# "We Accept Food Stamps" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 10, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936 "2018-05-10T20:20:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/81 "2018-05-12T20:34:22Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > common dreams, pogo, and cheat sheet are not cites. Try again. Why should I accept your opinion? Are you disputing the companies and figures they list or are you burying your head in the sand? Can you prove them wrong? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/82 "2018-05-12T20:41:13Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Why should I accept your opinion? > Are you disputing the companies and figures they list or are you burying your head in the sand? > Can you prove them wrong? It’s up not to me to prove them wrong. It’s up to you to prove them right. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/83 "2018-05-12T20:57:45Z")
I like chocolate chip cookies. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/84 "2018-05-12T21:05:22Z")
The money in my wallet says: “Legal tender, for all debts public and private”. Any place that won’t take my money can eat my shorts. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/85 "2018-05-12T21:09:33Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I like chocolate chip cookies. Well, I tried to help you. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/86 "2018-05-12T21:32:00Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > It’s up not to me to prove them wrong. It’s up to you to prove them right. “I want cites, but I won’t accept your cites!” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/87 "2018-05-12T21:55:55Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > So we are paying for her food and her phone, and probably her healthcare and maybe her housing as well. What else should we be on the hook for? Makeovers, spa days, and vacations? Those “Obamaphones” should really be called “Reaganphones”, because the Lifeline program was created in 1984, to provide low-cost or free landlines, with the emphasis being on senior citizens and the rural poor. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/88 "2018-05-12T21:55:58Z")
What, you expect him to sully himself by giving traffic to the likes of those leftist websites? Unpack this sites’ sources for him, or they have no validity! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/89 "2018-05-12T22:00:23Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > How can one get a job and get off food stamps without a phone? > > I was on the EBT program, and without it I would have starved. I had two comments from other people in line: > > 1. You should be drinking plain water, when I was buying some iced tea mix, from a woman who was buying several bottles of soda. > 2. I wish I could be using food stamps and buying junk food, when I was buying a half-priced caked for my birthday! I explained this to the person and added what I’ll tell the OP: > > Change the name, and the tale is told about you. In other words, anything can happen to anybody, and someday you could be using food stamps. > > I was also on line in the grocery the day the whole EBT system crashed. When my card wouldn’t go through, the cashier said in a very nasty voice “Don’t you have another way to pay?” No, you idiot, if I did wouldn’t be using EBT. The manager was standing out front, no doubt being called because the EBT payments weren’t going though. I complained to him, that the cashier herself could be using EBT someday. Over the years, I worked with several pharmacists who treated Medicaid patients poorly, no matter why they were on it. :mad: I did not allow that behavior (making them wait extra time after the prescription was filled, partially filling it so they would have to make another trip back even though we had enough to send them on their way with a completed prescription, etc.) when I was there, and I also told them, “How do you know you’ll never need it?” The first time I encountered this, he admitted that he didn’t have health insurance even though it cost $10 a week for a single person (ETA in the mid 1990s). 😕 :eek: He said, “I’m healthy. I don’t need it.” Yeah, healthy people get hit by cars, get cancer, etc., you doofus. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/90 "2018-05-12T22:03:46Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Not to hijack this thread but a trending thing here in the greater Atlanta metroplex: Restaurants that do NOT accept cash. > > [https://www.myajc.com/business/kempner-why-cash-longer-the-restaurant-menu/ddtbLV9CaVrTEZzb2lhrXM/](https://www.myajc.com/business/kempner-why-cash-longer-the-restaurant-menu/ddtbLV9CaVrTEZzb2lhrXM/) > > There’s other businesses in the area that no longer accept cash - like insurance offices, to name one – and it’s for much the same reasons, theft. My rental office does not take cash for rent, although they do for laundry chip cards, for this exact reason. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/91 "2018-05-12T22:10:56Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > It’s up not to me to prove them wrong. It’s up to you to prove them right. You claimed them to be unusable. It’s up to you to support that claim. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/92 "2018-05-12T22:49:38Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > You go fuck a cactus. Those are blogs and opinions, not legitimate cites. Jerk. What a fucking weasel and moron you are. The articles are full of facts and figures. Are you disputing that the corporations are receiving those amounts? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/93 "2018-05-12T23:02:44Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > What a fucking weasel and moron you are. The articles are full of facts and figures. Are you disputing that the corporations are receiving those amounts? You could consider that I might be onto something in post 88. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/94 "2018-05-12T23:32:01Z")
common dreams dot org IS NOT A CITE. Certainly not on a board that’s allegedly dedicated to fighting ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/95 "2018-05-12T23:32:02Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > The money in my wallet says: “Legal tender, for all debts public and private”. Any place that won’t take my money can eat my shorts. As has been pointed out before, if you pay for goods and services at the time you receive them, it’s not a debt. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/96 "2018-05-12T23:32:26Z")
I see the OP is too embarrassed to have returned to the thread they started.😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/97 "2018-05-12T23:51:31Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > common dreams dot org IS NOT A CITE. Certainly not on a board that’s allegedly dedicated to fighting ignorance. May we presume your position to be that any assertion made on that site, regardless of how much or how well it is sourced and cited is subject to gratuitous dismissal? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/98 "2018-05-13T00:28:33Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > May we presume your position to be that any assertion made on that site, regardless of how much or how well it is sourced and cited is subject to gratuitous dismissal? It’s not well sourced. Would you accept a cite from FoxNews? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/99 "2018-05-13T01:10:27Z")
If I learned that a citation I found to be reliable had happened to have been used by FOX News, that knowledge would not make me mistrust the citation. The likelihood that my first encounter with the citation would be through FOX News is nil, of course. Could you share why you are not inclined to consider the data from Good Jobs First to be well-sourced? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/100 "2018-05-13T01:13:34Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Could you share why you are not inclined to consider the data from Good Jobs First to be well-sourced? I’m not inclined to accept common dreams dot org as a cite. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936.md?page=6)