Why shouldn't people be allowed to have BBQ just because they get foodstamps? Edit in red
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I am sorry, but that just seems silly to me...Just because someone receives food stamps they shouldn't have cookouts with family and friends once in awhile? I didn't realize if you got food stamps you are not allowed to do normal things like other people can!!!
I get food stamps and we have BBQ all the time in the summer (a few times a month) we buy the box of hamburgers that come 20 to a box and a big pack of hot dogs..we then ask others to supply a dish whether it be a salad, chips, drinks condiments or what have you....But just because we get food stamps does not mean I am going to sit home all summer with my thumb up my ASS!!!
My DH works...I am home with 3 kids including a disabled child who needs 24hour care...
****EDIT****I have a degree I am a RN spent 5 years in school to become one, I gave up my career because I was better equipped to care for our child because of my background as a nurse.....DH got out of the military just before we had our last child...he spent 10 years active duty...He got out on a medical discharge because he was hurt while over seas.....I can't work because my child needs 24 hour care and DH work has no set hours....I am looking in to either working from home or trying to get our insurance to cover a a nurse that can help care for our child while I work part time as a home health nurse...
****EDIT****Because a lot of you were saying it was fraud to have a cook out and feed other people at the cook out using food stamps I called my case worker and asked because I truly had to know if it was or not she actually laughed when I asked her this...She said it is not fraud to have a cook out and feed the company, it is not fraud to have a birthday party for your kids and feed company, it is not fraud to have dinner and feed some company, but what is fraud is selling the food stamps, giving the food stamps away, allowing someone else to use your card, and buying food for someone else house so they can feed their families...She then asked me why I wanted to know so I told her because I was told I committing fraud by having cookouts and she just laughed again.
It isn't cruel at all, IMO. I am not on FS or any PA for that matter and if we can't afford to cook for other people, than that is the end of that. I don't think using food stamps for cookouts is fraud, but it is abusing the system. I am glad to pay taxes so other people's families can eat, but using the money for entertainment is wrong. Use it to stock your kitchen and feed your immediate family, use your own money for cookouts and other fun activities. It is people like this that gives PA a bad name.
Quoting Anonymous:
What exactly is cruel about thinking people should support their families on their own and pay for their own entertainment? Millions of people buy all of their own food, pay all of their bills, and use their own money for entertainment. Is it so wrong to expect people on PA to use their own money to pay for entertainment? The government is already providing their food for them. You deserve what you can afford, you don't deserve things just because you're on PA and feel you deserve stuff just because everyone else has it.
Quoting Anonymous:
Havent you heard? People on foodstamps are scum and dont deserve anything...and their kids should be taken away too. It amazes me how heartless and cruel women on this site are.
They are trying to ban buying soda from FS
Do you REGRET having kids