I agree. Why didn’t you report him to the Utah Labor Commission? They even have a handy Wage Claim Form on their website
My Bubby(grandmother) was one of 8 children born to immigrants. Through years of hardwork, Bubby went from nothing to owning the corner store. Even then, it was rough and she never had enough money for things like insurance. The store burned down and she lost everything. But, Bubby told herself that she had done it before and she could do it again. She did. She got another store. Bubby once worked for 2 weeks with a broken leg because she felt you don’t bother the doctor unless it’s serious(this didn’t apply to Zeyde or Mom. If they sneezed or had a temperature of 99, Bubby worried), and if you can get out of bed, then you can work.
My Mother was a housewife. Then, she started watching some of the neighborhood kids during the day. Then, after alot of thinking and planning, Mom started a daycare center. She owned, ran, and worked there for 15 years.
I was raised with one hell of a work ethic. But, I can't work. If I could study my electronics books and get the information to stick, I could probably make a few bucks repairing things for other residents of my apartment complex. If I could think straight, I could give myself a tech support refresher course by reading books at Barnes & Noble, and make some money fixing pc's for the other residents. Hell after all the times my antics in public cause a crowd of children to gather and laugh, I've given serious thought to becoming a professional clown.
But most of the time, I'm incapable of simply showering everyday(BTW-If any Dopettes in the area could come by once or twice a week and shower with me, it'd help a lot). I don't have any self respect left. *
KellyM
You have a good point about tap water. The Philly Inquirer, The Philly Weekly, and The Philly City Paper have all run articles showing just how foul our tap water is.
Your mention of the military reminds me of something I’ve wondered for a while. Is there a place I can buy MRE’s with foodstamps? They have a very long shelf life, require no refrigeration, don’t need preparation, and are nutritionally complete. I know that they make kosher MRE’s as well.
- I recently ran out of Paxil which caused me to experience serious panic attacks, sudden rages, black despair, the inability to control my emotions, flashbacks, and withdrawal symptoms. I’m back on Paxil now. But, the whole thing has resulted in some wallowing in self pity. BUT, by no means am I saying my suffering is especially great. We’ve got Dopers who: were severly beaten and/or molested as children, paraplegic, quadriplegic, etc. Though things are bad for me, I’m well aware that there are plenty of people who have it far worse.
Actually, Nevada does have sales tax, but things like soda pop, candy, chips, snack cakes, etc. are considered food and not taxed. So, partial credit. I think that levying a sales tax on junk foods, as most other states do, would go a long way toward solving this state’s financial woes.
jsgoddess I agree that white rice is basically non-nutritional. I won’t buy it. Brown rice, OTOH, is very good for you. Yeah, it’s more expensive (I don’t understand the logic of having to pay extra for them to not take off the bran and germ), but you can buy it in bulk at many health-food stores quite a bit cheaper than if you get it packaged at the supermarket. Also, have you thought about buying whole grain flour and baking your own bread? It’s actually quite easy to do. Mix the dough, go away and do other things while it rises, then put it in the oven… not a tremendous amount of work involved there. I’ve done it in the past, and may go back to doing it.
I’ve never really understood the appeal of white rice and white bread. The whole-grain stuff is so much tastier. But, what was once “poor people food” (unrefined grains and bread) is now considered a specialty item, and companies now charge extra for not refining the food.
My dad has a recipe for bread that I think is nothing more than flour and beer-I’ll ask him. It’s delicious.
“Poor people food” can often be the tastiest. Heck, New Orleans is famous for their “po’boy” sandwhiches.
Mmmm, beer bread.
Actually, I think there’s yeast involved, too. Either that, or self-rising flour.
I got Nevada and Montana confused, I guess. Nevada has no personal income tax. Montana has no sales tax. Neither do Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, or Oregon.
Beer bread does not generally involve yeast; the beer itself provides the rise.
Yes, there are multiple tax tables, but you could still key it off the tax table you use for state tax, as long as the food-stampability is also a state-level decision.
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I agree that it would be prohibitive to have the state define every UPC. The POS systems will already support flagging an item as food stampable or not. The current rules for food stampability are sufficiently simple that the retailer can enforce them - you don’t need the state to specify all the UPCs. I don’t think it would be possible, though, to define the nutritional value rules sufficiently clearly for the retailer to make the decision. So I agree with DMC - the scheme is not workable.
Wouldn’t beer use yeast in the brewing process? Maybe that would leaven the bread.
