Monster Beverage looks for a buzz from food stamps

  Rather than add more junk like this expensive garbage to food stamps, the program should tighten up. Understand this, the program is there to insure people young and old have quality food to eat with nutritional value. It is intended to help the welfare of the poor. Why is this so hard to understand. One of these monsters costs more than a loaf of bread (as do cheetos and doritos) Don't tell me it's up to the consumer , when in fact i am paying for it with my over-burdened tax dollars. The junk needs to be taken out of the system, not added to it.

I work in the meat department of a grocery store. I have seen way too many times these lazy, useless pieces of crap come in and buy the top cuts of meat offered. While the hard working people and the ONES WHO REALLY NEED THE ASSISTANCE buy the bare minimum just to make ends meet. You can tell who these worthless human beings are by a few factors.

1. 3-4 kids and the woman has more on the way.

2. Wearing pajamas while talking inconsiderately on their i-Phones while yoou are trying to wait on them.

3. Smelling like they just climbed out of the bottom of either a beer vat and/or a bong.

4. Pants hanging down to the back of their knees. (White and black boys both fall in this catagory so don't give me any racists junk.)

5. Usually cursing up a strom, showing how truly uneducated they are. And they can not even properly pronounce whatever they wish to purchase. (Could also be from lack of being able to read the sign or package, which also shows their uneducated ways.)

6. High dollar products being bought for themselves and a month's supply of Ramen noodles for their kids to get by on.

 

   I harbor no hard feeling for the people who truly need the help. Growing up my family had to survive off of them. But it was a shameful feeling we had one and all to be on them. These scumbags get their rocks off being a complete waste of life and a blight on this society.

In a state of around 10M, Michigan has 1.8M bridge cards (food stamps)  Average amount per month is $530.  That is $1.145 BILLION for just one state.  Now guess what party most of these folks voted for? 

Sad to think that after reading a story like this, half of you idiots still think more gov is the answer.

I have been in the grocery business for 45 years and I have seen every possible abuse of the food stamp and WIC programs. I worked in one store that had 90% of their customers using food cards (some were their own cards some were not, many had multiple cards). They all drove nicer cars than mine. Most of the women had false fingernails and cell phones that they used throughout their shopping experience. I could not afford a cell phone at the time and have never enjoyed the luxury of false fingernails. Many purchases included nothing but party foods (chips, pop, deli trays, and prepared desserts.) Oh, not that it's important, but most of these recipients knew how to speak very little, if any, English. Sometimes abuse of the program has been so great, like customers selling their cards in our parking lot, and a tavern owner taking food cards for payment of alcohol and then using the cards for purchasing pop for his tavern, that I have actually reported it to the proper authorities. But nothing was ever done about it.

Why would people that sit around all day...need twice the caffeine drink? Would it assist them in getting the energy to get up and get a job?...if it does...sure put it on the list.

Monster doesn't need to make a change, but the USDA sure does.  I hear the tired old argument all the time that poor people are overweight because they can only afford cheap food.  Here's what I see every single weekend when I go to the grocery store:  Carts loaded with with name-brand chips, frozen pizzas, cake, soda, and other empty-calorie items.  I can spot an EBT cart a mile away.  They get up to the register, and yep, out comes that food stamp card.  They're really easy to recognize in my state.  They all look exactly the same.  Meanwhile I stand in line behind them with my meager little collection of store-brand food because I can't afford all that sort of junk.  I wouldn't buy it even if I COULD afford it, but that's beside the point.

 

Too much of the food stamp money is going to purchase empty calories that do nothing whatsoever to contribute to the health and nutrition of the recipient.  They are getting very little value for their dollars, but by golly, it tastes good, and I guess that's all some people worry about.

 

Food stamps need to be set up like WIC, where you can only purchase very specific items with it.  Stuff like vegetables, beans, some meats, dairy products, healthy cereals, flour, cooking oil, etc.  NO chips.  NO cakes.  NO Monster-type beverages.  They do NOTHING to help keep you going.  All they do is make you fat (or in the case of the energy drinks, really jittery).

 

I have no problem with people who are legitimately and TEMPORARILY down on their luck receiving food stamps.  I'm all for it.  But generation after generation?  NO.  That has GOT to stop.  We're not doing the recipients a favor, and we're not doing our country a favor.  We've bred several generations of people who contribute NOTHING to society, and they've gone on to produce several more generations of children who feel entitled to exactly the same "benefits".  How many more people can we add to those numbers before the entire nation collapses under the weight?

woe is me. I thought I had heard it all. what the hell is going on? its really crazy when someone on govt' assistance eats better than I (one of the taxpayers footing the bill) do. I can't afford lobster . so, now with their free cell phones and cable what the heck are they going to do with all that energy???? apply for more assistance ????

Until our factory was closed ( product line moved overseas ) in 2009, I'd spent 23 years with 3M.  Full time, 50-60 hrs a week........and decent pay with all the overtime added in, BUT.......at some point in the 1990s, as our technology & manufacturing processes were improving....being streamlined & upgraded with the development of new machinery, etc........we were putting out MORE & BETTER product FASTER..........with​ FEWER employees required to run the equipment.   I can't fault the corporations for doing what they can to cut costs, but the downside is....there are FEWER jobs out there.   At the same time, we've got 7 billion + walking around the planet now.   Underemployment/unem​ployment is a worldwide issue.   I don't see how it can change anytime soon.   We seem to have 'out-smarted' ourselves.    And I don't think it has anything to do with which party is 'in office'.

Thief's are after money and they don't care who's money it is..... America's programs to help the poor and the takers give a big incentive for people in all categories to steal taxpayer $$$$.