# "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:** 9\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/141 "2018-05-14T23:38:17Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > \*Actually, I don’t care if **D’Anconia** accepts the cite or not. He deserves nothing but ridicule and scorn. He’s a waste of skin, occupying space that someone else could be using. Telling him to fuck a cactus is an insult to cacti everywhere. He should take this opportunity to search the galaxy for his other brain cell. He can come back when he’s got two to rub together and we’ll see if there’s any improvement. I’m not optimistic. Did I mention I don’t like him? > [@Morgenstern](#): > > You, on the other hand, are D’Asshole. No adjectives needed. I’m torn here. **Sunny Daze** is wonderfully evocative, but **Morganstern** deftly skewers the target with rapier precision. By the powers invested in me by…well…no one, really…I declare you both winners and award you each 1/2 internets today. Well played, ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/142 "2018-05-15T02:58:55Z")
> [@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? Well wouldn’t that be lovely? I could use a vacation. I work sixty hours a week and I still qualify for food stamps because Jeff Bezos needs those extra dollars. They do not give out free smartphones, for the record. I got a little black brick phone and 300 minutes talk/text a month. I have the option to pay for a smart phone exchange and the lowest price one is 39 dollars. You can get the same phone online from Walmart for ten dollars and switch the sim card from what I’ve read, but the phone is garbage so I don’t bother. Safelink, the company I got my “obamaphone” from, offers a data plan that’s about the same as the Walmart phone plan. It’s not free, nor is the phone. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/143 "2018-05-15T03:03:35Z")
No you go fuck a cactus! ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/144 "2018-05-15T03:09:36Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Well wouldn’t that be lovely? I could use a vacation. I work sixty hours a week and I still qualify for food stamps because Jeff Bezos needs those extra dollars. > > They do not give out free smartphones, for the record. I got a little black brick phone and 300 minutes talk/text a month. I have the option to pay for a smart phone exchange and the lowest price one is 39 dollars. You can get the same phone online from Walmart for ten dollars and switch the sim card from what I’ve read, but the phone is garbage so I don’t bother. Safelink, the company I got my “obamaphone” from, offers a data plan that’s about the same as the Walmart phone plan. It’s not free, nor is the phone. don’t bother him with facts. he’s too busy parroting whatever Sean Hannity rams up his ass. ---
**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 15, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/145 "2018-05-15T03:42:01Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Well wouldn’t that be lovely? I could use a vacation. I work sixty hours a week and I still qualify for food stamps because Jeff Bezos needs those extra dollars. > > They do not give out free smartphones, for the record. I got a little black brick phone and 300 minutes talk/text a month. I have the option to pay for a smart phone exchange and the lowest price one is 39 dollars. You can get the same phone online from Walmart for ten dollars and switch the sim card from what I’ve read, but the phone is garbage so I don’t bother. Safelink, the company I got my “obamaphone” from, offers a data plan that’s about the same as the Walmart phone plan. It’s not free, nor is the phone. I don’t know much about how that works, but on the safefink website they show a free smart phone with 350 minutes, unlimited text and 1 gig of data per month, free. A few others that I looked at were comparable. It’s very possible that things are different in your state, I had to put in my state or zip code to see what offers were available (assuming I qualified), but it would appear that being on Snap qualifies you. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/146 "2018-05-15T03:45:08Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > I saw a band and they were begging for people to buy merchandise and they even said from the stage, “we accept EBT.” Obviously I was instantly skeptical of this. EBT simply stands for Electronic Benefits Transfer, and SNAP cards (i.e. modern food stamps) are one of many ways it’s used. I got unemployment benefits a few years ago, paid via an EBT Visa card, and some employers, mostly independent contractors, pay their employees this way. Some places also put child support and similar benefits on EBT cards. You swipe them just like any other debit card. ---
**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 15, 2018, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/147 "2018-05-15T05:22:24Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I don’t know much about how that works, but on the safefink website they show a free smart phone with 350 minutes, unlimited text and 1 gig of data per month, free. A few others that I looked at were comparable. It’s very possible that things are different in your state, I had to put in my state or zip code to see what offers were available (assuming I qualified), but it would appear that being on Snap qualifies you. New customers get a free smartphone. Existing customers can trade up for a price. I know, because SafeLink gave me a smartphone when I signed up. It’s a cheap-ass TracFone from Alcatel worth about 20 bucks, but you can talk, text, and browse the web with it. You can download apps from the Play Store, too. And I get 350 minutes a month, unlimited texting and 500 mb data a month, but it’s possibly because I signed up last year, and you need to be a newer customer to get the 1 gb of data per month. ---
**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 15, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/148 "2018-05-15T05:29:46Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Safelink, the company I got my “obamaphone” from, offers a data plan that’s about the same as the Walmart phone plan. It’s not free, nor is the phone. The unlimited data plan is optional. If you don’t want to pay for it, you still can get one free gb of data. You’re not going to be streaming Hulu with that amount of data, but it’s enough for email and some light web browsing. ---
**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 15, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936/149 "2018-05-15T05:31:16Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Those one-liners really only work with a laugh track. There’s always a laugh track. People are laughing at every post you make. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-accept-food-stamps/813936.md?page=7)