I don’t have cancer–yet. I do have precancerous cells, though. Pretty scary considering I am a young mother and have hopes of having more kids someday.

You don’t buy the Crest toothpaste, your breath will stink, you won’t get the girl.

You get this vaccine, you’ll die.

What about the negative aspects? We as a people have survived before this piece of crap vaccine, why do we need it now?

Tell me this crap, I had to get this idiotic vaccine, and they knew I was sexually active. They didn’t test me for anything, they gave it to me. I was 14, and I wasn’t a virgin, and they didn’t test me. THEN they gave it to me with the meningitis vaccine, too!
I couldn’t decline, it was my mothers choice. I had no voice in the matter. I’m deathly afraid of needles, so they poked me with TWO. and I passed out.

Then they handed me a paper on the vaccines I just got. On the paper, it said “Gardasil has not been approved by the FDA, and studies have shown a few complications to occur, including redness and pain at the injection site, fainting, Guillian-Barre syndrome, and death.”

Then I looked on the meningitis vaccine, it said the same thing, except. IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE INJECTED AT THE SAME TIME WITH THE GARDASIL VACCINE. Studies have shown a high risk of Guillian-Barre syndrome when included with Gardasil.

WHAT?? I just gambled with being paralyzed because my mother is uninformed like the rest of this country! Good god, how stupid!

However, death may occur if severe pulmonary complications and autonomic nervous system problems are present.[7] Guillain-Barre is one of the leading causes of non-trauma-induced paralysis in the world.

Now…. Dawn doesn’t get it, that when you start a job, you lose all your stamps, when stamps pay a more reliable amount for food than a crappy job you could get laid off of anytime, if you don’t want to get a job because you’re on them, then you shouldn’t be on them? What? Where is the logic?
I have been told the same thing by a potential donor. Just because we’re on stamps doesn’t mean we’re dumb, and I feel angry at the people who get their nails done and dress like paris hilton whilst being on stamps. I have never seen this in my area. However, maybe think of it in a different way. Suppose she didn’t pay for them? Maybe she has a friend that is training to be a nail tech, maybe she STOLE [gasp, that's what people do sometimes!] the clothing. Back on the dumb thing though. It depends, really on what the situation is.

I am going to be 18 in two weeks, and I moved out (got kicked) because I married my husband. I knew I was going to be on stamps, but the situation was enough to make me choose being poor, to get away from hoarding my food from obese parents and being shut in my tiny room all day.
We applied for food stamps when we moved out. At this point he was still on training pay, which was great, we got 1,500 a month. We only got about 100 bucks in stamps. It was okay, because we had leftover money to buy whatever food, fruits, veggies, juices… etc. Now, I totally wish there was a place around here whose rent is 150, but ours is 505. So, take 505 from 1.5, leaves 1,000. That’s okay, good enough to buy toilet paper, towels, garbage bags, those necessities. THEN he got off training pay. BAM. Went down to 800 a month when he wasn’t doing many mechanical hours. When he DID do mech hours, he got paid LESS. Figure that. The pay was suposed to be 13.5 an hour, but he got 9.45. Then his glasses broke, and we thought hey, why not get insurance, because he was going to be ineligible for medicaid, turning 21 in a few months. So he got insurance. not only did they not pay enough to even rectify getting it, it sucked $200 a check from us. So now we all the sudden make 600 a month. Went to the food stamps guy, and we get 170 now. Now tell me that isn’t slightly tough? 600 a month. 505 rent. Don’t even get me started on my 120 electric/heat bill because my complex doesn’t pay heat. I get charged extra when we use hot water, so no showers for us more than twice a month! I don’t have any money for “luxuries” like dawn and these accusers say! Luckily I am going to college, and my internet is being paid because it’s an online only school. It’s not a luxury, ma’am it is part of my education. We don’t pay for anything except rent, renters insurance and the heat/electric. Those things are things we can barely afford as well, but don’t go telling me to cut those off! Those aren’t things you CAN! It’s getting into the cold season again here, and I sit here with my blankets wrapped around shivering, because where is the money going to come from to pay this ridiculously long paper filled with surcharges and delivery chargers and optimization charges?

This is why we need stamps. They ARE the only source of food income. We as in, the US, we need more help in this economy. As far as my input directly on the stamps, the author is completely right. What Kait said would be hard to do in my situation, and I’m sure a lot of others too. When on stamps, you have to buy the cheapest dinners there are. This means a lot of soup for me. I still have braces, and it limits what I can gnaw into, especially after an adjustment. 170 a month for two people when it’s the only food income you’ve got, you can’t just buy fruits and veggies, you have to buy cheap things like peanut butter and jelly, soup, sardines, pop is cheaper than juice here. Milk is the most expensive, but we drink a lot of it. cereal, ramen, anything on sale, like pizza subs, when they’re 10 for 5 bucks. frozen dinners for a dollar, etc. You can’t buy lean cuisine, it’s too expensive, you’d get more bang for your buck if you buy the cheap stuff. chips and salsa, mac n cheese, crackers, things like that. We’ve tried fruit and veggies on this, but it doesn’t work, it goes bad too fast, and it turns into a waste of money. Our fridge has two settings, freeze everything, or let it melt. Frosty veggies aren’t good. We can’t grow veggies in an apartment, they throw down pesticides, and other nasties, and mow the lawn every other day. Especially with all the dogs around, they’d eat them, and our side gets hardly any sunlight. It sounds like a great idea, if I lived in a house or trailer.

Kait, your other idea about gleaning food from people doesn’t work if your only friends are teenagers that are dealing with the same food problem, or you have parents who eat all of their food and leave no leftovers.

One last thing before I cut this monster of a comment off. Yes, it does make you fat. I am now 70 pounds overweight because you can only buy a small amount of cheap food, or a smaller amount of “good” food. I only eat once a day, too. I’m too depressed to exercise, and it doesn’t ever help anyway. That’s another thing to add. The cheap, starchy, processed food we have to buy makes us lethargic, and getting fatter makes us depressed, thus unhappy and too tired to exercise.

~Luna

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