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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
My friends kid turned one on saturday and they had a picnic in the park. There was a converstion between the all of the adults at the party. apparently I was the only one at the damn birthday party that is not on foodstamps. The convo went something like this.
"hey did you know you can buy hot food on your stamps now? pre made chicken and ribs"
"there's a store in town that will sell you beer and cigarettes on your food stamps now"
"this is all changed because of Obama.. he needs to stay in office, we need to vote for him. Whatever that other guys name is will try and take our food stamps and Obama gives it to us and expands it"
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When I walk into a Bodega to get coffee and see folks ringing up $10 prepared specialty hero's and specialty pizza slices, single serve haagen-daz ice creams, red bulls, maybe a Starbucks canned cappuchino all on their "card". Step 2 is to pay cash for beers, smokes and lottery tix. Makes my head want to explode.
I get providing nutritionally sound staples to families that need that kind of help, but how we got to this current point is really beyond me...