Posted on 12/26/2009 5:02:53 PM PST by Publius772000
On Christmas Eve, I, my three small children, and my wife, who works the graveyard shift at a truck stop to supplement our meager income, visited our local Kroger store to pick up a loaf of frozen garlic bread to go with dinner. I refrain from writing much about myself in this blog, as it seems somewhat egotistic to assume anyone would want to read about my personal life. However, on this particular night, we ended up checking out behind a group of ladies. Their hair was newly done, obviously at a salon. Each of them had had their fingernails professionally manicured. They wore expensive leather jackets. They were buying steak, chips, soda, and a cart overflowing with other items, all name brand. No Kroger or Great Value brand for them.
Their total? $170. They paid for $11 of it in cash. The other $159? The leader of the group whipped out her trusty EBT/SNAP card and scanned it through.
Now I know that there are those of you who couldn’t care less about such anecdotes. Live and let live, you say. But it bothered me. Each of these women wore clothing that was worth more than anything I or my wife own. Each of them had been pampered lately. It’s been years since my wife was able to afford a professional haircut, much less a trip to a salon. She’s never had her nails done. Yet these women, despite all this, paid for the vast majority of their “essentials”–including steak which I’m also unable to afford except on amazingly rare occasions, such as birthdays that end in a zero–with money supplied by taxes taken out of the paychecks of me, my wife, and people like us.
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I used to feel the same way until I learned recently that people who take in foster children get food stamps to help feed the children. My sister died last year and her husband was abusing my neice, so I now have custody of my neice. Due to the social security death benefit, my neice isn’t eligible for a food stamp allowance, but if you see a half way decently dressed woman with nice rings on her fingers at the doctor’s office pulling out a medicaid card so the kid with her can see a doctor, it might be me or somebody like me.
State governments should only be involved in disability and unemployment issues. No food aid, no pension schemes (like Social Security), no welfare, no health insurance programs. And the Federal government, needless to say, should not be involved in ANY of the above six items. You would probably see a lot less welfare queenism if such was the case.
I would do neither since I wouldn`t take moocher cards.And we`ve been what most would call very poor.
Of course there are exceptions, I think we are discussing the general lean of this mess.
I have also worked around ‘free clinics’ and the patients have the same profile: probably most are in need, but the parking lot does have a few ‘nice rides’ and those are the ones they are sucking the system dry on purpose.
Nobody can say that legitimate need should be supported, is the abuse we are sick of!!!
There’s a woman on a certain forum I’m on that gets plenty of foodstamps, she’s always mentioning it, looking for ways to use them, she gets so many.
Candy, LOTS of candy at birthday parties! She was wanting to buy a Thanksgiving dinner and donate it to someone. (shaking head) It makes me sick.
It's sad that in America today we're being forced to provide other people (freeloaders) with a comfortable, care free life style - before we're allowed to even feed our own families.
It just isn't right.
“Nobody can say that legitimate need should be supported...”
Is ‘should not be’ . . . gee... this keyboard!
Years ago, when I was a student at LSU and could barely afford the ingredients for chicken gumbo, I saw three women in Burkas in front of me at the Winn Dixie, all paying with stamps. (It is a debit-type card, but welfare just the same). You couldn’t see anything but their eyes.
When my son was in the 5th grade we found out he was almost deaf in his left ear. It would take a very sophisticated hearing aid to help him, but we couldn't even pay for his hearing test! I was told to apply for Medicaid, but when I went to the local office I was told that I was (1) white (2) married and (3) my husband lived at home, so there was nothing they could do to help. I was so stunned... I should have asked to have it in writting, and signed!
I see this every single day. And then have to listen to my idiot governor Ed Rendell saying that there aren’t enough people getting these benefits.
What sort of freak eats frozen garlic bread. If the complicated science of buttering bread and sprinkling it with powdered garlic has you confused, I have no respect for you anyway.
There’s nothing egotistical about this at all. You are absolutely right in your observations. About 10 years ago, I was living in a different area than I do now, & there was a woman renting a house on the corner across from the house I was renting. She had 3 kids, ages 4,6, & 7. I just had my daughter, who was 4. She played with these kids occasionally when they came over...to eat! Yes, I said that right, they came to my house when they were hungry. So, that Christmas Eve, I had cooked a huge pork roast, with tons of carrots & potatoes & took it over to the woman’s house so that she & her children could have a nice meal. A few hours later, I went back to see how things were going & I walked in to find 6 adults drinking at the table, with empty plates beside them. They were playing cards & obviously feasted on the dinner I brought over. So, I walked over to the kids, who were sitting on the floor in an empty room with no furniture & asked if their bellies were full. They said they didn’t get any dinner, & their mom told them to have cereal...but they couldn’t find any cereal.
Arrrg! I was pissed! I told the woman I was taking her kids for her for the night to sleep at my house (she was more than happy to get rid of them in her stoned state). I cooked more food & let the kids stuff themselves.
Come to find out, this woman was on low income housing (she paid absolutely nothing for her rent), she got over 500.00 a month in cash assistance, & over 400.00 in food stamps. And there she is spending it on herself & her friends while these poor kids suffered.
/Ramble off
I have no problem helping those in NEED. I have a major problem supporting the millions who are in nothing but WANT
There are very few people in this country who are truly in need. The charities alone would have their cups running over if it weren't for the governments meddling. The majority of welfare recipients in this country today are nothing but lazy, self serving slobs.
“The majority of welfare recipients in this country today are nothing but lazy, self serving slobs.”
Yes, I agree 100%.
“The university set who spend their lives filling out forms to go to graduate school at public expense and stay there for years graduating to work at the U. “
Where can you go to graduate school for free?
Go back to sleep, then, and rid us of your presence.
At least she PAID for the garlic bread with her own money....
Sheesh!
The cashier was frantically trying to explain that there was no coupon for free shrimp as the two women slunk out of the store.
They have regulations to prevent people from abusing the system. The problem is that they make them so complicated that people who are honestly in need but ignorant of the system are unable to navigate their way through while the professional moochers who have made it their business to study the system are able to sail through.
My friend who applied for aid after her husband was disabled has spent a year trying to get some aid. With three kids and her job and trying to care for her husband she doesn't have the time to spend a week doing nothing but going from state office to state office filling out forms and telling her story over and over.
My sister-in-law, however, knows how to work the system to a T. She has not worked in ten years and yet she always has money to spend on... let's just call it recreation.
She can spend a month doing nothing but annoying the state aid people to get a bit more in food stamps or better housing. Why not? She has nothing better to do.
I have a daughter that is a social worker, her job places her in the homes of welfare/food stamp recipients.
My daughter has 4 children, they do not have cable, high speed internet, cell phones ( except the one from her job).. They spend about $700 on groceries a month.
Now the people that she SERVES...have LCD tvs,cable,cell phones and usually a newer computer.. they also get (for a family her size) $900 food stamps.free breakfast and lunch at school..and unlike the working poor...they can also use that food stamp card to access food pantries at the end of the month get free winter coats and toys from charities. They get federal/state heat help and free telephone as well as the best medical insurance in NYS..medicaid
They also got a “stipend” at the beginning of the school year to get the kids ready for school while working people struggled to get those expensive supplies.
At some point one has to ask themselves if they are fools to pay taxes so these people can live better than you do.
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