No, honey, it’s the rich shitbags who just assume “yeah, everyone who is poor is on drugs and committing fraud” who ruin it for everyone else.

I do not discount the luck involved in escaping poverty. I realize this may tone down the “Hero buffeted by life yet undeterred” aspect of my story, but I still marvel daily that I am not scrounging for every dime now. There but for the grace of God....

Why? The number of people abusing food stamps rounds down to a statistical zero. How much more reformed do you want it to get? Why do you want to hurt people who need it - because that’s who’s going to get hurt with food stamp reform (not proper nouns, so capitalizing them is incorrect)?

Same here. I grew up on food stamps and government surplus food. My parents divorced and my dad took off to parts unknown. My mother applied for and received benefits. This was during the time when a worker would come out to your house to verify that there was no man in the home so people with intact marriages who…

Same here. I grew up on food stamps and government surplus food. My parents divorced and my dad took off to parts unknown. My mother applied for and received benefits. This was during the time when a worker would come out to your house to verify that there was no man in the home so people with intact marriages who…

Fortunately that minority is so insanely small that it makes no difference. There is little incentive to abuse a system that literally feeds you.

It’s a solution to some of the problems. Along with social services that are designed to actually help people as opposed to locking them into the system. No one solution is going to fix everything - a living wage would mean that people might actually be able to afford housing and food while tapping into child care…

This the the sort of persistent disbelief that wealthy perpetuate and it really makes me angry.

Let me explain: you give them your card and pin number, they go to a place that regularly cashes them out like the many former merchants at the Opa-locka Hialeah Flea Market, then they give the user their junk. Sometimes they return the card, but for the regulars they might keep it as a monthly thing. That is exactly…

No more tax breaks and corporate welfare for companies that systematically force employees into underemployment forcing them to get SNAP and Medcaid.

I’m for eliminating food stamps too, right after we raise the minimum wage to the point that people can shelter, clothe and feed themselves by working a single full time job.

Check out the story about the guy who slapped the eyeball right off some white womans face over on The Root.

I should tho. I avoid conflict, and haven’t been hit in something like 20+ years. But if I’m in someone’s face taunting them? I shouldn’t be at all surprised if I get smacked.

I don’t talk shit. I don’t get hit.

You’re talking about Joe Mixon, and that’s not at all what happened. Mixon called her friend a faggot after she turned down his generous offer to fuck her, she got in his face, and he responded by punching her in the mouth and breaking her jaw. TOTALLY the same thing, obviously.

I can agree with this. Hell my kids have done this, and I’ve had my sister do this. When I was little, my sister would annoy me until i hit her (nothing bad for a 6 year old), she would go tell, and then I would get in trouble. A few more times before my parents figured out she was antagonizing me, and then I didn’t…

Didn’t you see the vi—- Ooooh, I get it! I didn’t see anything, either! *Wink*

It’s always interesting to see the dull motherfuckers who constantly seem to forget where they are.

Wait, did something happen? I was just minding my own business, looking at nothing in particular~

Right, all I saw was a young man in a rush not to miss his stop.

Assault? I didn’t see anything. Did something happen to Miss Anne?