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self serving psyco rant

Published Jul. 5, 2009
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So I go to my local Foodlion to do a little shopping, when I say little, I have $50.00 left in my food budget and need to buy enough groceries to last till my next payday which comes on the 15th of this month, Not really an issue as we have become accustomed to it.

Anyway here is where it starts.

I got my stuff and standing in line with my handbasket with what I believe is about $48.00, 11 items, in front of me is a guy that has a screaming child a rolling buggy overflowing with goods, I'm thinking theres got to be over $300.00 in that buggy, so anyway, total comes to $347 and change and the dude pays with foodstamps, $347.00 in food stamps, I'm thinkin thats alot of foodstamps, my food budget is about $200 a month for me and my kid, anyway what happend next is what set me off,

The dude plunks down $80 cash for 2 cases of beer and a carton of cigarettes

Now I dont mind when a person needs a helping hand, but this made me furious, I dont know how this all works but I figured the 350 in foodstamps was for the whole month ??  but I figure the beer and ciggs wont last a week,

 

SO IF THIS GUY HAS GOT $80.00 A WEEK TO SPEND ON FREEKIN BEER AND CIGARETTES MAYBE HE SHOULD QUIT THAT $#!T AND FEED HIS FAMILY WITH HIS OWN FRIKKIN MONEY !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

THE MONEY ONE GETS AS A HELPING HAND SHOULD NOT ALLOW FOR FRIVOLOUS SPENDING OF MONEY THAT COULD OTHERWISE BE USED FOR SELF SUPPORT, I AM SO PISSED THAT THIS IS ALLOWED!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

PINS AND NEEDLES NEEDLES AND PINS A HAPPY MAN IS A MAN THAT GRINS :) :)

I FEEL MUCH BETTER NOW ... THANKS FOR LISTENING !!

 

 

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getting mad about that kind of stuff is a GOOD thing!

I once took a Thanksgiving food basket to a "needy" family. They had the largest tv I'd ever seen in my life (brand new) and 2 cartons of cigs on the table. But no food. Sigh.

Got to love our gov.

I agree with ya! Once, many years ago, I was in the cashier line and there were two women in front of me and one pulls out a roll of foodstamps that would choke a mule. It was a roll like some of the old timers used to carry their twenties - about 4" in diameter. I overheard her tell her friend that she took foodstamps for ironing! Now, I don't know anything about ironing and haven't ironed a single thing since I left the army (that cured me). Bt, it sure looked pretty lucrative. That is why foodstamps should be abolished and "debit cards" should be issued. This would help curb the black market.

Multiply by tens of thousands of times a month , and it adds up to real money!

This system has got to be overhauled.

Ain't it a shame.

It could be that the cash was given by a friend or other family member to buy for them, since he was already going to the grocery store anyways. =) Just a thought.

I thought of that, I think if that were the case the friend or family member should have gone to the store with him. Using hundreds of dollars in gubbament aid to buy food and then having cash for beer an cigarettes ? It just don't look good in public !

Ain't it a shame."

Yeah!!!

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