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Originally Posted by gimpy117
okay, so as a grocery store worker this has been eating me up: The fact that you can get big ticket items on food stamps such items as:
-Beef tenderloins -20.99/lb
-snow crab legs -10.00/lb
-King crab legs - 19.99/lb
-New your Strip, t-bone, ribeye 10-12.99/lb
honestly this grinds my gears. I think these items should be prohibited. Lets face it, food stamps are there because you cannot afford to eat supposedly...not because you cannot afford to eat like a king! I'm all for people being able to get normal, less expensive products like chicken, pork and less expensive beef cuts...but King Crab legs??? really?! we once even had a lady buy $200.000 worth on food stamps because she just got her benefits. Honestly unless these people start sharing this crab with me in a little fed up. I can't afford that stuff, and as a college student i'll get like 50 a month if i got EBT.
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This may be a first, but I agree with you 100%.
I personally think that people who are completely on the dole should, after a certain period of time, be issued ration packs rather than the ability to make their own purchases on the taxpayer dime.
If fact, I think that this is indicative of what is the problem with our welfare system as a whole - instead of helping people simply get by, we've gone so far as to take the misery out of poverty. Let's be honest: in the US if you're on welfare and food stamps, odds are you still have clean, running water, taxpayer funded utilities, a nice flat screen TV, etc.