Carefree Surfer Dude Loves the Taxpayer Funded Life

[AuH20]

And the democrats are freaking out about a 5% reduction? Really? So surfer guy can eat like a king? The SNAP program was originally intended as a temporary safety net as opposed to a lifestyle choice.

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/08/72344-obamas-food-stamp-program-ca-surfer-buys-sushi-lobster-avoids-work/


That was the attitude displayed by Jason Greenslate, a 29-year-old California surfer and musician, interviewed by Fox News‘ John Roberts during “The Great Food Stamp Binge” Friday night special.

Though he’s trained as a recording engineer, Greenslate prefers to sing explicitly about what little desire he has to hold down a job, and has “f**k no” guilt toward his taxpayer-funded lifestyle. He also lives rent-free, occupying the homes of family and friends while occasionally shacking up with girlfriends – a lifestyle that he said is “wonderful, man.”

“Wake up, go down to the beach, hang out with my friends, hit on some chicks, start drinking.”

Fox News later followed Greenslate to the grocery store to see what items hey buys – using the $200 monthly handout he receives from enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly “food stamps”). Roberts watched as the freeloader picked out gourmet sushi and lobster, “all paid for by our wonderful tax dollars,” according to a smug Greenslate.

[Ender]

Come on- except for the food stamp issue, most of us would live a similar lifestyle if the US was truly free. The "American Dream" has made everyone a prisoner.

[EBounding]

I applaud this guy. Take whatever bennies you can get. He's not the one stealing from the taxpayers; it's the politicians and their agents. The faster the system collapses the better. The media loves stories like this to distract people from the real problem.

[JK/SEA]

I applaud this guy. Take whatever bennies you can get. He's not the one stealing from the taxpayers; it's the politicians and their agents. The faster the system collapses the better. The media loves stories like this to distract people from the real problem.

i agree.

[belian78]

I can honestly say I wouldn't live that lifestyle had I the choice. When I was younger I pretty much could have done that, just lay around drink and party all day/night. I basically made 2-3 phone calls a day to set up house parties in the college town I lived in and took a cut of the door for doing so. After a while, I had to get a job, I just felt like a bum.

It wasn't that I didn't have money, I had more than enough. I just got tired of sleeping in until noon, laying around until 5 then partying until whenever. I've always been the type to have to be productive in some way or another. I'd venture to say that as time goes on, people that prefer to be productive have been shrinking in number and that has a lot to do with why this country is in the state that it is.

[belian78]

I applaud this guy. Take whatever bennies you can get. He's not the one stealing from the taxpayers; it's the politicians and their agents. The faster the system collapses the better. The media loves stories like this to distract people from the real problem.
Sure, play right into their game. Make yourself their slave. Their system will not collapse until they want it to, and then it will be by design. All you're going to do is leave yourself with no way to take care of yourself but to grovel at the state's feet.

[fr33]

No political movement is going to stop this. Socialism will end when the victims of robbery no longer tolerate it and are willing to use force to stop it; or when the benefactors of robbery die from starvation.

[jbauer]

Come on- except for the food stamp issue, most of us would live a similar lifestyle if the US was truly free. The "American Dream" has made everyone a prisoner.

That's so crap

Most of "us" live to live. If it wasn't for mechanization we would still be working to feed ourselves and our families 16-18 hours a day. This whole notion that you can just sit on your ass and survive only came into being in the 80s and later. Its just compounded itself with government program on top of government program.

[aGameOfThrones]

Oh, SNAP!

[jbauer]

The surfer was an excerpt from this mini documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4GaLtz5Fc8

[Matt Collins]

$200/month isn't a lot of money for food

[Matt Collins]

oh and lol @ audio engineer :p

[AuH20]

Lazy surfers, K Street. It's all the same. Live at someone else's expense. Can this thing crash already? sheesh.

[AuH20]

Come on- except for the food stamp issue, most of us would live a similar lifestyle if the US was truly free. The "American Dream" has made everyone a prisoner.

