How does one one get off foodstamps?

[angelatc]

About how to benefit you. By getting off food stamps.

Your post implied that I have not been trying or putting in effort. I give most of my stamps to my sister ....

That's illegal. ANd now what you just said is you don't actually even need food stamps.

TO get off of them, call the county and tell them you don't want to get them any more. It's that easy. An empty tummy is motivation.

 

[Origanalist]

You and I are a dying breed though. WHen I was a kid, no real man would dream of taking government handouts. They were strong and proud. And nobody ever said it was OK, either. There was a (deserved) stigma attached to collecting welfare. It was cause for embarassment and shame. Now it's an entitlement - people honestly believe they deserve it.

Seems so long ago now, doesn't it?

 

[Sam I am]

With no money, no real job experience, very little college experience so far, no rich or caring family.


How?

Please dont troll Im sensitive to this.

right now food stamps are being taken advantage of by people who are not you, so there's no shame in taking advantage of them yourself. If you ever do get a job, some of your taxes will go into the food stamps program, so if i were you, i'd take advantage of it.

 

[CaptUSA]

There are jobs. I look in the paper and employment sites all the time - not because I need a job, but because I always keep my eyes open for something new.

There are jobs all over. However, you have to want the job and not just the paycheck. That's the killer. I interview applicants quite a bit and I can spot them a mile away.

I've given this advice before. Here's waht you do:

Find a job you want to do. Find out what the employer is looking for. Become that person. Then, go to the employer and tell them you want to work there. If they say no, come back again the next day. Keep doing that until you are hired. Managers want someone who wants to work for them. If you simply want a paycheck, they won't waste their time.

And you have to kick off the training wheels. The foodstamps take away your want for work. You may think you want to work, but I suspect your real motivation to finding a job is for the money. If that's the case, you will never be happy. No matter how much money you make.

I've heard it said that you should do what you love. Then do it so well that someone is willing to pay you for it.

 

[angelatc]

To be honest I am one of those votes. Thats my way of saying ME, ME, ME.

I dont try at all. Despite me selling myself hardcore. I have job interviews coming up andf I just turned down a job that was fulltime because I dont take commitments that I will turn down. Taking that job would have been wrong because they wanted someone to do maintenance long term and I have an internship this summer.

You are turning down jobs, but I have to fucking feed you? This is one of the many things that are wrong with welfare. You shouldn't get to make that choice.

Or actually, I am not even feeding you. I'm feeding your sister or something?

I am starting to think that the reason you don't have a fridge is because there's nowhere to plug one in under a bridge.

 

[palm]

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[ShaneEnochs]

I was never on foodstamps until about a year ago. The cost of living just keeps getting so damn high and my wages have stagnated. I paid into the system, so I was like, hell, why not?

In this economy, I'll probably be on them until something about my situation changes like a promotion or a job change. It's hella hard to pay for food along with everything else with the decreasing value of the dollar.

 

[ShaneEnochs]

I want to make an addition to my last post. I probably get $50 more a month than I actually need, which I use to buy food for shelters and the like.

 

[palm]

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[angelatc]

I should be able to at least survive... without FOODSTAMPS.

You don't need foodstamps, you already said you're giving them to your sister.

 

[tbone717]

I'll throw my two cents in here as well:

Here is what I would do if I was in the position that I could not afford to eat and would have to use food stamps.

1) Sell everything I own that I can live without. TV, cell phone, video games, computers, jewelry, etc. I'd sleep on a cot before I would accept a handout from the govt.
2) Get jobs - not one job - multiple jobs. You get up in the morning and you work till you drop. There are jobs out there - they may not be great jobs, but as you said you don't have much marketable experience. So if your lack of experience means that you are shoveling horse shit all day - then that's what you do to survive.

3) Start a business. As Angela said, you cannot expect to start something big right off the bat. You start small, you find a skill you have and you market it. Maybe you start cutting lawns in your neighborhood - and in a few years you have a landscaping business with several employees. There are also a lot of sales jobs out there that are commission only - find them, and build a business for yourself.

4) Don't spend more money than you have to. You are not in the position to buy anything of luxury. Cars, dining out, trips, anything fun is for the people that work hard and earn their luxuries. Until you can afford it, don't buy it.

Harsh? Damn right it is.

 

[palm]

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[oyarde]

Lol wow. Two people voted that being a victim of this takeover by design is "wholly bad"

Would either of you care to explain why?

I did not vote , did look at poll results , but , I can see why people would vote that . Food stamps are immoral because the money is stolen from others. I give to my local , privately funded , volunteer staffed food bank . I do not believe in govt involvment in that area.If I give the charity a dollar , the whole dollar goes out , if the govt steals a dollar from me to give to others , eighty cents of it goes to govt employee and building .

 

[oyarde]

Private , voluntary charity , good , govt . , bad.

 

[Origanalist]

"Seriously it's not as easy as you think nothing is cheap and no one will give anything to you"

Umm, ok. Who the hell said anything was easy?

I rode a bike ten miles to work and back every day at my first job, and my shift started at two in the morning. That got to be too dangerous because of the fog so I started sleeping in the boiler room.

I know plenty of people who had no problem doing WHATEVER it took to support themselves.

 

[angelatc]

Our dry cleaner is a little tiny Chinese woman. She came to this country, legally, with two small husband, no English, and a husband that dropped dead less than a year after they arrived.

She is fiercely proud that she never resorted to accepting a single dime in government handouts. She even went to her children's school, with her children in tow, to scold the administrators for repeatedly telling her children that if she would just fill out the forms they kept sending home, they could have free lunches. (She packed their lunches every day.)

That's the way you do it.

 

[palm]

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[angelatc]

"Seriously it's not as easy as you think nothing is cheap and no one will give anything to you"

Umm, ok. Who the hell said anything was easy?

I rode a bike ten miles to work and back every day at my first job, and my shift started at two in the morning. That got to be too dangerous because of the fog so I started sleeping in the boiler room.

I know plenty of people who had no problem doing WHATEVER it took to support themselves.

Yep. And plenty of people will help you. But you have to prove that you deserve their help.

 

[tbone717]

Call my office if you'd like I dont care
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At least I have a scholarship. I'll live off loans.

You guys scare me

Are you on school's internet or your own?

 

[ShaneEnochs]

I'll live off loans.

That's terrifying.