Should there be a limit on how much meat a person on welfare can buy with food-stamps?!
Answers: People living off others do not need steak every night or at all.
YES! i find it really unfair that i work my butt off for a living and scrape money together for groceries for the week, and some person with food stamps in front of me in line has a bunch of seafood and steaks. Not Fair!!
O plz...how do you know what they eat or how much of it they eat? The people I have known that have had to use welfare to survive use cheap hamburger and make their meals stretch as far as possible.
They get a certain dollar limit, don't they? If they want to blow it all on one thing and have less total food, then that's their problem. Maybe all that red meat will knock them off faster. (NO, I am NOT a vegetarian, just someone who controls my red meat for diet purposes.)
Well, to be honest they shouldn't be able to buy anything that may be considered unhealthy. I know food stamps don't work for cigarettes or alcohol, but that should be extended to certain meats and some packaged foods, such as mac and cheese, etc.
There is a limit. When they run out, they don't get more until next month. What makes you think they eat steak every night? Have you ever been on Welfare? The system gets abused quite a bit, but there are most certainly people out there for whom it is temporary and who do everything they can to get off of it as soon as possible. There are also plenty of people who might qualify for it, but they'd rather eat popcorn or oatmeal every day for a month than ask for help. Shame on you for assuming otherwise.
Would you prefer that or them spending it all on potato chips and energy drinks?
Not all people who get public assistance are jobless. Many are those who have to deal with the fact that our society thinks people can actually live making minimum wage. And factor in many are single parents working for so little and trying to care for a child.
Umm, no. It is better for them to be buying steak than to be buying Pop Tarts for them and their kids.
THERE IS A LIMIT THE LIMIT IS THE AMOUNT DISPERSED TO THEM BY THE GUIDLINES SET FORTH.....DUH NOT HARD TO FIGURE OUT
No. Some people are on food-stamps for good reasons.Foster parents have access to them.I don't care what they buy, I thank God we are able to work and provide for ourselves. I don't have foster child or a disabled child.My friend kept 2 very disabled children for the state 24-7 and was entitled to food stamps.She had a huge garden in the summer and did in fact but a lot of meat.God bless her for being there for those kids when the parents couldn't and her home was much better than the institution.You just can't judge a book by it's cover. Have a heart.We can't always know the story.
No I dont think there should be a limit on the amount of meat that they buy. its none of my business what they buy. I don't care. Just because they buy a lot of meat 1 month doesn't mean they do that every month. And it also doesn't mean that they are eating steak every night.
How do you know that they weren't buying groceries for the whole month when you saw them buying "so much" meat??
Its rude to judge people, if you were so concerned you should have asked them why they were buying "so much" meat? Do you know how many are in their family?
also like someone said they could be blowing the foodstamps on chips and pop etc.. instead.
And someone else pointed out that when they are out of foodstamps they dont get anymore until the next month.
Shame on you! you don't know their circumstances.
$800 maybe they have lots of kids, or they pay a higher amount of rent, everyone doesnt get the same amount. How do you know how much they got? did you ask them?
If you know of these cases that you sited you should have contacted the welfare office and reported it or the police department either way you could have done it anonymously.
Also the person you stated receiving foodstamps with 2 different social security cards must be a genious because they check the social# against the drivers license etc..
And again some people all ready have X amount of kids before they get on foodstamps.
And there is a cap on the amount of public assistance 1 can get. well it is here in the state I live in.
why is this in the V&V section
there should be a limit on what they can buy and how much money they should get and for how long. I know a friend and her sister has been on welfare for about 12 years now and in that 12 years she has never had a job at all because she knows if she gets job she wont get welfare anymore and she jsut keeps poppin out kids because the more kids she has the more money she gets i think thats bull ****!!!!! im working my *** off any barely getting paid anything and there are lazy *** people like her that do nothing in life and get farther then us i say welfare is a joke!!!!!
No, I think the limit should be on how much junk food they buy with their food stamps(IMO, I think it should be none). I worked at a grocery store around Halloween one year, and you wouldn't believe how many people were buying candy and sodas and such with their food stamps.
No there shouldn't.
when someone is on food stamps they get a certain amount each month no more. They are free and should be free to buy what they want as long as it doesn't go over the amount. Trust me no one on food stamps that want to eat for the whole month is eating steak every month. I think it's crazy that toilet paper isn't on the list of things one can buy with food stamps. Apparently they don't consider it a necessity.......go figure!
I'm with "Original" and I hope you give her the points. I know an awful lot of people working two and three jobs, putting in insane hours, who still have trouble putting food on the table--thanks, Dubya. There are official limits already in place, and then there are the ones Original describes (dirty looks from people in the supermarket). Struggling to buy groceries is hard and humiliating and nobody chooses that kind of stigma just for fun. Almost all of us are only a medical emergency or other tragic change in circumstances away from being in that position; I hope you never have to find out, but in the meantime, don't be too quick to judge
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This is a community nutrition issue. First it would help to see the statistics of obesity and overweight in the lower income/poverty demographic. If there is a correlation, then they may take affect, though I doubt they would limit meat, they perhaps may limit red meat and supplement it with a leaner alternative (chicken, fish), but any alternative offered would have economical reprocussions. The basic cost of the commodity itself would probably be more of an influencial factor.