How do you feel about foodstamps?

Question

I work in a grocery store and everyday I see people using their foodstamp cards to buy groceries. I realize that some people really do NEED help. There are some that just make me sick to my stomach. Buy 200 dollars worth of food (good stuff too) and still have another 2 or 3 hundred dollars left on their card for the rest of the month. Especially the women who come in with 2 or 3 kids and another on the way.

Meanwhile I live off Kool-Aid and poptarts.

It just seems like people with kids can get all kinds of help. Foodstamps, medicaid, whatever.

Oh, and sorry if this is in the wrong category.

Answer 1

Welcome to America...That's the way our society work here. We support people who choose to have large families and get aide, rather than work to support a family that they can afford while single people are struggling to make ends meet. It stinks, but it is true. The american dream...more like tell me when this nighmare is over, so I can dream of a world where all things are fair, and people are respectful and responsible. Now that's a dream...

Answer 2

The welfare system was created at a time when good American people were out of money and had no jobs but today it's just an excuse for many to have more babies. Some of these people do work but don't have the education or luck to make enough to make ends meet. My mother was on food stamps for a time but she worked...the entire time. It was the fact that my father left her with three kids after 18 years of marriage with no support. Eventually she went back to school and got a job in the water system. But I think that many young people have no pride in themselves and they are taught to take the easy way out...and so abuse of the welfare system is everywhere. I think tighter controls on who receives welfare and for how long should be put into effect. That those who will not do something for themselves should not be given an easy way out. And for all those people opening their legs with no concern that I am the one paying for their babies...I would ask the government to sterilize them so they can bring no more children into this world.

Answer 3

I think they should give the recipient a few months to get a job and if they haven't found one by then they should be cut off. Fast food places are always hiring so there's really no excuse. If a person is so broke that they need federal assistance to pay for food then they shouldn't be picky about where they can get a job. When I went to the grocery store last week the woman in front of me had her nails and hair done but was using food stamps to buy her groceries. To make matters worse she had a cart full of steaks. That pisses me off when I have to bust my *** to get by but this woman is living good off of my taxes. Limitations need to be set and pronto!

As the poster above said, there are some people that are working and still need them. Those are not the ones that I am referring to because their taxes are being put to use also.

Answer 4

Destiny, You already have a lot of answers and you asked a tough one. All of the people that answered made some good points. Our government propigated the practice of children = $ and they waited to late to try to change it. I had my first tax paying job at the age of 13. I paid taxes for 36 years and became ill one winter. My husband is a farm worker. Farm workers get no insurance or vacation pay or any other benefits. They do not even have to pay them overtime. During the winter my husband's average paycheck was less than $90. With me unable ot help I went to apply. It was one of the hardest things I ever did. I cried the whole time I was in that office. The young woman that waited on me turned a computer moniter around that had the total yearly sums of all that I had paid in over the years. She told me that if anyone she saw that day deserved it I did. We were allowed $72 a month.
We did qualify the following year for energy assistance. We had no heat the year I was ill.

Answer 5

I feel that if you need them, get them.

Don't let your children suffer over your "pride".

Contrary to the popular "non-working welfare mother/breeder" stereotypes, there are people out there, 2 sets of parents working, who still need a little help putting food on the table.

What's the alternative? Working 3 or 4 jobs, never home, children in daycare that costs $400 or more a month per child...what life is that?

All I ask is that people don't falsely judge another when there are many good, hard-working people out there that have no choice than to have some help.

Answer 6

This is not in the wrong category. i know what you are talking about. i'm not a welfare recipient but i see a lot of people, my friends too who are and it does make me feel that the government is treating the people unfairly especially those who work hard and pay taxes. I tell my six-year old daughter not to load the cart with foods when we go shopping because our budget is tight and most of the time insist on getting the store brand food to we save money. In the line to the check out, I see people who use stamps to pay their foods and lot of them and I can't help it to think how sad it is that we are paying for that food for them and here we are behind them wishing we could get some of that. Another sad part I found out that they don't eat all of the food they get from the government and that they just let them go to waste because they more for the next month.

Answer 7

The US Government, and local social service offices. Make it way to easy for single mothers and fathers to get aid, cash, food stamps medical cards etc.. With no incentive to go to work and get back on their feet. I have seen many women just keep having kids to get more aid. And it is sad to. But people with no children, but still under the poverty level can't get any kind of help. And if they do Social Services makes it very hard. I think it is crapola. Like in your case you are working and doing your best. But living on the cheapest food you can afford.

Answer 8

I don't think that it's fair for people that don't have kids to have to go through so much to get food stamps. Other than that it's a big help for the people who do need it.

Answer 9

Society thinks that we need to take care of kids. The only way that we can do that is taking care of the parents too.
Fifty years ago we had unions who assured everyone a living wage. Reagan pretty much wiped them out or made them ineffectual.

Answer 10

See what ya mean. We don't get food stamps here in Australia but the goverment gives out s.h.i.t loads of money to the same kind of people ya talking about..

Hang in there ah !!