You waste how much time bitching about a guy who buys a candy bar with foodstamps, but never notice the money corporations rip off....
At 06:54 PM 11/13/2012, andie_nachgeborenen wrote:
>I don't really care about whether there's some "abuse" of a program to
>help the poor by someone not quite poor enough. I care about abuse of all
>the rest of us by the 1 percent who own, what 40 of the wealth in the
>country? It mystifies me why people don't care about the exploitation of
>workers and the poor by the rich.
>
>Sent from my iPad
>
>On Nov 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> 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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