1 posted on
06/23/2004 9:04:07 AM PDT by
presidio9
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To: presidio9
At least 23 million Americans receive food stamps each month and about 12 million of them are children. I wonder how many of them are grossly obese? We've got "hunger" stuck in our heads as a thing that happens to poor people that we have to fix. It's a very inapplicable model in 2004.
2 posted on
06/23/2004 9:06:15 AM PDT by
prion
(Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
To: presidio9
how about MarxMoneyTM
3 posted on
06/23/2004 9:06:28 AM PDT by
glock rocks
(I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything.)
To: presidio9
A continuing parade of euphemisms isn't going to alter the stigma of receiving government assistance. I used to work in Maryland, and would see poor people paying for their groceries with a debit-card called the "Independence Card." That, to my mind, was truly Orwellian ... "dependence is independence."
4 posted on
06/23/2004 9:08:04 AM PDT by
Mr Ramsbotham
("This house is sho' gone crazy!")
To: presidio9
I've got ice cream . . and you don't have none. cuz your daddy's on welfare . . .and your mama uses . . .
"food assistance"|"food support"|"basic food program"|"Food Card." !!!
5 posted on
06/23/2004 9:08:04 AM PDT by
stompk
To: presidio9
I am for s--- canning the whole program...failing that, let everyone who wants food stamps to have to wear a t-shirt that says "on WELFARE, thanks, taxpayers" on the front and the back when they go to the store...we need to stigmatize it MORE, not LESS.
Oh, if i were king...
LOL
The Capt.
6 posted on
06/23/2004 9:08:10 AM PDT by
Capt.YankeeMike
(get outta my pocket, outta my car, and outta the schools)
To: presidio9
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How about the "I Work So Deadbeats Can Eat Free" card.? |
7 posted on
06/23/2004 9:10:32 AM PDT by
Fintan
(Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.)
To: presidio9
I'm sorry, there should be a stigma associated with public assistance of any kind.
8 posted on
06/23/2004 9:11:52 AM PDT by
bondjamesbond
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: presidio9
Better to take the food program out of the Agriculture Department and Congressional agriculture committees where it has become a sacred cow of the disproportionately influential Midwestern states such as South Dakota.
What? You thought the food stamp program was enacted to benefit poor people? Follow the money trail; rent subsidies go to landlords, Medicare goes to doctors,...
9 posted on
06/23/2004 9:12:04 AM PDT by
bayourod
(Can the 9/11 Commission connect the dots on Iraq or do they require a 3-D picture?)
To: presidio9
How about "Free Lunch" cards?
To: presidio9
lets call them "welfare loonie lotto bucks"
11 posted on
06/23/2004 9:12:49 AM PDT by
arly
To: presidio9
The problem with food stamps -- an otherwise rather successful program -- has been chronic fraud. Does anyone have information on whether the cards have helped in this department?
12 posted on
06/23/2004 9:13:22 AM PDT by
sphinx
To: presidio9
How about "On The Dole" card?! Trendy feeders at the public trough could call it their "OTD" card.
To: presidio9
End Stigma, Give Food Stamps a New Name?Pork Barrel Spending by dumbocRAT party stamp
18 posted on
06/23/2004 9:15:47 AM PDT by
Arrowhead1952
(It is not Bush's fault... it is the media's fault!)
To: presidio9
The U.S. government wants to end the stigma of food stamps --Then end the program.
by giving them a new name to add to their new look.
A handout is a handout is a handout.
To: presidio9
Call 'em "vouchers."
While it's still welfare, it will harness one of the sacred cows of liberalism to the yoke of education reform.
20 posted on
06/23/2004 9:16:53 AM PDT by
5by5
To: presidio9
Oh yeah, change the name to make everybody feel "better about themselves"?
I worked for the Welfare Department in the early 1980s, witnessed the Welfare Queens. Changing the name from Welfare Department to Department of Human Services did nothing but make limo liberals feel "good".
21 posted on
06/23/2004 9:17:05 AM PDT by
Badeye
("The day you stop learning, is the day you begin dying")
To: presidio9
Call it the
Socialist Express Card The motto can be Don't leave the projects without it!
22 posted on
06/23/2004 9:18:16 AM PDT by
apillar
To: presidio9
How does a child receive food stamps? I thought the parents would have to apply.
25 posted on
06/23/2004 9:19:28 AM PDT by
Xenalyte
(This dog bite me.)
To: presidio9
Name it the "Magic Card". It magically refills itself each month. Oh, and be sure it has a big grasshopper on the front.
28 posted on
06/23/2004 9:21:06 AM PDT by
auboy
To: presidio9
Give Food Stamps a New Name?
I never understood how anyone could eat those damn things anyway.
30 posted on
06/23/2004 9:22:59 AM PDT by
reagan_fanatic
(Liberalism is the end result of too many people peeing in the gene pool.)
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