- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food Stamps Quotes
A safety net people argue about from every angle.
These quotes cut across the usual lines - one voice asks why expecting profitable corporations to pay a living wage counts as 'left-wing' when the alternative is workers needing food stamps, while another speaks plainly about relying on them for a short stretch.
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- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.
- Billions Of Dollars
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ex-Im Bank doles out billions of dollars of loans and insurance subsidies every year and has become the poster child for corporate cronyism in Washington. Think of the bank as food stamps for America's Fortune 500 companies.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left-wing? How did that become 'leftie?' That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk to the mother who desperately wants more for her child and offer a constructive way out. We can't simply lambaste... food stamps or decry dependency.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Food Stamp Challenge, which challenges higher-income families to live as if they are on food stamps, estimates that a person on food stamps has a budget of about $1.25 per meal. In other words, a family on food stamps must buy an entire meal per person for less than the cost of an average cup of coffee.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020