Ever try just one meal a day ?

Ever tried to feed yourself and your family with food stamps alone?

they do not issue food stamps to children. we cannot punish our children because they were born to negligent parents. you can't require public education all day and then feed them sub-par food. unless of course the point was to animalize those without supportive families, knowing that upon adulthood they'll gladly take your entry level, soul crushing office job for minimum wage, everso grateful for their daily fast food fix. that's not building a nation of humans, its dehumanizing a nation.

No, I work for a living. I'm the one that pays the taxes that pay for those food stamps.

Yes. When your broke, you have to do whatever you can. But I never asked for a government handout.

I have a Christmas wish for you JohnA. May your life always be predictable. May you never suffer an unanticipated economic disaster or personal tragedy. May you always stay employed, well fed healthy and warm. May you never have to sell your home to pay a medical bill or be forced to choose between feeding your children or heating your home.

But most of all, in a time a need, hunger or destitution, may you never have to confront a hard cruel bastard like yourself who has power over your fate. Merry Christmas.

Thank you Mark. And my wish to you is that the government stays completely out of your life and minds their own business and never dictates to you how should live and where your money is spent. I wish for you self reliance and personal responsibility, and no need at all for the government.

The food is very sub par already . They spend only 25 cents a child . You know what you can get for that ? That food , i have seen it , is not even real food most of it ......

Do you think you will never be ill or injured ? Few are so lucky .

I ran a program for residential psychically impaired youth from 1983 - 89 and got per meal to $1.38. Do the math.

So you are in no position to judge those whose very survival depends on food stamps, never having been there yourself. Walk a mile...

I have been ill and injured, and fully expect to be again. But I don't trust the government to do anything about it.

I was smart enough to know if I couldn't feed myself, I couldn't feed a child.

As if I will ever get out of Social Security what I have paid in.

I have lost my job, more than one, to tell the truth. I've worked for companies that fired me for bullshit reasons, and for ones that went bankrupt. I'll send you my resume if you want to see it. I know what they are feeling first hand. And I have taken unemployment checks. But I didn't expect them to sustain me, they were little more then beer money. So I got a job. Maybe not the best one in town, count me as the under-employed, but I'd rather do what I do than depend on the government to do it for me.

Food stamps go for 25 cents on the dollar in Memphis, and the Memphis City School Superindentant has a six figure salary and the Teachers Union will never allow a pay cut. But I have to pay more taxes.

Old? I'm forty years old. I've payed in for twenty years. I'll be glad if I ever see a dime of what I've paid in. I won't be able to retire until I'm eighty already, I never expected to get any of it back.

I did read it. Hey, I am a cynical person, but bad things do happen to good people. If you are working and trying and want a better life, I am right behind you. The world can be a hard cold place, no doubt. I know. The best of luck to you.

that's really too bad because it sounds as though you'd have qualified for a few programs. perhaps if you'd allowed yourself some assistance you wouldn't be so disillusioned to reality now.

here here, i get them too. single female, i get $180-ish a month. it goes up to $280 with a dependent, 340$ with 2, etc.$340 to feed a single parent, 3 person family for 30 entire days. that's spam & beans, not cage-free eggs & tofurkey. it's not like food stamps are some HUGE program feeding all the middle to low -incomed masses. it's a huge program that's keeping the masses alive... barely.

It doesn't take that long to be grumpy and cold hearted thease days. Now we have the internet.

I don't want them, that is the point. I am not looking for a handout. I believe in the in the American Dream ,that through my own labor and intutition, I can make my own way. I can have a home, I can build a future. And I don't need the fucking government to do it for me. I can do it.

Agreed .

You're incredibly rude and vulgar.

You're the textbook problem child, so please don't speak to me. And vulgarity involves obscenities, which judging from your indiscriminate use of them, it doesn't surprise me you don't understand the distinction.

By that token, you're the text-book toxic and abusive mother

I am sorry, as much as you like to play "pretend", I know nothing about you and you know nothing about me. We know nothing about each other. Goodbye.

I've read many of your batshit crazy comments, so if you meant them, my assessment of your person is accurate.

Oh, that's no fun.

lol my bad. proceed.

maybe one day you'll pop out a kid, and maybe one day you will loose your job, and your house, and your kid will starve, but since no one "we the people" will be around, i hope your kid dies and you die slowly as well in your own arrogance, you oaf.

If you had the ability to understand other people situations and where actually civilized, which means you can have empathy and emotion, diplomacy and wisdom you would bite your tongue.

but since your an ape of the Devil. I curse you with many years of misfortune starting today. GOOD LUCK

plus that money never even belonged to you, our tax dollars belong to the USA. and THEY'll GET THAT GREEN back if they wanted TO. SO PAY YOUR TAXES, APE, SO YOU CAN STILL DRIVE ON THE FREEWAY TO YOUR KKK MEETING.

Trying to picture who might want to have a kid with ayipis

I know. I am going to have nightmares tonight.

ann coulter?

LOL, if she had a uterus, maybe. Good answer.

#1..why the fuck am i feeding someone else's kids
#2 why the fuck am i raising these kids?? i mean where are the parents to raise these
kids and give them proper nutrition??

