talked about all the crazy shit people will do with EBT cards and food stamps. She gets a lot of customers who walk in and charge a $.50 pack of gum to their EBT card, then withdraw hundreds of dollars from the cards so they could use the cash without being audited. A lot of the people who do this are well-dressed, carrying around Coach pocketbooks and manicured nails, etc. Just thought I'd share what I learned about government assistance programs on Thanksgiving, since apperently I'm supposed to care about an off-hand remark a Fox News anchor made about them on Thanksgiving.[/QUOTE]
That's not how EBT cards work.
[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyGunz;38568776]That's not how EBT cards work.[/QUOTE]
Yeah it is that's why everyone on EBT goes and buys shitloads of alcohol all the time isn't it? Oh wait no that's not how EBT works at all.
[QUOTE=Muff Pi;38560483]My family's never been on foodstamps since I was born, but my mom and dad were when my older sisters were kids, and even now we have months where we have to subsist on $0.80 to $1.00 frozen meals and rice to get by without becoming indebted. It's not fun, and it's no one's fault. My dad is a blue-collar worker (machinist) and I've had people say that if my dad had aimed higher we wouldn't have this problem. Fuck them is what I say, we need blue-collar workers, and cashiers, and all those low-paying jobs for society to function. How in the hell is it a laughing matter to not be able to afford basic goods for a simple holiday?[/QUOTE]
Problem is blue-collar workers in the US are continually getting shafted, and the benefits of shitty pay and long-term damage done to the body (due to so many years of laborious work) isn't as appealing as getting a white collar job and sitting at a desk all day browsing Ebay. America doesn't want to work blue-collar jobs anymore, rightfully so given their current situation, but without those workers the majority of the country stops functioning dead-stop. Instead of making those jobs worth a shit though, we just try to find any way to get above them and forget about it; from the bottom of the barrel workers, to the highest politicians.
You can bet if all blue-collar workers in the US just got up and went home and told the Government to fuck off, reform would happen fairly quickly as the country burns down from nothing functioning anymore. The population isn't willing to possibly be a sacrifice for a better tomorrow though, so they grumble and complain and go to work. And the people above continue thinking "Well they're working, fuck em, give them a couple more pennies raise to the minimum wage and call it a decade". I'm not saying it's the workers fault completely; but the people above don't give a shit about you -- you have to make them remember [I]they[/I] need [I]you[/I] before they'll improve your way of living. As a blue collar worker your labor is your only means of reminding them of your actual value, and not their perceived "grunt" status blue collar workers have in this country.
It's a sad cycle that's just going to progressively get worse and worse until something breaks; I'm just hoping I'm well off enough when it breaks so that my kids won't have to suffer for this foolishness.
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;38560529]She gets a lot of customers who walk in and charge a $.50 pack of gum to their EBT card, then withdraw hundreds of dollars from the cards so they could use the cash without being audited.
A lot of the people who do this are well-dressed, carrying around Coach pocketbooks and manicured nails, etc. Just thought I'd share what I learned about government assistance programs on Thanksgiving, since apperently I'm supposed to care about an off-hand remark a Fox News anchor made about them on Thanksgiving.[/QUOTE]
so how hard is it to live with yourself when you lie about things on an internet forum?
unless you actually believe this, in which case i'd ask you to actually get educated on something before you spout off
[editline]24th November 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=CubeManv2;38560556]The fact is, We as a whole (Community wise) Are telling the government to do more to prevent this from happening. Certain public support programs literally have no requirements to get public assistance. [/QUOTE]
yeah again i don't know where you get your wild info from
what he's talking about does have requirements.
There are still ways to get cash off an EBT card. One example i've used myself is buying bulk food items, (like large gallon drinks, bulk yogurt, etc.) paying with it on the EBT card, and going back later in the day and returning it. At Walmart they always give back cash, usually no questions asked.
Don't think it's not possible.
[QUOTE=zakedodead;38560819]It's regulated on the state level also, my sate is at $9.04[/QUOTE]
Except it's actually a best for the employee deal, it goes off whichever is higher. For example, here in Wyoming it's 5.15/hr minimum and federal is 7.25 so we use federal because it's higher. The state basically never raises it because the feds will do it instead.
