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Working full-time on food stamps (Original Post) SHRED Apr 2016 OP
Exactly, elleng Apr 2016 #1
100% Correct! raging moderate Apr 2016 #2
Food Stamps are a Chamber of Commerce Subsidy IADEMO2004 Apr 2016 #3
And agribusiness. SHRED Apr 2016 #4
Preach it. truebluegreen Apr 2016 #5
My hope is in my sons and daughter to change the present thinking. rusty quoin May 2016 #6
EXACTLY! SusanCalvin May 2016 #7
Hey! We have plenty of $$$ for Wall Street, war and killing brown children R. Daneel Olivaw May 2016 #8
Cute words for a poster or bumper sticker, but JustABozoOnThisBus May 2016 #9
Exactly and 100%. :) Hortensis May 2016 #10
+1 CrispyQ May 2016 #11
It is Why The Employment Increase Is Suspect colsohlibgal May 2016 #12
That's if you're even lucky enough to be employed full-time. TIME TO PANIC May 2016 #13
They hate FDR, as well. Major Hogwash May 2016 #14
K&R ABSOLUTELY Jeffersons Ghost May 2016 #15
Kicked and recommended! Enthusiast May 2016 #16

elleng

(130,862 posts)
1. Exactly,
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 10:55 PM
Apr 2016

and that should not be permitted; the employers should be required to pay a living wage.

raging moderate

(4,297 posts)
2. 100% Correct!
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 10:55 PM
Apr 2016

If you are in this position, don't blame yourself. And don't lose hope. Keep looking for a chance at a better income. Meanwhile, enjoy a steak/coke/birthday cake/box of strawberries (if you can see a way to do it). You have just as much right as anybody to those things.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
8. Hey! We have plenty of $$$ for Wall Street, war and killing brown children
Sun May 1, 2016, 12:29 AM
May 2016

in lands that we have never heard of.

Give it a rest with your bleeding heart drivel. The establishment is not pleased by it.



Vote for Hilly and she will fight for you...not.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,338 posts)
9. Cute words for a poster or bumper sticker, but
Sun May 1, 2016, 08:37 AM
May 2016

one implication is that anyone working part time, anyone unable to work, anyone laid off, they are leeches.

If you're looking for leeches, look among the billionaire class.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. Exactly and 100%. :)
Sun May 1, 2016, 08:46 AM
May 2016

No one working full time and supporting up to one normal dependent should be living in poverty or need food stamps.

CrispyQ

(36,457 posts)
11. +1
Sun May 1, 2016, 10:52 AM
May 2016

"If Colonel Sanders isn't going to pay the lady behind the counter enough to live on, then Uncle Sam has to, and I for one am getting a little tired of helping highly profitable companies pay their workers." ~Bill Maher

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
12. It is Why The Employment Increase Is Suspect
Sun May 1, 2016, 05:23 PM
May 2016

What kind of jobs are these? Mostly not high enough paying ones.

The Meritocracy/Plutocracy is good at this sleight of hand chicanery.

I wonder why so many just cannot process this, are apparently disinterested in drilling down from the slick packaged news on the MSM.

TIME TO PANIC

(1,894 posts)
13. That's if you're even lucky enough to be employed full-time.
Sun May 1, 2016, 07:57 PM
May 2016

Most of these employers hire only part-time, so they don't have to provide benefits.

They are beyond greedy, they are sadistic!

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
14. They hate FDR, as well.
Sun May 1, 2016, 08:29 PM
May 2016

Among the Four Freedoms that FDR was talking about, was the Freedom from Hunger.

You don't bother to vote if you're too busy trying to keep from starving.

Yet, you will never hear about the homeless or the hungry from her.
She acts like they don't exist!!

Go Bernie!!


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