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billybobblockhead said:
I've stood behind several paying with SNAP over the years. The overwhelming majority are battling multiple kids and they are working their hardest not to overspend their benefits. Most have two carts, one for SNAP covered foods and one for the stuff not covered by SNAP so they don't get things mixed up. They are pitiful and doing what looks to me to be to be the best they can.

(Accidentally cut off the last part of your post, TM. My bad on that) There are a bunch of folks in very rural parts of NC and other states that fit this quote exactly. And play the lottery at least weekly and many times daily hoping for the big windfall. I overheard a conversation between 2 girls years ago at the school I was working in at the time. They were talking about weekend plans, and one of the girls said, "me and my dad are going to Chesnee tonight and to buy lottery tickets and get my dad some beer" (prior to the NC lottery...). This family was absolutely dirt poor, single dad raising a daughter, but was hoping to win big!

I've worked in schools for a long time. If you want to see poor, go to a rural elementary school and hang out for a while. There are always kids that "have" in any school, but it's very easy to pick out the kids that don't have a thing, and those kids are absolutely pitiful. And their parents are the same, but most give absolutely everything they have for their kids to have a chance. And there isn't an end in site for many of these families - generation poverty rules in rural America, and many of these parents aren't FA in the least, but they sure are FO.
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In the rural county I grew up in over 12,000 people - or nearly one-fifth of the entire population - is on SNAP. Cutting that program will be devastating to nearly all of those people.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
In the rural county I grew up in over 12,000 people - or nearly one-fifth of the entire population - is on SNAP. Cutting that program will be devastating to nearly all of those people.
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The sad thing is that Ronald Reagan planted this seed when he campaigned on welfare queens driving Cadillacs to grocery stores to buy steaks with food stamps. Even more sad is that GQPers still believe that cruel bigoted trope today.
 
heelinhell said:
The sad thing is that Ronald Reagan planted this seed when he campaigned on welfare queens driving Cadillacs to grocery stores to buy steaks with food stamps. Even more sad is that GQPers still believe that cruel bigoted trope today.
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Hell, Zen tried to argue that he witnessed this just a few weeks ago, here.

I know several maga's at work and they all have a story of a welfare queen...
 
Colbert’s show just got cancelled after he criticized Paramount’s decision to settle with Trump for 8 figures.

FAFO.
 
Ramrouser said:
Colbert’s show just got cancelled after he criticized Paramount’s decision to settle with Trump for 8 figures.
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Look at you trying to make it sound like so much money (8 figures!) when it was one of the lowest 8 figure numbers possible...
 
Ramrouser said:
PBS / NPR defunded now Colbert cancelled.

What a week!
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I don't want to let this pass. We've had thousands of humiliating posts in the short history of this board. The many, many iterations of the batshit crazy guy who keeps getting banned. The hundreds of posts from the Moscow-based troll who has now disappeared (hopefully not because he was defenestrated). But of everything we've seen here before now, I'm having a hard time figuring out how this post isn't the most emasculating of all. Barring losing the worst fantasy football bet of all time, I literally can't imagine posting what Ram has posted here. I'm so sorry for you, Ram.
 
lawtig02 said:
I don't want to let this pass. We've had thousands of humiliating posts in the short history of this board. The many, many iterations of the batshit crazy guy who keeps getting banned. The hundreds of posts from the Moscow-based troll who has now disappeared (hopefully not because he was defenestrated). But of everything we've seen here before now, I'm having a hard time figuring out how this post isn't the most emasculating of all. Barring losing the worst fantasy football bet of all time, I literally can't imagine posting what Ram has posted here. I'm so sorry for you, Ram.
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damn, i hadn't even noticed that silence dipshit has been MIA.
 
www.wkyt.com

‘It would devastate us’: Proposed HUD time limit sparks concern for Ky. man

WKYT spoke to a Richmond man raising four boys by himself in public housing.
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Chris Wright, his four boys and dog Nook live in Dillingham Heights. It’s overseen by the Housing Authority of Richmond. Wright is watching the news about the proposed rule by HUD and the Trump Administration that would limit people living in Section 8 and low-income housing to two years of assistance.

“And if he did that, and if I was limited to two years, it would devastate me and my children,” said Wright. “It would devastate us. I mean, there’s no question around that, and I’m a Trump supporter. I’m a Trump fan... well obviously there’s been things that have been going on that’s brought that into question.”
 
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