Jesse, NICE and thank you. I am actually on a quest lately to read actual conservatives who don't identify as Tea Party and your link is helpful.
And speaking of links, I searched high and low and all over for a really good non-partisan, easy-to-understand layout of what the government spends money on. I wanted to educate myself. And then I ended up writing a bit of an essay and linking to it on the Book of Face.
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So one of the comments that my super-religious surrogate sister made about the link:
I'm not familiar with the link you provided, but it is endorsed by the VP, WaPo, and NYT, may not be as objective a reports as could be.
So my question is, is there a better link? Not a rhetorical question. I am asking Le Hivemind.
In fairness to the people with WIC buying not-allowed things, it is super complicated. So, for example, you have to have either the exact amount or less of what is on the check-- so if they say 15oz of cereal, but all the cereal comes in 16 oz containers, you have to get the 12 oz. And then it is even more complicated, because there are only particular cereals you can get. And when I was doing it, it wasn't in the computer, the cashier had to read the back of the WIC check to see if the particular cereal was eligible. Very rarely did I see people seeming to attempt to 'scam' their WIC check.
Foodstamps, I did a little bit, but it was mostly just this one vietnam vet who had a traumatic brain injury. At the time we gave back actual change for anything less than a dollar, so he would come in and buy a 25 cent item, and take the change repeatedly, until he had enough cash to buy cigarettes.
Almost all the scam based things I saw working in retail and/or grocery had to do with returning items for cash, whether they were stolen items or whether the ticket was altered.
java,
from their about page:
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it likely will not convince your sister, but I don't see a partisan purpose there.
OMG this is killing me (whitepeoplemourningromney tumblr): [link]
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
OK, the guy who's never going to speak to Democrats again and who's going to boycot stores that accept food stamps... has been interviewed.
Eric Dondero on Boycotting Democrats -- Daily Intel
Elton John is a toughie. You know he leans left. But he made friends with Rush Limbaugh of all people last year. So, I give him a pass. Oh, and the Beatles had that classic "tax man." John Lennon's personal aide in his last few weeks of life, was interviewed last year, and said that he turned into a Reaganite in the last few months before he was killed. Isn't that ironic?
Lots of fun hypotheticals....
