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To: NEMDF

bing cherries, tv dinners, shrimp cocktail?

And what is healthful about TV dinners, Kool Aid and frozen pizzas???

I thought food stamps were just supposed to cover milk, cheese, eggs, beans, tuna, juice, peanut butter...stuff like that? Granted, I have to admit, I’ve never seen a food stamp...are they stamps?


41 posted on 08/07/2007 11:41:32 AM PDT by Cailleach
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To: Cailleach
I’ve never seen a food stamp...are they stamps?

They used to be coupons, but now many states have gone to an electronic debit card so the recipients won't have their precious self esteem damaged by being readily recognized as parasites.

46 posted on 08/07/2007 11:44:04 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Cailleach
I thought food stamps were just supposed to cover milk, cheese, eggs, beans, tuna, juice, peanut butter...stuff like that? Granted, I have to admit, I’ve never seen a food stamp...are they stamps?

Not any more. Not they have EBT cards. Stands for Electronic Benefits Transfer. You see, having actual food stamps was stigmatizing and damaging to their self esteem. So now they have a card just like a debit card that has their "stamps" on them.

Or as Neal Boortz calls it, Push Button Plunder.

69 posted on 08/07/2007 12:14:55 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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