My understanding is that food stamps recipients use a debit style card to purchase their food and it’s not a cash allotment, gone. Therefore I don’t think it’s possible for them to spend the money on something else.

I am not in favor of poor people starving. But the food stamp program is out of control. We have 46M people on food stamps in America. Many states allow the recipients to spend their food stamp allotments in restaurants. Totally inefficient and a waste of taxpayer money that pays not only for food but for the operation of the restaurant! Food stamps should be used only for the purchase of nutritious food at the grocery store – and not for junk food or soda or candy or ice cream or to fund restaurant operations.

And if kids are getting taxpayer financed food at the public schools then the food stamp allotments for those families should be reduced accordingly. Think about it. If the kids are getting 3 free meals at the schools the family would be able to buy filet mignon and T-bones on the weekend with their food stamps. That’s not the purpose. Food stamps should provide only the very basic necessities (rice, beans, vegetables, milk, cereal, hamburger, etc…) . People should not be able to get fat off food stamps. There should be an incentive for people to want to discontinue food stamps. But if food stamp families can eat better with food stamps than the ordinary working class family can afford – the incentive is to stop working and start collecting food stamps. No wonder there are 46M collecting them!

And that’s a pension with benefits that 99.99% of those in the private sector can only dream of.

http://epautos.com/2012/02/23/what-you-should-be-able-to-say-to-a-cop/

This is so funny. Have you seen how wide Michelle’s backside is??? 😀

Before she starts a crusade to fight childhood obesity she oughta push herself away from the dinner table and drop about 50 pounds.

Lead by example or shut up!

Oh, absolutely.

People who purchased a home in 2006-07 and are underwater by $200,000 or more should leave the keys in the mailbox and just walk away provided it’s a non-recourse mortgage and after consulting with a CPA and an attorney. Why play by the moral high ground rules anymore? Nobody else is. One of the TBTF banks actually walked away from a complex that they purchased in San Francisco before the meltdown. It was purely a business decision to leave the lender holding the bag. Homeowners should do the same. Leave the bank holding the bag. A business decision. Basing decision on morals anymore is for chumps. Why should the common man sacrifice himself to save the system that the government and corporte America has destroyed??

Grab all you can before the system collapses.

Ha! That’s funny. Obama=Bush and Romney=Obama. Judge Napolitano nailed it when he asked “What if elections don’t matter?”

These frauds will look you right in the eye while running for office and LIE, LIE, LIE. Look at all the lies Obama told in 2008. And the media protects him. They should be running replays of the lies on the nightly news. But they won’t. Lying is a protected art in politics. No punishment. No consequences.

Today the incentive is to get yours anyway you can before the gummit goes bankrupt and bankrupts you through taxes, inflation and debt.

The Santa Ana Unified School District provides free meals to all their students regardless of their family’s income level. The family could be in the $150k plus income bracket and their kids still eat for free on the taxpayer’s dime. True story.

Now imagine if you walked onto a SAUSD campus and got in the cafeteria line to eat. No doubt a school administator or a guard would stop you and ask you if you were authorized to eat at the school. If you said something like “Everybody else is eating for free. I’m paying for it. I want my free meal too” – they would call the cops and have you arrested.

See, if you are not a club member you are not entitled to the freebies – however you must still finance the freebies for those who do belong to the club regardless of their income brackets.