StG
Only from an unpastierized keg type source. But in normal baking the yeast gives off CO2 that gets trapped by the gluten. A fizzy bottle or can with no active yeast would probably do just fine. You just couldn’t punch it down and wait forever to bake it.
I asked my father-it’s just beer, self-rising flour and spices. (If anyone wants the recipe, I’ll have my dad try and find it and post it in Cafe Society).
Another point against UPC flagging-when I worked in retail, it was almost impossible for them to get all the sale stuff correctly. Do you know how many mistakes those things make?
As a heavy inventory person I very much understand the complexities of manually flagging items. IF you have the capacity to update your own DB structure its a relatively simple matter to flip those flags since you only have to do it once. If you have portable scanner capability and the ability to create a non-costable/allocatable “virtual location” in your store, you could have a store crew sweep through the store adjusting 1 of each SKU that was ineligible for food stamps into the virtual loc… Create an “update query” that flips food stamp flags off for any matches to items in the “virtual location”
At least thats how I would do it with my 9,000 SKU warehouse.
In this case its a good thing. I would tend to think that not allowing cash withdrawls or limiting them to $20 a day or something might be a damn good idea. I very rarely carry cash anymore now…why would a single mom legitimately on welfare need to. Gas for the car, groceries, clothing, money orders for rent, all easily handled via VISA/debit card.
Good god man! Is there no limit to how much you want to control somebody elses life just because you can?!? Why would a single mother need to laugh? Why would she need hats that arn’t made out of newspaper? Why does she really need a middle name?
Screw it. I’m off to the pit.
This is a hijack, but I am adamantly against limiting the ability of recipients to withdraw from their EBT cash accounts. Why? Because they are charged transaction fees for each transaction by the bank holding the EBT account. The best way for a recipient to limit the amount of benefit lost to bank fees is to withdraw the entire benefit amount at the beginning of the month and spend it in cash.
Most money order brokers will not allow a money order to be drawn against a credit card (doing so is terribly bad business). Even if they do, this forces the recipient to accept the charges not only for the EBT transaction but the money order too.
I see no reason why welfare recipients should be forced to pay avoidable transaction charges out of their benefits. If the government wants to give money to banks, they should do it directly, instead of letting them skim it off the top of welfare benefits.
Poor selection of banks…mine does not.
Notice I put /debit card. I have purchased a money order this way before, for sending money to a friend.
Then start bitching out your congresspeople for picking a bank that is robbing welfare recipients. Generally direct deposit type arrangments result in fewer fees not more.
drachillix, how much choice in banks do these people get? I chose a bank that doesn’t charge me lots of fees (in fact, in the entire time I’ve had my account I’ve never been charged a fee other than an out-of-network ATM transaction fee, and that’s not charged by my bank). EBT recipients generally have no choice as to what bank they use or the terms of their account.
What’s the point of complaining to Congressmen when they don’t choose the bank anyway (that decision is made by a bureaucrat), and besides probably got more in political contributions from the banks in any month than any one of these welfare recipients receives in a year?
Dole yeast! That would be dole yeast! What SF book was that in? I think it was a series by Larry Niven, the name of which I cannot recall.
The peasants and the rest of the caste underclass thank you for pointing out what we need and how we should live our lives.
Your radiance shines down upon us with the glorious wisdom you have learned from the four basic food groups.
:rolleyes:
Perish the thought that I speak favorably of avowed Bolshevik *Eva Luna, but she was just pointing out that good and healthy food need not be expensive. People have been poor for a helluva lot longer than welfare existed. Why not use some of the methods, developed over hundreds of years, to help the poor of today?
The irony is that what is now often considered ‘gourmet’ (various breads and whatnot), are nothing more than ultra-expensive versions of the same things that peasants had for centuries. You buy a loaf of ‘German Rustic Sourdough’ from Panera for 3 or so bucks. I bought a loaf of ‘kruh’ from the bakery for a couple of dinars. Same difference.
Well, I couldnt prove it. The owners response would have been “I told him not to work any overtime, and he didn’t”…followed by my job disapearing.
In fact, the only real corespondance I had from him (and it was a message on the in-house email system), was just that. You are not to work any overtime. The only documentation of what hours I worked was a hand written time sheet done by the manager at the end of the week.
I had a family to support, and I couldnt risk losing that job. Had things been diferant…I might have risked it, and reported him. but I doubt it would have gotten anywhere.