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My Time at Walmart: Why We Need Serious Welfare Reform
TheCollegeConservative ^
| 12/13/2011
| Christine Rouselle
Posted on 12/13/2011 12:23:23 PM PST by gabriellah
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To: gabriellah
My wife is a cashier at 7-11. She came home angry once telling me about a customer that came in and paid for her junk food with an ebt card and then pulled out a one hundred dollar bill to pay for her gas. Gas that she put into her MERCEDES.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:40:30 PM PST
by
Grunthor
(We dont LOVE Newt - heck we barely even like him. He's just the best of a rotten bunch)
To: gabriellah
My wife put in a year at Wal-Mart many years ago. She too has stories regarding the seedy underbelly of humanity which is rapidly becoming the norm.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:40:52 PM PST
by
mad puppy
(Spare me your line of crap...I'm voting for Newt.)
To: gabriellah
Sounds like the experience my Son had at the Walmart here the other day - couple in front of him, bought a computer, a 32 HDTV, and a bunch of other things - then paid for a bunch of food with an EBT card. Outside they were parked right down from him, and he watched them load everything into a Lexus.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:41:59 PM PST
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
To: MrB
Wouldn’t that put an expense burden on the charity, that it doesn’t already have? How would that info get disseminated?
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:42:09 PM PST
by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
To: albie
“I’ll have those n*rs voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” — Lyndon B. Johnson
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:42:13 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: bikerman
Scarborough ME. Home of Ken’s Fried Clams. Yum.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:42:14 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: surroundedbyblue
People on the dole shouldnt be permitted to vote.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:43:25 PM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
To: gabriellah
Nothing new. I'm a cashier, too. Not only do people by junk food with EBT cards, they then have plenty of money to buy dvds, etc. Just before Thanksgiving, I sold a guy a PS3, Do you want the service plan with that? He decided to get it, telling he that this was his third PS3 in two years, the others burned out. More than $400. He then bought junk food with his EBT card. But he was in a wheelchair....
People have differing attitudes aboput what assistance is for. My grandson said it is to help people through hard times. I say it is to keep them from starving to death.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:43:25 PM PST
by
eccentric
(a.k.a. baldwidow)
To: MrB
Privatize all charity. 100% agree
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:43:33 PM PST
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: surroundedbyblue
You are absolutely right, but guess what would happen if anyone seriously submitted such legislation?
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:43:40 PM PST
by
Wiser now
(Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
To: vetvetdoug
I witnessed this once at a local grocery store, three people ahead of me in line all using the EBT cards.
I was *this* close to blurting out “Another one of those damn cards? Doesn’t anybody f***ing work around here?”
I didn’t say anything, but I wish I had.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:43:50 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(If you're waiting to drink until you find pure water, you're going to die of dehydration.)
To: bikerman
My wife is a cashier at a Walmart in CA. I hear all about what you described.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:44:07 PM PST
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
To: gabriellah
Just wow. Welfare state of mind on clear display. Good for this young woman to write so well about her experiences. There is a whole new generation to wake up. We’ll need more, many more, like her.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:45:12 PM PST
by
SueRae
(I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
To: gabriellah
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:45:50 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(If you're waiting to drink until you find pure water, you're going to die of dehydration.)
To: gabriellah
I was at Walmart the other day and the two women and 4 children in front of me had 4 carts That rang up to $667.00. She tried to pay with an EBT benefits card from New Mexico and it would not work here in Colorado. She and her mother argued with the cashier and then her mother pulled out a handful of benefits cards from Colorado and paid with them. I have never bought even $400 worth of groceries at once in my life.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:46:13 PM PST
by
albionin
To: TLI
Every one of us should send that photo and receipt to our Congresscritters and Senators.
To: stuartcr
That’s the fiduciary DUTY of a charity,
to account for how its donations get distributed.
The whole point is that a charity receives its donations through voluntary contributions, not by sticking a gun to people’s heads and then not being accountable for how that money is spent.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:47:42 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: bikerman
Yes I can imagine.I worked in a grocery store 25+ years ago and watched the same stuff go on then and it has not got any better.
To: surroundedbyblue
People on the dole shouldnt be permitted to vote. Agreed, and that includes those on the government dole as employees.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:49:55 PM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
To: chris_bdba
I was a bagger/cart boy in a Pennsylvania supermarket 40 years ago. Same crap. Some well-dressed sleaze would use food stamps at the checkout and I would help her load up her brand new Lincoln Continental. No tip, either.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:52:47 PM PST
by
duckworth
(Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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