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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should have called her on it OP and then slapped the crap out of her. Snatched the iphne away from her and took the ebt card. Your tax dollars are paying for them anyway, right? Why wait for Trump? Poor people certainly don't deserve nice things/delicious food at Golden Corral.[/quote]
People who consume goods and services courtesy of the American taxpayers should indeed have restrictions on how they spend our money. The Golden Corral isn't horrible, but really....does she need an IPhone? I myself have to watch my spending and am doing just fine with a lesser brand.

I recently read in the Wash Post of a shelter in DC, and it was following the situation of a young mother with three young children. (No husband.)  All meals were provided, although her two older kids got free breakfast and free lunch at school. But the mother said she didn't like the quality of the free meals at the shelter, so she took her food stamp money and bought groceries. Plus, the article said that many in the shelter not only didn't like the meals served there, they didn't want to buy groceries, so they took their welfare money and ate two or three times a week at a Chinese restaurant across the street.

So let's look at this double and triple cost to taxpayers. We provided food at a shelter. But, we simultaneously provide food stamps for the grocery? And we then, on top of that, provide enough money to eat at a restaurant 3x a week? Look at all the waste. If someone moves into a shelter that provides all meals free, why isn't the food stamp allowance lowered to reflect that? [/quote]
The above story shows how our tax dollars are wasted, providing all meals at a shelter while at the same time providing food stamps and enough money to eat out in restaurants. I say when you move to a shelter where all meals are provided, you should be given the option of either having your food stamp allowance cut by 75% (for the time you are in the shelter) OR continuing with your food stamp allotment and foregoing the provided meals. Not both. [/quote]

Stop being a judgemental a-hole.  Despite her circumstances resulting from some unfortunate choices, that mom got her kids to school every day by bus and purchased decent quality food for her kids, including fresh fruit and yogurt.  Why don't you try feeding your kids what DC serves to families at homeless shelters?  You don't get much nutritional value from hot dogs and pasta.  So, unless you're prepared to go volunteer at DC General or a school serving a large homeless population try to STFU.[/quote]

Another "nice" non-judgmental liberal! My point was we are wasting taxpayer money providing free shelter meals, free school meals, moeny to buy groceries, AND money to eat out - ALL at the same time to the same person. And you're calling me an a-hole and to STFU? And I'm the judgmental one? We have a $20 trillion debt and cannot afford to waste taxpayer money like that. Maybe a little fiscal responsibility is in order. [/quote]

Cut the deficit on the backs of the poorest and most vulnerable.  The GOP has worn out that playbook since the Reagan years.  No need to raise taxes to pay for frivolous wars or weapons programs we don't need and the military doesn't want.  Just get rid of school lunches and programs like SNAP and TANF and then complain about urban poverty and poor educational outcomes.  So, yes, you're a dime-a-dozen blowhard conservative a-hole.  [/quote]
Nope...not an a-hole (and I certainly don't call strangers on the Internet that, either, or anyone for that matter). I just believe in fiscal responsibility and that we can't provide food for people FOUR different ways at the same time. We don't have the money for that. The meals in the shelter aren't healthy, you say, so the mother can feed her kids better with grocery food? OK....then stop the shelter meals and just keep the food stamps going. And besr in mind that nobody is ENTITLED to ANY of this, and yet we have the sanctimonious liberals arguing that people living on taxpayer assistance deserve the choice of FOUR different assistance options, even if using one wastes the other, oh, well....they're entitled. Yes, you're a dime-dozen holier-than-though disrepctful liberal who feels no qualms wasting money and driving up the debt another $10 trillion. [/quote]

You're delusional.  Some kids who attend school in DC are entitled to free breakfast, lunch and afterschool snack under the FARMs program.  An infant or toddler is not entitled to this.  Neither are parents who are caring for their children.  Families also need to be able to purchase formula and food for infants through short-term assistance programs like SNAP and TANF which you clearly can't be bothered to understand.  I'm guessing you're equally outraged about so-called "Obamaphones," right?  Food delivered to shelters and school meals aren't driving up the deficit.  It's military spending, foreign aid, Social Security, and disastrously shortsighted Republican fiscal policies which amount to corporate welfare.  Turn off Fox News and start paying attention.[/quote]

Not PP, but also want to point out that many of the meals provided by shelters, as well as breakfast/lunch/snacks at schools, are often a result of charitable donations (whether financial, or in-kind food).  The government plays a big role in helping those in poverty, but so do charitable organizations.  This double/triple/quadruple/etc. dipping of gov't funds that some people are referring to wrongly assumes that the government is covering ALL of these things. [/quote]

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