Posted on 08/11/2014 1:48:14 PM PDT by Theoria
I was at a gas station convenience store this weekend and the woman in front of me had just bought 10 deli sandwiches, paying with a SNAP card. I noted the Bluetooth earpiece she was wearing for her cell phone... and I just started to boil inside.
SNAP cards should not exist... if people need assistance it should be a humbling and humiliating experience. This business with a debit card to get a monthly cash infusion needs to go... there is no sense of shame that the user is on assistance at all...
and for the $100 of sandwiches that woman bought... one could have a pretty amazing feast with cold cuts and rolls... from the GROCERY STORE.
(After all, WE'RE the ones who are paying their tab!)
You can be sure the Obama Administration knows how many food stamps get spent at Walmart. To the penny. To be used as leverage when they cram a union down Walmart’s throat.
Just yesterday I was wondering if there are stores owned by people that refuse to accept SNAP cards on principle... sure there must be... and those business should be promoted.
100% YES. I am surprised the USDA would actually propose such a thing. Wouldn't be surprised if the crony-capitalists at Wal-Mart and elsewhere make sure it doesn't happen.
I work for Walmart and that sounds about right. $13 to $20 Billion would be in the ball park.
This site got the SNAP spending for 2006-2009 in MA per store location with a FIOA, MA tried to sue him for publishing it, but MA dropped the charges.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2010/oct/18/where-massachusetts-food-stamp-money-going/
I’ll bet its a lot. My hunch is that without food stamps, Walmart might now even be profitable.
Big CronyBiz needs food stamps for everyone.. so they can afford to buy $100 footwear, video games, cosmetics, etc.
Every actual dollar you don’t spend on food you can spend on discretionary.
He with the most and best lobbyists wins.
That’s crony capitalism and American today.
Hey I know there are people whom use Food Stamps that do not abuse the system. There are way too many that do abuse the system though.
No it isn't. The business has to apply and a certain percentage of their sales must be in qualifying food items to get into the system.
A 39% increase in 2009, and 2010 shows spending of $1,075,000,000.
These numbers are only higher now.
And $76 billion isn't anywhere near what we spend on SNAP nowadays.
Interesting thought you have. I saw once...on Free Republic, no less...that a FReeper thought if CWII ever happened, it would be a great idea to get a list of food stamp users.
Except this person then wanted to go out out, find them, then SHOOT them. “Way to get rid of the parasites”, was what I believe they said.
Soro’s JPMorgan recieves a nice percent for just processing EBT purchases. Follow the money.
There was an article on National Review where communities in rural areas of Appalachia basically have replaced cash with canned pop at food stores.
Joe uses his EBT card to buy X number of cases of canned pop at Market A, lugs them to Market B which purchases them for 60% of the original price paid in cash. Then Market B resells the pop to Mary who uses her EBT card for the purchase, lugs it to Market A and gets 60% in cash.
I’M SHOCKED!! (not really)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/01/jp-morgan-s-food-stamp-empire.html
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