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Maybe I'm being judgmental but...
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Re: Maybe I'm being judgmental but...
This doesn't have anything to do with EBT or being poor though. This happens in all all different income ranges. Just like the mom bundled up for winter dragging along the little kid without a coat. Money doesn't fix stupidity.
omgomg. It keeps getting better and better!
::gleeful::
yes !!! - it might not be that way in every state, but I know of 3 others that grant foster parents food stamps per child. I don't think it's a "bad" thing since the kids DO need to be taken care of. when people take in foster kids for the "perks" like this, thats what I do have issue with. but I don't think it's that common. those few parents with not-so-great motive may stereotype other foster parents.
I do have a concern, but no one wants to pay for more government education on nutrition, what to buy, etc (omg, educate the poor spend MORE money?!). This may be a one time purchase, or it may not. How am I supposed to know from one grocery cart. Just because my tax dollar are going to fund their food, doesn't mean I have the right be militant on what they spend it on. Per my original post, people are going to_bitch_no matter what the poor people do.
I sold my WIC checks on eBay to do that. Babee' doesn't need government milk. Hi-C is 99 cents a gallon.
Okay. One of the arguments made earlier was that poor people may have grown up on junk food and so they may not know nutritionally how to make the best choices. You are looking to fight/flame here. There isn't going to be an answer you like. My guess is that the store has a higher markup on candy then it does milk and from a profitability standpoint they put the signs where it makes the most money for the. They have a right to do that.
She TOLD the cashier. She was complaining about how much it costs to fill 2 easter baskets these days. however, she paid cash. She wasn't using EBT - but I was like
looking at the bill for an easter basket wondering what it could do to a family's foodstamp budget for a month... or even a well-meaning grandmother who might "spoil the grandkids" when she sees she can buy them a basket on EBT since she can't otherwise afford one. I've lived in elderly housing and would see well-meaning grandmas go hungry just trying to spend a little extra on the grandkids. That makes me sad. 
It's probably a marketing thing in their minds to sell more - and push the easter candy so they don't have to clearance it all after. It just doesn't seem to be healthy marketing.
LMAO that getting foodstamps to feed a child is considered a "perk".
This is just ignorance at it's finest. Just because I am not poor doesn't mean I shouldn't care where my money goes. There are plenty of people in tough situations and I'm glad there are programs in place to assist them, but there are just as many people (if not more) abusing these programs and I'm not at all pleased that that's where a portion of my tax dollars wind up.
Bar tab = $156,000, Bus to Foxwoods = $0, Puking in the Stanley Cup = Priceless
FTW.
Seriously? I am teaching my kids to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and brush their own damn hair. Isn't that the American way?
Maddysenne and Babee' need to learn some responsibility so they don't have to wait in line at the welfare counter every week like me. That is why they are grubby. Don't judge.
the sleep I have lost over the .000000000000000000002% of my tax dollars going to what is in a grocery cart is insane, I have been up three weeks straight dreading Easter because of it..............
You honestly think that more people abuse the programs than use them correctly?
And you think that buying a nice dinner every once in a while is an abuse?
Man, it must be awesome to be so superior.
I'm fairly certain you just reiterated what I said in the post you quoted. We agree.
It is awesome! I wish mine did something like that. I wonder if our local CSAs do something like it.
Why do you keep changing your story and position on it? Now you're worried about the marketing? ffs lady, come on, cause we ae all going to flame you for being worried about healthy marketing? No, you were talking about people using their welfare money to buy candy. OWN IT!
I would be 100% for this. I have no problem paying my fair share if it's being used for the greater good, and not going to a program that's too easy to abuse. I openly admit though, that I have rather unpopular political opinions and what I think should happen probably never will...that's why I only really b*tch when it's brought up by someone else.
Bar tab = $156,000, Bus to Foxwoods = $0, Puking in the Stanley Cup = Priceless
Yeah. Absolutely.
But hey, my kid ate Kraft dinner and frozen peas last night and we make decent dough. So, I dunno. Maybe there should be someone at the grocery store to lecture me about proper food choices and hand out bad mother badges.
Or take a photo of me buying KD...
It doesnt bother me that they are giving them options to use EBT with what DOES bother me is when I see a mom that looks put together hair,nails,clothes and what not and she has one or two grubby little kids with no socks, dirty faces, and uncombed hair... It makes me sad for those kids...
BAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAAH. ::wipes tears:: I work. Ok. Outside of the home. Outside of the home at work I am expected to dress neatly and appropriately for my office place. Clean and with pants on. Jo on the other hand is currently into dressing herself.
If you saw me at the check out the other day you would have died. Jo was in her silver tap shoes, rainbow socks, a pair of jeans with cookie smeared on them, and a top that was probably from the pyjama drawer. We needed milk. I came from work. She came from playing all day with daddy.
You really haven't a clue.
I have never know anyone IRL using any type of government subsidy that truly DID need it...I'm just working on the assumption that there are people that do need it out there somewhere. And no...a dinner isn't the problem. I think my issues go way outside what was originally intended by this post...it's getting way beyond the scope of the topic.
