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In reply to the discussion: Next time you judge someone using food stamps... [View all]UTUSN
(70,686 posts)of the usual variety: "I saw a woman dressed to the nines with the best cuts of meat into the cart. I can only afford the cheap ones. She paid with food stamps. Then I saw her in the parking lot drving a (insert whatever luxury car brand here)."
Today's was a doozy. He said that YESTERDAY he personally saw a dude buy one package of gum with stamps and got back a hundred in change, then bought a second pack of gum for another hundred, and the radio dude took a picture with his phone and the dude and the cashier told him he can't do that and the radio dude said he could because it was a crime against public money.
The radio dude is a young dude who has said he is "poor," that he has "never lost my pride" by using public assistance, that "don't (food stamps recipients) have families to support them?"
Today he expanded into being against Unemployment Insurance but while it's still in effect to require drug testing for recipients on the grounds that they can't be in condition to work if they are on drugs and drug testing is in use for many jobs.
[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Funny how these wingnuts never focus on the "big time" robber barons like CHEENEE and corporate and military-industrial welfare.[/FONT]