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Our family will lose $44 in food stamps
CNN Money ^ | November 1, 2013 | Jennifer Liberto

Posted on 11/01/2013 9:16:03 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

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To: P-Marlowe

If the mother cannot work due to emphysema, then how bout watching the grandchild while at least one of the kids goes to work? And why can’t the other pregnant one work, for cryin out loud?

This is supposed to be a sob story? What a joke.

p.s., Lady .....you’d save a whole lot by skipping the fancy hair cuts and coloring. AT LEAST $44/month.


61 posted on 11/01/2013 9:31:38 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: firebrand

Ever notice how hard it is to get OUT of the hammock once you’re in?


62 posted on 11/01/2013 9:31:41 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: AD from SpringBay

Sales tax in Florida averages around 7%. The sales tax on a monthly allotment of $800 in groceries comes to $56. Since people with food stamps are not charged sales tax on groceries, the taxpayer is already losing out on $56 in taxes that these freeloaders aren’t paying. So they need to be cutting their handout by a hell of a lot more than $44.


64 posted on 11/01/2013 9:33:12 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: Wiser now

Florida is kind of like Jamaica. If you have any yard at all and you’re hungry it’s because you’re too lazy to go outside.

She might have emphysema but the other 3 adults don’t. And at least 2 of her daughters have the ‘cardio’ capability to reproduce.


65 posted on 11/01/2013 9:33:15 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: grimalkin

Ghetto comes across as too ethnically specific.

Moocher is a much broader term, encompassing the entire FSA, and won’t get you into trouble with the Racial Thought Police :-)


66 posted on 11/01/2013 9:33:49 AM PDT by LadyBuck (....and we're off to the rodeo......)
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To: lewislynn
Fathered by the same man no doubt.

Did you mean:

Fathered by the same man basketball team no doubt.

67 posted on 11/01/2013 9:33:51 AM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: GeronL
It is not a cut it is the end of a temporary increase from “Stimulus”.
Which oddly enough is the reason her "benefit" doesn't buy enough to feed them.
68 posted on 11/01/2013 9:34:02 AM PDT by lewislynn (What does the global movement and te Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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To: NY.SS-Bar9

She lives with 4 other adults and none of them can work? We only got “excuses” for 2 of them. And those are single moms who got pregnant without being married first. The government if anything should be going after the fathers for child support, not after the taxpayers. The time to subsidize this irresponsible behavior is over. People need to solve their own problems. If they can’t, their suffering is necessary to present an example to the next generation that says DON’T DO THIS.


69 posted on 11/01/2013 9:34:26 AM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: dfwgator
Now where is my violin, I know I left it around here, somewhere.

Can someone please post that tiny one?

70 posted on 11/01/2013 9:34:29 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: Black Agnes

Yeah I know. I worked for our welfare dept for quite a few yrs.


71 posted on 11/01/2013 9:34:29 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Farnsworth
Four adults can't eat $800 of rice based food products in a month.

We have three adults and two kids, buy upscale food and stay under $600 / month.

72 posted on 11/01/2013 9:34:30 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: riri

Nothing has changed since Earl Nightinggale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaHDCcUcmc0


73 posted on 11/01/2013 9:35:00 AM PDT by edcoil (System now set up not to allow some to win but for no one to lose!)
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To: EnquiringMind

I admit to coloring my hair. We don’t receive any assistance though. But we definitely aren’t wealthy. Instead of the monthly touch ups I used to get it’s anywhere from 3-6m between them now depending on finances.

I’m hardly going to participate in a Miss America contest so there’s just not the need for anything more frequent.

But having said all this, her freshly done hair color might just be from a box. Those are $11 or $12 each last I looked.


74 posted on 11/01/2013 9:35:41 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Angry_White_Man_Syndrome

“She should tell her daughters if they are going to get knocked up, they should start charging. Better to be a paid wh*re, than a broke sl*t.”

We pay for their birth control pills; we pay for their abortions; we pay for their maternity care and their WICK benefits and (as reported this week) — Pelosi wants us to pay for their “universal” child care. We can’t help stupid any longer - it only encourages them.


75 posted on 11/01/2013 9:36:24 AM PDT by bunster
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
If the author of this story thought she had hit on a real sob-story, she thought wrong. You don't have to be a right-wing reactionary to see what's wrong here:

1. First of all, $800 a month is plenty for four adults to eat reasonably well, if not gourmet. It is, after all, more than $25 dollars per day.

2. Where are the fathers of these two babies, and why aren't they contributing anything - or are they? If so, some of that can be used for food.

3. Why are not any of the adults working even part-time? Even a part-time, minimum-wage job would put the food budget above what it currently is.

4. Where are the RELATIVES of these people? Are they all in the same boat, or are they better-off and unwilling to share $40-50 dollars a month?

5. How much food - if any - do these people get from local food banks?

6. Is there one of those horrible Wal-Mart stores available nearby, where they can get inexpensive food, or did the local politicians prevent it?
76 posted on 11/01/2013 9:36:36 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

A bright side to this benefits reduction is that some people might just be inspired to learn how to cook instead of buying prepared food to reheated in the oven or microwave.


77 posted on 11/01/2013 9:36:40 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

They can’t grocery shop for 4 people on $800 a month?

I can buy a months worth of food for $350


78 posted on 11/01/2013 9:36:53 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

$800 a month for 4 adults? JEEBUS!!! I don’t spend anywhere near that monthly on food... Probably 1/2 that. She’s not just eating rice and beans if she’s spending $200 a week on groceries. I call BULLSPIT!


79 posted on 11/01/2013 9:37:02 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: 5thGenTexan

I feed my kids ORGANIC food including meat and dairy for far less than that. But I shop the outside aisles of the grocery store. I’d love to see what ‘rice based’ products this woman is buying. If she’s buying boxes of Uncle Bens I can see the monthly expenditure of $800.


80 posted on 11/01/2013 9:37:22 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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