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On those sort of incomes the only REAL option IS the processed crap, so the art of real cooking gets forgotten, not because no-one wants to do it, but because it is far more cost effective NOT to do it.

This.
There's a lot of scrounging dolescum who'd be very happy to have the money to cook fresh food from scratch, but can't afford anything other than preprocessed crap, often packaged outside of the country and stuffed full of shit you can't put in food manufactured in the EU.
Maybe if the government are serious about addressing the terrible threat child obesity poses to the future, they'll take the farmers' cocks out of their mouths and do something about the distributors taste for inflating the cost of produce with price fixing and so hiking the supermarket price up even before their own mark up is added. Don't hold breath on that one, though.

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ORIGINAL: Yachtie

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~FR~

I've only read the first couple of pages of this thread, so apologize if this has been addressed but...

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ORIGINAL: Yachtie

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

And frankly, people are entitled to spend their money on whatever the hell they want to, however it was attained: can you imagine the shitfit you'd be throwing if some mouthy liberal had suggested that people shouldn't be allowed to buy booze if they own a gun? Given your own aversion to nanny stating, the hypocrisy in your OP is breathtaking.

It's not their money, it's the taxpayers. The rest is pure noise.

When Wall St bankers gave themselves bonuses from the taxpayer money during the bail outs, they were spending taxpayer money without the consent or even the consideration of how they got their money. Take it one step further to corporate welfare.

All these proposals to take rights away from the poor in exchange for helping out the poor, when billion dollar corporations gets their handouts, and continue to do as they please, leaves me with little sympathy for your cause.

Those are two different topics no matter the relationship one can glean about them; government handouts. Both are deserving of being discussed but such does not require they be discussed together.

If you want to discuss corporate welfare, make a thread. If you want to talk about unemployment and its effects on welfare, make a thread. If you want to discuss welfare, as applied to people, from the point of how it's applied lets have at it.

But the simple fact is that, for example, outsourcing's effects on employment which may increase the welfare rolls is of no value in discussing whether recipients should be provided steak, or put another way, just how the taxpayer dollars should be allowed to be used by recipients.

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The chick in question, is 21 years old?
She hasnt got the legal mental, spiritual or intellectual level of a ten year old bully.
idiotic little hater. She will meet with reality one day.

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Theres a reason, politicians, when they do the "food stamp diet" only do it for a week. We dont have food stamps here, you can get special diet allowance if you have a gastro/diabetic/ related diet, works out to 50 bucks a month. But the meal allowance part of your welfare, is practically impossible to "subsist on.
Anyone trying to live on beans rice/powdered milk, cheese diet is more likely to go ballistic after three months. It was bad enough when they tried for a week.
the rest of her attempts to dictate how poor people live their lives, is typical ugly twunt with no clue to the realities ... so they ignore the real issues and attempt micromanage those they feel superior to.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Theres a reason, politicians, when they do the "food stamp diet" only do it for a week. We dont have food stamps here, you can get special diet allowance if you have a gastro/diabetic/ related diet, works out to 50 bucks a month. But the meal allowance part of your welfare, is practically impossible to "subsist on.
Anyone trying to live on beans rice/powdered milk, cheese diet is more likely to go ballistic after three months. It was bad enough when they tried for a week.
the rest of her attempts to dictate how poor people live their lives, is typical ugly twunt with no clue to the realities ... so they ignore the real issues and attempt micromanage those they feel superior to.

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Theres a reason, politicians, when they do the "food stamp diet" only do it for a week. We dont have food stamps here, you can get special diet allowance if you have a gastro/diabetic/ related diet, works out to 50 bucks a month. But the meal allowance part of your welfare, is practically impossible to "subsist on.
Anyone trying to live on beans rice/powdered milk, cheese diet is more likely to go ballistic after three months. It was bad enough when they tried for a week.
the rest of her attempts to dictate how poor people live their lives, is typical ugly twunt with no clue to the realities ... so they ignore the real issues and attempt micromanage those they feel superior to.

While I agree that the author has a lot to learn about life, I am equally amused at the ones who think those on food stamps only live on rice and beans with some government cheese thrown in. The ones I see have no problem affording $4-5 premade sandwiches for lunch every day, so I have a lot of trouble working up much sympathy for them.

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

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Theres a reason, politicians, when they do the "food stamp diet" only do it for a week. We dont have food stamps here, you can get special diet allowance if you have a gastro/diabetic/ related diet, works out to 50 bucks a month. But the meal allowance part of your welfare, is practically impossible to "subsist on.
Anyone trying to live on beans rice/powdered milk, cheese diet is more likely to go ballistic after three months. It was bad enough when they tried for a week.
the rest of her attempts to dictate how poor people live their lives, is typical ugly twunt with no clue to the realities ... so they ignore the real issues and attempt micromanage those they feel superior to.

While I agree that the author has a lot to learn about life, I am equally amused at the ones who think those on food stamps only live on rice and beans with some government cheese thrown in. The ones I see have no problem affording $4-5 premade sandwiches for lunch every day, so I have a lot of trouble working up much sympathy for them.

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The ones I see have no problem affording $4-5 premade sandwiches for lunch every day, so I have a lot of trouble working up much sympathy for them.

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Theres a reason, politicians, when they do the "food stamp diet" only do it for a week. We dont have food stamps here, you can get special diet allowance if you have a gastro/diabetic/ related diet, works out to 50 bucks a month. But the meal allowance part of your welfare, is practically impossible to "subsist on.
Anyone trying to live on beans rice/powdered milk, cheese diet is more likely to go ballistic after three months. It was bad enough when they tried for a week.
the rest of her attempts to dictate how poor people live their lives, is typical ugly twunt with no clue to the realities ... so they ignore the real issues and attempt micromanage those they feel superior to.

Lucy, I was not trying to dictate what people could eat.  I was trying to point out the benefits of not having to rely on pre-made foods. 

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AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes, that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

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The ones I see have no problem affording $4-5 premade sandwiches for lunch every day, so I have a lot of trouble working up much sympathy for them.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone use food stamps. How does one spot them? How big is the population of folks you see buying premade sandwiches?

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ORIGINAL: Yachtie
It's so common sense is it any wonder so many don't see it.