Umm do you even know how the system works? Every item in a grocery store is flagged for EBT eligibility in the computer. You don't need a separate grocery store to do this. what we need is our government to tighten the standards on free handouts. If we went on a WIC standard, then we can let the gov decide what is healthy and not healthy.
I think if I did it right, I could feed myself on about half that. Now that I think about it, I might make it a challenge for next month and see if I can eat on less than $75 for the entire month. Although to be fair, I get free food at work, which equals out to about 4 meals a week (don't eat here everyday). But for everything else, I think I could do with $75. \ I might even make a thread and update it with my expenditures.
I bought what looked to be about a 10oz prime rib at walmart the other day, really good steak mind you. Cost me a whopping $4.75.
This is bull****. The only reason this receipt got so much discussion going a few months ago is because of the Free-Marketeer delusion that poor people are all secretly living it up at our expense. Free-marketeers love that delusion and cling to it with irrational tenacity because it justifies their completely unrealistic worldview.
beause the only people that should live it up on our dime . .. are the rich and corporations that make the rich richer!! Rocket River
You say some pretty dumb things with your pro-socialist/anti-free market rhetoric. Nobody is advocating taking away EBT. What most of us want is a restriction on extreme high dollar food items and unhealthy items like soft drinks and junk food. The BS that the poor can't afford healthy food is a crock. If you have EBT, you can get anything in the produce section. The fact remains most people are going to settle for high carbs and convenience over healthy food.
So one fool uses up most of his monthly allotment on a bunch of steak and lobster....and the solution is to restrict what all poor people can have. Maybe some poor person wants one steak on his birthday....Yes, I know it is a horrific 10 dollar burden on the honest hard working tax payer and we should limit him to the leftover gruel from Oliver Twist. I was on foodstamps once...and I didn't always buy the absolute cheapest cuts of meat available (I distinctly remember getting a pot roast for my crock pot once) or dented cans of canned goods. So if someone wants to PM me I'll be happy to send you a dollar or two as your share of my extravagance at the cost of the taxpayers. Meanwhile keep getting enraged by stuff like this while the people who are REALLY ripping you off skate clean.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say wall street and transnational corporations who receive billions of government bailout money, subsidies, and tax breaks are spending more than just some steak meat and lobster from the grocery store.
I don't make enough to get bailed out on other people's money, I also make too much for free lobster. Where can I go just to get some free spaghettios?
Don't look at me. I'm likely going to soon work for a company who can use my American citizen status working abroad to save both of us money. Not sure the details, but basically I don't pay taxes despite being paid as an American employee. And they benefit too somehow, but I have no clue about the corporate laws involved. So I am at least riding the coattails of the big boys and their exploitation of loopholes.
I wish that people who ramble on and on about welfare could spend a few hours as a client/applicant in a state public assistance office - it's about the most dehumanizing experience on earth. It's like a torture-chamber version of the DMV but infinity times worse.
Lots of people do it, not just one person. And my concern isn't that an adult uses up his allotment on crap, but the children they have that go hungry because Mom/Dad chose to have steak and lobster. And if they can afford to spend that much on Soda, steak, & lobster, but still manage to feed their families for the rest of the month, they are getting too much free money.
I have, and no, I don't consider the experience to be terrible. No worse than waiting at the Pediatrician's office. Obviously, experience may vary depending on location, and type of assistance needed.
