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From Facebook: We live in a society where people use an $800 phone to check their food stamp balance

TheDoubter 9 Sep 15
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My burner phone from Wal-Mart, $24.99, no contracts, looks Exactly like an $800 phone & performs all the same functions. ASSuming from looks is pretty pathetic!

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well, facebook doesn't actually say that. some idiot who has never had to rely on food support used facebook to say that. people with $800 phones don't get food stamps. i am on food stamps. i don't even get $800 a month from social security; i sure wouldn't spend more than a month's income on a phone. there are free phones one can get from a government agency if you meet certain income and asset requirements. they're not fancy. they're barely usable. i don't have one of those because you can't get one if you have another lifeline service, and i have the lifeline button to press if i need emergency medical help (i have medical issues). so i can't get a free phone. i am not the only person in my position. but it's easy to make fun of people who need help and portray them as cheaters, as lazy, as too stupid not to spend what little money they have on an expensive phone or as dishonest enough to get food stamps if they don't really need them. it's the perpetuation of reagan's "welfare queen" lie and as such it's NOT FUNNY (and certainly not true).

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thanks for relating your case. it's educational.

@JustLynnie exactly. i didn't choose to become sick. i was making what i then considered a bunch of dough, $60k a year, when i started getting really sick. i even had savings. too bad for me. but there are folks who resent that other people get any kind of help at all, even if it barely keeps them alive. and by the way, they haven't even YET reached the amount of tax dollars i paid, so i am not taking tax money from someone else (but the military-industrial industries and corporate ceos, they're stealing your money, not me!)

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No profile photo, bio profile, or answered profile questions, yet you're on a dating site? You want women to guess what you are? You could be a 300 lb unemployed loser living with your mother for all we know. Or married. Or a criminal.

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don't bother me right now. i'm checking my food stamp balance

Got enough for Cheetos?

@MiltsterD just enough for myself

@TheDoubter s'alright. I can sell my phone.

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