Posted: 2/3/2012 7:20:40 AM EDT
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The thread about Florida removing junk food from welfare eligibility got me thinking about how often I observe the abuse of this system. It's a daily event, often more than once a day. I see legitimate homeless people around my area. They may be crazy, but they are living on the streets and scrounging trash to live. They are not eligible for welfare, or else they can't figure out how to collect it.
But I see an endless line of people who are perfectly capable of working and have disposable income for tattoos and nice clothes, iPhones, overpriced wheels, and lottery tickets using government money to buy junk. I am disgusted. Today I begin the document the waste that this system represents. You are encouraged to post your observations of people using EBT and SNAP to empty your wallets and leach off society. Please don't tell me that this one is Amish and that one is whatever. I don't care and I've seen all races abuse the system equally. So I guess we have achieved equality. Yesty: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1284528_Florida_Bill_says_FU__no_more_chips_and_soda_on_food_stamps_.html&page=2#i32206723 THIS JUST IN:
Lardass at 7-11 with 64 ounce cup of cola and flavored coffee finds out that welfare will no longer pay for his excesses. "Well, I'm not going to come in here anymore." clerk "It's the state, sir, they say we won't be able to do it." lardass "You're going to lose a lot of business. I've got six people that come here. We're going to go somewhere else." How about you try going to a job interview? Today's adventure involved another fatty, although this one wasn't as angry as the first. Double Big Gulp, Snickers Bar, 7-11 sausage sandwich. EBT. |
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Today I worked from 9:30 AM until 11:30 PM. I ate lunch at 1:30 and then went without dinner until I got to my block about 15 minutes ago. I'm hungry.
What the hell - 7-11 burritos are cheap and easy. Inside the 7-11 is Mr. Pillhead. "Hey, how'd you like to get some food for half price? Super bowl is tomorrow! You need plenty of food!" Mr. Pillhead waves his EBT card, right next to the sign that says Hostess cakes are eligible for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program AKA food stamps.) I am reminded that a significant percent of our population thinks that Mr. Pillhead is a creative entrepreneur because he is able to convert EBT into cash to buy some Vicodin, and the fact that he sold his childrens' food for fifty cents on the dollar doesn't matter because it was "free money." They also think that I'm stupid because I worked two jobs when the government will just give me money and they've got plenty of it. |
In case anyone thought I was kidding about the Hostess Cakes:
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Note the EBT links on the USDA page. |
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Haha, 7-11 branded snack cakes. Never seen that before. Or a 7-11 around my area. Saw a guy buying a bag of chips and salsa using the Lone Star card. 7-11 seems to be going away from name brands to their own brand for a lot of things. better profit margin. Slight edit. Better profit on in-house brands, even though they are cheaper and made in the same factories, just without the stricter quality control on ingredients. |
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If the eating habits of the welfare society bother you, you would lose your shit if you had to spend time in their homes. Yeah, they have nicer stuff than you do.
I was recently in the check out line of a local grocery store, and the young lady in front of me was checking out with a food stamp card. Once the groceries were totaled, it was more than she had available on her card (simple math, how does it work? I have never not known within $5 what my total was going to be at check out). The young lady had a cart piled very high, and the contents were a not unreasonable mix of junk food and healthy foods. Once she realized that she was over what does she do? No, she didn't take out the milk, eggs and bread, she put the chips, soda, and some other prepared stuff back, and kept the healthy foods. I was more than a little surprised, as was the check out girl, I mentioned that I was surprised the previous customer kept healthy food and put back junk, the cashier commented that she had never seen that happen. If you think that the food stamp program is ate up with stupid, you should check out the housing programs. Is your power bill high? Do you turn down the thermostat in the winter and up in the summer, and your bill is still enough to drive you nuts? The trouble is that you are paying for it yourself. In the projects, the government pays the power bill. The weather has varied from unseasonably warm to perfectly normal for this time of year here. Normal for this time of year is low forties in the early morning, mid to high sixties in the afternoon. For most of us this type of weather means that you don't have to run the furnace or AC, for those who don't pay their own bills this is not the case. I was in an apartment Saturday, it was a very comfortable 75 out, but the guy in the project apartment I was working in had the AC on, according to the digital thermostat on the wall the temperature in the apartment was 59, and he was complaining that it was too hot. This morning I was at another project apartment, a middle aged woman lived there. It was well above 50 outside, but this woman claimed it was freezing, her thermometer was reading 83 in the apartment, and she was turning it up every time it would cut off. |
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IIRC this was started by a member here http://peopleoffoodstamps.com/ |
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Quoted: I spent 5 years working at a grocery store. If I were to list all the abuses that I saw, it would be a wall of text. In the short time I worked in a grocery store, I saw people trying to use EBT for cigs and beer, and heard stories from the cashiers about people using EBT for carts full of candy and junk food (and the people pushing the carts were 300+ lbs)  |
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I haven't taken the time to update this recently. Something about working...
A couple of weeks ago I was in Publix when I heard an unintelligible tirade in a language that may have been Spanish. None of the cashiers, several of whom speak Spanish, could understand it, either. It seems Grandma Welfare found out that her EBT card wouldn't pay for some of the things she wanted to buy. She had to pay cash. A Spanish speaking person explained this to her, so she launched a ten minute tirade on that person, then the cashiers. They must have pretty good freebies wherever she's from. A couple of nights earlier, I was accosted by the poor girl whose car broke down while she's on vacation and she has to get back to Boston. I don't even bother asking, "Where's your car?" It's a silly question. I said something about there being plenty of jobs in Pompano Beach. Tonight the same vacationer found me outside of 7-11. She must have really suffered for the last three weeks, having her car broke down and not being able to get to Boston and her cell phone needs to be charged and she needs a cigarette. This time, she was in a panic, in tears. If her life gets any worse, she'll have to come up with a new story. Fortunately, the welfare office is within walking distance. I'm sure someone has already told her where it is, and she'll go there as soon as somebody gives her a ride. But my car broke down and besides, I don't want a blowjob that bad. The latest scam is to wait outside the store and ask people to buy their food on the EBT card for fifty cents on the dollar. I must look like a sucker or something because after I say, "No," they follow me into the store to make sure I understand what a great deal I'm being offered. Next time one of them asks me, I think I will say, "Why don't we just cut your benefits in half and then you can buy food like you're supposed to." |
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Notice how the "honest" welfare mom is a two hundred and fifty pound fatty who could easily survive for a couple of months without food and she was buying Skippy peanut butter and Doritos for her starving family. |