No one is questioning his lifestyle. More power to him quite honestly. It's the wage slave issue. No one should be paying for this crap however. If he wants sushi and lobster, he should start charging for surfing lessons.

[oyarde]

$200/month isn't a lot of money for food

I grow most of mine , but I do not spend even 70 % of that a month.

[ravedown]

i call bullshit. this story seems too cartoonish to be real. everything looked staged. fox news knows stories like this rile up the angry old GOP viewers. also- this is hardly the story to piss people off about food stamps....why don't they show the businesses that have profited from the EBT/SNAP boom? KFC/Jack in the Box/Walgreens/7-11 etc. in California you can buy anything with these cards. this guy is just a caricature of the real issue.

[AuH20]

i call bullshit. this story seems too cartoonish to be real. everything looked staged. fox news knows stories like this rile up the angry old GOP viewers. also- this is hardly the story to piss people off about food stamps....why don't they show the businesses that have profited from the EBT/SNAP boom? KFC/Jack in the Box/Walgreens/7-11 etc. in California you can buy anything with these cards. this guy is just a caricature of the real issue.

Wrong is wrong. No one here is excusing JP Morgan Chase for spending hundreds of thousand dollars to lobby Congress to pass a bloated farm bill. But if someone wants to be a willing accomplice to the government in this theft parade, then fuck them too. Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon and this surfer tool. All parasites. Some wear suits and some surf. The end result being the same. The IRS knocking down your door if you left a box on your 1040 vacant. Or presidential addresses demanding that WE HAVE TO RAISE THE DEBT CEILING OR RAISE TAXES.

[kahless]

I am starting to feel dumb for in tough times never taking anything from government and rather going into debt to the banksters instead.

[oyarde]

I am starting to feel dumb for in tough times never taking anything from government and rather going into debt to the banksters instead.

You will feel better once you pay the bank off .

[Philhelm]

You will feel better once you pasy the bank off .

Don't you mean pay that bank back?

[dannno]

I applaud this guy. Take whatever bennies you can get. He's not the one stealing from the taxpayers; it's the politicians and their agents. The faster the system collapses the better. The media loves stories like this to distract people from the real problem.

+rep

btw, surfing is the only true religion.


http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/North_America/USA/California/Ventura/silverstrand/photo/photo_surf_USA_California_Ventura_silverstrand_43d a579874c0e.jpg

[dannno]

I can honestly say I wouldn't live that lifestyle had I the choice. When I was younger I pretty much could have done that, just lay around drink and party all day/night. I basically made 2-3 phone calls a day to set up house parties in the college town I lived in and took a cut of the door for doing so. After a while, I had to get a job, I just felt like a bum.

It wasn't that I didn't have money, I had more than enough. I just got tired of sleeping in until noon, laying around until 5 then partying until whenever. I've always been the type to have to be productive in some way or another. I'd venture to say that as time goes on, people that prefer to be productive have been shrinking in number and that has a lot to do with why this country is in the state that it is.


You were missing something very important. Surfing.

[belian78]

You were missing something very important. Surfing.
My irrational fear of being eaten by a shark would make surfing impossible I'm afraid. LOL I spent 3 wks in San Diego a few years back and never got in the water farther than my waistline. :o

[dannno]

That's so crap

Most of "us" live to live. If it wasn't for mechanization we would still be working to feed ourselves and our families 16-18 hours a day. This whole notion that you can just sit on your ass and survive only came into being in the 80s and later. Its just compounded itself with government program on top of government program.

Actually that's not true, hunter and gatherers only spent a few hours a day surviving. Farming crops is a bit intensive, but what about raising pastured livestock? Not so much.

With mechanization, we should be able to sit on our ass all day. That doesn't mean you would actually sit on your ass all day, there's a ton of different things you can do with your life that does not lead toward a greater income or something along those lines. You could just start creating stuff for the sake of creating it, whether it benefits a lot of people, is artistic, or just something to entertain yourself.

