More comments from readers of the article on disaster food stamps:
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The published comments are in italics, my replies follow:
Well, we had a job and we had insurance and we have savings. Our loss exceeds what we will get from the insurance and FEMA. If you needed and were entitled to the assistance due to food loss due to the flooded house, why wouldn't you pursue it (other than the wait)? If you were entitled to help, you could have swallowed your pride and received a couple of hundred dollars that could have helped you with your school. You have paid taxes, so, had you decided to apply for some food assistance, you would have also "got what you earned". The program is not designed to help lazy unemployed people; it is designed to help people who experienced significant loss due to a natural disaster.Two words, Job and Insurance. I too had a flooded house and my insurance covered most of the stuff. I did have to shell out a couple hundred bucks extra to get food, but oh well. I work hard, full time, and although I dont make alot of money I make enough to support myself, my family, pay the bills on time and have a little extra to go out and do stuff once in a while. Now my taxes go to put food on the table to lazy unemployed people that want to milk the system. I didnt have money for college, so I got a job, worked hard and worked my way up. I live on my own, pay my bills and am going back to school to earn my degree. What I got I earned. I didnt impregnate my girlfriend 100 times and therefore am able to live. When I finish school and make more money then the kids will come.
WHAT does home damage and lost possessions have to do with FOOD?!?!? Thanks Bush! Thanks IDES/DHS! What am I missing here? (Other than a free ride like these BUMS!)
Can these people get a job already instead of waiting for a handout!! What a joke....Lather, rinse, repeat. This program has nothing to do with people getting a job, nor with people being bums. Unfortunately, there are people who will take advantage of a well-intentioned program.
For all those who complain about the few dollars in food stamps, lets cut out all government handouts. Things like the gi bill for college and home purchasing, fha mortgages and insurance, home tax deductions, unemployment benefits, corporate tax credits and bail out loans and equity. Lets just send all of our money to Iraq like we been doing, instead of helping the people in the usa.Unfortunately, this is the kind of program that is somewhat easy to abuse. But your point is well made.
Disaster food stamps for other places?
President Bush declared seven northern Illinois counties disaster areas after the heavy September rains across the region. (WHAT A JOKE!)
What about the people in NW IN who have lost everything due to the flooding there as well. Why hasn't the fearless leader in the white house think about those folks.
NW Indiana also had a Disaster Food Program a few weeks back. I'm not sure why they got theirs earlier than Illinois did.
My basement flooded and yes I lost alot of things food included that was in the deep freezer and no I didnt have the time or day to go and stand in line for foodstamps and yes I work full time and I'm a full time student raising my son on my own, where I lived the water came to my back door which have stairs that lead up to it. I wish I could get foodstamps!It is truly unfortunate that many hard-working people who could benefit from this program will not be able to get the assistance to which they are entitled because they can't find the time to stand in line.
This is CRAZY!!! I had no power for 4 days, and I lost alot of food, but because my basement didn't flood I don't get anything!! What kind of proof did these people need to show to get this money?? Myself and the other people who had to go work and couldn't stand in line, what do we get? Just another great way to spend our hard earned tax dollars...If you were in an area with no power for four days, even though you didn't flood, you might have been entitled to some assistance. They would subtract the value of the food you lost due to no electricity (probably $200-300) and compared it to your income and ready cash reserves for the month.
It's interesting that people up here are recieving aid. Houston has essentially been forgotten about at this point, and support was scarce when it was offered.I just did a quick Google search, and read that 45,000 people in Texas signed up for Disaster Food Stamps. If that figure represents families applying vs. individuals, it means that at least 100,000 people in Texas did get Disaster Food Assistance.
I'm amazed at some to the ignorant comments the readers of this paper leave. Most have racist undertones, no compassion for the poor and needy, and are spoken in pride! These are "Americans" May God have mercy.There are certainly angry people posting here. People don't like Food Stamps, and most of the people posting here are not distinguishing between regular food stamps and the disaster program.. and they are assuming that everybody who gets Food Stamps is some kind of lazy loafer.
Yes, we have worked!
And I'll bet you never worked a day in your life to just put food on the table amd make that mortgage payment all the while trying save for your kids college and retirement.Umm... most of the people in my neighborhood work every day, pay mortgages and work hard to put food on the table.. and try to provide funds for their kids to go to school and hope they can eventually retire.
Because if you had to work for everything you've managed to accomplish in life, you wouldn't be so willing to see it be given away to someone else without your approval. You would have known from life experiences that there are a many scammers out there. The put more effort into beating the system than looking to do the right thing like find a job and pay for it themselves.
And once they attack you for being "rich" even though you are not, maybe then you'll understand.
You have led a sheltered life.
Then they are hit with four feet of water in their basement; washers/dryers/hot water heaters/furnaces that are trashed, furniture, supplies, food, possessions,photos, all gone. Thank heavens that some of us can tap into the taxes that we have paid for years and get a little something. I don't think that most people posting here have ever lived through this kind of disaster. I know I hadn't until five weeks ago.
VOTE WISELY!!! The people deserves the government it elects!!!
Lot's of heartless bigots out there. And some of you calling it socialism need to go back to school. The nationalizing (govt. buying) of our banks is a much more socialistic move. Both candidates and parties, as well as Bush pushed it through.As I wrote above, Disaster Food Stamps have been around in some form since 1974. The program has been amended and formalized several times during several administrations. This is not a new program, nor a Democratic or a Republican program.
O.K, enough about disaster food stamps for people affected by the Albany Park Flood. Now let me catch my breath. Whew!!
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