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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talking about the snap Benefits EBT food stamps. I'm not
sure what you're supposed to officially call them anymore. I
have no idea.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I think it's they don't I've never heard food stamps,
unless does anybody say.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Well, that's again because I'm old. When I was a kid,
they were food stamps. I remember the hideous embarrassment of
food stamps. My mom signed us up for food stamps
when my dad was on strike. She didn't tell Dad
about it, and that did not go well. But he
(00:34):
was on strike for quite a while and money was low,
and she did what she thought she should do, and
they they actually came to you in a little It
was kind of like a book of checks, and it
looked like, you know, some kind of currency. They had
it all artistic looking and stuff, and they were red
and green, and there were colors based on the denomination
(00:58):
of the food stamp. And I remember, oh, man, that's
a hard memory. I remember being at Kroger with Dad
and he had those in his pocket, but he reached
for his wallet. Man, he was going to pay with
(01:21):
whatever money he had. He got a little something for
walking the picket line, and he wanted to pay with money,
and the woman who was behind us, the woman who
was behind us, they opened up another register and she
went to the register next to it. She had a
shopping cart full of doughnuts and cakes and cookies and
(01:44):
potato chips and soda pops and all that stuff. And
Dad's watching everything go by the back. Then they actually
used to punch in the amount of the stuff as
they were putting it down the conveyor belt. And Dad's
watching all of this stuff go by and counting in
his head how much it is. And I could see
the misery on his face. And the woman in the
(02:06):
other lane with the cart full of all of the
junk food and stuff. They gave her her total, and
she whipped out her book of food stamps, and I
I can't forget the look on my dad's face. There
he was trying. He was buying one percent milk because
it was cheaper, seventy three percent Hamburger or whatever it was,
(02:32):
because it was cheaper, more, more fat, less lean, but
it was cheaper. Brian, the Kroger brand of ice cream
instead of the jiff for this skippy or no ice
cream at Peanut Butter, because the kids, that's that's what
we ate that was our sustenance was peanut butter sandwich.
And he's buying what he had to buy as cheap
(02:54):
as possible. And this woman with her cart full of
junk whipped out her food stamps, and I saw my
dad crushed at that moment in time. It hurt him
to think he's he's standing there counting those pennies as
they go buy on the conveyor belt. The world's changed now.
(03:19):
Instead of a book, you've got a you got a card.
It's like a credit card. I guess, yeah, you swipe
it like any other card. So I guess that that
embarrassment of using it isn't necessarily there because not everybody
knows what you're doing. And uh, and nobody sees you
using a food stamp benefit for for whatever you're buying.
(03:41):
But they want to change that, change what you can buy.
And I'm not sure, I'm not positive. I'm not taking
a definitive stance either way. I'm just saying this is
something I really got to think about, because there is
a level of a level of disagreement in me about this.
A two one nine eight six the number eight two
one w TV and Cheryl, I'm sorry Rochelle, you're on
six ten high.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Hey, jack at these are a great show, great show,
and I'm sure your father, if he was still around,
he would be very proud of you because your shows
are great show.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's that's that is probably the most decent, wonderful thing
you could say to me. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Oh well, no, that's something that story that you told
about your father, that's something of which you should be proud.
I mean, because he was obviously a hard working man,
and so when they go on strike, you know, that's
why that safety net is there. So but that's still
I mean, God lets him for trying to get you
guys in a good suit. But I'm just going to
add my quick thing. But these poor parents are out there,
they're struggling and stuff, and this sounds like something unpopular
(04:39):
and it's not for everyone, but there there is. I
don't know if you've heard that Internet and fasting, that
stuff is amazing. If a patient or if a person
is healthy enough and check with his or her doctor,
you can fast, like Okay, the longest fact I've ever
done was forty hours. I didn't feel dizzy. The only
(05:01):
thing that went in my mouth was water, and I'm
a normal sized weight person, and I'm healthy, I'm not diabetics.
So fasting is not for everyone. But if those parents
could for one or two days during the week just
not eat, they would have more money to give for
the kids. You know, you don't want the kid fasting,
(05:23):
but you know, and then they have the parents buy
the kids like eggs and cheese, good protein sources. Eggs
are loaded with a lot of good nutrients for the brain.
