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In reply to the discussion: Next time you bitch about the guy buying a Snickers with food stamps... [View all]azurnoir
(45,850 posts)28. +1000 and this situation in no small part because
people have been carefully taught to consider each and every penny that a SNAP recipient gets as coming directly out of their pocket or it's really their money that guy or woman is buying that snickers with and seeing as how tit's really their money they should be able to at the very least tell him or her just how and what they can spend it on
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Next time you bitch about the guy buying a Snickers with food stamps... [View all]
liberal N proud
Sep 2013
OP
I would think "more" rather than less, I have no doubt the liquor store bill goes on a generous
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#36
Come on folks. We all KNOW a Snickers is a luxury item on par with a yacht.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2013
#25
And when your life is nothing but daily pain how can you begrudge a man a snickers!??
AAO
Sep 2013
#34
A craving for sugar can be an indication of a protein deficiency. A craving for billions of dollars
AnotherMcIntosh
Sep 2013
#47