We all pay for stuff we don't approve of. I didn't approve of attacking/occupying Iraq or the fruitless game of "hide and seek" with bin Laden, but I'm paying for it. My thinking is simply that if our money's being spent anyway, I'd personally rather pay into a healthier America than play war games on the other side of the world.

#1 your $7 an hour job doesn't help anyone
#2 you couldn't raise a fucking plant, even if your life depended on it..
#3 don't worry about others, when you're a bigot/racist/coward/asshole hiding behind the internet.... =D

The same reason I'm paying for YOUR security via the DOD, CIA, FBI, NSA, your clean water, your clean air (EPA), protection for the food you eat (FDA), your unemployment insurance, your social security, supporting your education, building you safe bridges, good roads, safe air travel etc. Get it? We live in a civilization, not on an island with one other person who can pick their own coconuts as easily as you. It takes everyone working together and paying taxes together to maintain the benefits you obtain from living in the United States. And yes, that means taking care of those who can't take care of themselves.

your a trolling living in your moms basement under the name "the phantom" hahaha since when do you pay taxes

LOL..funny enough that what i was preaching..you screwed someone..you got a kid NOW YOU TAKE CARE OF THEM..dont let other people feed and raise your kids..

or is that too much work for you??

if ya wake up with a horses head in your bed don't be surprised...

I want Obama to not get re-elected to save the nation.

the democrats wants to keep people DEPENDENT AND NEEDY..how else can they get people to vote for them??

The republicans are not responsible for most of the deregulation that caused the new dependent and needy class? Really?

Yes, that's what I said.
The Republicans don't want Obama to get re-elected and save the nation.

Anyone who believes the democrats want people to be dependent and needy aren't afraid that society will become dependent and needy, but that they will. I mean lets face it your need for attention is apparent every time you post something. Good attention or bad attention doesn't matter because its all attention. Am I right ayipis? Posting your diatribes on conservative websites would only blend you in with the mass of others who think like you do and no one would respond. Here, people actually respond to you and you can get the attention you obviously crave. Pretty sad if you ask me.

and your republicans like you just the way you are... "dumb, stupid, and full of shit"

Is it better to starve than to disprove a political talking point?

then pay for my abortion!

So what you're getting at here is that you want the kids to starve because their parents don't feed them. Instead of choosing to feed children, you want to punish them for having parents that are unable to feed them. You'd rather we sit back, clutch our money in a vice-like grip and let children who may desperately need food STARVE so that you can prove a point about people who need monetary assistance from the government.

So... why exactly are you against abortion if you're perfectly willing to starve living children? What moral high ground are you claiming to have?

And as I know this will come up, no, I do not nor have I ever done drugs.

cant feed em dont breed em

Obamacare will cover it.

wow, that doesn't even make sense -__-

He said he wanted his abortion covered. I said Obamacare will cover it. Probably cover medical majuania too.

"majuania"?? What have you been smoking?

LOL, I just smoke it, I never claimed to be able to spell it.

c'mon now...I know there is some compassion in there; I've seen it.

Simple but elegant. Occam's Razor, lex parsimoniae. If we can't get that right, then is there really any hope for this species? Still, you have to feed the hungry, period. People get so riled up about birth and population control. On the other hand, spay and neuter your pets on humanitarian grounds. Sounds like the liberal conundrum, doesn't it? Rights come with responsibilities.

You got one right! Praise Jesus. Give enough monkeys enough typewriters and enough and they will produce a coherent sentence. +^1 for you. Keep on swinging and typing, brother.

Excuse me? For you?

He gave no personal opinion regarding abortion other than to bring it up to point out the hypocrisy of ayipis statement, or was he being to subtle for you?

Your comment is confusing. The "2008" financial crisis was the result of the Bush Administrations refusal to reign in the sociopaths on Wall Street. It was The bailout itself was Hank Paulsons idea (Bush's Treasury Secretary). The budget that Obama operated under in 2009, was in reality, the last Bush budget passed in 2008. I agree however that the middle class American got royally screwed. Especially when you consider that federal tax dollars were also used to bail out foreign banks with American subsidiaries and little to no money went to homeowners.

Still, as much as the crisis was the fault of the GOP, once it happened, there was little else Bush could do to stave off a global economic depression than spend, spend, spend. I will credit him and the Congress for having the guts to do the right thing, even though it was a bitter pill to swallow for the rest of us. I will fault them, however, for only pumping up the supply side of things while ignoring the genuine needs of the middle class.

quit talking about your dad...

but we are talking about those kids in school who are on their way to not becoming dependent of the state. my stepmother works in the buffalo public school systems as a dietician for their school cafeterias. about half of the children she feeds thank her for giving them their only meal of the day.

LOL so you got money to buy meth but no money to buy food for your kids??

stay in school kids or you'll end up a tweaker neo con puppet!

voted up!!

Don't bother trying to reason with ayipis because you'll be wasting your time. He is what passes as a "conservative" nowadays i.e. hypocritical, selfish, ignorant and incapable of adjusting his opionion to fit reality.