So it is unpopular. But and I encourage people to
check out fasting because you fast eight hours every night
when you're sleeping, so I sleep, I don't eat until
about one in the afternoon, and that right there is
(05:45):
a you know, twelve hour fast. So anyway, so just
telling people and maybe check that out.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Hey, you know, And unfortunately Rochelle Wood is a completely
reasonable course of action. There would be just considered probably
hate speech by people today because what you mean, I
shouldn't have everybody thinks they should have. Everybody thinks they
deserve you. You you should have the government should pay
for cable TV and internet access the government. That's We've
(06:11):
got a whole country full of people that think that way. Now,
and the idea of surrendering something, giving up something, going
without something so that your children can have is a
choice that they think that it's ridiculous they should have
to make that choice. And that's a sad thing because
that's not That is not the America I thought we
were supposed to be having.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yes, sir, you're right. You're right about that. People are entitled.
So okay, well, god blet you. The show is great.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Take care, Thank you, Rochelle. I appreciate you calling a
two one ninety eight six eight two one WTV. And
then Bill, you're on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
file lines. How are you?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, juck, good night. Well, these people are going to
get up and go to work because if they don't,
we're through. We're through, Okay, there's nothing going to help us.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And if they want their free stuff, I'm sixty five,
I'm retired, and I've never received one food stamp in
my whole entire life.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Okay, I'll die before I get a food stamp. I'll
starve to death before I get a food stamp. Okay,
you have a great night, guys, You have a great night.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
All right, all right, Bill, I appreciate the call. I
don't know that I go that far. I mean, they look,
these programs exist for a reason. I would rather see
somebody who is you know, retired, that needs some help
see them get it. So all it goes to work
every day, but you know what, they're just not making
(07:47):
enough money. The economy is what the economy is. But
they're going out there every day. They're trying to make
something themselves. They're trying to build something, but they need
some help. I'm good with them getting that help. We
you know, we've got to be we gotta be prudent
about our dollars, but we got to be compassionate to agree.
Not to a stupid degree, mind you, where governments should
(08:09):
pay for every dag gone thing, but when people need help.
I think, you know, we're the kind of country where
you should be able to get some help. Not a
lifelong membership to the everything for Free club, but you
should be able to get some help, whether that's with
groceries or medical or or whatever. To some degree. I'm okay.
(08:35):
I just ask that you know, A, in return, you
love your country, B you contribute something back. I don't
think that you remember when they used to have prisoners
made license plates. They don't even do that anymore because
they would be enforced to work. I don't we require
our high school students to have a certain number of
(08:57):
volunteer hours, which unfortunately they also allow, like your part
time job can be a volunteer ours, which I don't
agree with. I think public service is a wonderful thing,
a needed thing. It makes us better people, it makes
this country a better country, and I don't think there'd
be anything wrong with asking people. Look, if you need help,
we'll help you out. We've got the resources in return
(09:22):
here any number of places where we could use some help.
You're getting these benefits from the state, or here, the
state has all these places. You could volunteer here, We
could use you here. But you know in return for
helping you out? Is there something wrong with that? I mean, again,
(09:42):
by today's standards in twenty twenty five, of course there is.
You can't ask anybody to do anything in return for anything. Hell,
you can't employer wants me to do. I saw a
girl last night, oh my gosh, working at some fast
food restaurant, and she had been asked to do the dishes. Crazily,
(10:03):
she had been hired as a dishwasher, but she's got
her phone on and she's crying about having to get
all those dishes washed before midnight and what is she
going to do? And imager say, you're gonna get them washed?
Well what if I can't, Well, then you don't have
a job, because that's what you got hired to do.
(10:26):
That's an alien concept to people now. Story out of
a McDonald's last week where McDonald's manager told the girl,
the fifteen sixteen year old girl was to take out
the trash to the dumpster. She said, no, I'm not
carrying trash. She said, the trash needs to go out
to the dumpster. Girl got on the phone and called
her mother. Her mother shows up at the McDonald's, goes
(10:50):
into the manager's office and attacks her. The manager, being
a strong believer in her Second Amendment rights, remedied that
situation very quickly. Nobody died. She just wounded her, but
mom had to back off. Went in there this seat. Now,
this isn't just a teenager. This is the woman who
(11:11):
is old enough to be the mother of the teenager.
