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[No Soda Bought With Food Stamps?]

However it is something akin to someone asking you if they can have X amount of money for help and then you get to tell them how they can spend it.

 

What's wrong with that? My money, my terms. Borrow it or not. Banks make such distinctions all the time, and that is for money that will be repaid. Why shouldn't the government put restrictions on given money?

 

This whole discussion has become silly, imo, so I am done now.

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[No Soda Bought With Food Stamps?]

Why?

 

 

 

Why is this even a question? So, applauding the fact that someone chooses not to access government services and instead make their own way is now seen as wrong or abnormal? Wow. I think that says a lot about where we're headed as a nation.

 

ETA: As far as digging yourself out of a hole, we did the same. People do it all the time without the assistance of the government. I guess the difference between us is that I'm not sitting around bemoaning the fact that it could've been so much easier with assistance. I'm proud of us for having done it on our own.

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Yes but if you have to decide whether to pay the rent or put food on the table, then it becomes not so much a choice IMHO:(.

 

Not an easy or a happy choice but a choice nonetheless, as evidenced by folks right here who have decided not to do it and are finding other ways to make it. Like Tara, I do not begrudge people services, but I applaud those who are finding ways to make it without using them.

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No? I did interpret Mejane's remarks to mean that it is always a choice.

 

I'll stand by my remark. No one has a gun to anyone's head that I know of. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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[No Soda Bought With Food Stamps?]

But our government has consistently over time done things that would financially benefit the rich and we argue about a few dollars that a poor family spends on soda. Seems rather ludicrous to me.

 

You will rarely find me defending the federal government. ;)

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