Food Stamps Are a Bargain On D.C. Streets (So This Is Why Food Stamps Are "Stimulative") 1997

It was the first Monday of the month, and a line numbering more than a hundred spilled from the doors of the District's largest food stamp office and down the sidewalk nearly a half-block to the corner of Seventh and H streets NE.

Children darted among the adults as the procession moved at a funereal pace toward the building -- a 10-minute walk from the U.S. Capitol -- where food stamps are dispensed. The hustlers who trade drugs, stolen goods and cash for food stamps waited patiently outside for people to emerge clutching books of stamps.

"For a $65 book, I am not going to give you over $30," a man wearing a leather jacket said as he and his partner did a brisk business almost within earshot of a security guard posted at the front door.

Not everyone who gets food stamps is on total welfare. Some are working poor and pay taxes as well. They have children to feed and with the price of everything inflated now a days - the food stamps help. Some of you are so judgmental. Never judge a person until you walk a mile in their shoes. People who have lost their jobs in this economy are having to get food stamps to feed their families as well. They’ve paid their fair share of taxes in the past, and I feel they deserve to reap some help from helping others. Some of you want them to eat rice, beans, etc. when you yourself wouldn’t touch the stuff. Just because tax dollars pay to help those in need, not a one of you would want to be told what you can and can’t purchase for your family. That is unless you are Moochelle Obama and ilk. Jesus said in the gospels: I was hungry and you fed me not. Are any of you helping to feed the poor? Yes, you are, with your tax dollars. Sure, there is some waste in the system, and some buy luxury items. If you’ve ever worked at a voluntary food bank - you’d get an idea of what some of you good-hearted folks think the poor should eat. Can after can of off-brand tomato soup, that the donor and family wouldn’t eat themselves. Cheap boxes of mac & cheese - lots of them, and the list goes on. Don’t judge a few who have milked the system by those honest people who really do need the help. Some have the idea that food stamp recipients drive fancy cars. None that I’ve seen do - just as there is abuse in everything - there is abuse in food stamps, but some want to punish everyone because they pay taxes and think they should tell others to be good food stamp recipients and eat their beans and rice. Some of you may be in a situation some day when you will have to apply for help. Not everyone has family and friends who can consistently help out to feed families. Nor do they want to. I find most people today selfish and greedy and judgmental toward others who need help. Ok, end of my rant.

41 posted on Friday, August 26, 2011 10:05:49 PM by Catsrus

Your comments are so off base that they don’t make sense. You want to use Jesus’s words to justify your selfishness. People are hurting in this economy, and none of you will ever know the extent I have helped people over the years - and you shouldn’t. I don’t mind people who need food stamps getting them, even if my tax dollars pay for them. I may be in a position one day to need them. None of us can see the future. I’ve put into the system, as most of you have, and one day you may need to reap from what you’ve sown. Just saying....... If someone wants to deny a poor little child some ice cream, then you are one heartless bas****

You did tell us you were on a 'rant'. And you did bring in your Jesus to use as your personal whipping boy by partially quoting His Words. Now your partial quote can be found in Matthew 25:42 but without beginning in Matthew 25:31 and reading the 'whole' promise of what will be is deceptive and misleading.

verse 31 When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory:

32 And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

33 And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.....

One really really needs to read all of what is going to take place and what determines this sorting of the sheep from the goats: Christ is the sorter not you. And you are not going to bait me into putting up my giving/charity list to disprove your unfounded accusations of selfishness.

You better believe people are hurting, and it is NOT by accident. Some of the hurt is out of 'ignorance' through deception because we hired goats to rule over US. But soup kitchens and food pantries is NOT the solution. Redistribution of this nation's individual wealth is against Christ's own teachings from the beginning.

God Himself has Amos warn US as to what else would be. Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD GOD, that *I* will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: (You have not seen anything yet.)

So you agree with me, but you want to jump in and make a personal attack anyway

I agree with you about ONE PART. And it's bullfeces to say I am personally attacking you. Don't order posters to argue a certain way, numbnuts. like barking out a command not to use Christ in a given argument. You don't get to say nuttin about how a person argues.

you shouldn’t personalize things here and carry baggage from thread to thread.

Bullfeces. I called you out on your behavior HERE on THIS THREAD. The only thing that carries from thread to thread is that I think you are a control-freak amd ill-tempered, disagreeable jackwagon. That won't leave.

Confusing, or mixing, Christianity and government socialism is a dark trick by the left

You can argue the point by showing Jesus's (and his Disciples) quotes where he disavows socialism, not by barking out commands.

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