[dannno]

My irrational fear of being eaten by a shark would make surfing impossible I'm afraid. LOL I spent 3 wks in San Diego a few years back and never got in the water farther than my waistline. :o

Irrational is absolutely the correct word.

There are thousands of surfers who get in the ocean EVERY SINGLE DAY just in San Diego and I've never heard of a shark attacking a surfer in San Diego, EVER...

Then you have Orange County, L.A., Ventura County and most of SB County which each have hundreds if not thousands going in the water every day and no surfers ever get attacked by sharks in those areas.

North SB County is a different matter, the Channel Islands are a different matter, the Central Coast, except for Santa Cruz, and Norther California/Oregon is a different matter. All those areas have had shark attacks yet THOUSANDS of people enter the water every single day even in the sharky areas and there is rarely anybody ever attacked. In fact, Santa Cruz is right smack in the middle of all those sharky areas and just that small town has a few hundred if not a thousand or so daily surfers and nobody ever gets attacked while surfing in Santa Cruz (I believe mostly due to the kelp beds in the area which deter the sharks).

[matt0611]

Come on- except for the food stamp issue, most of us would live a similar lifestyle if the US was truly free. The "American Dream" has made everyone a prisoner.

Not working and living off your parents, family, and friends?

Uhhh no, I wouldn't...

[kahless]

Actually that's not true, hunter and gatherers only spent a few hours a day surviving. Farming crops is a bit intensive, but what about raising pastured livestock? Not so much.

With mechanization, we should be able to sit on our ass all day. That doesn't mean you would actually sit on your ass all day, there's a ton of different things you can do with your life that does not lead toward a greater income or something along those lines. You could just start creating stuff for the sake of creating it, whether it benefits a lot of people, is artistic, or just something to entertain yourself.

Farming for subsistence and what you describe is what I always wanted to do since my earliest memory. It is just finding a place where you can do it and not be raped by government property taxes that would render you homeless for doing so. The statist philosophy of forced participation into their system is bullshit and I will never forgive them for denying me the right to go somewhere and be left the !#@& alone.

I just cannot seem to escape from my NY metaphorical prison and partially blame government for raping me in high earning years. I came close a few times debt free, money in the bank but took to long trying to figure out a location without or next to no property taxes so I can have that lifestyle and then something always happens to hamper my plans.

This is why I no longer get upset when I see things like the surfer dude. Maybe I should have done the same and gotten some pay back from being screwed in taxes over the years. But then again the debate in my head comes around to that it is immoral and partially stealing from those that do not deserve it.

[thoughtomator]

Given the incentives in the system, I find it hard to fault him.

[AuH20]

Given the incentives in the system, I find it hard to fault him.

But then to gloat about it? Neurons aren't firing.

[Brian4Liberty]

But then to gloat about it? Neurons aren't firing.

I've met somebody nearly identical to this. Maybe it's a California thing, but he took great pleasure in buying gourmet food (like the sushi) with EBT, and laughed about eating it while the "dummies" working the registers couldn't afford it. They believe that they are the smart ones, and the rest of us are morons. Very similar to those on Wall St who are "the smartest ones in the room" who would brag about whatever scam they have going on.

[AuH20]

I've met somebody nearly identical to this. Maybe it's a California thing, but he took great pleasure in buying gourmet food (like the sushi) with EBT, and laughed about eating it while the "dummies" working the registers couldn't afford it. They believe that they are the smart ones, and the rest of us are morons. Very similar to those on Wall St who are "the smartest ones in the room" who would brag about whatever scam they have going on.

It's the same mentality. Throw the surfer guy in a boardroom downtown and within months he would be selling AAA junk bonds to clueless investors and then laughing about it afterwards.

[AuH20]

Benjamin Franklin, Free Market 'Zealot' and Anti-American 'Radical' Opposed To the SNAP Program:


“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

The next steps that need to be taken is to free small business from the chains of this Washington crime family.