No surprises here.
recovering from surgery, i didnt even have a thanksgiving dinner
i had oatmeal, and then puked it up
[QUOTE=zakedodead;38570064]Yeah it is that's why everyone on EBT goes and buys shitloads of alcohol all the time isn't it? Oh wait no that's not how EBT works at all.[/QUOTE]
you're really bad at sarcasm. what are you trying to say?
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Holy shit what a bunch of fucking snobs.
What makes the whole food stamp thing worse is that there is so much perfectly edible food being thrown away by supermarkets and restaurants because, quite literally, they have a few blemishes.
I was watching a show on Food Network where they challenged a few celebrity chefs to make a banquet for 100 people using nothing but foods that were essentially "waste." Although the actual show was really cheesy, the content within was actually quite eyeopening. They were able to find whole storerooms full of perfectly good food in some supermarkets, a whole shipment of fish they were going to throw out, a bunch of good fruits and vegetables that farms rejected, and a bunch of other stuff. They basically had a metric ton of food at their disposal that they got free because they wouldn't be able to get rid of it otherwise. Why were the foods thrown away? Simply because they were misshapen or unpleasing aesthetically; the food itself was perfectly fine and tasted just like anything else you would find. If they found that from only a few New York establishments, think how much more food there is that is just getting thrown away!
Think if food banks and charities had their hands on all that food, and found a way to distribute it, they would have enough to feed almost all of the impoverished all over the globe! It's really quite disturbing how much an issue of food distribution is in our current society.
[QUOTE=Fhenexx;38579247]What makes the whole food stamp thing worse is that there is so much perfectly edible food being thrown away by supermarkets and restaurants because, quite literally, they have a few blemishes.
I was watching a show on Food Network where they challenged a few celebrity chefs to make a banquet for 100 people using nothing but foods that were essentially "waste." Although the actual show was really cheesy, the content within was actually quite eyeopening. They were able to find whole storerooms full of perfectly good food in some supermarkets, a whole shipment of fish they were going to throw out, a bunch of good fruits and vegetables that farms rejected, and a bunch of other stuff. They basically had a metric ton of food at their disposal that they got free because they wouldn't be able to get rid of it otherwise. Why were the foods thrown away? Simply because they were misshapen or unpleasing aesthetically; the food itself was perfectly fine and tasted just like anything else you would find. If they found that from only a few New York establishments, think how much more food there is that is just getting thrown away!
Think if food banks and charities had their hands on all that food, and found a way to distribute it, they would have enough to feed almost all of the impoverished all over the globe! It's really quite disturbing how much an issue of food distribution is in our current society.[/QUOTE]
you should see the amount of meat that is literally dumped in the sea
[QUOTE=Superginger;38575462]There are still ways to get cash off an EBT card. One example i've used myself is buying bulk food items, (like large gallon drinks, bulk yogurt, etc.) paying with it on the EBT card, and going back later in the day and returning it. At Walmart they always give back cash, usually no questions asked.
Don't think it's not possible.[/QUOTE]
Which is fraud, and very illegal. Being able to abuse something doesn't mean we should do away with it completely.
[QUOTE=Fhenexx;38579247]What makes the whole food stamp thing worse is that there is so much perfectly edible food being thrown away by supermarkets and restaurants because, quite literally, they have a few blemishes.
I was watching a show on Food Network where they challenged a few celebrity chefs to make a banquet for 100 people using nothing but foods that were essentially "waste." Although the actual show was really cheesy, the content within was actually quite eyeopening. They were able to find whole storerooms full of perfectly good food in some supermarkets, a whole shipment of fish they were going to throw out, a bunch of good fruits and vegetables that farms rejected, and a bunch of other stuff. They basically had a metric ton of food at their disposal that they got free because they wouldn't be able to get rid of it otherwise. Why were the foods thrown away? Simply because they were misshapen or unpleasing aesthetically; the food itself was perfectly fine and tasted just like anything else you would find. If they found that from only a few New York establishments, think how much more food there is that is just getting thrown away!
