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The new face of SNAP? Food stamps buy lobster for surfer and his buddies [VIDEO]
The Daily Caller ^ | 08/10/2013 | Caroline May

Posted on 08/11/2013 7:32:30 AM PDT by george76

Edited on 08/11/2013 7:45:27 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: dude; ebt; foodstamps; gnarly; greenslate; jasongreenslate; spicoli; welfare
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To: george76
RATTLIFE...
41 posted on 08/11/2013 8:46:32 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: miss marmelstein
We spend a lot a the grocery store too but cooking is (one of) Mr Ditters hobbies. He is retired but he would have made a great chef.
42 posted on 08/11/2013 8:48:56 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: NonValueAdded

I know. It was an overly broad generalization, but it is the one that most EITC filers use.

Look, you know if you are a burden or not and whether to be insulted by my comments or not. People that are society’s burden sure as hell aren’t filing the 1040A long form.


43 posted on 08/11/2013 8:49:41 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Ditter

Lucky you! I’m a fairly good cook and my husband is pretty good, too, but we definitely overspend on groceries. I’m really a very bad shopper.


44 posted on 08/11/2013 8:50:46 AM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: yldstrk
no chick is going to want his broke ass

Musicians don't need money to get chicks.

45 posted on 08/11/2013 8:51:06 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Gaffer
He’s still 29....he can fool some young girls for a while. He’ll get older and the “ewwwww” factor will get larger.

How is that different from any other guy?

46 posted on 08/11/2013 8:54:07 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Gaffer
Bacon was $2.98-3.98 a pound; sometimes store brands in the $2-$2.50 area. Now $6.98 a lot of the time.

A bit of a cost saving tip: Almost always, the bacon at the service counter is cheaper than the packaged bacon, and I think much higher quality than the other option. Yesterday's trip to the market, the service counter bacon was $3.98 a pound, a half pound package of bacon in the cooler was $3.50.

47 posted on 08/11/2013 8:56:43 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Age of Reason

He won’t have a nice car, a nice job, manners, clothes, all those trappings that at least other guys have to fall back on when these flighty females finally come down off their hormones and start thinking.


48 posted on 08/11/2013 8:57:28 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: binreadin
You are right about the article being “acceptable” because he's white. A similar article detailing the spending habits of a black or hispanic using an EBT card would never get past the editor's desk.
49 posted on 08/11/2013 8:57:47 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: kingu

I’ve noticed. But the packaged brands are going out of sight...


50 posted on 08/11/2013 8:58:25 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: george76

This guy should have a major speaking part at the next Democratic convention. They could title it, “what it means to be a good democrat”.


51 posted on 08/11/2013 8:59:48 AM PDT by kempster
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To: SpaceBar

You’re right.
That’s why we have to put our snarks on YT LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhQsRKsU0M


52 posted on 08/11/2013 9:00:07 AM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Gaffer

Don’t worry, I am not insulted but I do taxes and I am interested in the accuracy of information posted on FR.

If you really want to link “societies’ burdens” with tax forms, then it is the 1040A or even the real “long form,” the venerable 1040 itself, that most would use. Those are the only forms that support all the various child tax credits, and the big dollar value EITC. EZ filers (single, no kids), their EITC caps out at 14K income which is chump change).

Some will go as far as to gin up a 1099 misc to claim small business income to place themselves at the top of the EITC curve. Others will “trade” kids since more than 3 do not increase the Federal goodies that come at tax time.

No, those gaming the system will use the more complicated forms to be sure and claim “everything that is coming to them.”


53 posted on 08/11/2013 9:00:38 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate." George F. Will)
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To: Gaffer
He won’t have a nice car, a nice job, manners, clothes, all those trappings that at least other guys have to fall back on when these flighty females finally come down off their hormones

But when those flighty females come down off their hormones, what will those flighty females have to fall back on?

See, it balances out.

54 posted on 08/11/2013 9:01:35 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: bigbob
This guy is now the norm, and that’s WHY you’ve got to be such a careful shopper, taxpayer...

This is why we must dismantle these programs. Charity begins at home, and should stay in the community. To me, it was a natural conclusion that the programs would be abused as soon as the restrictions on food stamps went away. Little plastic card, buy pretty much whatever you want, avoid CRV taxes in many states, avoid bag taxes in many cities...

Delete that program, people will only starve if they choose to starve. There are plenty of options out there already, and let me tell you, people are more than willing to use all of them.

Can't count the number of times I helped out at food banks, I'd see the same people in three different locations on three consecutive days - they'd each grab enough food to feed a family of 4 for a week, go back to their SUV, and the four 'families' would fill the back and be at the next location.

55 posted on 08/11/2013 9:04:27 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Argus

“WOOOORRRRRRRKKKKKKKK”!!Maynard’s ides of a four-letter word?????????


56 posted on 08/11/2013 9:11:22 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: NonValueAdded

Go look at line 8a of the 1040EZ. You can get EITC on that form. I’ve been to WM and other box stores where H&R Block, Jackson/Hewitt, and other tax companies are grabbing EITC filers consistently during tax time. Most of them print out the 1040EZ for the EITC filers.


57 posted on 08/11/2013 9:13:41 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Age of Reason

He’ll probably wind up killing his aging mother a few years down the road when she denies him some money so he can “hang out at the beach”.


58 posted on 08/11/2013 9:15:10 AM PDT by csvset
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To: dirtboy

which is exactly why you don’t spend $200 on yourself, because it’s YOUR money, you earned it and thus appreciate what it took to get it.

It’s ALWAYS easier to spend other peoples money.


59 posted on 08/11/2013 9:35:07 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: binreadin

Thanks, you made my point more eloquently than I could!


60 posted on 08/11/2013 9:46:11 AM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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