So I'm assuming she's at leade, at least thirty. That's
two generations, both of which are so blasted entitled. They
think it's out of the question to be asked to
do their jobs that they're employed to do, that they
(11:32):
are paid to do, that they applied for. That's out
of the question. So asking somebody, look, we're giving to
you and we're helping you, and we're glad we can,
but can you volunteer and assist at the you know,
the state rest home, or help with this community cleanup
project or something like that. You would be blown out
(11:54):
of the water for suggesting such craziness. I've said many times,
our words get stolen and the left thinking political crew,
they stole the word progressive because frankly, we have not progressed.
(12:19):
We have digressed in so many ways, so many ways
in this country. We are not better. We have not
moved forward politically, we have not progressed when it comes
to race relations. We have not progressed when it comes
to academic progress. Just look around the country. Our children
(12:39):
are becoming idiots. Rates of graduation are insanely low, and
those that graduate are morons. Every now and then there's
a diamond in there. You go, oh, my gosh, somebody
who actually learned something in trigonometry. That's wonderful, But far
too often the kids are passed along from one grade
to the next without showing they can perform anything. Then
(13:02):
we come up with ideas like the state graduation test
that I explained the other day. My son in tenth
grade passed all elements of the state graduation test and
asked me, if I've passed all the elements in tenth grade,
proven that I know everything the state requires me to
know to graduate from my school, Why the hell do
I need to go to two more years of school.
(13:24):
I should be able to go get a job. I
can't disagree with that, but that's what our state gives
us as logical, just like they give us a back
to school sales tax holiday that includes fine dining, while
at the same time we're sitting and having a conversation
(13:44):
about telling people what kind of food they might be
able to purchase for their family for their children with
their food stamp snap ebt benefits. There's a lot of
weeds growing in this yard. We keep acting like we're
fixing stuff, but sometimes I think we're just planting more weeds.
(14:06):
Quite rankly
Talking about the snap Benefits EBT food stamps. I'm not
sure what you're supposed to officially call them anymore. I
have no idea.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I think it's they don't I've never heard food stamps,
unless does anybody say.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Well, that's again because I'm old. When I was a kid,
they were food stamps. I remember the hideous embarrassment of
food stamps. My mom signed us up for food stamps
when my dad was on strike. She didn't tell Dad
about it, and that did not go well. But he
(00:34):
was on strike for quite a while and money was low,
and she did what she thought she should do, and
they they actually came to you in a little It
was kind of like a book of checks, and it
looked like, you know, some kind of currency. They had
it all artistic looking and stuff, and they were red
and green, and there were colors based on the denomination
(00:58):
of the food stamp. And I remember, oh, man, that's
a hard memory. I remember being at Kroger with Dad
and he had those in his pocket, but he reached
for his wallet. Man, he was going to pay with
(01:21):
whatever money he had. He got a little something for
walking the picket line, and he wanted to pay with money,
and the woman who was behind us, the woman who
was behind us, they opened up another register and she
went to the register next to it. She had a
shopping cart full of doughnuts and cakes and cookies and
(01:44):
potato chips and soda pops and all that stuff. And
Dad's watching everything go by the back. Then they actually
used to punch in the amount of the stuff as
they were putting it down the conveyor belt. And Dad's
watching all of this stuff go by and counting in
his head how much it is. And I could see
the misery on his face. And the woman in the
(02:06):
other lane with the cart full of all of the
junk food and stuff. They gave her her total, and
she whipped out her book of food stamps, and I
I can't forget the look on my dad's face. There
he was trying. He was buying one percent milk because
it was cheaper, seventy three percent Hamburger or whatever it was,
(02:32):
because it was cheaper, more, more fat, less lean, but
it was cheaper. Brian, the Kroger brand of ice cream
instead of the jiff for this skippy or no ice
cream at Peanut Butter, because the kids, that's that's what
we ate that was our sustenance was peanut butter sandwich.
