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Originally posted by ezziboo
In reply to member comments about FS recipients using benefits to purchase junk food: keep in mind that an individual's decisions are dictated by factors such as upbringing, education, literacy level, mental health status, & current living environment.
Originally posted by LostNemesis
Well, no offense... But not all of us care about whether or not we make it to tomorrow. Maybe "nutritious" really doesn't matter to the person who is having a hard time finding a job, and probably facing depression. This is really the only thing I can figure. I hope to god that the nice-seeming people who check me out at the grocery store don't sit there and judge and get infuriated over the things I buy. Food stamps, or not, how do we judge someone who is just trying to live their life and not draw attention?
How is one not to feel like everyone is watching everything they do, when there are people who go out of their way to judge others' eating habits??
Originally posted by bismarcksea
We are the only country on the planet through all known history who's poorest people are FAT.
Not a little pudgey in the mid section but morbidly obese!
Seems to me, they could stand a cut in "benefits".
1 in 10 Americans are in jail.
1 in 8 Americans are on welfare.
This insanity has got to stop!
Originally posted by sc2099
reply to post by seagull
I once saw a woman with a brood of kids buy an entire cart full of nothing but 2 liter sodas with EBT.
Originally posted by ezziboo
Regarding able-bodied, lazy, people who have had every bit of sustenance provided to them courtesy of Food Stamps, and who would never dream of having to pay for food with their own "cash money": the times, they are a-changin'.
Originally posted by sc2099
To StellarX: I'm sorry but it's not true that people used to work only a few hours a day.
Leisure time only became a factor in the lives of middle class people in the 1920s, with the advent of things that cut down on the time people actually had to spend working like washing machines.
Before that people spent every minute of daylight working, in the fields, or in a factory, or in their home just to feed their families.
Back then necessities weren't made to break so you'd need to buy another one soon, unlike today. And for poor people working at the subsistence level it always has been and still is today the case that they get up at dawn to go to work and don't come home until it's dark.
The fact is that today people work less than they ever have.
Though, Americans work more than Europeans due to the emphasis on career as the most fundamental part of one's identity in North American culture.
I agree that today people do work for their toys, their possessions, and could get away with working less and having less. But this just wasn't the case before modernity.
To ezziboo and Enthralled Fan: great posts and input. Stars!
Originally posted by bismarcksea
We are the only country on the planet through all known history who's poorest people are FAT. Not a little pudgey in the mid section but morbidly obese!
Seems to me, they could stand a cut in "benefits".
1 in 10 Americans are in jail.
1 in 8 Americans are on welfare.
This insanity has got to stop!