Keep in mind this is an individual, who would get less than $25 a week to eat on in the USA. This is the only Welfare for an adult, unless they are disabled, or have a child under 19.
Does he have the same rights as everyone else?
15 Answers
Yes, Daisy, he does. I don't think there is any law that says an addict can be denied aid.
12 years ago. Rating: 19 | |
Next they will take the rights of another group of people they fine beneath them.
The states that require drug testing to get food stamps...one is Florida. I think the other two are Oklahoma and Missouri.
Lets say you are denied the right to work, buy groceries...etc You cannot allow the gov to take anyone's rights and do nothing.
Now with The Patriot Act, everyone is afraid.
You can disappear! Poof!
An ADDICTION is an illness..which commands help,(yes that person must want to receive help..I don`t know re food stamps etc in the USA...But it takes a Very Hard heart (IMHO).to kick someone when they are down..as for seeing them go with out food I find that Totally INHUMANE!:-¬..To with hold food ...Just this once I`m so glad I live in the UK..Where that would cause an uproar..and where sick people are treated as sick..not evil...too many pit falls in life not to offer aid to people who really need it!:-(
12 years ago. Rating: 17 | |
Tony Blair belongs to the Skull and Bones too.
It's world wide. Check it out, research it for a few days. Don't be fooled.
I was looking up Iluminati the other day. I didn't get very far but I will go back.
I say yes they have every right to eat but no to public money that they can spend on cigarettes and junk. I think it is the right of every human to have or seek food at his or her on discretion. So yes to food stamps for anyone who needs them with no strings.
12 years ago. Rating: 15 | |
BENEFIT system fair??huh!:-0
Don't get me wrong. I love America. I wish the people with political power did.
I take people to get help when they don't have a car, I volunteer, It's 30 miles away for some folks one way. I listen to the crap the state ask. Have you ever claimed bankruptcy? Every been convicted of a crime? Use drugs? What does this have to do with eating? It'd only $24 a week! That is the maximum you can get. The people have to bleed for crumbs!I don't see people misusing the system, I see people that are in need falling for stupid reasons through the cracks! I had to see it for my own eyes. People post so much stupid crap about welfare. When are Americans going to realize we don't have welfare in this country. It's called that, but that's not what it is. I grew up middle class, I assumed the gov took care of the poor. My father often bad mouth the poor. He never knew they actually worked for a living.
If you make minimum wage you have to work 88 a week to cove the bare basics of living in my state. NC is a cheap state.
All the jobs in this county closed down, went to China. There are no jobs, no want adds in the paper. Mitt Romney says the people need to take responsibility for themselves. How?
I live in a two stop light town and people are homeless. We have so many beggars it's a nightmare. I don't understand our government.
They make me very angry, it shouldn't be like this. It doesn't have to be like this.
Ed I understand what you're saying. I'm just getting a closer view of the problems.
The taller the tree the more branches it has and the more branches it has makes it easier for that tree to be blown down. There is a balance here but not the one you are looking for and while government plays a role in this tree, the trunk belongs to society and that has changed very little but in size. We have been doing the same thing since the start of time and the math is starting to add up and in away that is unbelievable and undoable as well. The only progress I have seen in my life time when it comes to the poor and it is not much, is that the elderly are no longer eating dog food because they used their money on rent. After that nothing has gotten any better.
No one schould starve to death in this country, since the US. supposedly is the richest country in the world. Even a drug addict needs to eat. I dont know what is happening to our country. We are getting to be in line with 3rd world countries. The US. is the cocaine capitol of the world . Yes, we are Nr. 1 of all the countries in the world. Drugs coming in this country schould be the priority of our government and not the middle east.
12 years ago. Rating: 14 | |
I do not want addicts around me or in my life. The fact is they exist and have rights, the same ones you and I have. I will fight to the death for my rights. By allowing this person to lose his rights to food, cost me my rights too. I will continue to lose those rights as they add to their hate list of unacceptable people. We can't allow the gov. to trim the population of any group, because you might be in the next one! Who will fight for you? You have to look past the drug addiction and see what the gov is doing. Your freedom is on the line! If you give away this socially unacceptable person rights, you can kiss your Liberty away. You lost your FREEDOM, you gave it away.
Well everyone deserves to eat even drug addicts. Mostly they don't eat all and forget to give ther children any food. So my answer to this question is give the food to the kids if they can remember how to do that. Most children these days of addicted parents are brought up by their grandparants. Who fortunately have them to supply their food. I am skating around this quetionn. No drug addicts and alcoholics don't deserve sh!t. It is the kids that matter. I
12 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A COMMENT TO MYCATSMOM
MCM: I think testing for drugs is almost always appropriate. In fact, I can't think of an occasion where it isn't.
I wonder, though, what do you do with the man or woman who tests positive for drugs? Does that person get arrested? Will that person be cited and released? Booked and released? Incarcerated?
Or just sent away...and then what.
I would love to see our jails and prisons open rehab prisons where the inmates who are convicted of drug related crimes are forced to undergo drug rehab programs. Yes, forced. There aren't a lot of things going on in jails or prisons that help the inmates be socially responsible when they are released.
I wish I had the answers to poverty and addiction, and the ways and means of facilitating their eradication.
12 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
Drug addiction???? I think the Gov had a hand in that too. There is so much going on will we ever know all the answers?
