Posted on 09/26/2012 8:59:15 PM PDT by ExxonPatrolUs
Is a $15 gift card enough to compensate for public humiliation at your local grocery store? According to one Georgia woman, the answer is absolutely not. Cindy Nerger, 28, who relies on food stamps to feed her family, said she was brought to tears after being embarrassed by a manager at a Kroger store in Warner Robbins, Ga. "He said, 'Excuse me for working for a living and not relying on food stamps like you,'" Nerger said the manager told her. The man's comment came after Nerger and two other store employees disagreed over whether her total purchase was eligible for food stamps - the employees had insisted that roughly $10 of her bill was not covered. She said the manager ultimately told the employees to "just give it to her."
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nerves are frayed these days. too bad the fed *encourages* dependence as opposed to independence.
There are exceptions to every rule. This lady SEEMS like maybe one of them. Leave it to the lsm to single her out as ‘typical’. She isn’t. Although in this day and at this time, there mmight be more of these than meets the eye thanks to obama and his job killers.
With so few of us left working, my nerves are frayed and I’m getting more and more resentful about all of these leeches. IF her story is true, I suppose she might be one out of a few thousand who actually “needs” the food stamps. However, I have to say that I think she wears expensive-looking glasses and that she and her daughter have some pretty nice haircuts you can’t typically get at the local $8 - 15 place (where I go).
Maybe they wouldn’t be so embarrassed if they all went to the same goobt warehouse, where they could get whatever bulk rice and beans and veggies they need. We grew up going from store to store for deals because we were paying our own way. The entitled ones can go line up for their bulk food also.
Talked to a cashier where I live today at a grocery story $400 EBT cards being given out after a hurricane passed through.
“You got yours yet?”
“I’m going tomorrow. My power was out like 30 minutes but they given em out to everybody that show up.”
My 90 year old MIL was telling my niece the other day about getting in line for clothes back in the depression. She was talking about how embarrassing it was. She told her about how no one got paid when they were on welfare—they worked and got paid in food. No work.. No food.
It did not hurt her dignity. But once she could start working, she never went without a job. She was never going to stand in line for a welfare dress again.
My niece’s jaw just about hit the table.
That tells a story in itself.
I lost my job in july. I get $200 per month in food stamps(since august). Most is spent at the produce market. I do buy some meat and seltzer water.. life is a bitch for some of us. Easy to through out insults..
Most are embarrassed.. not a good feeling..
After the divorce my mom raised 6 kids by herself and only once did we go stand in line for a government handout - they gave us powder milk, rice, flour, corn flakes and canned stew that looked and tasted like dog food. She never stood in line for their crap again, instead worked the breakfast shift at one restaurant and a cocktail shift at night and I babysat my siblings. You can make it on your own if you really want to. If you give up, you take government cr@p.
One out of a thousand NEED the food stamps? Where did you come up with that number?
And for all of you who think people get food stamps while making a lot of money, why don’t you go online to your state web site and look up how much money you’re allowed to make and get food stamps. I believe a family of one cannot earn over $900 per month. A little more with more dependents but not enough to live on. I think this family is getting around $500 a month for food depending on how much income the father brings in. Now, I know people are going to say “they should be able to get by on $500 a month in food”{. Well, they do. But what if they didn’t get the $500?
We’re in a terrble economy. People are hurting. And I’d bet my last dollar that there are just as many people on food stamps and want off as there are who like being on the program
I’m grateful I don’t need them. Yet! I’m sure you’re grateful you don’t need them either. I pray you never do.
Easy to throw out insults - and too easy to lump everyone together. That doesn’t help anyone. There are LOTS of good, honest folks without jobs - that’s a fact. And there are others that have learned to feed at the government trough.
And agreed - nerves are frayed. When I see one neighbor struggling to get by, and the illegals down the street getting gov’t services but still seem to have the money for decent SUV’s, it makes me mad.
Humiliation and stigma should always be assigned to taking public handouts. It should be a disincentive to continued taking of handouts and an incentive to work and provide for yourself.
A big reason we have multiple generations on the government dole is because people used to be embarrassed to take handouts, while now they believe they deserve free handouts.
Of course the article refuses to print what she wanted to buy for $10 that was not eligible for food stamps. Candy? Soda?
Cindy Nerger
Brick home & nice bicycle...poor ain't what it used to be!
I’ve piled up a bit of credit card debt helping out relatives in the downturn. I decided to cut back spending in the only category possible, food. If this chubby mother and daughter would live on hot dogs, potatoes, celery and bananas, they could eat healthy for a $1 a day, just like me. And maybe some day we’ll all live on the social security we are all promised. Think about your 90 year old relatives and what they lived through. It’s a piece of cake today - plenty to go around if we’re not hogs about it.
they shouldn’t have given her the gift card!!
She can turn right around and us it for liquor or cigarettes!
Nerger said she started receiving food stamps (Supplemental Nutrition Assitance Program) after she fell ill in 2008 and became eligible for Medicare and Social Security Supplemental Income. While she is on waiting list for kidney transplant she cannot work because of daily 12-hr dialysis treatment. According to Nerger, her husband runs a carpentry business but does not make enough income to sustain the family without assistance.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/333621#ixzz27e3u2LL0
Take away her food stamps, it’s way over fed!!!!
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