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Is Ms. Schmid willing to cut & clip coupons and take them to the Social Services office for distribution? If not, either find a way to implement the plan or think of something more feasible.

While the coupon thing is good, without a feasible way to implement it, it is uselsss.

Shalom

It seems to me like many of the grocery stores I go in have their coupon flyers for the week prominently displayed as you walk in the door.

Am I mistaken?

How about this: the state stops taxing food items? Don't hand me the old line "someone else will have to make up the loss of revenue to the state". EVERYONE is tightening their belt during these times of high fuel costs etc. The state can do the same.

How bout just dropping off Sunday's coupons at DSS and let THEM cut them out THEMSELVES?
Geee, do we have to do EVERYTHING for THEM?
I'm willing to make a drop off.. but I ain't cutting the damn things out for 'em.

How about cutting out the grocery stores all together? Why should grocery stores profit from social services? Why have a middleman there? Why doesn't the government order and stock the supplies themselves and distribute them to the people in need. That way, us taxpayers, will KNOW that people are getting food with their foodstamps and cut out the 'selling' of food stamps. I know of one person who used to take his friends to the store and use his card to buy their groceries. I think they paid him 80 cents on the dollar. That way he could buy his alcohol, cigarettes and drinks.

That's just a suggestion.

Secondly, coupons are a waste of time and money. Coupons are almost always for name-brand products. Even when you use your coupon, you can normally find a generic or store brand that will be cheaper. Especially, if you shop at Save-A-Lot or other discount grocers. I don't get food stamps. Therefore, I HAVE to shop at discount grocers just to get by.

One of the worst abuses I've ever seen of food stamps was a lady who purchased over $90 in halloween candy using food stamps. THAT ticked me off.

Geez Darryl...why come down so hard on me? Since when is a person required to implement an idea just because they wanted to share it with others? To answer your question, yes, I would be willing to clip the coupons and deliver them if the N&R and/or others would donate them.

Ms. Schmid, if one is willing to make vocal the plan, then same should be willing to do the "foot" work for it as well.

I did not mean to sound harsh. I like we have far too many people willing to suggest plans, ideas, etc., however when it comes to implimentation, these people are not willing to help. That is the tragedy in the whole situation.

Again, I apologize if my words were harsh, however, I stand my the context of my original posting.

Shalom

Woo-hoo! Yard Dog, we agree on something!

:-)

The sales tax on food (groceries) is the archetype of a regressive tax, one that hits the poor proportionally harder than it hits those who are not poor. Sales tax on meals at restaurants? That's different; very few or none are *forced* to eat at restaurants.

Regards and have a great holiday weekend,
Tony

First yellowdog agreed with me this week,now Tony! Am I losing my touch here, or what?

Naw, dog, that's one subject you won't get much grief on, unless it is from those who think the tax on food should go to pay for more food stamps for those who don't work, won't work and sell half of what they get to buy lottery tickets, which is going to bail their sorry butts out and put them on the road to riches. Yea, for about 180 days and they gonna be broke again.

OK,Mr.P,but if I start getting the urge to go to crawford and camp out or go to DC and join up with Jane, I'm seeking professional help.

Tony: Agreed that some taxes hit the poor disproportionately harder. But items purchased with food stamps and WIC are exempt from tax.

Mr. P: I am saddened and surprised by your comments stereotyping the poor. The WIC and Food Stamp programs are designed to provide for those in poverty. People are poor for many different reasons and seasons of life. I believe in both accountability and compassion -- balanced. Our attitude toward the poor says a tremendous amount about our heart for God.

Missy, you misread and misunderstood. I by no means included all poor or even most poor. There are poor who try and need help. If you will re-read you will see that I said ,"those who DON"T work and WON"T work...... therein lies the great qualifier of which I spoke. Continue to read my description and you will see and I am sure that you probably even know or have seen the exact group of the"poor" to which I refer.
I too believe in accountablity and compassion. To those who are lazy and trifling, I have no sympathy and nothing to give.

Mr.P., Thank you for the clarification, and my apologies for misunderstanding your meaning. :)

I agree about fraud and entitlement, but I think they occur in every economonic class, not just among the poor. And I believe that most often, the root problem is spiritual. People act out what's inside them, whether poor or rich.

How about we fingure out a way to stop the Food Stamp recipients from selling the coupons to buy crack and liquor? Shamberger's store in east Greensboro has been busted for giving cash for food stamps so people can buy liquor, dope, etc.
Most food stamp users I see in the grocery store look like they eat a whole lot better than I do, they're nice and big and fat and have 4 kids running around underfoot! And they drive nicer cars...so where is their "need?"

Missy, "By their fruits you will know them."

Word, Mr. P. Word.