When did everything get so messed up and out of control. It's insanity.
You have a good heart Bob, you see the need for change and that people need help, jail isn't always the answer.I believe rehab, retraining and education helps.
Yes, why starve them to death?? they have enough problems, in fact I tend not to even agree with food tokens/vouchers or the like, it is often a source of shame and embarrassment for those that through no fault of their own find they are at such levels of desperation, I do not like the stigma attached, there will always be the ones that abuse the system, I in no way condone the illegal abuse of benefits, however nor do I feel the innocent need to suffer for those that habitually abuse government and welfare benefits .....addit, I have never been on any sort of benefit,so my words are not coming from a hostile attitude, in fact the opposite.
12 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
daisy, I had cancer too, and other maladies. The state turned me down for disability. Drug addicts used to get disability here in MIch, b/c drug addiction was considered a disabilitiy. But, the state clamped down on that. I think the drug addicts have to work now. But, they and other low-income people get " bridge cards " which is a type of welfare. I know a waitress who works 2 jobs and clears about $300. per week, and she gets food stamps thru her bridge card.
12 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
Some States were discusssing "Drug testing", if you receive assistances for any type benefits. I would support such laws, because, "Would you still agree, if you knew they were spending $25.00, 50.00, 100.00 a day on drugs instead of food?" or give food stamps while the person(s) are using and selling drugs and providing them with assistances allows them to use their money/profits for their drugs???
12 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
Everyone has a right to eat. If the gov don't like their life style offer them health care to fight the addiction! You don't throw them away like they're nothing. They need help, not cruelty. Who are we to tell them how to live or else! This is a/was a free country. I'll not give one ounce of my freedom away or anyone else's. To many people died for that right.
It does sound like your states have much better programs than the state I am in, there isn't any program except $97 a month for food.
There are a few things like section 8 but it was exhausted years ago and they haven't taken applications for it in years.Low income housing is exhausted, and you cannot be in default of a student loan or have bad credit.
It's hard to find a poor person without bad credit. It you make 8 dollars and yours bills are 30 dollars, you'll have bad credit. I disagree with many of the rules set up so people cannot get help.
In the 1980's a person could not get food stamps if they were homeless. FS should be based on income, not life style.
If the addict refuses to eat and sells the $97 a month for drugs he isn't going to last long. He can go through that in a few hours. He'll land in the morgue soon. If he can claim disability which is almost impossible, he is entitled to SSI, $600+ a month and Medicate. That usually doesn't happen. There isn't any money given for clothes or shelter here. Not unless it through the private sector. In this state and many states like this one, the only thing an adult is entitled to is $97 for food. I think of food as a right not a luxury. I don't think it is any of my business what his choices are, hopefully he will find a free program to help him with the addiction, there isn't any here.
This person will be out begging, and a hungry person will steal. Now he can face prison, or be shot dead for stealing food. In NC there are next to nothing offered inmates with a drug habit. He could die in a jail cell, it happens, and no one really cares. It will not be in the newspaper. All of this could be avoided. The person have a life,and he has a right to live. The gov is picking and choosing who lives and dies and that is wrong. If you allow it, who will be next on that list? Tobacco smokers? The obese, the elderly, the disabled. It will not end here.
It's just the beginning.
If jail had programs, I'd be all for it, but it is a drug rich environment.All he has to do is sag his pants and get the drugs by selling his body. The problem is huge. The tax payer will pay a lot more than $97 a month to house and feed the inmate. I don't have the answers. It's seems the answers aren't so simple. I do think offering a way off the drugs, rehab, with a time limit, and food, would help more in the long run. If the person fails ??? I think humanity, compassion and empathy should play a bigger role, than letting someone die because I don't like his life style. I think the problem we are having is this was self inflicted. I have a problem with that too, but I chose never to do drugs, not even try them. I use to work at a rehab, it open my eyes and heart. This was something they tried for whatever reason, they never set out to be an addict. It wasn't their choice. It's the same with cigarettes. I have seen people try to quit a 1,000 time and can't. Are you willing to deny them food too? They will sell the stamps for a cigarette. Count on it. There is no difference.
They put a value on human life. If you are old, disabled, the working poor, you have little value. Look at the prison sentences handed down by our courts. It says it all. Kill an elderly person, 6 months to a year in prison. Kill a wealthy tax payer, you'll get the electric chair!
Now there are circumstances that do change this a little. A serial killer, a psycho, they will kill again, once id they will be getting a stiffer sentence.
The gov have brain washed people. They are merrily following along, like sheep to the slaughter.
Thank You Ann and Itsmee you are wonderful humanitarians. I didn't always think like this, but I evolved.
Thank you for your answer, Daisy!! am going to look into this more. Scary. For sure. I was talking to a relative the other day. She is WEALTHY. I told her about a school in our town that is serving lunch to children. There was a program on TV. I said "It looks good to see the hungry children get nourishment:"
"They don't even eat those meals! They just toss them out. It's an excuse for their drug-addicted parents to not feed them. It takes money out of our pockets.Sometimes the addicted parents even eat.," she said. She has no way of knowing the kids are throwing out their lunches! She has no way of knowing that the parents are eating with the children. She does a lot of work for her church ... but it sure isn't feeding hungry children.
I don't understand her anger.
12 years ago. Rating: 7 | |