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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe last time we checked, no one has ever killed someone with food stamps...
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The last time we checked, no one has ever killed someone with food stamps... (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Apr 2013
OP
How about we quit supporting proto-fascist state intrusions against any and all citizens? n/t
appal_jack
Apr 2013
#4
Just imagine how much nicer America would be if that were the other way around.
Electric Monk
Apr 2013
#8
riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)1. How about people who buy guns have to take a drug test
sounds fair.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)5. +1
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)2. That is a really good point.
Not to mention this off topic point, people on food stamps aren't robbing us blind with trying to get huge tax breaks and demanding that our military protect their interests.
Cha
(295,907 posts)3. K&RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Ye-ah! It only makes sense.
thanks Play
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)4. How about we quit supporting proto-fascist state intrusions against any and all citizens? n/t
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)6. But - but - but - they're okay if it's for our causes, right? (nt)
booley
(3,855 posts)7. Having a gun is a right
being able to feed yourself and your children by getting food from a store is not a right.
Though admittedly if you have a gun and get hungry enough I guess you can still get food from a store.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)8. Just imagine how much nicer America would be if that were the other way around.
http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-facts/child-hunger-facts.aspx
16.7 million children lived in food insecure households in 2011.[/]
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)9. actually, loads of people have died from food stamps...
just look at what you can buy with that shit.