Shaking my head

Well with some things being cut down like the food stamp program here it makes me wander and shake my head.  Granted I had food stamps at one time here and made them work when I had them also at the time and got off of that program totally.  Ok some folks do need the food stamps totally since they are the working poor and there are others that can get up off their butts and start working also instead of being on total welfare in many cases.  There are jobs still out there and alot of folks do not want the fast food jobs at all still to this day.  I have worked almost every job out there and still found work that I can do without running to the welfare program.  Since I got my walk in today already here and got a mile and a half in already and will get back out there also for another walk it seems that some really need to start thinking in what they throw out also at this time.  I will say that we get charged a nickle deposit on alot of things here in the state of NY here and I do cash in in what I get.  Then there are the walks that I take here and pick up other nickles off the side of the road and in parking lots also at this time.  I will say that I know some folks who get at least 15 dollars a day here in the area and I can still get at least a dollar a day if not more depending on the day and what is going on in the area also.  Some days it is over 5 dollars a day some days it is only one nickle also.  So I pull the nickles back here for the household alot of the times anyway.  When I did hear this week that the food stamps were being cut down to people all over the place this tells me something also now.  Ok some folks still have unemployment coming in at this time and it is only half of what you made while working.  Now lets say you made 1,000 dollars a week at work and now with the unemployment check it is 500 dollars a week.  Then there are other factors in with it like household bills that are utilities, food, rent/loan payments, car payments, and afew other things to pay.  As the old saying goes cut the cloth to fit in what is going on.  Still to this day I try and cut things down for my place and that is how it all goes.  There are times yes when some need the system and get off of it as soon as possible.  Others stay on it for years and that sets up the next generation also.  With that said here it is time that things start looking up and start slashing some things out of the budget.