Bar tab = $156,000, Bus to Foxwoods = $0, Puking in the Stanley Cup = Priceless
but, but married YOUR TAX DOLLARS for gawds sake...you still should be OUTRAGED and proceed to your nearest Piggly Wiggly and police shopping carts
LOL...this. It's like watching a car accident, knowing it's happening and just having to stand back and cringe...
I pointed out elsewhere that you can't judge a person off one shopping cart. I've also gone shopping FOR other people so while I'm not in an escalade you don't know that the person isn't shopping for a friend or elderly relative. Many of my former elderly neighbors had their kids do their shopping. and yes, some drove nice cars. It could have appeared that way to others that saw them not knowing who the food was for, yanno?
I do wish that there were regulations for any store accepting EBT. like for them to be mandated to post some basic nutrition info or stock nutrition brochures somewhere for customers if they are making a profit off people shopping on EBT.
I strongly dislike the new UDSA Food Pyramid because it's not as "visual" as the old one or the Harvard School of Public Health's pyramid. only color-coding info with a fancy website maginalizes people. Not everyone has a computer or internet - especially low-income people. paying for internet is likely not a priority for them. how ARE they supposed to access healthy info from a color-coded pyramid? at least HSPH pyramid and the old one could be used to teach a child that can't yet read or people that may be visual learners or that don't speak english.
I mentioned earlier how I like the WIC format, and I think you see a nutritionist (vs a social worker for foodstamps) when you go on WIC and at appts. I did a project on these issues for school last year (for nutrition) and when I went to various gov't agencies I was surprised at how little educational info they standardly offer. how hard would it be for EBT to stuff envelopes with nutrition tips or recipes? yes, it costs, but could that also encourage healthy eating?
I wish Public Health Depts would offer community classes for people to learn to eat healthy on a budget. not everyone had a parent to teach them that but some may be willing to learn if they have access.
Instead we've got stores that don't encourage healthy eating - they market EBT to make a buck for themselves.
It makes me disappointed in society when we skip oppertunities to educate people that may be marginalized instead.
I tried hard to even get a nutritionist to go to the elderly housing place I lived at. some of them WANTED help but were homebound. some were homebound from issues like out of control diabetes but never really had someone to sit down and explain diabetic nutrition. do I blame them? no - especially when they ask for help but no one is willing to give it. You can't expect a 70 year old diabetic to go online themselves for this info. Why can't they get it easily at the grocery store? or instead of tables and racks full of drug info at a doctors office have nutrition info instead???
For.real.
My kid loves to dress herself, but she doesn't always get a win with that. The other day she was out in yellow leggings, red and black rain boots, green and blue striped knee socks pulled OVER the leggings, a shirt that says, "My mom rules!" on it, all with a puffy rainbow vest.
She also had chocolate bunny cracker smeared on her face and mud on her knees.
So goes life. I love that I get judged by morons like you. I hate to pull it, but just you wait, man.
Dude I don't go to Piggly Wiggly only poor people go there. I buy my Easter candy from Godiva then I don't have to worry about how my tax dollars are being spent.
The ones that spawn troop rallying on another board always are.
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I am glad I do not associate my self with a bunch of people that scam the government.
I also want to knwo how you KNEW they did not need it? Because the income requirements for it are stict...and lord knows I do not want to ever experience how hard it must be to live with the income that people that use governmetn assistance do.
LOL!
I wish more did. I've been itching for farmers markets all winter long! they are opening here soon!
When I found out about this, I brought info to school for discussion, I doubt most college kids are on foodstamps, as well as so others knew since I had a lot of social work majors in my class doing clinicals.
I was working on an child-education project (on environmental issues) at an afterschool program for low-income families so we distributed the info to their families since their local farmers markets were included.
I really wish MA would have done a commercial ad for this - or even had the news cover it. I think it would benefit so many people that may not know unless they had internet and happened to google the right thing, or that happened to read the ONE boston globe article on it.
absolutely, I totally get your point I say shame on these kids who didn't have the smarts to land in a richer person's bassinet so they could get a chocolate bar
These weren't friends or relatives. People I went to school with, my friend's tenants (she has a multi-family home zoned for section 8), my neighbors when I was younger...
Bar tab = $156,000, Bus to Foxwoods = $0, Puking in the Stanley Cup = Priceless
I'll tell you one reason why people who get EBT buy junk food. Part of my job is to help people get food stamps and other helpful resources. Well many of my clients are homeless and living in shelters. They are kicked out of the shelter at 7am and can't return until 5pm, no matter the weather. During that time they need to feed themselves and if they have food stamps they go to the grocery store. Well you are NOT allowed to bring food into the shelter so there goes the idea of buying a gallon of milk or carton of eggs.
I don't really have an opinion on if people buy candy with EBT but i'm showing you one example why people run in and buy a 20oz soda and a bag of potatoe chips with their EBT.
Yes. At least I know this is the case in MD and VA.