[Carson]

Go for it while you can I suppose...

before the weight of the world comes crashing down on you and breaks your little spirit.

[Ender]

Not working and living off your parents, family, and friends?

Uhhh no, I wouldn't...

You're in The Matrix, dude.

Once upon a time, the land was open & free. In S Calif you could live forever on wild vegetation and fresh water.

The Man has taken it all and has convinced the populace that the 9-5 world is educated, cultured and- oh, yes! Responsible! Everyone thinks they have to suffer for 60+ plus years so they can "retire" and have a few months of "freedom" before they croak.

This is NOT the way life was intended.

[MRK]

$200/month isn't a lot of money for food

I can see where you're coming from. Indeed, $200/month isn't a lot of money for food if you are still operating on the middle class expenditure mindset.

I lived on less than half of that amount for over a year and I had plenty to eat. Granted it was in the midwest and not in San Diego.

If you're jobless and on the dole, guess what, you can't afford nor do you earn the middle class expenditure mindset anymore. Your mindset is going to have to change fast.

If there must be a food stamp dole, a sensible food stamp dole payout would be $15-20 a month. That way you can buy some kilos of rice, beans, and spinach, or whatever, and with some rationing you'll be able to survive month to month, with a far healthier diet than youd find at the fried fastfood stands and big gulp stations that accept EBT. If you're still hungry, go find a church, beg or *gasp* work. You're not going to starve unless you blow it all on a couple lobsters on day 1.

You want convenience? Too bad. You want individually packaged snack packets? Too bad. You want 100 calorie cupcakes? Too bad. You want seasonings to make the food taste more like what you're used to? Too bad. You want brand name anything? Too bad. You want junk filler food with empty calories just to satisfy your overstimulated sugar/fat/salt cravings? Too bad.

For the record for the past few months I've usually been eating spinach, quinoa, rice, olive oil, garlic, tangerines, canned beans, spices, coffee and sometimes fish. I take vitamin B12 supplements when I don't eat any fish. I estimate this costs me no more than $150 per month. I have no need nor desire to buy anything else. I guess I could go to Whole Foods and only buy Super Non-GMO Organic versions of what I normally get and it would cost me 50% more, but I do not yet perceive a driving need to do so.

[EBounding]

Just pretend this is libertarian satire.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o64Fz-KW1Dk

[seraphson]

$200/month isn't a lot of money for food

With my fiancee and myself I averaged we spend about $300/$350 a month over the past 6 months (just got my own place and wanted to track all the numbers I can). $200 for one person is well within the range of doable.

As for this guy. Just another lit match throw into the hand basket to hell.

[matt0611]

You're in The Matrix, dude.

Once upon a time, the land was open & free. In S Calif you could live forever on wild vegetation and fresh water.

The Man has taken it all and has convinced the populace that the 9-5 world is educated, cultured and- oh, yes! Responsible! Everyone thinks they have to suffer for 60+ plus years so they can "retire" and have a few months of "freedom" before they croak.

This is NOT the way life was intended.

I got no problem with him having fun, surfing, laying around, living off the land and not having a 9-5 job etc.

More power to ya, if you wanna do that. But he's obviously not doing that, he's living off of other people, not even including taxpayers. I can't respect that.

[kahless]

You're in The Matrix, dude.

Once upon a time, the land was open & free. In S Calif you could live forever on wild vegetation and fresh water.

The Man has taken it all and has convinced the populace that the 9-5 world is educated, cultured and- oh, yes! Responsible! Everyone thinks they have to suffer for 60+ plus years so they can "retire" and have a few months of "freedom" before they croak.

This is NOT the way life was intended.

^This. Good post.

[LibertyEagle]

I applaud this guy. Take whatever bennies you can get. He's not the one stealing from the taxpayers; it's the politicians and their agents. The faster the system collapses the better. The media loves stories like this to distract people from the real problem.

