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Bettie

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10. If you hit the grocery store on the right day

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 08:59 AM

Feb 2016

steak can be cheaper than hamburger.

I'm so tired of people who think that poor people don't work hard enough. Getting ahead these days requires more than hard work, it requires a whole lot of luck and a hand up, which far too many are unwilling to give.

Plus, people don't leave the workforce until far later in life, since retirement funding is no longer done (no pensions, only bullshit 401Ks), so there is no place on the ladder to move up to and raises are practically nonexistent.

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Bill proposes ending purchases of steak, cake, lobster & more with food stamps [View all] Liberal_in_LA Feb 2016 OP

Authoritarians noretreatnosurrender Feb 2016 #1

K&R so poor children do not get birthday cakes with this law? Jeffersons Ghost Feb 2016 #2

Or birthday-celebrating adults for that matter. kentauros Feb 2016 #3

So Sick Of This Bullshit Conservative Obsession Bigredhunk Feb 2016 #4

Punishing the poor again. For being poor. Maraya1969 Feb 2016 #5

It is actually worse than imagined quaker bill Feb 2016 #6

I'm getting real fed up with republican politicians and the low SammyWinstonJack Feb 2016 #8

So I guess the poor aren't allowed to buy marked down steak that is still perfectly good? Vinca Feb 2016 #7

If you hit the grocery store on the right day Bettie Feb 2016 #10

Exactly. Especially what you said about luck. Vinca Feb 2016 #11

It is sad Bettie Feb 2016 #13

Meh. I've seen those same statements made here at DU. Orrex Feb 2016 #9

Better idea - rewards KentuckyWoman Feb 2016 #12