‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in poverty

[MHz]

Re: ‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in pov

..and all the usual suspects show up to defend keeping children in poverty, Surprise, surprise.

Does that mean you are not here to defend the rich who are the ones making sure that ration is there and climbing? Does your vision of the 'bread line' hold opportunities to start a business?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/waiting-line-shop-profession-venezuela-212956408.html#mvXHNB

 

[JLM]

Re: ‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in pov

..and all the usual suspects show up to defend keeping children in poverty, Surprise, surprise.

Perhaps the parents have the prime responsibility in this regard!

 

[MHz]

Re: ‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in pov

Squirrels go hungry everyday. And they learn to save Acorns for a rainy day.

I think the issue is the rich are the only ones that get to vote on things like what the poor should get as far as wages go until the rich can get their **** together and star something that actually works for more than 5 years.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/waiting-line-shop-profession-venezuela-212956408.html#mvXHNB


Perhaps have the ones working take an aptitude test or something and then the poor can look at the results and use that to decide who works and who doesn't.
Personality test based on C. Jung and I. Briggs Myers type theory
https://www.personalitypage.com/html/portraits.html

Perhaps the parents have the prime responsibility in this regard!

Parents don't create jobs, they go to jobs they get hired to perform.

The West loves it when we can create that level of poverty in other nations yet when it comes home to roost it is the fault of the poor and nobody else. Since the military is the 'buffer' if they ever side with the poor once those numbers are 3/5 then the solution might be in sight.

 

[JLM]

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I think the issue is the rich are the only ones that get to vote on things like what the poor should get

In Canada you have the right to vote for politicians who if elected would fight to change this!

 

[MHz]

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Name 1 that has that as part of their platform. Independents are growing in number in the US. They would have to break the mold before we could make any changes. Why are you pretending to not know that?

 

[JLM]

Re: ‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in pov

Name 1 that has that as part of their platform. Independents are growing in number in the US. They would have to break the mold before we could make any changes. Why are you pretending to not know that?

Maybe you can throw your hat in the ring and implement changes, or join what you perceive to be the party with the most integrity and put the pressure on.

 

[B00Mer]

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WOW, reading the posts and basically saying the poor should be lucky they have food stamps because other countries don't??

You just compared the United States to a Banana Republic 3rd world nation?? The United States is a rich country, and should keep care of their poor, same as Canada, the UK, Germany and many other well off countries.

Would you expect Mexico to have food stamps when their population is fleeing their country and they are 3rd world.

You know I have strong Republican ideas, but 2 that swing to the opposite, I think every nation should keep care of their poor and every nation should provide some kind of Single Payer Health System...

That is why Canada hands down is the best country in the world.. :canada:

Because WE CARE and Canadians are COOL!!

 

[MHz]

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Being of quite modest means my hands are about the only real change I can make. Taking the garbage out for the more disabled is all that is on my list this week. How about you?

Give me a lotto win and I like to think my spending would filter down into the economy around me, rather than a big donation to Ottawa. A Provincial contribution is all you need if you want to snag a Government contract, that isn't part of my desires but making donations on a County level might be the right place to 'apply the grease' if my investments were to be in that County alone and all would have a positive income potential while makings as few changes as possible.

A 'parts store' at the 'community center', 50k away a small gas station that is debit card based, 50k radias from that are trails and camping spots for quads. Wrecks go to the 'parts store for recycling'.

As a 'community projevt' buy out the local golf course and upgrade the holes to be qualified as WKA sanctioned racing facility that can be points races for the slowest to fastest karts (30kph to 120kph) or Legend Race cars (1400CC motorcycle engine in a 5/8 scale old jalopy.) Street cars could have a short run as reaction time would be the part that is being practiced as well as tuning the launch of a car for when it gets to a full track. Taking over a Golf business means it is alraedy able to sell booze for people like walter who can get juiced on scotch and drive something pretty fast and safe and have a vid to take home as a reminder of how bad a driver he really is.

How far have I ****ed up my home plate so far?

 

[Nuggler]

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Squirrels go hungry everyday. And they learn to save Acorns for a rainy day.

We could start a new thread based on that statement. :lol: I've seen squirrels squished by cars, but never one naturally skinny.

 

[JLM]

Re: ‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in pov

WOW, reading the posts and basically saying the poor should be lucky they have food stamps because other countries don't??

You just compared the United States to a Banana Republic 3rd world nation?? The United States is a rich country, and should keep care of their poor, same as Canada, the UK, Germany and many other well off countries.

Yep, SOME of their poor and the rest can get off their a$$ and help themselves.

 

[MHz]

Re: ‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in pov

You just compared the United States to a Banana Republic 3rd world nation?? The United States is a rich country, and should keep care of their poor, same as Canada, the UK, Germany and many other well off countries.

Would you expect Mexico to have food stamps when their population is fleeing their country and they are 3rd world.

If they had food stamps they wouldn't have to leave. If we could move there and keep our food stamps they would have jobs and the money saved by lowering the living expenses of the unemployed lowers National costs. The workers will insist the unemployed not be able to suntan during their period of intentional slackness as that is something that only workers should get because that is for useful people, and so is everything else in the world.