Yes he damn sure is stealing from the taxpayers. Just because the government is doing it too, just means they BOTH are thieves.

[presence]

"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as
possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the
treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.
Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister
in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone
does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any
public duty to pay more than the law demands."

Judge Learned Hand..

[EBounding]

Yes he damn sure is stealing from the taxpayers. Just because the government is doing it too, just means they BOTH are thieves.

Unless he's breaking the "entitlement rules", he's not the one with the gun committing the theft. I actually don't like what he's doing either, but I hate when the media does stories like this. It's never about the ridiculous welfare state, it's about one person taking advantage of it. He's the result of the welfare state, not the cause.

[LibertyEagle]

Unless he's breaking the "entitlement rules", he's not the one with the gun committing the theft. I actually don't like what he's doing either, but I hate when the media does stories like this. It's never about the ridiculous welfare state, it's about one person taking advantage of it. He's the result of the welfare state, not the cause.

Oh bull. He's not a victim. Each of us still can choose our own actions and we are also responsible for those choices. He made his.

[AuH20]

Unless he's breaking the "entitlement rules", he's not the one with the gun committing the theft. I actually don't like what he's doing either, but I hate when the media does stories like this. It's never about the ridiculous welfare state, it's about one person taking advantage of it. He's the result of the welfare state, not the cause.

Without the grabbing hands of the expanding entitlement class, they wouldn't have the political momentum to rob with impunity. It's always the same sob story falsely depicting emaciated Americans on street corners, when our "poor" are actually morbidly obese! Don't get me wrong. There is a small place for SNAP, for say someone permanently disabled or a single mother going through hard times, but this type of fraud is far too commonplace.

[Brian4Liberty]

I can see where you're coming from. Indeed, $200/month isn't a lot of money for food if you are still operating on the middle class expenditure mindset.

I lived on less than half of that amount for over a year and I had plenty to eat. Granted it was in the midwest and not in San Diego.

If you're jobless and on the dole, guess what, you can't afford nor do you earn the middle class expenditure mindset anymore. Your mindset is going to have to change fast.

If there must be a food stamp dole, a sensible food stamp dole payout would be $15-20 a month. That way you can buy some kilos of rice, beans, and spinach, or whatever, and with some rationing you'll be able to survive month to month, with a far healthier diet than youd find at the fried fastfood stands and big gulp stations that accept EBT. If you're still hungry, go find a church, beg or *gasp* work. You're not going to starve unless you blow it all on a couple lobsters on day 1.

You want convenience? Too bad. You want individually packaged snack packets? Too bad. You want 100 calorie cupcakes? Too bad. You want seasonings to make the food taste more like what you're used to? Too bad. You want brand name anything? Too bad. You want junk filler food with empty calories just to satisfy your overstimulated sugar/fat/salt cravings? Too bad.


There was a time when buying only basics was enforced by limitations on what you could buy with Food Stamps. They removed many of those limitations, leading to the current situation.

When you describe mindset, you are closer to the root cause than you know. People like this have a core mental issue of no self-control. If you give them $100 cash, they will buy steak, lobster, smokes and booze, and be broke the next day. The infamous marshmallow test for children identifies these traits. Catering to (or spoiling) them just makes it worse. They can not function rationally as you described.

This does not mean that all recipients are like this. But many are, and that's because this is the hole that they naturally fall into, and they don't pull themselves out. They have always "depended upon the kindness of strangers".

[pcosmar]

This whole notion that you can just sit on your ass and survive only came into being in the 80s and later.

Bullshit,, it was firmly in place in the 60s. I remember my Dad ranting about it,, and he died in the late 70s. The welfare state was firmly in place.

[kcchiefs6465]

Bullshit,, it was firmly in place in the 60s. I remember my Dad ranting about it,, and he died in the late 70s. The welfare state was firmly in place.
Guns and butter.

