[lbo-talk] Food stamp use rises

[shag carpet bomb]

yeah. I was gonna say... uh, the process you go through to get them...? ya 
gotta be pretty motivated, never mind the fact that, no matter how swipey 
easy it is these days, it's still fucking humiliating because, 9 times out 
of 10, you get the stink eye from the cashier... a lot of humiliation to go 
through for beer money. it'd be a lot easier to get a (non-existent) job....

At 03:58 PM 11/13/2012, Dennis Redmond wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>wrote:
>
> >
> > ... wherin we learn that college students were specifically eligible for
> > the program in Michigan because they were attending school.  So now
> > Michigan is changing their rules to save some money, and this is labelled
> > "abuse" ...?
>
>
>As someone who had to depend on foodstamps for a month this summer:
>
>1. The benefits are tiny. This shambles of a former Empire spends more on
>Pentagon paperclips than the entire food stamp program.
>2. The qualification process is designed to break and humiliate people.
>Wait in line for hours, attend meetings, hear over and over again that it's
>your own damn fault for not having a job. The system is designed by the 1%
>to piss on the 99%.
>3. I should note the social service staffers themselves are kindly, decent
>people. But they have no control over how the program is run.
>
>-- DRR
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