My Time at Walmart: Why We Need Serious Welfare Reform

TheCollegeConservative ^ | 12/13/2011 | Christine Rouselle

[gabriellah]

During the 2010 and 2011 summers, I was a cashier at Wal-Mart #1788 in Scarborough, Maine. I spent hours upon hours toiling away at a register, scanning, bagging, and dealing with questionable clientele. These were all expected parts of the job, and I was okay with it. What I didn’t expect to be part of my job at Wal-Mart was to witness massive amounts of welfare fraud and abuse.

[VastRWCon]

bump for later

[bikerman]

I was a cashier at Wal-Mart #1788 in Scarborough, Maine

This is just in one store can you imagine what is going on all over the country with these cheats.

[stuartcr]

So what’s your solution?

[joe fonebone]

bump for later

[Truth29]

The underlying message is that those who work for a living and pay taxes are chumps. Eventually, more and more give up and become permanent, dependent, Rat voters. This is like cancer and it is killing the country.

[RightWingMama]

When I worked in the medical field I saw many people on Medi-caid. One patient cancelled a surgery because he was going on vacation to Italy! Another welfare lady came into the office in a sports car.

[MrB]

Privatize all charity.

If a charity becomes known for allowing too much fraud and waste, people stop contributing to it and direct their charity elsewhere.

[vetvetdoug]

In Mississippi its not just in Wal Marts, one sees the fraud in small stores, Kroger, K-Marts, and many other stores. We even have these mom and pop Mexican stores crop up that are schooled in getting in on the welfare scams.

[surroundedbyblue]

People on the dole shouldn’t be permitted to vote.

[Mortrey]

Boy! Are looters gonna be mad when the economy collapses!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII&feature=player_embedded

[stuartcr]

No one has to contribute to charities now, do they?

[TLI]

[MrB]

Yep, that’s one thing that people should take heart in -

this can’t go on forever, and you can just imagine those people when the dole runs out...

[crosshairs]

I always said, if scammers put as much effort into legitimate work, there’s no telling how successful they could be.

[stuartcr]

How would that, realistically, be enforced?

[ctdonath2]

The feds take so much money from taxpayers - and much of that in the name of charity - there isn’t much left for charities.

[MrB]

Nope, they sure don’t,

so it would be up to the charity founder and those that believe in the charity to convince people that their donations are going to a worthwhile cause.

[RockinRight]

I’m glad to see that this young lady is quickly learning. Let’s hope there are more like her. (Granted, I am presuming she was already a conservative from her blog name).

[albie]

“The man had been on welfare my entire life. That’s not how welfare was intended,”

...oh yes it was!