Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:34     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's always better to mind your own business OP , You probably get tax breaks that that person doesn't get such as mortgage deductions or other deductions that poor people can't take advantage of. Try to see the good in others and not the bad. Your life will be much happier ... I guarantee it.


Your post makes sense except for the "tax break" comment. Poor people generally do not pay income tax, so no tax breaks needed.


Point is, people who get mortgage deductions are being subsidized. And what about the carried interest loophole, subsidy for billionaires?
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:33     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Anonymous wrote:I just got in to an argument with a really mean person last week about this. She was severely bothered that poor people dare have cell phones. I told her to blame Reagan for starting the Lifeline program and Bush for expanding it to include cell phones. I certainly don't begrudge anyone a cell phone, but if you are going to be mad about it, start with Reagan and Bush.


Wait, what??? But I thought republicans hated poor people & want to get rid of programs that help poor people??? So democrats aren't responsible for these programs? So republicans actually do care and want to help poor people? I'm so confused.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:30     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Stop being so self righteous and educate yourself about how the lowest 20% of society has to live. America used to be the land of opportunity, but in the last 20 years, it has become nearly impossible to work oneself out of poverty. We used to value the worker, now they make a poverty wage with ridiculous hours and many are required to be accessible 24 hours/day. Don't give them grief about spending $20/mo extra on a iPhone than a cheaper version, when it is their only communication method.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/starbucks-workers-scheduling-hours.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/late-to-bed-early-to-rise-and-working-tired.html?_r=0

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/the-very-real-hardship-of-unpredictable-work-schedules/390498/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3622707/Shift-work-REALLY-kill-Irregular-sleeping-eating-patterns-increase-worker-s-risk-severe-stroke.html
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:29     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you do something nice and you pay for her meal? Pay it forward because life can turn on a dime and you, or someone you love, may someday need help.

So she should have her meals paid for by taxpayers and then someone else, in addition, should buy that particular meal?
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:26     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Why didn't you do something nice and you pay for her meal? Pay it forward because life can turn on a dime and you, or someone you love, may someday need help.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:25     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Anonymous wrote:There isn't a Golden Corral located with 20 miles of the DC line. Just FYI.


Not sure what your point is, but there's a Golden Corral in Largo, about 2.5 miles from the DC line.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:25     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
This all comes down to what you choose to believe:

-the poor are poor due to bad decisions which others do not make, or

-the poor are simply unlucky and otherwise are exactly like us, including their choices.

The reality is likely someplace in the middle.

As to the lady's decision to eat out at a restaurant while flaunting BOTH her IPhone and her EBT card, we can all agree that was a bad decision.

I've been poor enough in college to survive for months on Ramen noodles, the cheapest raw vegies, day-old bagels, and tap water.

Instead of EBT or what we had then (food stamps), I chose hard work.

Because of my hard work, I can now afford an IPhone and golden coral, without ever getting handouts from other taxpayers. Something tells me EBT lady isn't trying very hard.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:23     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but I immediately discredit your post just for the poor grammatical errors.

Why don't you learn how to phrase and spell a paragraph correctly before harping on a situation you know nothing about?


NP - You should be more open minded about life in general. I don't even know what that has to do with anything OP posted.


I'm actually very open minded. It was just doubly annoying to me that it was a stupid, judgmental post and filled with errors. Like OP was trying to assert some level of superiority, yet couldn't even phrase the thought correctly.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:22     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Anonymous wrote:There isn't a Golden Corral located with 20 miles of the DC line. Just FYI.


https://www.yelp.com/biz/golden-corral-largo

Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:22     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.

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?

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.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:21     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Anonymous wrote:There isn't a Golden Corral located with 20 miles of the DC line. Just FYI.

There's one in Largo, which is not far from where I work in DC.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:20     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Anonymous wrote:It's always better to mind your own business OP , You probably get tax breaks that that person doesn't get such as mortgage deductions or other deductions that poor people can't take advantage of. Try to see the good in others and not the bad. Your life will be much happier ... I guarantee it.


Your post makes sense except for the "tax break" comment. Poor people generally do not pay income tax, so no tax breaks needed.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:18     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but I immediately discredit your post just for the poor grammatical errors.

Why don't you learn how to phrase and spell a paragraph correctly before harping on a situation you know nothing about?


NP - You should be more open minded about life in general. I don't even know what that has to do with anything OP posted.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:16     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
There isn't a Golden Corral located with 20 miles of the DC line. Just FYI.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2016 10:12     Subject: lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone
Sorry, but I immediately discredit your post just for the poor grammatical errors.

Why don't you learn how to phrase and spell a paragraph correctly before harping on a situation you know nothing about?