[diamond6]

I hope this doesn’t sound heartless, but I often see people with food stamps dressed very nicely, with fancy cell phones, and jewelry.

[The Duke]

I hope this doesn’t sound heartless, but I often see people with food stamps dressed very nicely, with fancy cell phones, and jewelry.

Not remotely heartless.

[NEMDF]

And big SUVs, $200 manicures. One of the problems I have with this is that many, many of the schools are feeding children at least 2 meals a day, year-round, but this has not caused a decrease in the food stamps that the family gets. Around here, they fed the whole family this summer, for 2 meals a day. So we are paying twice to feed many of the same people. If we are providing full meals, the food stamps need to be reduced.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****but I often see people with food stamps dressed very nicely, with fancy cell phones, and jewelry.****

Thirty five years ago there was a nice scandal about auto dealers accepting food stamps for down payments on new autos. Food stamps had become a secondary currency in the US.

[genghis]

i don’t care how they dress
stealing money from one person and giving it to another is just wrong
all of this welfare craziness should be eliminated completely

[antivenom]

you forgot...

the shiney chrome rims, fancy run flat tires, loud booming speakers, obnoxious music from many different CDs, gold teeth, weaves, long finger nails...

have you ever seen some of the “finger nailed weaved up” women trying to run the EBT card thru a machine and type in their code...the

CLAWS they have on their finger tips have rendered them

PHYSICALLY DISABLED!!!!!!!

[PGR88]

I hope this doesn’t sound heartless, but I often see people with food stamps dressed very nicely, with fancy cell phones, and jewelry.

You are too kind. There is A LOT of fraud with this. My nephew who works checkout at a grocery store points out that the "food" gets paid for with Food Stamps, and the alcohol, beer, cigarettes, lottery tickets then gets rung up seperately and paid for in cash. Is extremely common.

[chris_bdba]

So do I. I often I see them coming out of the store and getting into cars nicer than mineI’m sorry but there needs to be means testing on food stamps.You should not be able to drive a BMW/Land Rover and get food assistance!

[chris_bdba]

So do I. I often I see them coming out of the store and getting into cars nicer than mine.I’m sorry but there needs to be means testing on food stamps.You should not be able to drive a BMW/Land Rover and get food assistance!

[erlayman]

The food stamp program needs to be brought back to basics. If it was run like the WIC program, it wouldn’t lend itself to be abused. Say you’re on WIC, you can get so many gallons of milk, boxes of unsweetened cereal, so many lbs of raw vegetables, etc. If you don’t like what’s available to you, get a job and pay for the rest of it yourself.

[Nailbiter]

you left out driving nice cars - no sarcasm intended