[paulbot24]

Here's something interesting to consider:

When the US federal government spends money, expenses are officially categorized in three different ways:
Discretionary spending - includes nearly everything we think of related to government– the US military, Air Force One, the DHS, TSA, etc
Mandatory spending - includes entitlements like Medicare, Social Security, VA benefits, etc. which are REQUIRED by law to be paid.
The final category is interest on the debt. It is non-negotiable.

Mandatory spending and debt interest go out the door automatically. It’s like having your mortgage payment autodrafted from your bank account– Congress doesn’t even see the money, it’s automatically deducted. With the rise of baby boomer entitlements and steady increase in overall debt levels, mandatory spending and interest payments have exploded in recent years. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office predicted in 2010 that the US government’s TOTAL revenue would be exceeded by mandatory spending and interest expense within 15-years.

That’s a scary thought. Except it happened the very next year.

In Fiscal Year 2011, the federal government collected $2.303 trillion in tax revenue. Interest on the debt that year totaled $454.4 billion, and mandatory spending totaled $2,025 billion. In sum, mandatory spending plus debt interest totaled $2.479 trillion… exceeding total revenue by $176.4 billion.

For Fiscal Year 2012, that shortfall increased 43% to $251.8 billion.

In other words, they could cut the entirety of the Federal Government’s discretionary budget– no more military, SEC, FBI, EPA, TSA, DHS, IRS, etc.– and they would still be in the hole by a quarter of a trillion dollars.:eek:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-06/it-doesnt-matter

Put the blame where it belongs: The policy makers and their "brilliant" central planning, not the public.

[IDefendThePlatform]

Hating on welfare recipients is a distraction. The MSM would approve.

Don't Hate on Welfare Recipients - The Real Parasites Are Elsewhere

But mainly there’s an endless supply of resentment against “welfare queens,” and friend-of-a-friend stories about the luxurious tastes of those using food stamps at the checkout line, whose cumulative effect is to reassure the middle class that their real enemies are to be found by looking down, and not up.


http://c4ss.org/content/20650

[AuH20]

Hating on welfare recipients is a distraction. The MSM would approve.

Don't Hate on Welfare Recipients - The Real Parasites Are Elsewhere



http://c4ss.org/content/20650

No one here is excusing the other parasites. But it's the same mentality. Live at the expense of others. It's just that parasites in the MIC complex and Investment Bank racket are far more clever and resourceful than some food stamp burnout. But don't be fooled. The same burnout would act like those vermin if they could. Trust me. I know them. We have a human nature problem as opposed to a class problem.

[pcosmar]

No one here is excusing the other parasites. But it's the same mentality. Live at the expense of others. It's just that parasites in the MIC complex and Investment Bank racket are far more clever and resourceful than some food stamp burnout. But don't be fooled. The same burnout would act like those vermin if they could. Trust me. I know them. We have a human nature problem as opposed to a class problem.

And this is why Socialism is and always will be a failure.

[AuH20]

And this is why Socialism is and always will be a failure.

Very true. Socialism is the destroyer of free peoples:

“Put not your faith in men, but bind them down with the chains of the constitution.”

Thomas Jefferson as written in the Kentucky Resolutions.

[green73]

29-Year-Old Welfare Parasite Would Not Accept An $80,000 A Year Job Driving A Truck

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/29-year-old-welfare-parasite-would-not-accept-an-80000-a-year-job-driving-a-truck_03172014

[oyarde]

Guy has plenty of time to fish , make his own sushi .

[RonPaul4Prez2012]

$200 for a months worth of food in CA wont get you far. That wont even pay for a weeks worth of food here in Los Angeles.

Its funny how they pin this "abuse" on a jewish rocker dude when the real culprits are millions of illegal aliens. He really isnt a true surfer.

[VIDEODROME]

So what would I have to do to be comfortably setup in a socialist lifestyle?

