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Clayton County Food Stamp Snafu Angers Many
MyFoxAtlanta ^ | 8/10/11 | Justin Gray

Posted on 08/13/2011 8:19:11 PM PDT by Kartographer

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To: Kartographer

Certainly families that dependent on this aid ought to get it in a timely manner, just like people who toil for their pay need to get paid on time. But they also should be prioritizing their expenditure. It is unacceptable for people who depend on the government for food and healthcare to have cable TV or expensive phones and cars.

Years ago we used to live in the DC area and I remember our visits to a discount grocery store. We used to shop frugally; and guess what, we’d see people in the checkout line with carts full of expensive prepared food, steaks etc. I’d marvel at how they could afford that, and then they’d pull out the food stamps which used to be like paper checks those days. I just couldn’t believe how our government could be so out of touch with the reality that some people are here to scam us taxpayers.


41 posted on 08/13/2011 11:01:28 PM PDT by srajan
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To: Popman
I had to go look, since you mentioned the comments section.

WOW!

What a bunch of nasty, foul comments. Looks like the taxpayers are ready for a revolt of their own!

42 posted on 08/13/2011 11:04:36 PM PDT by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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To: Kartographer
With the way the economy is nowadays, I think it's time that large cities go back to providing soup kitchens.

That way the people who are going hungry get food, the government saves money, and we all see who is feeding at the State teet!

43 posted on 08/13/2011 11:07:06 PM PDT by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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California renamed its Food Stamp Program. Now it's called CalFresh.

The State is $20 Billion in the hole and they advertise for new recipients all the time.

I hear their ads on the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin shows. I guess they don't understand the audience they are reaching. Of course they use Children in the ads and go on and on about eating healthy. What a joke.

44 posted on 08/13/2011 11:11:37 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now.)
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To: kimmie7
10% that are genuine.

What's genuine mean in this context? Does this mean that they'd have to cut back on some of their non-essential spending? Does this mean that they're upside down on their car note? Or does it mean that they'll absolutley starve to death if they stop receiving stolen goods welfare from the government. I'm pretty sure that it isn't the last possiility.

A few questions if you don't mind. Since you know these people, how many hours a week in total does their family work? Do they have dogs or cats? How old are their car(s). Do they ever eat out? I;m trying to establish a baseline to define EBT card qualification

45 posted on 08/13/2011 11:12:59 PM PDT by from occupied ga (your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Kickass Conservative; Kartographer
California renamed its Food Stamp Program. Now it's called CalFresh.

Application form is here:

http://www.calfresh.ca.gov/entres/forms/english/DFA285A1.PDF

46 posted on 08/13/2011 11:27:47 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Kartographer

To the tune of Jeannie C. Riley’s “Harper Valley PTA” The day they took the Clayton County food Stamps away.


47 posted on 08/13/2011 11:28:20 PM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: airborne

Yep let them stand in line; they’re not working anyway!


48 posted on 08/13/2011 11:32:12 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: Kartographer
A few inidences like this and we will quickly have action in the street that will make what happened in the UK look like a Kiddy Street Carnival.

I forget which of the Caesars said 'give the masses bread and circuses and they'll be happy'...

No bread, no circuses, and the SHTF.

49 posted on 08/13/2011 11:45:52 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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I would have to be lying in the gutter starving to death before I would apply for Food Stamps.

The Safety Net has been turned into a Hammock.

50 posted on 08/13/2011 11:50:50 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now.)
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I bet they all have cable TV, Internet and Cell phones, and the parents spend money on cigarettes.

And cars. America is the only country where "poor" people own cars.

51 posted on 08/13/2011 11:53:22 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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>”America is the only country where “poor” people own cars”<

I'll cut them some slack and consider them truly poor only if they live in the car.

52 posted on 08/13/2011 11:57:36 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now.)
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To: mlocher

You’re correct. And I actually think it is the church’s job to help the poor. Not the government’s.


53 posted on 08/14/2011 12:01:23 AM PDT by kimmie7 (I do not think BO is the antichrist, but he may very well be 665.)
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To: from occupied ga

I think it is enough for me, a solid conservative hand-up not out type of person, to say that these people actually need the assistance. In one case, the mother went to the foodstamp office when (after working 3 jobs) she made it out of her circumstances and informed them she no longer needed their help. She said they were amazed. They’d never had anyone honest enough to come do that before.

But as to what happened to cause the need or whether she had animals, I wouldn’t dream of dragging her reasons for the need out, whether I named names or not.


54 posted on 08/14/2011 12:08:15 AM PDT by kimmie7 (I do not think BO is the antichrist, but he may very well be 665.)
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To: dfwgator

Daughter is a teacher, and says some free lunch parents wear more expensive clothes than she does.


55 posted on 08/14/2011 12:45:23 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Kartographer

What did people do in this nation before ‘food stamps’?

Did they just lay down and die from starvation in the streets?


56 posted on 08/14/2011 12:52:55 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Kartographer
Those who think they deserve other folks stuff are always the first to riot.

While there may be some need to help a small portion of the people for finite periods, 48 million on food stamps is insane. Far too many have a nicer car than the average working stiff and have electronics that a lot of us won't waste our money on. There should be some checks going on before turning over our money to them - car newer than 6 years old/TV bigger than 30"/cable or anything other than an antenna/stereo that costs over $120/beer, soda, chips, cookies in the house, etc. - no aid.

If folks demonstrate they can afford the "niceties" they can afford to feed their families - it then becomes a choice.

57 posted on 08/14/2011 3:25:54 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: dfwgator

I bet they all have cable TV, Internet and Cell phones, and the parents spend money on cigarettes

And beer.And the parents are most likely overweight.


58 posted on 08/14/2011 4:40:37 AM PDT by bikerman (Where Has My America Gone?)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Good. Maybe its time for the cities to burn.


59 posted on 08/14/2011 4:46:53 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Kartographer
Parents say they can't buy food without those food stamps.

Bypass the beer and tobacco isles and you'd be amazed at what you can afford.

60 posted on 08/14/2011 4:47:00 AM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US Government to Kill Commies and Radical Moo-slims. Now ain't that irOnic?)
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