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Food Stamps Are a Form of Corporate Welfare, and Harmful to the Poor

Posted on 05/02/2015 10:25:49 AM PDT by pinochet

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To: P.O.E.
Wonder how much Walmart takes in from EBT?

Makes sense that big businesses want amnesty for umpteen million. They get on food stamps and voila, umpteen million new cash streams via Fedzilla.

21 posted on 05/02/2015 12:20:21 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: Carthego delenda est

Yea I have had that run in before LOL.

My oldest worked as a cashier and saw what they bought on their food stamps and it was sickening.


22 posted on 05/02/2015 12:36:17 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: pinochet

I wonder to what degree the food inflation we’ve seen in the past six years is due to the expansion of SNAP.


23 posted on 05/02/2015 1:05:32 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

That never occurred to me, but now it makes perfect sense.


24 posted on 05/02/2015 1:37:00 PM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: pinochet
When I first said to my friends 5 years ago that "Food Stamps" was a product of food corporations lobbying Wash. I got little agreement.

When people DO NOT have money to BUY your product you simply GIVE them MONEY in the form of "Food Stamps-EBT" offered by the Government.

There food corps plan is to make sure they have profits, even at the expense of the taxpayers.

25 posted on 05/02/2015 1:40:39 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Gen.Blather

he cops came to the door to deal with the drunk couple and noticed the 48 pot plants within easy view. This resulted in a 2:00 am SWAT raid.

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A SWAT team for two most likely drunk 50 year olds? Wow.


26 posted on 05/02/2015 2:03:51 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Chickensoup

They were already at the door and they came back with a raid at 2AM??

Why? It doesn’t make much sense.


27 posted on 05/02/2015 2:06:22 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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To: NorthstarMom

Something like 20-30% of households get the average lower middle class amount for groceries per person (30/month per person, $120 per person per month, $500/month for a family of four). SNAP isn’t intended to be the whole amount they spend on food, simply a large share. Hence the “supplemental”, with an incentive to work part time or make other money to buy more and better food.
There are a disproportionate number of families that don’t manage the money, blow it all by mid-month and hit food banks by the end of the month.
And all of that money is supplemented by free school lunches and breakfasts for the kids, WIC for infants, etc.


28 posted on 05/02/2015 2:11:07 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Chickensoup

“A SWAT team for two most likely drunk 50 year olds? Wow.”

They smashed the door flat...my door. They left it lying there with all the renter’s stuff exposed to whoever might want to come in and take it. The neighbor went over and propped the door back up.


29 posted on 05/02/2015 2:19:08 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: PGR88

“Last year we spent $76 billion in taxpayer money on food stamps, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.”

From here:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/08/05/how_much_walmart_gets_in_food_stamp_dollars_the_answer_may_be_forthcoming.html

That comes to about $14B a year spent at Walmart.


30 posted on 05/02/2015 2:51:08 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Gen.Blather

fools


31 posted on 05/02/2015 2:55:36 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Carthego delenda est
“No lobsters, shrimp, chips, soda’s, and cookies.”

In case anyone missed it, the classic:


32 posted on 05/02/2015 3:47:30 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: pinochet
You are exactly correct. Food Stamps ARE Corporate Welfare. WalMart, Yum Foods, and every single grocery chain lobbies for EBT transfers to the tune of Billions.


33 posted on 05/02/2015 6:30:09 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: pinochet

Well, the American people may not be lunatics, but they surely know how to act like them.


34 posted on 05/02/2015 6:36:27 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Oatka

The American people never met anyone buying lobsters on food stamps for whom they did not feel the deepest envy.


35 posted on 05/02/2015 6:37:51 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Section 8 does the same things in rental markets. It punishes the working poor and lower middle class by driving up the price of renting.


36 posted on 05/02/2015 7:25:33 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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