And he's buying what he had to buy as cheap
(02:54):
as possible. And this woman with her cart full of
junk whipped out her food stamps, and I saw my
dad crushed at that moment in time. It hurt him
to think he's he's standing there counting those pennies as
they go buy on the conveyor belt. The world's changed now.
(03:19):
Instead of a book, you've got a you got a card.
It's like a credit card. I guess, yeah, you swipe
it like any other card. So I guess that that
embarrassment of using it isn't necessarily there because not everybody
knows what you're doing. And uh, and nobody sees you
using a food stamp benefit for for whatever you're buying.
(03:41):
But they want to change that, change what you can buy.
And I'm not sure, I'm not positive. I'm not taking
a definitive stance either way. I'm just saying this is
something I really got to think about, because there is
a level of a level of disagreement in me about this.
A two one nine eight six the number eight two
one w TV and Cheryl, I'm sorry Rochelle, you're on
six ten high.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Hey, jack at these are a great show, great show,
and I'm sure your father, if he was still around,
he would be very proud of you because your shows
are great show.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's that's that is probably the most decent, wonderful thing
you could say to me. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Oh well, no, that's something that story that you told
about your father, that's something of which you should be proud.
I mean, because he was obviously a hard working man,
and so when they go on strike, you know, that's
why that safety net is there. So but that's still
I mean, God lets him for trying to get you
guys in a good suit. But I'm just going to
add my quick thing. But these poor parents are out there,
they're struggling and stuff, and this sounds like something unpopular
(04:39):
and it's not for everyone, but there there is. I
don't know if you've heard that Internet and fasting, that
stuff is amazing. If a patient or if a person
is healthy enough and check with his or her doctor,
you can fast, like Okay, the longest fact I've ever
done was forty hours. I didn't feel dizzy. The only
(05:01):
thing that went in my mouth was water, and I'm
a normal sized weight person, and I'm healthy, I'm not diabetics.
So fasting is not for everyone. But if those parents
could for one or two days during the week just
not eat, they would have more money to give for
the kids. You know, you don't want the kid fasting,
(05:23):
but you know, and then they have the parents buy
the kids like eggs and cheese, good protein sources. Eggs
are loaded with a lot of good nutrients for the brain.
So it is unpopular. But and I encourage people to
check out fasting because you fast eight hours every night
when you're sleeping, so I sleep, I don't eat until
about one in the afternoon, and that right there is
(05:45):
a you know, twelve hour fast. So anyway, so just
telling people and maybe check that out.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Hey, you know, And unfortunately Rochelle Wood is a completely
reasonable course of action. There would be just considered probably
hate speech by people today because what you mean, I
shouldn't have everybody thinks they should have. Everybody thinks they
deserve you. You you should have the government should pay
for cable TV and internet access the government. That's We've
(06:11):
got a whole country full of people that think that way. Now,
and the idea of surrendering something, giving up something, going
without something so that your children can have is a
choice that they think that it's ridiculous they should have
to make that choice. And that's a sad thing because
that's not That is not the America I thought we
were supposed to be having.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yes, sir, you're right. You're right about that. People are entitled.
So okay, well, god blet you. The show is great.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Take care, Thank you, Rochelle. I appreciate you calling a
two one ninety eight six eight two one WTV. And
then Bill, you're on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
file lines. How are you?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, juck, good night. Well, these people are going to
get up and go to work because if they don't,
we're through. We're through, Okay, there's nothing going to help us.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And if they want their free stuff, I'm sixty five,
I'm retired, and I've never received one food stamp in
my whole entire life.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Okay, I'll die before I get a food stamp. I'll
starve to death before I get a food stamp. Okay,
you have a great night, guys, You have a great night.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
All right, all right, Bill, I appreciate the call. I
don't know that I go that far. I mean, they look,
these programs exist for a reason. I would rather see
somebody who is you know, retired, that needs some help
see them get it. So all it goes to work
every day, but you know what, they're just not making
(07:47):
enough money. The economy is what the economy is. But
they're going out there every day. They're trying to make
something themselves. They're trying to build something, but they need
some help. I'm good with them getting that help. We
you know, we've got to be we gotta be prudent
about our dollars, but we got to be compassionate to agree.
