Posted on 12/13/2011 12:23:23 PM PST by 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.
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We should require all welfare families, if receiving any form, to have all females in the household between say 13 and 43 to have an injectable contraception like Norplant. As long as they get checks or free food or free medical care, no more pregnancies allowed. If they get their acts together, they can get the implant out and have more children.
You'd think that our first Lady Mrs. "Healthy Food" Obama could push a plan to restrict what can be bought with food stamps.
Stop raising the income limit on qualifying for 'assistance.' Freeze all levels of government programs and spending.
I think of this every time someone complains about what WIC won't pay for. I want to yell "BUY IT WITH YOUR OWN MONEY!!!"
Do you believe something like that could work in the 21st century?
Yup. Why not? Gotta work better than dropping cash from airplanes as we do now.
Very smart girl. Yes, it seems Maine has a serious problem...
Yes, quite.
Of course I don’t have a solution. If I did, do you think I’d be on FR half the day?
Don’t have one, just seeing what others say, and giving folks a reason to say something.
Yes, but it still fulfills a necessary purpose, one that decent, modern govts are essentially required to fill.
nothing in life is free, we do have a responsibility to those that truly need help.
Of ourse they were. SOP
Got none, but a new start would certainly be a good thing.
Ain’t got one, and ain’t my task...just lookin’ for one.
Doesn’t Maine take in a lot of refugees from Somalia?
Several times I have been out shopping with the fam and noticed that everyone in line in front of us was paying with an EBT (welfare) card.
At the dollar store last week, the lady in front of me bought a huge pile of Little Princess birthday party decorations, plates, cups, etc. with her “food stamp” card.
At Wal-Mart yesterday, the lady in front of me bought a $69.00 toy with her EBT card.
And none of these people even said thanks!
No representation without taxation!
Walter Williams had a proposal that was something like everyone gets a vote, but people who pay taxes get two votes.
Most people assume that it’s the bad economy that has led to the record number of people on food stamps.
However, a big contributor was the fact that Obamacare had a provision snuck into it that greatly increased the number of people eligible for food stamps.
So Obama deliberately set out to become the Food Stamp President.
I am getting to that point as well. I “gave at the office” already.
And I have been involved with charities, especially for kids, and seen how often they are ungrateful for the toys and clothes they are given, and how really the rest of us have gifted them with stuff all year long, so it’s no big deal to them.
Once you take the check, you are off the rolls automatically.
But, better to get rid of the hand outs for those that really don’t need them.
Wouldn't you honestly be happier down at your local Occupy camp than here among the right-wing Neanderthals?
The overwhelming preponderance of anecdotes here points to a system that is being looted on a vast scale by a huge class of professional moochers and parasites.
The drastic solutions (complete privatization of all benefits, loss of the franchise for food stamp recipients, etc.) that seem to horrify you are mild compared to what will happen when the whole welfare bubble pops.
I wasn’t going to respond to this, but I’ve got to.
Ben — BS!
The reason Social Security is running out of money isn’t because of the people who worked their ASSES off, it’s because of the Government taking money away from SS to pay for their pet projects, and giving money to other countries so we can make them “friends”
The Government left huge stacks of IOU’s. So, get your facts straight.
Rant over. And no, I’m not on SS, I’m one of those busting my butt for my parents.
The price of accepting an EBT card should be, you can’t vote.
In otherwords, just stirring the pot by being purposely obtuse.
Well FRiend, there’s nothing keeping you from sending more money to welfare recipients, is there?
Most criminals are on welfare anyway. End welfare and hang criminals. Problem solved.
The program was put in when the ratio of workers to those collecting was 10:1.
That ratio will soon be 2:1, and in 20 years, 1.5:1
So yeah, total ‘BS’. Truth hurts.
The system is unsustainable and needs to be dumped ASAP.
I agree, which is why we absolutely must throw those who do not “truly need” off the welfare rolls. Forever.
Our EBT cards are used transfer child support money, too. Since they are both processed the same at the register, there would be no way for someone else to know what the actual funds were from except that food stamps won’t pay for non-food items.
Child support money from a parent or from the state?
Honestly, I’m not 100% sure. Cases like “foster Parents” use EDT cards....
If you count food stamps as charity then, yes, we have to contribute.
The solution won’t be implemented because it is insensitive, cruel, uncaring, and CONSERVATIVE.
Nevertheless, we really aren’t going to have to worry about a solution for very much longer. This country simply cannot sustain half of its able-bodied adults sitting on their goddam asses and sponging off the rest of the real Americans - net taxpayers. This sh!tball largesse system is headed for a collapse certain. It is only a matter of time, ever-shortening time.
In my 6 years where I live now and shopping at Walmart, there has NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER been someone who I’d consider a suitable parent, let alone Foster-parent using an EBT card there. THEY WERE ALL LOSERS.
I love this.
It would certainly appear that way. Odd that when someone stirs the pot for things we agree on, it’s ok. I guess pot stirring is relative.
It would certainly appear that way. Odd that when someone stirs the pot for things we agree on, it’s ok. I guess pot stirring is relative.
I think that's exactly what they have in mind. Kill as many private charities as possible.
I work in a grocery store currently and see this happen every day. Often time they load their expensive items into a high end newer car such as M3’s, 5 series, assorted Lexus sedans and SUV’s, Audi’s, and my personal favorite the Escalade with expensive aftermarket rims, tires and stereo.
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