Barack Obama
Joe Biden
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Are you kidding?
46.7 million working Americans on food stamps means absolutely not. Cutting food stamps means raising minimum wage.
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pShould we reduce the food stamp program to rein in government spending?
Results
51 %
Absolutely
49 %
Are you kidding?
@Nov '12 c 270 comments V 467 votes
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martydotcomv Are you kidding?Harry Reid was right, Romney paid no tax for 10 yrs. Apple admidittedly has 100 bil in off shore accounts. he Economist estimates Corp, and personal off shore tax avoidance shelters = $26 Trillion and we can't feed the hungry?? Corp profits soaring, ave corp tax paid <10%. CEO salary vs works pay ratio, a new high . Conservatives have you no shame?
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uGatnosv AbsolutelyThe food stamp program began when the government decided to stop subsidizing farmers. Well, guess what, we are still subsidizing farmers and food stamps are traded like currency and people use food stamps to buy top shelf food items and then turn around and use their cash for booze and tobacco. Just another well-meaning, but poorly thought out and poorly executed federal program.
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DrSilicon votedv Absolutely
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Obsidion votedv Are you kidding?
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LHoranv AbsolutelyWhen I see women with their hair done, fake nails, make up done up, dressed to the 9s, after I just finished a 12 hour shift to keep a roof over my head, I want to scream!
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whatheheckv AbsolutelyHow many of us have been standing in the grocery checkout behind a food stamp recipient who somehow has cash enough to buy a $50 carton of cigarettes?
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PayThatCEOv Are you kidding?The U.S. is providing hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid to some of the world's richest countries - while at the same time borrowing billions back, according to report seen by Congress. The Congressional Research Service released the report last month which shows that in 2010 the U.S. handed out a total of $1.4bn to 16 foreign countries that held at least $10bn in Treasury securities. Four countries in the world's top 10 richest received foreign aid last year with China receiving $27.2m, India $126.6m, Brazil $25m, and Russia $71.5m. Mexico also received $316.7m and Egypt $255.7m. And yet despite the massive outgoings in foreign aid, the receiving count...
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Randolfv AbsolutelyIts time to have a long overdue conversation with these people.
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Bill votedv Absolutely
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SlimElmo91 votedv Absolutely
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warwil630 votedv Are you kidding?
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Chomsky0v Are you kidding?Has anyone looked at the federal budget? There is a glaring problem with what America spends money on and it's not feeding poor people.
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Prime_Meridianv Are you kidding?This suggestion reminds me of an old European folk tale about a stupid family wanting to same money by feeding their parrot table scraps rather than the type of food it had gotten used to. I think English and Americans call it "Penny-wise, pound foolish".
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Big_bov AbsolutelyI think it is time to reduce the food stamp program because it will help reduce government spending. Once the idea that these people on food stamps realize that they're not getting as much as they use to, they're going to have to take drastic measure like budgeting or working extra hours to support their country. Heck it might motivate them to get off their butts and get a better education so that they can get a better job to support their families. Who knows, maybe the price of food might go down which would benefit us all. Also put some restrictions on what they can buy and not be allowed to return the items that they purchased with the food stamps.
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oldman75v Are you kidding?Let em eat cake . Tax capital gains as earned income and all the financial problems are solved .
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Sloburnv Absolutelydemocrats are using government programs like the old coal mines used company stores to enslave the populace. Help the truly needy to the extent they need help. Throw the parasites out and jail the cheats.
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uBig_jeffv Are you kidding?Unfortunately we have let this go on for too long. Cut back welfare? We'll have an army of uneducated, ignorant, useless, lazy, Obama-voters who wouldn't be able to figure out how to wipe their ass without govt assistance. What do we do with all of them then? We can't kill them all. We can't just ship them off to another planet. We did it to ourselves.
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pezcore64 votedv Are you kidding?
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Colin2k41 votedv Absolutely
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zachvega votedv Absolutely
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LilliB votedv Absolutely
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nagydonnac votedv Absolutely
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ZombieMedicv AbsolutelyWay too many people abuse this program! There are charities that can provide for truly needy people, or better yet, people can work for food! Make community service a requirement for food stamps!
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LibertyWolf votedv Absolutely
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SgtNFury votedv Absolutely
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Laity1v AbsolutelyReduce AND reform.
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uCaryNickelv AbsolutelyI voted to reduce the program, but that does not mean we shouldn't help those in need. Everyone citizen in the United States should have food on the table before we spend one dime on foreign aid. Reducing the food stamp program doesn't mean people won't be able to eat. But do they have to eat steak? Expensive frozen, prepared foods? Ice cream, pastries, donuts? No. Change the criteria for the program so that people who utilize it must get the most value for the taxpayer's dollar.
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mwrv Absolutelytighten the application and monitor the use better, get the fraud under control.
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NoAmnestyEVERv AbsolutelyFor those of you who haven't seen what food stamp recipients do with their bounty, allow me to give you a first hand account that I've seen on the streets dozens of times. They SELL their food stamps at a discounted rate so that they can buy booze, drugs and cigarettes, all of the things that they're unable to purchase with food stamps.
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ufrapsv AbsolutelyI am not sure the food stamp program should even exist. But, it is does the food stamps cost should be put in a long term interest bearing account that would be eventually be paid off by the individual or the individual's estate. Food stamp recipients should also be subject to drug tests so long as drug use is illegal, and to community service where after tax minimum wage would be credited back to the food stamp program. Food stamps and all governmental subsidies should be counted as income for the recipients.
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Saving_USA votedv Are you kidding?
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ujond414v AbsolutelyI want people rioting and occupying wall street and washington. This wont happen as long as people aren't going hungry. Take the bread away, and the whole thing collapses.
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kimmie99 votedv Absolutely
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bskingv Are you kidding?should we reduce the food stamp program to rein in government spending? No, we should reduce the food stamp program to encourage and re educate that segment of the population to work harder and be more responsible for themselves and their families. reining in government spending will entail removing 80 percent of the Washington elites
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Clarke12 votedv Absolutely
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uMick_Riddlev Are you kidding?stopping foreign aid would save more money than reducing food stamps. stop sending money to country's that hate us.
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jeffreykneev AbsolutelyYes but it's NOTHING compared to Medicaid and Medicare. How to downsize Washington without harming one citizen. Keep in mind medical industry subsidies are 300x oil industry subsidies ($1.2 trillion vs. $4 billion): 1). Scrap all poverty-based entitlements, and cut taxes 50%; 2). Put the judicial branch and IRS in charge of mitigating neediness using family courts, penalty fines and surtaxes on the relatives (not the public); 3). Abolish Medicaid, state lotteries and Indian casinos -- then renew funding for higher education and cut tuitions 75% (see 7 below for more); 4). Keep Social Security for retirement only (scrap disability and widowhood perks, see above); ...
