Food Stamps

johnny you are paying them so youre part of the problem.
youre breaking the law, so what do you want?
you want to live in a glass house and throw stones.?
comon man.
theres issues with food stamps, theres corporate welfare, where the rich get money under the table.
so what do u want?
move on and enjoy life Originally Posted by bjwstw

Yes and no. I break the law paying for sex. But I'll stand anywhere and say I believe that shouldn't be against the law. I dont believe paying for sex is wrong, and I do believe selling ass can do good.

I don't see any reason my paying a girl for sex has to lead to her illegitimately procuring food stamps. I'm not a client of the girl that inspired this thread.

As far as government assistance goes, my house isn't glass. I shit and it stinks but this is a stone I can throw. I get no public assistance though I probably qualify.

What I want is a hard question to answer. You and other responders are correct to say it is easier to be happy if one just looks away. But that just doesn't sit right with me. I'd like to put this shit on the table, get people talking to the point where they start questioning their friends, family and associates when behavior the authorities can't monitor gets out of control, rather than blowing it off and letting things get worse.

I believe no child should go hungry as well. I also believe we should test for prohibited topics and give a depo shot to women collecting benefits as well so that we cut back on mouths to feed. If you can't afford a kid don't have one. I think you should pay a tax per child you have like China.
Just my. 02¢ Originally Posted by Lexxxy

"it is fundamentally wrong for one man to hoard food whilst his neighbor starves."

I think that quote is Karl Marx. I'm not saying Socialism is the answer, but I can't disagree with the sentiment. It only works by dealing with issues locally and promptly.

Some of us obviously disagree. Originally Posted by Doove

Is there anyone who would actually be willing to let a child go hungry? I doubt you could find anyone who would disagree with that sentiment., What I'd like to know is how is it still happening. More people get food stamps than ever before, subsidized rent, heat, Obama phone. Schools offer free or reduced price lunch and breakfast. I live in a small town where everybody knows everybody. The same folks that live on public assistance and have their crumb crunchers on free lunch at school all seem to have plenty of money for pop, chips, booze, smokes, lotto tickets. I see em every time I gas up at kwik fill. No money for food? wtf!

Is there anyone who would actually be willing to let a child go hungry? I doubt you could find anyone who would disagree with that sentiment. Originally Posted by taggert

Nobody (save perhaps JB) will admit as much when pressed on the issue point blank, but make no mistake, if you follow their rhetoric, that's exactly where it leads.

IMHO government assistance should only be for those that contributed, those that briefly fell on hard times, and those with physical handicaps that are unable to be a part of a workforce. Originally Posted by Lexxxy

I see em every time I gas up at kwik fill. No money for food? wtf! Originally Posted by taggert

And if i were to believe everyone who ever made this claim...

Quit makin' shit up.

but you see where people would call you a hypcroite if ur exposed, you break the law, whether u agree or not with the law, the law is that paying for sex is against the law, period.
so u see that other people would take issue with you as a low life and a bad citizen promoting drug habits, etc.

jmt, i dont agree with that view, but thats what u would get.
s o yes live life and enjoy and dont judge others.
there are people that need help that dont abuse the system and why dont you attack corportations who bleed our money from the government over greed.

taggert, the same people i see every day have nice ties suits and shoes and get corporate money for drugs,hookersalchol all on the government dime, so what s ur point.
shall we talk about the banks and the oil companies?

shall we go there.
comon
its on both ends.
the fraud is what needs to be stopped on both ends, not just one.
and food stamps and welfare, IS NOT WHY WE HAVE DEBT OF 16 TRILLION
but no go look at the price of 2 wars and a free medicaid prescription plan, and a stimlus plan twice by 2 idffereent presidents that gave the wealthy the bankers and wall street a free pass to kepp going with thier fraud.

s o yes live life and enjoy and dont judge others.
there are people that need help that dont abuse the system and why dont you attack corportations who bleed our money from the government over greed. Originally Posted by bjwstw

Exactly. But then, why attack CEO's and lobbyists who scam the system to enrich themselves to the tune of millions of dollars, when you can attack a 23 year old girl who takes a couple hundred bucks of help a month from the government...as she's selling her body to make ends meet?

The number of threads started on here to express outrage over the people who scam the system to the tune of millions, in spite of the fact that they already have the means to buy a yacht, vs. the number of threads in here expressing outrage over the people who scam the system to the tune of hundreds or thousands of dollars simply because they already have the means to buy a 2 liter bottle of pop...

Amazing.

And pathetic.

links?

This thread started on the poor end but I'm all for attacking both ends. That's why I won't judge unreported income. Uncle Sam is the baddest ass in a bad ass nation of thieves. Solutions need to start there, and things need to happen locally.

As far as breaking the law whether you agree with it or not, a lot of southern plantation owners thrived on that attitude back in the day. Right vs. wrong is a far different concept than legal vs. illegal as determined by fucktard congressional thieves. Corporate greed is legal.

That's why I won't judge unreported income. Originally Posted by JohnnyCap

Ok, i'll say it. You're a hypocrite. Just how is getting assistance by "not reporting income" (which is what your original whine was all about) any different from paying less in taxes by not reporting income? Both are, in their own way, scamming the system. But you seem awfully ok with one, while being outraged by the other. Interesting, that.

And that's even before we get into the fact that you really have no way of knowing whether or not the girl you whined about, who's "renting her ass for $100/hr", is even over the income threshold for qualifying for assistance.

hows those links coming?

hows those links coming? Originally Posted by JONBALLS

Links to what? All the threads in here attacking low income people?

Surely you jest.