Rich get food stamps in Ohio..Loophole allows those w/ 100K in bank but no assets to get food stamp

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/03/18/rich.getting.food.stamps.wlwt

[Lost in CT]

1. Um if you have 100k in the bank isn't that a liquid asset?????

That said this is an attack on the program. we need to expand food stamps not make them more restrictive. (For example single people without children should eat as well)

[JesterCS]

5. Im single, and get food stamps

and i still live with my parents

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. TYPO in my thread title...Rich with lots of assets but NO INCOME getting food stamps

[Lost in CT]

12. Thats different and assets (like a car and house) are different than liquid assets

such as money in the bank.

I actually think one car and your residence and common possessions shouldn't count against Food Stamps, Welfare or Medicaid.

[Lars39]

2. It is still a drop in the bucket compared to corporate welfare.

*Very* convenient timing. :eyes:

[Hannah Bell]

3. if you have 100K in the bank & no other assets (no job, no house, no car) are you "rich"?

i don't think so.

you're living on your savings.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. You can live off 100k without assistance until you get a job

It's ridiculous that they get food stamps.

[Hannah Bell]

7. are they "rich"?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. No, but they don't deserve food stamps

[Lost in CT]

10. Depends where you live but you are not starving.... nt

[tanyev]

4. Hells bells.

I couldn't get them in Texas in 1992 when hubby and I were both unemployed because we had two fairly recent model cars. We were renting an apartment and had no other assets in the bank at that time, either.

[tangent90]

11. That story does not say they are getting them, it says they may be elegible.

Very misleading. A bunch of hysterical innuendo.