Posted on 10/12/2013 12:23:21 PM PDT by Islander7
I work for a sub-contractor in a Sam’s Club in Ohio. The natives were restless today when they found out Sam’s couldn’t take their cards. Some of them were foaming at the mouth.
Guess who they blamed it on?
If these moochers lose access to their freebies for, say a week...be prepared. It’s definitely going to get ugly.
They’re down in Maryland too. I went to the grocery store today and there were signs on the front doors.
I’m in PA. It’s happening here, just not in Walmart. There’s Aldi’s here, they were affected.
I am really surprised at all the comments on here. There are people in this world who do need help and to mock them is horrible. No wonder people think we are the party of no compassion. This thread has proved their point.
Yes, some people do abuse the system, but there are legitimate people in need and really do need the help and to be ridiculed and called names is the most despicable things I have ever seen.
No, I am not on food stamps, but I know real families in need and the reaction I see here makes me embarrassed to be a conservative if this is how conservatives view their fellow human beings.
VERY similar story here. My then wife and I were starving college students. One evening my wife and a neighbor went grocery shopping. When she got home, I helped her unpack the groceries and saw this massive rump-roast. I saw the price and almost panicked -- NO way we could afford that.
She told me to relax, the neighbor she shopped with saw how little she was buying, felt sorry for her, and bought the roast for her with food stamps.
The problem is that food stamp abuse is running wild. The regime is actually paying people to recruit new users. Everybody can recount stories of blatant food stamp fraud. America has the fattest poor people in world history.
Ergo, those who deride welfare as a dehumanizing force pushing people into sin, or at least multiple repeated defects of character, are NOT, criticizing or minimizing the need for charity.
What a ridiculous post.
Just Xerox states.
JP Morgan Chase (actually JP Morgan Electronic Financial Services, Inc.) provides Washington State's back end processing, along with 24 other states. These state contracts are some of the most lucrative contracts in the entire world. For example, Pennsylvania’s seven-year contract totaled $112,541,823.27.
Yes, there are people who really do need them...but the fat pigs who ride around in the electric carts, their baskets filled to the top with EXPENSIVE, READY TO EAT FOOD and POP don’t.
If they bought whole fruits and veggies, raw meats and drank water from the tap (I do) their money (actually our money) would go a lot farther...and they might lose a few pounds and not stress Obamacare.
Things could get dicey if this goes on for long.
Points well taken.
The Bible DOES NOT SAY it’s ok to hate the poor as long as some of them are abusers or sinners.
Some of the comments here are just as despicable as the MSNBC comments, but in the opposite direction, though both utilize hate.
The only place I see things differently from you is I am not surprised to read the comments because I have been seeing them here for years.
I don't blame the recipients as much as the politicians who gifted all this in the first place. The food stamp people grew up with this kind of "diet". They aren't going to suddenly change to a fruits and vegetables menu when the other stuff is still available.
I just read 17 States are back up.Cancel”RELEASE THE RIOTS”
Charity is given voluntarily. That which is extracted at the point of a gun is something else entirely, and conflating the two makes me want to vomit.
People should be hating the system (or at least elected representatives) and not the recipients of the transfer payments. It isn't food stamp recipients holding the gun to your head -- it is politicians.
Here’s what the Bible DOES say:
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. ~ 2 Thessalonians 3:10
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. ~ Proverbs 10:4
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. ~ Proverbs 6:9-11
Notice that it doesn’t say that those who are physically handicapped should not eat. No, we should have compassion for and help out those people. But if someone can work, yet WILL NOT work, then he’s left to the consequences of his actions (or inactions in this case).
Yeah, I get it. I find people who really need help in my local community through my church.
And that endeavor, and the good will it creates, is nothing like the welfare state.
You can keep working to maintain the welfare state; I'll keep condemning it.
They're thieves.
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