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Re: IP ( was Re: LP POINT 1
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Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:50:13 GMT
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Christopher Weeks wrote:
> > Nope. How persuasive, you stigmatise the vast majority of those of welfare
> > who are between jobs, can not work because they are unable to work in some
> > way, children who are victims of poor parenting with a tiny majority of
> > claimants.
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> Show me the numbers. The only people that I have personally known who were
> receiving aid of this type fell into two categories. They were either college
> students who screwed up and had kid(s) before they could really pay for them,
> or MUCH more often, they were not at all interested in working for a living. I
> spent a few years cashiering at a convenience store on the verge of a quite
> poor neighborhood. People would routinely bring their $1 foodstamps in for a
> $.05 piece of candy, get the $.95 in change, and buy cigarettes. Oddly, it
> would turn out that they would have forgotten one piece of candy and do the
> same thing then buy a pint of cheap vodka or 40 oz. of beer. You can't take my
> personal experience away. I knew literally hundreds of these people. Worst of
> all is that some of them worked (for cash) at the rug cleaners down the block
> from my first 7-11 so that they got money from working (a good thing) but
> continued to recieve their government cheese and income (a bad thing).
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> Hundreds of them engaged in this game just in the little market where I worked
> in St. Louis County, Missouri. How many in all of St. Louis County? How many
> in the US. We are being milked. And we are fools for allowing it.
When I was working at a Krogers in college in the Seafood dept, I had several
people ask me if food stamps could be used to buy lobster. I also saw people
buying sirloin with foodstamps.
Why should someone that is on foodstamps be able to eat better than someone working
for their food? Why should the person working for their food pay for the other to
buy better food than they can?
I also saw many people buying the necessities only, in order to feed a large family
when they were in tough times. But the current system is too easy to abuse, it
needs a rework.
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| Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp
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| (...) Testify, brother! I worked at a 7-11 some years ago, and a new car with the factory sticker on it pulled into the lot. Out climbed a guy in an expensive and new-looking suit, and he came in and bought his candy bar with foodstamps. On the (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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