27. Astrophysicist, writer, artist. Michigan. Business inquiries: kaijunobiz@gmail.com
Rent can easily be two full priced brand new iPhones every month.
Having an iPhone nowhere near makes someone not poor.
Meanwhile, there are people who have yachts but say that they can't afford to pay their employees more. If you're angry about people mooching off of others when they really don't need to, start there.
At universities you see a lot more casual classism and it’s just like… I see you. I see your disgusting ass. I see you telling people that the poor shouldn’t have health care or a house or access to food stamps. I see you complaining about people having the audacity to be paid a liveable wage. I see you talking about the poor as if they were some sort of subhuman burden. I see yo nasty ass.
Anonymous asked:
taking resources directly from people that might need them more than me instead of getting them from the government is gonna make me feel approx. 900000000x more guilty buddy
Anonymous asked:
That does make me feel better
I don’t usually talk about my childhood and how I grew up in poverty and on food stamps but every time I’m eating and someone says to me “Just throw it away if you don’t like the taste of it!” They gonna get a fuckin Lecture hoo boy
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Yeah that’s just one of those things I cannot do like I refuse to waste food
even if the fraud was like 5% it wouldn’t compare to rich people cheating the system by trillions lmao
Also, SNAP “fraud” is like exchanging some of your stamps for cash to buy necessities you can’t buy with stamps, like soap or deodorant or tampons
TBH even if one hundred percent of people on food stamps were committing food stamp fraud I’d still be in favor of keeping the program around
Hey I wanna talk about this.
I work at a drug addiction counseling center. A ton of my clients have, at one time or another, sold their food stamps. This is basically exactly what the GOP is afraid of, right? Drug addicts selling their food stamps.
I have learned, now, to ask them WHY they sold their food stamps. Here is an incomplete list of the answers:
- I need tampons, and you can’t buy them with foodstamps
- See above RE: toilet paper
- I was living in a hotel with no kitchen then. I had to buy pre-prepared food
- The homeless shelter won’t let me keep food in my locker or room, so I have to buy pre-prepared food (Yes, really)
- I had to make rent
- My sister had to make rent
- My son had to make rent
- I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll die
- I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll loose control of my mental health
But the absolute most common form of food stamp fraud I see? Giving away food stamps to other family members who get no food stamps or insufficient food stamps to feed their families. I see that every month. People glassy eyed and hungry because they gave away their food to their adult kids, their grand kids, cousins, siblings etc.
So, is food stamp fraud rampant? In some places, yes. And I’m not about to chastise people for it.
this is such a fucking power move
“Then they wouldn’t hire people on government assistance” no no no the reason those people are ON government assistance is because their employer doesnt pay them enough. Wal-Mart employees are on food stamps because of how they’re treated (worked 70+ hours one week and 0 the next, followed by a single 8 hour shift the next week).
These corporations get away with this shit because the government helps keep these people alive, while the companies abuse them to the point they are desperate and that’s their only option.
Making the companies pay taxes that get gobbled up because they break the social contract is a brilliant move. They NEED those people so either they pay their employees more and give them benefits or they have to pay taxes that will help those people.
even if the fraud was like 5% it wouldn’t compare to rich people cheating the system by trillions lmao
Also, SNAP “fraud” is like exchanging some of your stamps for cash to buy necessities you can’t buy with stamps, like soap or deodorant or tampons
TBH even if one hundred percent of people on food stamps were committing food stamp fraud I’d still be in favor of keeping the program around
Hey I wanna talk about this.
I work at a drug addiction counseling center. A ton of my clients have, at one time or another, sold their food stamps. This is basically exactly what the GOP is afraid of, right? Drug addicts selling their food stamps.
I have learned, now, to ask them WHY they sold their food stamps. Here is an incomplete list of the answers:
- I need tampons, and you can’t buy them with foodstamps
- See above RE: toilet paper
- I was living in a hotel with no kitchen then. I had to buy pre-prepared food
- The homeless shelter won’t let me keep food in my locker or room, so I have to buy pre-prepared food (Yes, really)
- I had to make rent
- My sister had to make rent
- My son had to make rent
- I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll die
- I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll loose control of my mental health
But the absolute most common form of food stamp fraud I see? Giving away food stamps to other family members who get no food stamps or insufficient food stamps to feed their families. I see that every month. People glassy eyed and hungry because they gave away their food to their adult kids, their grand kids, cousins, siblings etc.
So, is food stamp fraud rampant? In some places, yes. And I’m not about to chastise people for it.
Hi. I really need some help right now. I just had a biopsy that I had to pay $950 out of pocket for. All of my financial accounts are now in the negative and I’m running low on food stamps and don’t get more until the 17th. I’m so sorry but if anyone has a few extra bucks to share I could really use some help here.
Funds earned will only go to medical bills, rent, and groceries.
