Food stamps rant...

[MrX]

You're talking about a fraction of your 36 tax dollars a year that's getting used fraudulently. It's such a tiny, tiny problem. There are such big problems out there.

 

[FairWarning]

You're talking about a fraction of your 36 tax dollars a year that's getting used fraudulently. It's such a tiny, tiny problem. There are such big problems out there.

Times how many taxpayers? We could take that and pay down our national debt.

 

[IAG]

http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-02/local/me-46234_1_welfare-fraud This one woman bilked $50k........granted sounds like an extreme case, but %45 fraud? It will only continue to get worse.

We will all have to agree to disagree on this one, but I still maintain if you saw this up close, you may have a different take.

 

[MrX]

Times how many taxpayers? We could take that and pay down our national debt.

By my calculations, that would pay down about 2 one hundredths of a percent of our national debt.

 

[IAG]

Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits.

The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police, and left behind numerous carts filled to overflowing, apparently abandoned when the glitch-spurred shopping frenzy ended.

The story goes on to report that one woman who racked up $700 worth of groceries had only 49 cents on her card. That's $699.51 in theft.

 

[IAG]

Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits.

The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police, and left behind numerous carts filled to overflowing, apparently abandoned when the glitch-spurred shopping frenzy ended.

The story goes on to report that one woman who racked up $700 worth of groceries had only 49 cents on her card. That's $699.51 in theft.

On a side note. Yet another reason I hate Wal-Mart. I'm sure they thought they would be reimbursed by the Fed for everything. They knew what was up.

 

[Tron]

I wanted to agree wholeheartedly with plommer that expending this kind of anger at the people at the bottom of the system, scraping a few ill-gotten dollars, is absurd considering the kind of pilfering going on at the top.

"Indeed, the use of derivatives to conceal credit risk from third parties while protecting derivative counterparties contributed to the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States."



Shit like that is what makes my blood boil.

 

[Matty]

"Indeed, the use of derivatives to conceal credit risk from third parties while protecting derivative counterparties contributed to the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States."



Shit like that is what makes my blood boil.

Exactfokkenly.

 

[Gilmartin]

Again, goes back to campaign finance. What is the fairest solution? Although it doesn't really mesh with my (mostly libertarian) views, I think it might be to have a total ban on paid advertising for any candidate or political issue. Good luck getting that pushed through congress, though.

 

[MrMonkey]

Reading the beginning of this thinking it was bout people who deserve food stamps and what they should buy with it? If they get whatever dollar amount buy filet mignon as far as I'm concerned but when no more stamps, no more food!

 

[FairWarning]

Reading the beginning of this thinking it was bout people who deserve food stamps and what they should buy with it? If they get whatever dollar amount buy filet mignon as far as I'm concerned but when no more stamps, no more food!

Families truly needy don't buy filet, that's the deal. They find a way to get the most bang for their buck.

Good to see the person ahead of me today bought four Pepsi 12-packs on my dime. Happy holidays to her, poor impoverished soul.

 

[MrMonkey]

Families truly needy don't buy filet, that's the deal. They find a way to get the most bang for their buck.

Yes, they don't but just saying not my call! If I didn't have a family probably me getting cheap booze to go along with some cheap food! Gotta be depressing to live life like that! I wanta be under the influence!

Honesty probably go on a healthy diet where you buy some milk, bread, and the sort while in the supermarket and partake of some fruit while walking the aisles!

 

[MrX]

Again, goes back to campaign finance. What is the fairest solution? Although it doesn't really mesh with my (mostly libertarian) views, I think it might be to have a total ban on paid advertising for any candidate or political issue. Good luck getting that pushed through congress, though.

I would love a country without any paid political advertising. In fact, I'd really love a world without any advertising, period.

Unfortunately, I don't know how you do any of that without stomping all over the first amendment and setting up a precedent for restricting political speech.

 

[Gilmartin]

I would love a country without any paid political advertising. In fact, I'd really love a world without any advertising, period.

Unfortunately, I don't know how you do any of that without stomping all over the first amendment and setting up a precedent for restricting political speech.

Right, that's why it's so tough. If you have truly unlimited political "speech", you get politicians who are bought and paid for; I can't see any alternative, really.

 

[MrX]

We're fucked.

Maybe it's getting to the point where we're better off losing some free speech, just to stop the tide?

 

[Gilmartin]

We're fucked.

Maybe it's getting to the point where we're better off losing some free speech, just to stop the tide?

In this specific situation, I think so, only because the other option is basically a pseudo-democracy which is, in practice, more like a plutocracy.

 

[IAG]

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

 

[FairWarning]

We're fucked.

Maybe it's getting to the point where we're better off losing some free speech, just to stop the tide?

Actually we need more to speak up on issues.