Fully agree.
There are a lot of people who are just down on their luck and want to avoid living on the street and of course, others are just broken by life and just can’t carry on.
I wonder if anyone on this thread would refuse stamps and welfare if they were facing life on the street.
I wonder if anyone on this thread would refuse stamps and welfare if they were facing life on the street.
Well, I certainly wouldn’t be buying steak and lobster and soft drinks. Id stretch every dollar and be grateful.
The fact that some of us might not or would not refuse food stamps or welfare if we were facing life on the street really has nothing to do with fact that the welfare programs have been tweaked to a point that makes it laughable. For MANY millions of people, it would not even occur to them to WORK for anything, as long as it is so easy to get the government benefits.
I do believe that there should be restrictions on what the EBT stamps can be used for, and that there should be no “cash back” option. I also think that the EBT amounts need to be reduced for families whose children are getting 2-3 meals at school, every day, which are also paid for by taxpayers.
For the situation you cited, people being down on their luck, it would not hurt them one iota if the EBT programs were much more restricted as to how the funds can be used.
I wonder if anyone on this thread would refuse stamps and welfare if they were facing life on the street.
It seems most of us are from families that refused to go on welfare and food stamps.
My mother qualified for food stamps and other government programs. Instead she worked in a factory and curbed her spending. There were many times when dinner was tomato soup and (sometimes) shell macaroni.
Your moral outrage isn’t working.
Since I've paid into the system for untold years, I'd accept assistance as payback. However, I wouldn't expect assistance meant anything more than assistance and that it wouldn't be given to me for the rest of my life and every generation that followed. I'd be the first in line to learn a new jobs skill rather than sit on my couch yapping on my obamy phone day in and day out. But ask me again if/when the usurper and his gang retain control past '16 and the GOP allows it and I might have a change of heart.