Seriously though, I would want to spend a big chunk of my time further studying IT or even saving money. I'm just having a helluva time finding work. If I was on this program, I'd slow down from the job search and focus on certifications and do volunteer IT related projects for experience.

[PRB]

at least he's not doing drugs, way to live like Lebowski!

[dannno]

I can honestly say I wouldn't live that lifestyle had I the choice. When I was younger I pretty much could have done that, just lay around drink and party all day/night. I basically made 2-3 phone calls a day to set up house parties in the college town I lived in and took a cut of the door for doing so. After a while, I had to get a job, I just felt like a bum.

It wasn't that I didn't have money, I had more than enough. I just got tired of sleeping in until noon, laying around until 5 then partying until whenever. I've always been the type to have to be productive in some way or another. I'd venture to say that as time goes on, people that prefer to be productive have been shrinking in number and that has a lot to do with why this country is in the state that it is.


Ya but the surf is really good in the early morning so I think you may have his lifestyle a little confused, although not completely. I know I already commented on this post but I thought I'd point this out also.


That's so crap

Most of "us" live to live. If it wasn't for mechanization we would still be working to feed ourselves and our families 16-18 hours a day. This whole notion that you can just sit on your ass and survive only came into being in the 80s and later. Its just compounded itself with government program on top of government program.

You should check out the movie "Gidget"

[Zippyjuan]

i call bullshit. this story seems too cartoonish to be real. everything looked staged. fox news knows stories like this rile up the angry old GOP viewers. also- this is hardly the story to piss people off about food stamps....why don't they show the businesses that have profited from the EBT/SNAP boom? KFC/Jack in the Box/Walgreens/7-11 etc. in California you can buy anything with these cards. this guy is just a caricature of the real issue.

Lobster sounds expensive (and it may have been staged) but it is pretty cheap this year due to large harvests. You may pay $20 or more for a lobster dinner in a restauraunt but at a grocery store they have been pretty cheap lately. My local store has been selling tails for $5 or $6. You could spend that much easily buying frozen pizza. Sushi isn't that expensive either.

[RonPaul4Prez2012]

Lobster sounds expensive (and it may have been staged) but it is pretty cheap this year due to large harvests. My local store has been selling tails for $5 or $6. You could spend that much easily buying pizza. Sushi isn't that expensive either.

the lobster was on sale prob the sushi too - most fish is almost given away as its expiration date gets closer.

[PRB]

the lobster was on sale prob the sushi too - most fish is almost given away as its expiration date gets closer.

you are both right. if he went to a restaurant, anything would cost $10-20. But if you're buying food truck, takeout sushi at supermarkets, or cook at home lobster, you can spend as little as $5 a meal. (not everywhere takes EBT though)

[VIDEODROME]

He found the discount supply. It's the Fukushima Special.

[MRK]

From the comments on the "MY EBT" youtube video:


It was better when we were little, they gave cash change for em. You could buy like a piece of gum and get all cash back. Our parents had us doin that shit all the time lol

See, everything was better in the 90's.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

"Gourmet." LOL. I guess it takes too long to say "that imitation frozen shit in a plastic bag."

[oyarde]

I love Lobster , Red Snapper , but I do not live on the ocean and pay for my own. I also like Crappie , Bluegill , Red Ear ,Pumpkinseed smallmouth bass , etc , I just catch my own , no other person do I expect to provide it to me ...... interesting concept I imagine , but I am extremely firm in my conviction . I would though , :) let Danke send me some frozen yellow perch filets. I never travel that far North anymore ....

[Christopher A. Brown]

He's not the one stealing from the taxpayers; it's the politicians and their agents. The faster the system collapses the better. The media loves stories like this to distract people from the real problem.

He and the entire hedonistic genre was created by gov. Apathy and confusion with exploitive manipulation by media add up.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?447140-Is-Our-Investment-In-Toxic-Technology-Industry-Going-To-Mutate-Us-Out-Of-Destiny-amp-Evolution

[oyarde]

A tick is a tick .