Welfare Moochers

With stores like Aldi's and Save a Lot people are able to spend less and buy junk food. As long as they are buying healthy food also, I have no problem with it. I *worked* for my Social Security check. It is by no means a hand out from the government. What I do have a problem with is people who trade their Food Stamps for services (babysitting) or paper goods (toilet paper, paper towels, diapers, etc). I have seen this done and it does bother me. Good discussion.

I don't care what people do with their social security checks, as I do not see that as welfare. On the other hand, abuse of food stamps makes me absolutely furious.

Here in Oregon if you want to buy energy drinks they won't let you pay for them with Food Stamps. I think they won't even let you buy those energy bars either, I'm not sure about that one. But I guess too many people where buying that kinda stuff so they put a stop to it. I have tried the energy drinks and I think they taste bad and the bars are yucky. I'm on food stamps and I buy healthy food for my kid an myself, sometimes I buy sweets but it's usually ingredients for baking a cake or something or cookies.

Okay yes it would make me mad if i see them going grochery shopping and more junk is bought then normal food when there going grochery shopping though. you can tell wether there going grochery shopping or just spot refilling.(refilling things youve run out of). If a child doesnt have the right food or as much food as need and your out buying pop and potato chips i would be veary upset BUT who are we to judge them? we are nobody. how do we know what they do and do not have in their house? are you telepathic? didnt think so:)Thats how i look at it.

Just a minute. how I spend my social security check is my own business not anyone elses. we earned that money so we can spend it anyway we see fit it is not welfare at all. I worked for years for that. and rarely well you find a person on social security who has children for heavens sakes. If you are talking about p eople on welfare thats another story and yes I dislike it when I see people squandering money on stuff like videos when they should be buying food. but I will buy videos or pop or food and its none of your business I earned that money and I am eighty one and not able to work any longer.and people on social security seldom have food stamps either. you confuse social security with welfare. Social security is money taken out of our pay checks over the time that we worked and we earned that so do not ever accuse usof mooching off of anyone. we earned that money. I am angry because you do people on social security an injustice get your facts straight cherbear. your tax dollars do not go for my social security my tax dollars probably did but not yours.

I agree with you. But let me tell you what bothers me the most: Although it might sound racist but I'm hispanic so coming from me it won't matter. Illegal women who take welfare, they say that they are single and they have like 3-4 kids. They get WIC, Welfare, Food Stamps and they get money to pay half their rent. The husband is just there on the side making money and since food is cover, rent all what they earn is for their luxury. New cars going out. This is what hate and let's not forget free health services. When I was pregnant and i went to see if I could get free health services, they asked for my SS# and a check stub. Later my application was denied and had to pay for insurance. I was working part-time and could barely work because of the vommitting. I couldn't get any free services and I pay my taxes.

Yeah I don't really like welfare moochers. I mean they are living off our tax dollars! And also they just kick back.. and watch judge judy.. while eating bon bons all day! They should take a class.. and then find a job.. and get off their lazy A$$!

No it does not bother me what people spend thier money on as when i see so many fighting machines that cost billions of dollars just to kill humans. It makes me sick to the stomach of such a waste when there are people starving in this world.

The most important thing to remember is that such people are rare. Most people who get benefits actually need them. I working very hard and trying to get off of benefits, but I still need them for now and I will always need them for medical insurance due to my disability.

If you manage to start a termanitation squad to hunt these people down let me direct you to my lazy %^& ex wife as your first target. She's perfectly capable of working ( after 14 yrs of goverment paid college she should be more than ready for a career )yet doesn't. Meanwhile I slave my butt off just to get the things she gets handed to her... Enough said otherwise I'm just going to start swearing. I remember working at a grocery. Ladies would come in, pay with WIC & Food stamps & drive off in a brand new Lexus or something, WTF?

There is more than one reason that people receive social security money. SSD is for people who are disabled. Social security retirement is money a person earned after paying into the system all of their working lives. These people should be allowed to do what they want with their money. You must be thinking of SSI which is money given to people who are not working or making enough. That money should have restrictions on what it can be spent on.

It would bother me if I knew they did this type of thing ALL the time. But every once in a great while would not bother me so much. Say they were responsible 95% of the time. I had a friend on welfare and she had to work hard to get out from under it. The government does not make it easy to do. If she opened a saving account they'd take her welfare checks awaay from her. And it could have been a savings account for only $1! She was eventually able to get out - but it was extremely difficult. The reason why it wouldn't bother me if they were responsible most of the time is because it's nearly impossible to be perfect all the time. Now, if the person was always selfish and didn't care about their family - then yes that would bother me. Welfare or not.

Where I live there are loads of women who live like their rich on social security, one woman I know has 5 children, 4 different fathers, she is getting a four bedroomed house that she wont have to pay a penny on, she gets everything paid for and gets money every week from social security too. She is always loaded, she has wardrobes full of brand name clothes and can afford anything she wants. My husband works full time, we have 4 kids and we havent a penny to our name, everything we want has to be budgeted for or saved for, tell me how thats fair. She has told people that she has the children to claim the money and that if she went to work she would be worse off. There are people in this world who genuinly need that help at certain times of their lives but they get off their backsides and try to get off it by getting little part time jobs, but its ridiculous what some people get for doing nothing.

i think its sloppy of people to take advantage of the food stamps like that but what are going to do ? if you take that away from them than they're basicaly on the street