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Coooool surfer dude spending my money (sm)
Posted: Aug 11, 2013
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Shame budget for auditing recipients was slashed. - Cool Dude just wiped out his free ride, tho.
[ In Reply To ..]Maybe Fox News will profile more of them. Each one tossed off into the cold hard surf is fine with me.
The "new" face of food stamps, my butt. - Wow, thanks for the newsflash.
[ In Reply To ..]As if this is a new phenomenon.
Good Lord.
Are they that out of touch, that they're just - now noticing this?
[ In Reply To ..]Or are they trying to turn a very old problem into a shiny new one?
How to kill food for children programs: 1. Underfund - them. 2. Pass laws to cripple them
[ In Reply To ..]so badly they can't do their job efficiently.
3. Cut funding again and again, the less oversight of beneficiaries and less adequately they meet the need the better.
4. Appoint top people to run them who don't believe in them and agree to help destroy them.
5. Drive off the remaining employees who believed they were part of an important mission by making it impossible to do the job they signed on for.
5. Replace those with bad ones. Smile when you hear they're looking at pornography at work, etc.
6. Pass that word to the press as just one of hundreds of revelations "proving" the program is worthless and corrupt--for just as many years as it takes.
7. Tell voters, repeatedly, again for just as many years as it takes, that the program allows shiftless adults avoid working while they live off the public teat.
8. Never, never, NEVER mention all the physically and mentally handicapped people, much less the children, who simply cannot take care of themselves and whose very lives are at stake.
OP, these programs exist to feed those who CANNOT - feed themselves. How about canceling
[ In Reply To ..]surfer dude's ticket? Just him and those like him?
Why attack the programs that heal the sick and feed the hungry? You know, old-time traditional morality? Didn't your parents and grandparents once believe in it? What happened?
That's what I meant. He's a big boy. Let him get a job. - OP
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Oh, okay. Usually these posts are about cutting the - programs by whomping up resentment.nm
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Bull. They asked him if he considered working (sm) - Resentment? You bet.
[ In Reply To ..]and he said he's not going in that direction right now. You bet I have resentment. He can get a frigging job. There are people who need them. He doesn't.
Exactly. And you're burning resentful-hot now - that you've been reminded--yet again. nm
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Better than keeping my head you know where. - How's the air up there?
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Real classy. - nm.
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PhDs and management on food stamps. sm - we
[ In Reply To ..]But there are plenty of PhDs and management types on food stamps now and/or going to soup kitchens. It is called underemployment, unemployment, and/or offshoring. All you need to do is look at the various boards on this forum and see plenty of hardworking MTs who have had to resort to food stamps.
Is this the same post from yesterday, but with the title and OP changed?
At any rate, every state has different food stamp rules. A person in the situation of the surfer guy would only get 3 months of food stamps in my state and that would be once a year.
If you google the word "rattlife", you will find the surfer's band. If you also do some more googling, you will find plenty of recording stars and actors who actually were on food stamps/assistance before they became famous (either as children or adults). Ever hear of starving artists?
Not saying that this guy will ever be a star, but just saying....
Something is fishy about this story. If we are to believe... - oldtimer
[ In Reply To ..]Surfer Dude's story we would have to believe that his only income was $200 in SNAP benefits....and he used them for a bang up lobster party for his friends? What did he use for food for the rest of the month? Does he sleep under the boardwalk? Sorry, I am not buying it.
Tell someone who cares. - I don't. Buy it or don't.
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Rude. - really (nm)
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Where did that random rudeness come from? - nm.
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Just Fox's latest campaign - NK
[ In Reply To ..]Searching the ends of the nation looking for SNAP fraud in support of RW extremists' goal to gut the SNAP program.
You're doing the math? I'm impressed. I just noted - the link is to a right wing propaganda tool. Nuf s
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If you would have really watched it, you would know - Truthhurts
[ In Reply To ..]that he bums off family and friends when he needs food, money, or a place to sleep.
this is theater - imo
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Yes it is. Agree. - nm
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Cha-ching, payday for surfer dude's performance. nm - VTMT
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