>my wife works at a grocery
>store and says only certain
>things can be bought with
>food stamps, no tobacco or
>booze for sure.
>
> Its part of America, our
>government has given certain Americans
>select rights, like grazing rights
>, water rights, mineral rights,
>property rights, ect. so
>with all these select rights
>comes all those without rights,
>and whether its to keep
>those without quite or calm,
>or its done out of
>guilt by the right holders
>I don't know, probably all
>of the above. Like the
>massive deficit its the
>way it is because its
>part of the failure of
>America and the inability to
>cope with a changing world
>and country.
Just so I get this clear in my head, you believe that government bestowed property rights to a selected group of people? Mineral rights and water rights flow from the ownership of property which apparently you believe government gave to people and they didn't purchase that property with their own money and risk their own capital.
Grazing is not by right it is by permit which can and do get revoked or reduced.
If you believe America is a failure then why not go to a country that is better and not a failure? I can't figure out what kind of stuff you are huffing all the time. America has not failed, we have many challenges but every country does, even Canada has huge challenges by being so dependent on exports. Watch what happens to their economy when China slows down even more.
Entitlements are a problem and they will remain a problem forever but remember where all the entitlement money eventually ends up: in the pockets of the rich, that is why you don't see corporations railing against food stamps. You think all the big corporate grocery store chains don't profit hugely from those entitlements?
I challenge anyone on hear who thinks living on Food Stamps is the easy life to try to even feed themselves on what food stamps gives.
I don't love the program and think there is plenty of fraud, waste and abuse but I bet most of that goes into the coffers of the rich than stays in the pockets of the poor.
Nemont