Food Stamps

'Thousands and thousands...' ? You don't know this for a fact, you're just tossing out words. What are your citations/sources for these facts?

How do you know you won't qualify for assistance? Go try.

Oh come on, don't deny it either. You think only a couple of people do this? Please.

& I did try. I don't qualify.

We figured it out people. She's totally hating that she can't get them! HAHAH.

Wow, that was really low class. Way to go making fun of someone working for a living who can't get help when she needs it. Applause to you. Bet you feel better now.

I can't wait til someone starts analyzing every detail of the wealthy's behavior and how it's wrong and costing our government and ruining our country.

But they won't.

Because everyone wishes they were rich and it's fun to practice looking down on the peons by picking on the poor.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now. :flowerforyou:

'Thousands and thousands...' ? You don't know this for a fact, you're just tossing out words. What are your citations/sources for these facts?

How do you know you won't qualify for assistance? Go try.

Oh come on, don't deny it either. You think only a couple of people do this? Please.

& I did try. I don't qualify.

We figured it out people. She's totally hating that she can't get them! HAHAH.

Wow, that was really low class. Way to go making fun of someone working for a living who can't get help when she needs it. Applause to you. Bet you feel better now.

I do. Thanks love!

Maybe people on food stamps already have low self-esteem and are ashamed

I think you may have hit the nail on the head there. Not everyone on food stamps, but at least a majority. The fellow that said something about poor people are generally uneducated etc, is sort of hitting on the same point .... Knowing that you can't support yourself and/or your family without assistance is and/or should be a bit demoralizing. Once someone is at that point perhaps they don't really give a damn anymore.

**Note: I didn't realize this was 4 pages deep when I commented. I thought it was still on page one. I don't even know where the conversation is at this point. Sorry if I back tracked

I KNOW people who are on food stamps and can pay for service for their iphone, cable, can afford to buy rims for their cars WHILE on food stamps. I'm f*cking poor, too. I'm not saying I'm better than them; why are you all putting words in my mouth? Hell, I wish I was on food stamps; I'm barely getting by myself. And what is this about analyzing the wealthy? I know they *kitten* up more than us poor folks.

Seriously, no matter what you say, I will not defend the couple over there who can afford to make payments on their 2009 SUV and service on their smart phone while paying for their food with food stamps, while I'm here with my sh*tty car, barely getting by and I don't qualify for gov't assistance. BS. I'm not making assumptions, I know people who do this. Live and let live? If we lived by that motto, we wouldn't care about what's happening on wallstreet.

Didn't mean to pick on you I just don't think it's fair to generalize. It can be ****ed up and annoying to see this stuff happen, but it's also not fair to people who DON'T live this way, but are accused of it.

Honestly, we should all go live in cuba, everyone gets food stamps there, 6 eggs a monthl! And two cups of rice!Delishus, stop complaining about who has what, and live your life. Bust your *kitten*, and get rich. = America

I think you need to be careful about the huge generalizations going on here. You saw one couple with poor food choices, thus 'all' people on food stamps have low self esteem. I've done case work with people who were about to become homeless, were single moms with kids with disabilities, etc. There is an entire layer of people living in poverty, or almost poverty in the US. The Anglo, 'middle class' is typically unaware of those beyond our radar, and it's easy to judge. People fall through cracks in our culture for all kinds of reasons. They might be choosing food that sure, gives comfort, fills up a family quicker than lean, healthy meals, or is cheaper, thus they can buy more of.

Plenty of folks pay cash for the same unhealthy, over processed foods; do you toss everyone into a bag of 'low self esteem'? I think a better attitude to have is to assume you don't know anything (really) about their personal story and not to make assumptions. This is a tough time for families, individuals and almost everyone in this country, economically.

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wow. just.....wow.

the economy and unemployment rate have forced some people, who never dreamed of accepting government assistance, to swallow their pride and accept the help that enables them to feel their families.

I personally know families that have used the assistance to buy organic, healthy food for their families. But I suppose that is bad too....I mean, wasting government money on expensive organic food. The nerve.

Cashiers tend to notice trends, at least I did. It's an occupational hazard of the job. People were always complaining about what people buy with food stamps (lobster for example) but what are you going to do about it? There's the WIC program where they have to buy healthy food but it's not very efficient and it drives everyone in line behind you crazy. I don't know what the answer is but I do understand why OP is noticing it-- it's hard not to look at what people buy when you're checking out their groceries.

I feel I need to share a story with you all...

When I left my ex husband I had a 2.5 year old, hadn't had a job in 3 years (home raising our child), and had $17 dollars in my bank account.

The people that know me here know that I eat well. I am a vegan and my daughter never once had a drop of formula, I made every ounce of her baby food myself and kept her in cloth diapers 85% of the time. I never fed her packaged anything. She was my ONE shot at growing a happy healthy child and I took that job very seriously (still do now that she's almost a teenager).

I have a college degree and marketable skills in a number of industries. But I had $17 and no immediate prospects. I applied for Food Stamps and received them.

Buying my whole foods, fruits and vegetables to feed my daughter was HUMILIATING. Why? Because everyone in line looked at what was in my cart - looking for reasons to look down on me. I had to start shopping in the middle of the night in crappy grocery stores in bad neighborhoods where my selections were greatly limited to avoid the glowering looks by those that thought they were better than me.

After 3 weeks I gave up my food stamps so that they wouldn't go unused. Thankfully it was only a few more slightly hungry weeks before I had enough work to make up for the budget shortfall.

People have a stereotype of "welfare cases" - and I can assure you that's NOT reality. Sure, you may have seen some *kitten* abuse the privilege but you probably didn't see the dozens of others of poor single mothers who were forced to shop in the middle of the night to avoid you looking down on them.