"Government done shut down the #EBT cards"

JamesL · Oct 13, 2013

Quote from Tsing Tao:

It all comes down to lobbying (as usual). Stores like 7-11, etc all lobby to get on the EBT approved seller list. WTF in 7-11 should be on an EBT buyer's list?

McD's and other diabetes inducing fast food joints successfully got EBT in their shops. You think anyone in this fat-is-bad political environment is going to go after them with their "super size" meals being fed to super sized kids?

Bob111 · Oct 13, 2013

Quote from zdreg:

are you another luftmensch or are you a self employed trader or are you a man ahead of the times, with a wife to support him?

this is my tax status and I.m filing as unemployed. Is it bad or something?

zdreg · Oct 13, 2013

Quote from Bob111:

this is my tax status and I.m filing as unemployed. Is it bad or something?

i should have asked do you consider yourself a are you another luftmensch or are you a trader or are you a man ahead of the times, with a wife to support him?
i have eliminated the words self employed and am not interested in your tax status. what are you in reality? luftmensch or investor/trader or a man ahead of the times, with a wife to support him?

Bob111 · Oct 13, 2013

Quote from zdreg:

i should have asked do you consider yourself a are you another luftmensch or are you a trader or are you a man ahead of the times, with a wife to support him?
i have eliminated the words self employed and am not interested in your tax status. what are you in reality? luftmensch or investor/trader or a man ahead of the times, with a wife to support him?

ummm..let's see..for a past decade or so my only source of income are capital gains+interest and div's)..call me anyway you like..i care less about that..

bigmoose · Oct 14, 2013

Quote from wartrace:

My solution would to be this:
1) End the food stamp program.

2) Issue food on a weekly basis to people in need. Give them some choices but make it basic foods.

3) Issue a Betty Crocker cookbook to every new enrollee. If they aren't working they have time to cook from scratch.

4) Give them five bucks each week to spend on soda pop or candy.

Great plan! I recently retired from my second... or is it third career. I started cooking again, and am enrolling in the chef's program at a local community college.

What got me started was being outraged that my wife paid $4.50 for a 1 lb loaf of "good" multi grain bread that grows moldy in 3 to 4 days.

I make the same loaf of bread twice a week using 3 cups of flour (price $0.26) a pinch of yeast, salt, malt, and honey. The two TBS of honey in lieu of sugar keeps my bread from molding. I cut our bread price by a factor of 20, and enjoy the exercise of kneading the loaf for 10 minutes.

Public support should not be at the level it currently is.

Bob111 · Oct 14, 2013

and whole house smells so good while you making it.

zdreg · Oct 15, 2013

Quote from wartrace:

It gets frustrating for us "non-leeches" to see how the other half lives. Whenever I have observed people using EBT cards they have name brand prepared foods, candy, soda pop and other "treats" in their cart.

I can honestly say I have NEVER seen an EBT card user buy fresh vegetables, flour, sugar or other items that indicate they cook from scratch.

My solution would to be this:
1) End the food stamp program.

2) Issue food on a weekly basis to people in need. Give them some choices but make it basic foods.

3) Issue a Betty Crocker cookbook to every new enrollee. If they aren't working they have time to cook from scratch.

4) Give them five bucks each week to spend on soda pop or candy.

#4 says something about your own background. how about zero dollars for candy. maybe that way children would not develop the habit of desiring sugar from unhealthy sources.

wartrace · Oct 15, 2013

Quote from zdreg:

#4 says something about your own background. how about zero dollars for candy. maybe that way children would not develop the habit of desiring sugar from unhealthy sources.

Not my background.

I do not drink soda pop and rarely eat candy. I just threw that in there because of my observations of EBT users in the stores. I guess "0.00" would be a lot better for people.

IeatGoldmanSnax · Oct 15, 2013

Quote from Bob111:

dunno guys..i just come back from ACME..i got 3 essential things-milk,bread and some apples..paid almost $20. the guy on front of me(with a gold chain thicker than my index finger) got 3 full bags of groceries and paid a whooping $3.23 cash out of his pocket..

seriously,i'm not making this up..

And that right there is the friggin problem. They take all this assistance, and then they spend their cash on expensive electronics or other worthless goods. We need to start weening these people off this crap

Quote from zdreg:

#4 says something about your own background. how about zero dollars for candy. maybe that way children would not develop the habit of desiring sugar from unhealthy sources.

You are probably one of the biggest assholes on this site at the moment. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? Get on some meds

zdreg · Oct 15, 2013

Quote from IeatGoldmanSnax:

And that right there is the friggin problem. They take all this assistance, and then they spend their cash on expensive electronics or other worthless goods. We need to start weening these people off this crap

You are probably one of the biggest assholes on this site at the moment. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? Get on some meds

thanks for your input. obviously self control is not your forte.