 

[Nuggler]

Re: ‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in pov

Living on government assistance is a career choice in the U.S. A middle class to lower middle class lifestyle will be provided for you if you decide to not work. The mitigating factors are where you decide to live off the government and how much you research the entitlements owed.

Massachusetts EBT cards have been used in all 50 states (Hawaii included). The most popular destinations outside of Massachusetts where the Mass EBT card was used were Las Vegas and Disney World.

Only recently were Massachusetts EBT cards banned from casinos, tattoo parlors, and beauty spas.

Glad they didn't have those programs up here when I was growing up. Being basically a lazy dork, I might have made a different career decision.8O
But times were more difficult for a lot of people then. After dad died mum had to sell the family car in order to qualify for welfare, in order to feed us while she COMMUTED to Ottawa to take a hair dressing course. She persevered, and after getting her diploma, phoned up her nemesis in "social services" and told her to get stuffed.
A tough lady me ma was.

 

[MHz]

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Yep, SOME of their poor and the rest can get off their a$$ and help themselves.

Doing what exactly? Cuba had 25% unemployment through all the years the US was applying sanctions, just how were they supposed to lower that numbers without letting the place turn back into a Vegas again? Open gambling and prostitution, with 1,000's of foreign customers, why don't we allow it if it is such a good deal 'for them'?

After dad died mum had to sell the family car in order to qualify for welfare, in order to feed us while she COMMUTED to Ottawa to take a hair dressing course.
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There is a limit on what your vehicle can be worth, $4,000 or something like that. If you mom stopped driving it was because she couldn't afford to maintain and run it while on welfare. Way to slant the truth though.
The difference today is there are no courses to take that will get you off welfare, those positions are already taken, most often by the kids of the people who have kept their jobs.

 

[B00Mer]

Re: ‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in pov

Give me a lotto win

Yup Red Neck Retirement Plan... play the lotto

Yep, SOME of their poor and the rest can get off their a$$ and help themselves.

Not say there is not abuse or lazy people. Like at the food banks, girl shows up smoking cigarettes and the social workers says: "if you can afford to smoke, you can afford to buy your own food."

The poor kid was fired.. he was my neighbor in Langley, BC. He would tell me of people driving up in a Mercedes to get Food from the Food Bank. He said abuse was bad, he just got tired of it and snapped that day.

The fact remains Canada and The United States should provide for the needy. The elderly poor and handicap are the most vulnerable.

 

[EagleSmack]

Re: ‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in pov

Yup Red Neck Retirement Plan... play the lotto



Not say there is not abuse or lazy people. Like at the food banks, girl shows up smoking cigarettes and the social workers says: "if you can afford to smoke, you can afford to buy your own food."

The poor kid was fired.. he was my neighbor in Langley, BC. He would tell me of people driving up in a Mercedes to get Food from the Food Bank. He said abuse was bad, he just got tired of it and snapped that day.

I have no doubt of that.

He crossed the line and spoke the truth. That type of behavior shall not stand in the state or government service.

 

[MHz]

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The last ticket I bought was a Provincial, that was more than 20 years ago. Would you prefer it be an inheritabce from a wealthy relative?

The point I was trying to show is that being on wages of less tan $1,000/mo doesn't leave any room for 'expansion'. It is not a fluke that the money they get is turned over to landlords and grocery stores and utility companies. Slaves with no extra benefits when those benefits would actually create jobs.

 

[Twila]

Re: ‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in pov

the saddest thing about this is they are children. And will learn or mislearn all kinds of things from their experiences living in poverty.

Also, rarely addressed is the effects of lack of nutrition on the brain. North America is the land of the nutritionally deficient morbidly obese. It sounds like an oxy moron but it's not.

 

[EagleSmack]

Re: ‘National moral disgrace’: Over 1 in 5 US children on food stamps & living in pov

the saddest thing about this is they are children. And will learn or mislearn all kinds of things from their experiences living in poverty.

Also, rarely addressed is the effects of lack of nutrition on the brain. North America is the land of the nutritionally deficient morbidly obese. It sounds like an oxy moron but it's not.

Right on all points IMO. The most well fed poor in the world. They are provided with so much food and access to food that they are obese. At least in Merica they are.

 

[B00Mer]

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Right on all points IMO. The most well fed poor in the world. They are provided with so much food and access to food that they are obese. At least in Merica they are.

Food with no nutritional benefits.. is the point she was making..

But here is the straight dope.. all over the USA there is massive poverty. Mostly in the Urban centers of Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Dallas, Houston, Chicago and so on..

Same **** with Canada..

Would you hire a people that are not clean, smells bad, cloths ripped or old.. it's a perpetual downturn.

How do you climb out of homelessness??

I know of surprised at the high and mighty on this forum that at any moment could end up just like these people with your hand out..

 

[EagleSmack]

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Food with no nutritional benefits.. is the point she was making..

And the choice to eat that food is who's?