Now that the minimum requirements to get them are so liberal 45 million Americans are on them. I could quit taking a salary from my business or lower it and get them myself. The program needs to be subsistence only. Now there is no limit to what the program pays for.
Should we really take from taxpayers money to give other people to buy steak and expensive seafood?
Of course the idiots in the Obama administration says food stamps are economic stimulus. Geez--just how is taking money out of the economy from one group to give to another group helping the economy??? What the idiots don’t tell you is that every food company and every commodity marketing organization (remember the Christmas tree “marketing group” the USDA wanted to start that would collect a dollar per tree?) is lobbying the hell out of the USDA and the administration to include their products in the food stamp program. More corruption arising from big government.
I’ve read this thread twice, and have yet to see anything about the very real problem of hunger in America and in Louisiana.
When I speak of misplaced priorities and an inappropriate focus, this thread is an example. For example, instead of focusing on an ad agency, why not focus on hungry children?
Priority attention should be placed on the people, the masses and not the wealthy. If paying for the programs becomes an issue, then take those funds from the military and homeland security. We have far too many nuclear weapons, get rid of some of them to pay for food programs.
I’ve read this thread twice, and have yet to see anything about the very real problem of hunger in America and in Louisiana.
When I speak of misplaced priorities and an inappropriate focus, this thread is an example. For example, instead of focusing on an ad agency, why not focus on hungry children?
Priority attention should be placed on the people, the masses and not the wealthy. If paying for the programs becomes an issue, then take those funds from the military and homeland security. We have far too many nuclear weapons, get rid of some of them to pay for food programs.
I’ve read this thread twice, and have yet to see anything about the very real problem of hunger in America and in Louisiana.
When I speak of misplaced priorities and an inappropriate focus, this thread is an example. For example, instead of focusing on an ad agency, why not focus on hungry children?
Priority attention should be placed on the people, the masses and not the wealthy. If paying for the programs becomes an issue, then take those funds from the military and homeland security. We have far too many nuclear weapons, get rid of some of them to pay for food programs.
What is inappropriate about this thread??? Spending money on an ad agency should not be criticized? Allowing people to buy lobster and steak with food stamps should not be criticized? You should elaborate on your half cocked, pious statements from up in the saddle of that high horse you’re on.
You could triple the amount of money spent on food stamps and their would still be hunger and you can half the amount spend on food stamps and the hunger would not increase.
There is an underground economy around food stamps.
This automatic conclusion that more government is needed every time you experience white guilt is as example of why our standard of living as a nation is be eroded away with socialism.
The only way to end hunger in America or any other place is to expect people to take responsibility for themselves and their families.
You insinuated yesterday that there should be no orphanages. Child hunger would end tomorrow if parents were held accountable for feeding they children. Take them away from them if they don’t feed them. Throw them in jail when they swap a hundred dollars worth of food for three packs of cigarettes.
My children have a better understanding and appreciation of the issue of hunger than you do.
That is understandable, as they volunteer at St. Vincent de Paul.
We do not have a hunger problem in America.... Like I said everyone is hungry every day. It is inaccurate to use the word “hunger”.
Do you know that the various food banks have to check with each other because many are double dipping and getting the free food even though they DO NOT need it?
It irritates me to no end when I see someone buying chips and soft drinks with their LA Purchase card. Why not just let them buy beer and cigarettes?
Uhmm, did you read your link? That is not a urban legend. It happened AND the only thing illegal about it is that he resold it for profit. From your link:
Analysis: The management of Angeli’s Country Market in Menominee, Michigan has confirmed the authenticity of the customer receipt above, which shows that $141.78 worth of lobster, porterhouse steak, and Diet Mountain Dew were purchased by an individual using a Bridge Card (the electronic benefits card issued to food stamp recipients in Michigan) on February 8, 2011.
Since Michigan law defines “eligible food” for the government assistance program as “Any food or food product intended for human consumption except alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and foods prepared for immediate consumption,” the purchase itself was not illegal. But because steak and lobster are generally regarded as luxury foods, the transaction has been condemned in some quarters as an instance of welfare abuse.
Indeed, it’s such a stereotypical example of welfare abuse — “Everyone knows of someone (or knows someone who knows someone) who was in line behind a welfare person using food stamps, and observed him or her purchasing frozen dinners or steaks or lobster or some such,” noted author Michael L. Murray in 1997 — that skeptics initially wondered if the Menominee incident really took place.
Purchaser resold items at a profit
On the face of it, the case does seem too flagrant and over-the-top to be true — and now we know why. According to the Menominee County Sheriff’s Department, local and state investigators have discovered that the reason the cardholder bought such large quantities of lobster, steak, and soda was not to “dine like a king,” as some have characterized it, but to resell them for profit. And that is illegal. The accused, one Louis Cuff, has been charged with welfare fraud and faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
If you would like, I can arrange for some tours of facilities and meetings with people who work in this area. I’m quite certain that your opinion would change thereafter.
