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So if my nephew's food stamps restrict what he can buy it will cure his blindness and he'll be able to get back on his feet?
Also my great-aunt will get young and become a laborer again?
I dunno about millionaires.
But at least one of them drives a Mercedes, so, y'know...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3ZhhFMq6otk
So he started a kick starter to pay for it.
can't do "fund my life / lifestyle" kickstarters.
This is a project with a concrete deliverable goal: a new series of podcasts. There is nothing even the slightest bit skeevy about it.
A well fed, well sheltered underclass is less likely to revolt than one who have nothing to loose, for one.
Well fed people also make more productive workers when they do get a job. Well fed children makes better student thus better workers in the future. Also, why should children pay for the poor life choices of their parents?
Treating the poor well is not only the humane thing to do, it's also the smart thing to do.
maybe?
the point of public assistance is to fulfill a public need
"poor people can't eat" or "poor people have nowhere to live" or "poor people don't have health care" are all public need
"poor people don't have enough whiskey" isn't, really.
and a society okay with the fact that the guy starving in the gutter is there because he blew his public assistance check on whiskey is a society a tiny tiny step away from being okay with the fact that the guy starving in the gutter is there because he made poor life choices at some less immediate time in his life.
because some people get deeply silly about kickstarter and crowdfunding
I'd agree with this if you dismantled all government funded public assistance programs and placed all those benefits into one monthly payment.
"Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program"
as opposed to
"Temporary Assistance for Needy Families" ("welfare")
Now I can assure you that just being on food stamps is a pretty good incentive to get off of food stamps if you are able bodied, as making $15k a year is not joyous, but it is fundamentally different than TANF because it is also permanent for poor elderly and disabled people which account for something like 12 million of the people on it
I got an email from one of my contacts that was forwarding a message from their warehouse.
"You placed a new order for SOMEPART. Does you customer know they still have ORDERNUMBEROLDASFUCK open for ACOMPLETELYFUCKINGDIFFERENTPART? I am not running more of these when they have 15,000 pieces left on this old order and haven't ordered any since 3/12"
So... note only is this second order a different fucking part but HEY GUESS WHAT? We received those 15,000 on 4/12. And then opened a WHOLE OTHER FUCKING ORDER from which we have been received parts from 5/12 up until as recently as 4/13.
What in the fucking shit.
Have they really managed to send us over a years worth of parts without even knowing?
Protestant Work Ethic
Which model? And statements like these are so funny.
WIC isn't a dollar amount - it's a fixed unit based on a coupon.
so if you buy the expensive milk, the government gets charged twice as much
i guess the way they normally handle it is to scale the amounts depending on the cost. like the option of three cans condensed milk, one gallon of milk, or a half-gallon of organic milk.
i'm not really sure if that solves the problem, exactly, since the half-gallon of organic milk has half the nutrients of the gallon of milk. but i think that's how they generally do it.
But this whole marble hornets bullshit is d-grade schlock. This Alex guy can't act this jay guy can't act this one vid extra dude can't act. Nothing they do is remotely believable and the lines dear fucking lord the lines. Oh hey jay that little wood whittler of a knife sure is gonna save you from eldritch horrors bro totes.
It's all very lonelygirl15 without the annoyingly cute sacrificial virgin.
is your tax break for being married your money, or the one for owning a house
i think all the inherent value has been extracted at this point and i am just riding the wave of the Dow
it is a leveraged position so once the merry go round stops the entire thing will basically come crashing down
so the question is how long is the dow rally going to last, and also how greedy am i
i am feeling very greedy
The goal is to keep people from starving to death. Giving people food credits does a lot more to ensure this than giving people cash.
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
I think their particular shit fit about it is, "The poor can spend the money they earn any damn way they want but welfare is my money and needs to be managed."
poors are clearly not rational actors
if they were, they wouldn't be poor
and we wouldn't need to feed them and tell them how to make good life decisions
duh
which is why this is a straw man because it's not what we were talking about
we aren't talking about increasing the expense to the government to give the poors a choice (although I could argue WIC is a horrendously flawed program, it gives out vouchers for sugar water called Juice)
We are talking about food stamps, you have a finite amount, if you use them to buy a single 72 ounce dry aged piece of beef for the month and a lobster
well you can still do that after these restrictions!
But god forbid you buy the $2.99 eggs instead of the $1.99 eggs
riding the wave of the Dao
*stifles a tear* it's so nice when they grow up.. Manage your own money, gooey, manage it good! Let me know what you buy, so I know what to short and well be the PA hedge!
Care to provide evidence for this?
Gooby:
couldn't you skim some of your winnings off, and let what is left ride the wave however it goes?
That way, you have made moneys, and can still make more moneys.
i don't understand this
but +201% sounds like a good thing
you should go all the way, gooey!
Yes.
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
but you can definitely make a bunch of pointless rules to make yourself feel better about it though
We sipped our beers and nodded and agreed that financiers are dark sorcerers and we should abolish the wage system
http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/marble-hornets-flying-to-bigscreen-818489/
If we were talking about starting the program from scratch I'd agree, but the basic EBT infrastructure is already in place
And it's not so much that people would starve but several hundred thousand bad parents would buy tvs or something instead of enough food for their kids for the month. This still happens with food stamps but less, and it'd still be like .1%
but there's no reason to put the money into changing it, really, since the whole program is already in place. It should be weekly, not monthly though.
Also we should bring back welfare