Who in the ever loving FUCK decided that a family of 6, of which 4 of them are ages 5 and under, are qualified to receive over 900.00 per month in food stamps? And how does the same aforementioned family manage to spend all 900.00 per month when all they have in the house to eat are store-brand prepackaged, quick-fix garbage foodstuffs? Oh and on a side note, the mom gets WIC for the 3 younger children, so there's more free food coming in. Now, it doesn't take someone with a degree in astrophysics to figure out that something's a wee bit on the fishy side here. Keep in mind, that food stamps ONLY pays for edible food items. It does NOT cover diapers, dog food, aluminum foil, toothpaste or the real necessities like cigarettes and alcohol. So campers, raise your hand if you think that good ole Ma & Pa are selling off their food stamps to subsidize the things they just can't live without, but don't want to get a job to earn, like cable TV, acrylic nails, weed, x-box games and smart phones. Go ahead, I'll wait...
Yeah, it's clearly obvious they are, especially given the fact that their home contains less than 300 dollars worth of food (and I use the term food loosely here) and yet, Ma is sporting a new manicure and Pa is busily engaged in defeating the enemy on the latest x-box offering. Of course when you suck off the government teat you have all the time in the world for the aforementioned manicures and x-box play. For the rest of us, we have to try to squeeze in those little extras when time AND money permit.
Now, lest you think this is all made up, let me assure you that I live and work within a climate where I am privy to this type of shit - first hand! Where or how isn't important. What is important that it's real and its happening all over our country. And what I find amazing is that the general public really isn't aware of the specifics involved. We all know that the government spends MILLIONS of dollars on food stamps for qualified recipients. And we all know that much of that is wasted either on junk food or sold for cash 50 cents on the dollar so the recipient can purchase other non-food items. But, for the vast majority of us, millions of dollars isn't "real" money to us. Few of us have millions - hell even when I play monopoly I don't get into the millionaire range. But, for most of us working, $900.00 is real money. It's the same amount we may be paying for a mortgage or rent, it's gas AND grocery AND other necessities (soap, tampons, condoms, shaving cream) for a month. So now, that $900.00 a month is VERY REAL to me. And dammit anyway, I only wish I could spend $900.00 a month on food alone. I guarantee my family would be eating things like steaks, roasts, organic produce, etc...rather than chicken and hamburger. I mean $900.00 a month just on edible food is a LOT of money and unless those 4 kids are teenagers, I daresay it should stretch to keep your family fed quite well. And yet these people feed their kids cold cereal that is a nutritional shit-storm in a bowl, hotdogs, macaroni & cheese-like-substance and the staple of every low-income family and college student - ramen noodles. W.T.F. !!!!
And trust me when I say the fictional family I'm references is NOT unique or unusual, but just one of many. I guess I could live with it better if I thought for one hot second that they were actually feeding these children 900.00 worth of good quality, fresh food. Granted I couldn't afford to feed my children that way, but then I foolishly believed in a lifestyle of working and earning my way, rather than expecting the government to pick up the slack for me. But these children are growing up eating chemically created SHIT that will cause many of them a lifetime of metabolic nightmares at the very least. Sadly it will likely lead to obesity, insulin resistance and a host of diseases that will impact their lives down the road when those kids are sucking off the government teat and then guess who pays for that too? But hey, my tax dollars are being well-spent, aren't they?
Fuck this pisses me off! Not just HOW they are being spent but that they ARE being spent. The food stamp program is designed to be a SUPPLEMENTAL program. I blame not just those taking advantage, but also the system giving it. If it's supposed to be supplemental then tell me again how a family of 6 needs 900 to SUPPLEMENT their food budget. Again, we're only talking food here, not laundry soap and shoe laces and tampons. Who makes up this shit? Who determines how this is figured out? And what is the ratio of the supplement? Is it supposed to be 90% to supplement their 10% out of pocket? I mean really, I want to know the numbers.
And as a little caveat to this story is that when these families have used up all their allotted amount of food stamps for the month, and they do EVERY SINGLE MONTH, they then go and hit up the food bank, church food pantries or any other resource they can find, and tap into that to feed them for the remainder of the month; until the next month when the cash cow drops another load on them. And thus begins the cycle again...
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