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tecelote

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31. Food Stamps, Welfare, and similar benefits, are Wrong!

Reply to Scuba (Reply #15)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 02:58 PM

Oct 2013

Working people should not receive Food Stamps or Welfare.

They should be paid a livable wage!

This is really welfare for companies that pay below a livable wage. The money they do not pay in wages goes straight to the net profit column. Businesses profit from paying low wages and having their employees subsidized through our taxes.

If they paid a livable wage, their profits would go down and our taxes would too. Because... our taxes would not have to support the poor people that work for these companies.

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Food stamp benefits going down before the holidays [View all] n2doc Oct 2013 OP

I talked to a friend on SNAP. former9thward Oct 2013 #1

They changed the formula in Florida in September William769 Oct 2013 #2

Kick em when they're down. L0oniX Oct 2013 #3

Mine were cut madamesilverspurs Oct 2013 #4

This is the problem with short-term increases to programs like this... OnlinePoker Oct 2013 #5

it would be useful to know how much grocery prices went up... grasswire Oct 2013 #6

I wonder of any of the dumbbells who cut the food stamp RebelOne Oct 2013 #23

So for a family of 4 on Nov. 1 it'll decrease $36. Igel Oct 2013 #26

COL adjustment for November? grasswire Oct 2013 #27

I'm a SNAP caseworker Puzzledtraveller Oct 2013 #7

So if the people working for the system can't remember it, how can they expect the recipients to?n/t OnlinePoker Oct 2013 #9

We don't Puzzledtraveller Oct 2013 #11

American citizens without enough to eat already & we're going to slash it even more. CrispyQ Oct 2013 #8

Merry Christmas from the Grinch Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 #10

cheapppp DustyJoe Oct 2013 #12

This is the only "War on Christmas" that I see! Dustlawyer Oct 2013 #13

Go talk to Sara...she'll find many more. Auntie Bush Oct 2013 #28

People must go hungry... awoke_in_2003 Oct 2013 #14

.......the "defense" spending that sure smells like "offense" spending to me these days....... kestrel91316 Oct 2013 #18

Another attempt by the Republicans to a) appease their base by punishing the weak, and .... Scuba Oct 2013 #15

Food Stamps, Welfare, and similar benefits, are Wrong! tecelote Oct 2013 #31

Got to keep gut-punching the economy, lest it improve, apparently. DirkGently Oct 2013 #16

Can't let that happen while the black guy is in office. Brigid Oct 2013 #22

The Republicon War on Christmas (and the poor) Berlum Oct 2013 #17

Way to go Republicans! beerandjesus Oct 2013 #19

I have lost $11 and the family I live with to help make ends meet lost $50. We were already having jwirr Oct 2013 #20

and we can leave billions of dollars of miltary hardware in Iraq and Afghanistan. olddad56 Oct 2013 #21

God bless us every one! eShirl Oct 2013 #24

Okay... so who's suggesting the reverse? davidthegnome Oct 2013 #25

that is such bullshit we have money for gopiscrap Oct 2013 #29

One more straw. bitchkitty Oct 2013 #30

So sad.....where are our countries bobGandolf Oct 2013 #32