Food stamp users feel pinch

BullChit wrote:

Have U ever noticed that alot of food stamp users and thier families are FAT?
That's from all the JUNK FOODS they are allowed to buy.
I agree with whoever said they should only be able to buy healthier foods.
And not own cell phones.
And not wear bling-bling.
Or designer clothing.
And above all, taking the pee test to qualify should be # 1

maybe thay should half to walk into a food stamp office butt naked with two fake legs deaf and blind that way when its your turn on disability you can feel the pinch with gas and food way up high there be alot of first time food stamp people maybe some of you proud people come back and post then

400 plus comments on this subject should tell all of you to cool it. things will remain the same, they have for years. bottom line is, mind your own business. watch out for yourself and your own family. dont worry about what people buy with their food stamps. i would rather see them buy a cheap steak, sometimes only $3.00 each, i know i buy them.... from erie county farms, than to see them buy cheap unhealthy lunch meats that cost way more than a steak does. isnt it time to move on with this whole blog? yes, some people are mad at the people obtaining food stamps illegally, i know it irrates me, but most people need the help, i do..i am disabled and i have seen people shop with food stamps as i do, at erie county farms and if they are shopping there, they are buying healthy food to actually cook for their families. yes, and i overhear people there talking about how many of them live in the same home and all obtain food stamps. i dont get enough to live on. it will Never change, so it is not good to be so upset about it....the critics on here, do you cook at home or are you lucky enough to go to your local fast food place for an unhealthy dinner? what is in YOUR shopping cart? see, i dont care...life is short, live and let live, things will never change with the food stamp problems, they never will.........my cholestrol went down 20 points and i eat healthy. i am in my late 50's ..most people on food stamps do eat healthy. surprised? i sometimes have to use my bill money for food and if i need clothing, i go to the local goodwill store on a discount day, wash and repair an item and i am clean and look great. so please stop judging people. like they say, look in the mirror, you arent so perfect yourself.

Finally a mature person!(understands from Erie, PA)...

Someone told me about this so I decided to take a look. To all of you who think it is just YOUR tax money being used for Food Stamps, it is not. It is everyone who works. It is not just about YOU! My husband has worked at the same job for 10 years, since graduation. I work as well. Not as long as he has because I am a little younger than him. We have two kids. MY husband works hard and has supported his family in all ways. Two months ago we fell in hard times because my husbands job was not getting as much work. Clearly I do not make enough for all our bills. He got another job but was not making what he did at the other one. We have bills like everyone else and they had to be paid. We did have to go get help. We got Food stamps for two months until my husband got his old job back. The work picked up and they are working fulltime again. I think it is BS for you to run your mouth about people on foodstamps when you don't know everyone's story. We are not all lazy, not all of us have 6 kids and just ask for help so we can set back and raise them off of YOUR tax dollars. We got the food stamps and we desirved them because me and my husband paid those taxes for us to get them as well as you did. We live in a nice home and have land and drive new vehicles but we worked hard for them. Yes, it killed my husband to ask for help but we did. We had a savings but used it for a down payment on our home. So we had nothing to fall back on. We were just starting to save again. My point is NOT everyone on foodstamps are lazy and no good drug users. We now are not on them now, just the two months. Yes, alot of people are lazy but before you speak don't blame all of us. Some people try and as far as the mom with 6 kids comment...what do you know about her...maybe she does work..maybe she does her best as a mom for her kids...she might not have wanted to be a single mom with 6 kids...maybe she had a no good husband who left them..even if she works...she still may need food stamps to help...so it would be her tax dollars that go towards them as well...some people just judge others because they have a boring life and dont have anything better to do but run there mouth about everyone else...some just think they know what goes on in everyone elses lives...most of them have a brown nose...from sticking it up everyone elses ass all the time....yea..it pisses me off when I know that some are not working driving high dollar cars from the drugs they sale..not taking up for all food stamp users. Just the ones who do try and still get talked about like shit....get your facts straight before you run off at the mouth...also when I did get them...I go to Food Lion and saved about $60 using my mvp card...no my kids don't get junk and I buy store brand items....but if we want a tbone steak...then that was our business and our tax dollars that paid for it....now that we are back on our feet...I still shop the same way..coupons, online coupons, sales, etc. nothing changed...

I agree with above, but how did you get food stamps with a new car. One time we needed them for short time and they told us that our car was worth too much to sell it. Now with what has happened in the country the last few days things are going to get worse and worse, they need to do something about things here before helping all of these other countries. The politians have really made a mess of this country and they are getting paid with our tax money. I have no idea how they are going to fix this country, nothing will ever be the same again no matter what they do.

unknown wrote:

I agree with above, but how did you get food stamps with a new car. One time we needed them for short time and they told us that our car was worth too much to sell it. Now with what has happened in the country the last few days things are going to get worse and worse, they need to do something about things here before helping all of these other countries. The politians have really made a mess of this country and they are getting paid with our tax money. I have no idea how they are going to fix this country, nothing will ever be the same again no matter what they do.

Not all states count assets for Food Stamps.

Eriegurl wrote:

For those of us who shop at Erie County Farms with the cold hard cash we spent weeks working for and we get behind a mom of three buying Steaks, Ribs, Lobster, Filet Mignon, Prime Rib with Food Stamps is disgusting. I would love to dine with these people who eat better than Royalty.

Unfortunately, its been that way for years, and will be for years to come. I agree with you, this really burns me up.
Now yesterday I ran into Wegmans to buy their 90% lean burger.(A great price, considering that we live in the sticks and they (grocery stores) gouge us. Anyways, several people were leaving the store with pumpkins. Now tell me, if the price of gasoline is tough on people at $3.49-$3.55 per gallon, where do these people get the $5.59 or so for store bought pumpkins? Absurd. And everyone talked about buying from the farmers market this summer. Now if you going to buy a pumpkin, at least spend the cash at a local small time farmer, fruit stand or homeowner to buy the pumpkin, not a big name company.