Not to a stupid degree, mind you, where governments should
(08:09):
pay for every dag gone thing, but when people need help.
I think, you know, we're the kind of country where
you should be able to get some help. Not a
lifelong membership to the everything for Free club, but you
should be able to get some help, whether that's with
groceries or medical or or whatever. To some degree. I'm okay.
(08:35):
I just ask that you know, A, in return, you
love your country, B you contribute something back. I don't
think that you remember when they used to have prisoners
made license plates. They don't even do that anymore because
they would be enforced to work. I don't we require
our high school students to have a certain number of
(08:57):
volunteer hours, which unfortunately they also allow, like your part
time job can be a volunteer ours, which I don't
agree with. I think public service is a wonderful thing,
a needed thing. It makes us better people, it makes
this country a better country, and I don't think there'd
be anything wrong with asking people. Look, if you need help,
we'll help you out. We've got the resources in return
(09:22):
here any number of places where we could use some help.
You're getting these benefits from the state, or here, the
state has all these places. You could volunteer here, We
could use you here. But you know in return for
helping you out? Is there something wrong with that? I mean, again,
(09:42):
by today's standards in twenty twenty five, of course there is.
You can't ask anybody to do anything in return for anything. Hell,
you can't employer wants me to do. I saw a
girl last night, oh my gosh, working at some fast
food restaurant, and she had been asked to do the dishes. Crazily,
(10:03):
she had been hired as a dishwasher, but she's got
her phone on and she's crying about having to get
all those dishes washed before midnight and what is she
going to do? And imager say, you're gonna get them washed?
Well what if I can't, Well, then you don't have
a job, because that's what you got hired to do.
(10:26):
That's an alien concept to people now. Story out of
a McDonald's last week where McDonald's manager told the girl,
the fifteen sixteen year old girl was to take out
the trash to the dumpster. She said, no, I'm not
carrying trash. She said, the trash needs to go out
to the dumpster. Girl got on the phone and called
her mother. Her mother shows up at the McDonald's, goes
(10:50):
into the manager's office and attacks her. The manager, being
a strong believer in her Second Amendment rights, remedied that
situation very quickly. Nobody died. She just wounded her, but
mom had to back off. Went in there this seat. Now,
this isn't just a teenager. This is the woman who
(11:11):
is old enough to be the mother of the teenager.
So I'm assuming she's at leade, at least thirty. That's
two generations, both of which are so blasted entitled. They
think it's out of the question to be asked to
do their jobs that they're employed to do, that they
(11:32):
are paid to do, that they applied for. That's out
of the question. So asking somebody, look, we're giving to
you and we're helping you, and we're glad we can,
but can you volunteer and assist at the you know,
the state rest home, or help with this community cleanup
project or something like that. You would be blown out
(11:54):
of the water for suggesting such craziness. I've said many times,
our words get stolen and the left thinking political crew,
they stole the word progressive because frankly, we have not progressed.
(12:19):
We have digressed in so many ways, so many ways
in this country. We are not better. We have not
moved forward politically, we have not progressed when it comes
to race relations. We have not progressed when it comes
to academic progress. Just look around the country. Our children
(12:39):
are becoming idiots. Rates of graduation are insanely low, and
those that graduate are morons. Every now and then there's
a diamond in there. You go, oh, my gosh, somebody
who actually learned something in trigonometry. That's wonderful, But far
too often the kids are passed along from one grade
to the next without showing they can perform anything. Then
(13:02):
we come up with ideas like the state graduation test
that I explained the other day. My son in tenth
grade passed all elements of the state graduation test and
asked me, if I've passed all the elements in tenth grade,
proven that I know everything the state requires me to
know to graduate from my school, Why the hell do
I need to go to two more years of school.
(13:24):
I should be able to go get a job. I
can't disagree with that, but that's what our state gives
us as logical, just like they give us a back
to school sales tax holiday that includes fine dining, while
at the same time we're sitting and having a conversation
(13:44):
about telling people what kind of food they might be
able to purchase for their family for their children with
their food stamp snap ebt benefits. There's a lot of
weeds growing in this yard. We keep acting like we're
fixing stuff, but sometimes I think we're just planting more weeds.
(14:06):
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