• What you can buy with Food Stamps may anger you!
• A Starbucks in a Salem Safeway gleefully advertised on their doors that they “accept food stamps” where they can be used to buy Frappuccino cold drinks and pastries. This is in addition to using food stamps to buy candy, soda pop, cookies, ice cream, and birthday cakes. A Washington D.C. reporter tried to use his food stamps to buy the most expensive items in the store. He came away buying swordfish steak ($18/pound), $8 gallon of goat milk, $14 Chanterelle mushrooms, and fancy European cheese. (KPTV-12 12-12-2011, Daily Caller 12-7-2010)
• Because students don’t work while studying, they easily qualify for food stamps and are famous for using them to subsidize their alcohol parties as they buy appetizers, snacks, and mixed liquor drink accessories (tonic water, limes, and lemons). Watching someone buy groceries with food stamps while paying cash for their lottery tickets and cigarettes is a proud Oregon liberal tradition (just don’t dare use a plastic bag, because that’s apparently wasteful).