More Obamacare fuckups

[cwolff]

As far as the bold parts YES. When I worked at Walmart I would watch people come in and buy 900 dollars worth of groceries on an EBT card. Consisting of chips, pop, crab legs, very unhealthy choices. Then they walked outside, put their groceries in the back of a brand new Escalade on big ol' rims. Why would someone bother to do any better when they can save massive amounts of money by being poor and just setting that money aside for whatever while they can just spend the state dollars?

For the people that can't work, that's what family is for. Worked that way for thousands of years but now it can't? If you are too lazy to be able to provide for yourself you died or just lived in shitty conditions. Nature has it right. If you don't work to live you should die.

Are you contending that welfare wages allow one to live on crab legs and drive escalades? I'm not doubting that you've seen this, but I'm skeptical that it's the norm or even possible. You can't save massive amounts of money because you're getting food stamps. You could if you had another source of income then scammed SNAP for 300 bucks a month that you invest wisely. Is that what those food stamp people are doing? Aren't most of the recipients children, elderly and disabled? If this is the case it sounds like our nation is missing out on a tremendous asset. We should get these food stamp people jobs at the treasury or the fed and let them put those big brains to work for good.

Now you want to talk about unhealthy food choices. Should we pass a law saying that if your EBT cards can only be used for fresh food, beans, rice, or whatever we currently think = healthy food? Who's going to enforce that? Bigger government? What will frito-lay say. How about Pizza Hut when the gov't tells the country that these are not healthy foods?

I can't speak for everyone but this is exactly what my sister and brother-in-law did.

I appreciate that you phrased it this way. The thing is, we just don't know what the actual circumstances for each of these people are. It's easy to spot the outliers but how do we determine who is a professional thief from those who are really in need?