resister (01-15-2017)
I don't know about that but this woman was. It was probably faux fur b/c it was leopard print, but I'm not a fur guy (Mrs. U is a fur woman, though, and wishes that I revealed that in our marriage negotiations). The contrast was striking to me at the time: generic / powdered formula / no meat - vs- branded everything / crab legs / liquid formula and meat. This was in the Slavic Village / Broadway area of Cleveland that was slowly dying. We moved shortly after being robbed.
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes
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I'm used to reading stories from people who claim they have seen, or know someone who has seen, someone paying for prime steak, lobster, jumbo shrimp and the like, with food stamps, aka: SNAP card. Funny, as traveled as I am, I have never seen someone even close to purchasing such things on a SNAP card. Quite frankly, I see those stories as deliberate lies, usually aimed at blacks.
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A lot of it is because of general nutritional ignorance.
You can say what you want, but what I described 100% happened. It was roughly 1990 and the reason I know that was b/c we were buying formula (could've been early 1991 b/c #1 was born in August and I don't recall how long she'd have been on formula). These people weren't black, they were white inner-city poor in the Slavic Village area of Cleveland, where my wife grew up. When I got out of CWRU, I had a ton of debt from law school, so we bought in that neighborhood. I 100% had never seen those 'coupons' before so when I asked Mrs. U what they were, that was a serious question.
Last edited by DGUtley; 01-14-2017 at 01:51 PM.
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes
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Listen, if you want to make an issue about people using SNAP cards to buy soda, as a reason to end the food share program, go for it. But if saving ones tax dollars that are wasted and ill spent, I'm going after the DoD/Military budget, in a breath. Let me know how your crusade works out. If I'm going to err, I'll do it on the side of feeding people as opposed to killing them.
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