I don't think food stamps are intended to be the sole source of ones food budget. Sure, food stamps give me $6.66 of food to buy every day. But I also have my own money to combine with that.
Food stamps and conservative ideology
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ChesusRice
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Around here you would also get about 200 bucks in supplementary income for 3 months
homeless shelter is that way>>>>>>>>>>>
abandonconflict
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Active duty military can get EBT also. The money comes from the same place as the pay for those people so what does that mean?
It means that the point of EBT is not simply to help people, that isn't even necessarily the primary reason why it exists. The gov't uses economic stimulus (which is a fancy way of saying it gives money to Americans) to increase aggregate demand for goods and services in a given region. That is why it is called stimulus, it stimulates demand. It sends people to the store to buy things. This in turn sends merchants to work and to hire. The money goes to Wal Mart eventually.
It means that the point of EBT is not simply to help people, that isn't even necessarily the primary reason why it exists. The gov't uses economic stimulus (which is a fancy way of saying it gives money to Americans) to increase aggregate demand for goods and services in a given region. That is why it is called stimulus, it stimulates demand. It sends people to the store to buy things. This in turn sends merchants to work and to hire. The money goes to Wal Mart eventually.
NLXSK1
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Hey Chesus... I provided your citations. Are you just going to ignore them as usual? Anything that does not support your views eh?
abandonconflict
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He doesn't have to. It is plainly obvious that strippers do not accept EBT.
El Tiberon
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In Mexico it is 2400 pesos. In Colombia it is 380.000 pesos. Roughly for both of course because of fluctuations in currency.
When I was growing in Mexico, my wife budgeted 2500 pesos for her, our daughter, and myself to eat each month. This fed us very well. We did not own a microwave or a can opener. All of our meats were cut fresh and cooked the day we bought them and our vegetables were completely organic and from local farmers. Transportation prices and handling drive up food costs entirely too much in the US. Most vegetables are GM. Most meats are fed and plumped with chemicals.
This is an example of what we paid at 12 pesos a kilo. ($1.00 per 2.2 pounds)
Tomatoes 12 pesos
Avocado 20 pesos
Fish 40-60 pesos Red Snapper at 60
Shrimp 80-150 pesos depending on size
Chicken 19-25 pesos for whole chicken
Beef 50-180 pesos depending on cut
potatoes 9 pesos
limes 7-12 pesos
papaya free when in season 50 pesos out of season
mango free when in season 65 pesos out of season
pineapple 15-25 pesos each depending on type
onion 7-12 pesos
garlic 75 pesos
watermelon 6 pesos
cilantro 3-5 pesos
jalapenos 5-7 pesos
This is all I could think of in this time. There are many other things people eat. It comes down to shipping costs. Buying from local farmers and fishermen kept the costs down and almost organic other than what came from the ocean. The US is well behind the curve because they pay farmers not to grow food to keep costs higher. This is the reality of the US agricultural system.
abandonconflict
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I can attest to good food in Mexico but costs are going up for most items.
burgertime2010
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I will start out by saying that anyone here will steal food if they need it, I have and will hopefully never again. It is not wrong. The old "deny a man water in the desert" cliché/law comes in to mind...EBT is a piece of shit by design but that is not the point. Hunger does turn aggressive and there is validity to that. The forced participation is the same as the forced genetic sequence that made you human. I don't see how military, education, public works, and the rest differ. I want the choice to redistribute the budget but EBT and Medical programs are hiding a darkness that society would be grateful leave behind tax to avoid confronting. Why is the bully attracted to the sick and hungry? Their well being is a threat? The paradigm that merits ignoring the destitute is politicized to make the asshole smell a bit less offensive.
H R Puff N Stuff
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the reason you can buy junk food with food stamps is because hostess and pepsi cola WANT it that way otherwise they would have fixed it along time ago
ChesusRice
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Only US citizens or their US citizen children can collect food stampos NLX
Sorry
Now can I post links from the democratic underground or Maybe some other progressive site and call it a citation?
Sorry
Now can I post links from the democratic underground or Maybe some other progressive site and call it a citation?
El Tiberon
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If someone ships you down here....aiyyyeeee cabron, yes I know how to keep you alive until I am finished.
burgertime2010
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You see backwards clearly. Illegals make legal American children....that is perhaps one reason and does not negate food stamps. Times have changed.....I could not buy beer, fast food, and get strippers when I was on ebt. Starved to death? The actual death is the way you see hunger as a real issue. I am sorry but engineering this simple argument is not enough. Fix the problem in the solution.
burgertime2010
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When left to the imagination of our overlords I would gladly pay a tax to divorce me from the reality as you describe....Have compassion....EBT has been molested here.....don't judge the victim.
H R Puff N Stuff
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or we learned foodstamps is another corprate subsidie disgised as helping the poor .slight of hand kinda thing.
The best orange juice I have ever had was in a café in Mexico City. You could watch them squeezing the oranges. Try as I might, I can never replicate the taste even when I squeeze my own oranges... The food in Mexico was good. I'll say this though, American beef has a superior taste, probably because we feed it junk and it makes the cow fatter and fat is flavor. But we do a lot of things ass backwards in the US. I say free beans, four, corn meal, and eggs for everyone.
burgertime2010
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Food stamps do help the poor. It's disguised? Corporations benefit surely but that is pervasive. I refuse to reduce everything to shit......right or wrong.
NLXSK1
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Only people who are legal citizens of the US can work here... OOPS!!! Well, maybe some of them work under the table with fake ID's... You dont think they would ever consider filing for foodstamps with those fake ID's???
DOH!!
The US government is spending taxpayer dollars to promote foodstamps in Mexico... Dont you find that sort of strange???
