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Okay, so they're only 80 years late to the party. That's an improvement for them.

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Set out a box trap with a Glenn Beck book as bait.

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EIC? WTF is this idiot even talking about? You have to make like $5000/year to qualify for that! He says "usually we bounce back a lot quicker and stronger than this"

Well, douchehorn, for the last 40 years we've been replacing one bubble with another one. It's been great, hasn't it?

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Interestingly, it turns out there is a calculator to determine eligibility <a href="http://www.ndhealth.gov/dhs..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.ndhealth.gov/dhs/foodstampcalculator.a...">http://www.ndhealth.gov/dhs... I had to game the Holy Fuck out of it to get to the point that I would qualify for $6000 per year in SNAP benefits. $2500 mortgage + $500 property taxes (remember, we are talking about someone who grosses $3667 per month), deductions for utility and phone payments and one of those 6 people had to be elderly/disabled- just to get the numbers to justify turning down a 6k raise. These assholes are full of it- their example doesn't exist and if if he did, none of them would turn down that raise...

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Don't feed the poor! Now <i>that's</i> how to declare War on Easter.

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Here's a fun factoid Mr. Payne about my community food bank that I volunteer at: 43% of the clients we serve have one or more employed adults. My food bank serves enough food to feed 48,000 people 3 meals a day in one week. My food bank serves a 22-county area. My food bank is so efficent it can accomplish this at a cost of $0.33/pound.

20% of all of my food bank clients have felt the physical pain of hunger. These are US citizens of all ethnicities.

Fuck You Mr. Payne. You are bloviating bullshit on an infinity plus 1 magnitude. Again, Fuck You Mr. Payne.

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This dude and Moochelle both agree people are eating too much. Though as usual, there is disagreement about what to do about it.

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<i>typical "welfare queen" mom, except my mom and step dad are white </i>

That <u>is</u> typical.

Amazing you turned out so normal. Except for looking like a derpy. Probably from eating government cheese.

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This is the best idea ever.

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If only there was some sort of stigma attached to appearing on FOX...

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In my imaginary scenario, the guy passing up the raise is also offered sex from a bunch of supermodels, but he refuses because none of them will promise to get an abortion up front. And so he gets angry and goes to shoot up a school, but then he is shot by a priest with an AR-15, who then searches the dead body, and finds a secret talisman that has been keeping Obamacare from being overturned, so he smashes it, and suddenly there is this huge reverse tornado that sweeps away all of those undesirable/urban things and suddenly America becomes a gleaming Norman Rockwell painting on the hill.

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Man who thinks $44,000 is common wage among Food Stampers = exactly WHY they don't understand Food Stampers.

Signed -- Food Stamper who earned less than $12,000 last year.

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