Think if food banks and charities had their hands on all that food, and found a way to distribute it, they would have enough to feed almost all of the impoverished all over the globe! It's really quite disturbing how much an issue of food distribution is in our current society.[/QUOTE]
It's not that we don't have enough food to feed everyone, it's that society locks the food up and only lets people have it if they've "worked for it"
It's essentially slavery, except you can choose who your slave owner is
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;38560529]My cousin works at a local grocery store, and today she talked about all the crazy shit people will do with EBT cards and food stamps. She gets a lot of customers who walk in and charge a $.50 pack of gum to their EBT card, then withdraw hundreds of dollars from the cards so they could use the cash without being audited. A lot of the people who do this are well-dressed, carrying around Coach pocketbooks and manicured nails, etc. Just thought I'd share what I learned about government assistance programs on Thanksgiving, since apperently I'm supposed to care about an off-hand remark a Fox News anchor made about them on Thanksgiving.[/QUOTE]
I've never thought I would see that. There was a Venezuelan writer that actually joked about people in limos and covered in gold jewelry driving over to slums, getting into the impoverished shacks of the people that live there and stealing them for their few pennies and subsistence items. Its sad to see it come true, because that's the quintessential form of stealing from the poor, which goes without mention that it is far more dastardly than stealing from the rich. The rich can recover, the poor is barely even getting by and you just made it worse.
This ain't socialism, or communism, or whatever the fuck, it is merely recognizing one simple fact, that job hierarchies and therefore payrolls form a very steep pyramid, as in, the base greatly outnumbers the top. If the very base of the hierarchy has barely enough money to handle itself, why make its conditions harder? Why look down and kick the little man for just being doomed to make people richer every day for a couple dollars more to his or her salary?
Fuck it actually genuinely pisses me off seeing people abuse food stamps instead of giving them away for somebody to actually use them to feed themselves. It's not the system, it's the people that do this that are at fault.
I love how my dad, who uses Fox for daily news and even he thinks Andrea Tantaro is a cunt.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;38561022]that could work too but I'm not so sure I'd want to have to deal with the game warden during the off season
[editline]23rd November 2012[/editline]
easiest places to get a job is locally owned restaurants or supermarkets. [B]just take a shower and brush your hair and teeth and you'll probably make it on the team.[/B] don't just look for "now hiring" signs either because that will never get you anywhere.[/QUOTE]
lol. job crisis solved!
Fox....they can't lower the bar because it's already as low as possible.
[QUOTE=assassin_Raptor;38560322]Someone is not gonna spend $6bn to do that though, but they would to get into office where they then could try to help people. That $6bn was also accumulated from donations and from the candidates. There is charities you can donate too that help people in need but I do not think that Americans think that so many people are hungry and going without meals everyday.[/QUOTE]
~30B$ is enough to feed the entire PLANET. our military budget is around 600B$. what the fuck are we doing!?
I didn't think it was that bad. The woman was just ignorant and they weren't intentionally trying to offend anybody.
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This is some "Let them eat cake" shit right here.
[QUOTE=Superginger;38575462]There are still ways to get cash off an EBT card. One example i've used myself is buying bulk food items, (like large gallon drinks, bulk yogurt, etc.) paying with it on the EBT card, and going back later in the day and returning it. At Walmart they always give back cash, usually no questions asked.
Don't think it's not possible.[/QUOTE]
You do know they print on the receipt what method you used to pay for it, right?
[QUOTE=lulzlalz;38577958]I hate any people like this.
My mother lives on food stamps, yet she still looks down upon my almost-homeless father.
He was unable to pay for child support because he just lost his job teaching at a high school, so she forced me to lie to him in order to have him send us money. Turns out I really did not know how bad it was for him until that call.
And so after hearing that he still could not pay us, my mother took the phone and told him to 'take some extra shifts at mcdonalds, I don't care'.
The man has degrees in aerospace engineering, for christ's sakes.
She then called everyone in my father's side of the family a bunch of 'welfare rats'.
I hate anyone who looks down upon people for this. And this was less than a week before thanksgiving.[/QUOTE]
Sorry to say this, but your mother seems like a switt.
my family of four lived on $100 a week for two months, fuck these guys
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