Welfare recipients can use debit cards for marijuana.

Davey Jones

Davey Jones

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Why sure why the hell not,they are poor and destitute and need to be happy until the next check comes in the debit card.

“The federal government current spends roughly $750 billion each year on means-tested welfare programs across 80 different accounts. This money is administered by a vast, sprawling bureaucracy with little oversight and no moral vision,” said Mr. Sessions, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee.

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No way this should be. If someone needs medical pot then let medicare/medicaid cover it. Welfare is to assist, help or aide with BASIC survival needs and not recreational activities. Welfare is not or should not be viewed as a way of going through or getting what you want in life. I have no problem helping people survive but public tax dollars should not be used for very personal and often dangerous entertainment decisions.
 
http://www.krdo.com/news/welfare-recipients-using-atms-at-marijuana-dispensaries/24590518

"State lawmakers earlier in this year's session rejected a proposed bill that would have banned ATM withdrawals at dispensaries and strip clubs."

Most federal social service programs are administered by the individual States. Looks like Colorado had every chance in the world to stop their welfare recipients from using the debit cards for a "free high". Instead, they elected to allow them to continue using "our" money for drugs and strip clubs. The corruption in the social service programs is out of control and it certainly isn't all at the Federal level.
 
Butterfly said:
Strip clubs? Howzat work??
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It must work differently than in PA - you can't get money from the welfare check by using an ATM, at least you couldn't when I used to work in the clubs. Not with food stamps, either. There WAS some under-the-table dealing being done as far as trades, however ...

As for the "Raises likelihood of taxpayer money used to buy pot in Colorado" that was mentioned in the KRDO article, one slight oversight is that there is a hefty tax placed upon marijuana purchases in CO, so it goes right back into the system.
 
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fox-news-perpetuates-urban-myth-that-food-stamps-can-buy-pot

The Associated Press
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calls it "an urban myth." The U.S. Department of Agriculture's guidance appears pretty explicit in forbidding anything like the procurement of narcotics, even legal ones, with government benefits. But Fox News is still sounding the siren that taxpayer dollars could be paying for people to smoke up.
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The USDA guidance clearly states that food stamps "can only be used to purchase food at authorized retailers." It is also emphatic that food stamps "can never be withdrawn as cash." Those two stipulations would seem to eliminate any possibility of food stamps being used to buy marijuana.
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And as the Associated Press reported, there is no evidence thus far of food stamp recipients attempting to use their benefits to get a buzz. The Republican state legislator pushing the bill to ban the use of electric benefit transfer cards, which can be used to access food stamp benefits, seemed to acknowledge that the bill is more symbolic than substantive.
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Please stop spreading this nonsense... It is nothing more than inFOXication.. lol!! Do you not see what is being done to you? The goal of the GOP is to get people angry and distrustful of the WRONG people... If they can get people blaming the poor, the elderly, minorities and immigrants for the problems facing this country, they will be less likely to turn their attention to the REAL cheats... The people moving the wealth of the USA from the middle class to the top.. wake up. STOP voting for the FOX in the henhouse..
 
Butterfly said:
Strip clubs? Howzat work??

I do have to admit it bugs me to see the person in the grocery line with a cart full of junk food paying for it with food stamps.
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Unfortunately, the cost of eating properly is higher than the cost of crap food. In order to get their families to 'feel' full and so, be happy, shoppers opt for the junk that serves no purpose other than quieting hunger pains of the moment. Start talking to your representatives about taking subsidies off of the corn and soy that is the basis for much of the prepared food and junk stuff, and start giving subsidies to the apple growers and the broccoli producers and walnut producers and so on. If that bag of chips cost $5.00 and ten pounds of oranges cost $3.00, it might be an easier sell to the cash strapped shopper.

Schools could also do a better job of educating the coming generations about what constitutes actual food. I don't know what passes for 'home ec' classes now (if anything) but it needs to either come back and/or what is there needs to teach about how a body functions long term on whatever fuel you give it. Like quit teaching how to make mac'n cheese and start teaching how to incorporate vegetables and nuts and seeds into the diet in ways that are tasty and healthful. Turn Jamie Oliver clones loose on every schools 'food curriculum' and lunch rooms.
 
Because I am a low-income senior; I receive food stamps. We are allowed about $40 a week for the two of us, which is not a lot of money for food each week, but I am glad to have it.
I have also seen some food stamp shoppers leave the store with a cart full of things like soda pop, chips, cookies, and other snack foods, and "easy to prepare but not much nutrition" junk foods for the meals.

While it is true that sometimes the junk foods are cheaper than the nourishing ones; I think the real issue here is that these families WANT to eat the easy meals, snacks and junk foods. Once they buy those, there is not money left over for the healthy foods.
I do the opposite. We get few (if any) snack foods, and hamburger-helper type meals. I don't buy a lot of meat because it is expensive; but i do get enough that we have an adequate amount in our diet, and I buy lots of fresh veggies and the marked down fruit. We make food from scratch; soups and stews in the colder months, and lots of salads and sandwiches and fruit in the hot summer months.

So, a person can live healthy on food stamps; you just have to make the decision of what you are going to spend them on, and cut out the parts that are not necessary for health. You just can't afford to buy both.
 
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Don't all liquor stores sell other things??? Most are convience stores.. and many times in poor communities, there are not many choices... they call these areas "Food Deserts" no places within walking distance to get staples... You cannot buy liquor with food stamps..... period... stop being rooked in by those that want to see you misinformed and voting the wrong way.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
Because I am a low-income senior; I receive food stamps. We are allowed about $40 a week for the two of us, which is not a lot of money for food each week, but I am glad to have it.
I have also seen some food stamp shoppers leave the store with a cart full of things like soda pop, chips, cookies, and other snack foods, and "easy to prepare but not much nutrition" junk foods for the meals.

While it is true that sometimes the junk foods are cheaper than the nourishing ones; I think the real issue here is that these families WANT to eat the easy meals, snacks and junk foods. Once they buy those, there is not money left over for the healthy foods.
I do the opposite. We get few (if any) snack foods, and hamburger-helper type meals. I don't buy a lot of meat because it is expensive; but i do get enough that we have an adequate amount in our diet, and I buy lots of fresh veggies and the marked down fruit. We make food from scratch; soups and stews in the colder months, and lots of salads and sandwiches and fruit in the hot summer months.

So, a person can live healthy on food stamps; you just have to make the decision of what you are going to spend them on, and cut out the parts that are not necessary for health. You just can't afford to buy both.
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I think the problem is that far too many people really have no idea HOW to eat healthy? I was even in a supermarket line and checking out my groceries (always a ton of produce) and the cashier asked me what the radishes were!!!! Who doesn't know what a radish is? So what does she put in her grocery cart I wonder! I watched a couple episodes of a show Jamie Oliver was doing years ago and it was interesting to see the folks he was working with (low income Brits) recoil in horror at the colourful foods he was presenting to them. These were the kind of people I was talking about who need read education about food, in our schools.
 

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