“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
I made about 12,000 dollars last year. I have one dependent in college. I pay my rent, eat fairly well. My bills are paid for the most part...I don’t own a car because I cannot afford one. I don’t live outside my means. I have a small apartment that is warm and dry. My soon to be ex husband lives on 50,000+ a year with his girlfriend (she works as well) Divorce sucks...but I will not go the EBT way so long as I can eat and stay warm. I am considered poor in this country...but if I can have something to eat and keep warm, I am a lot richer than most people on the planet...for that I am grateful.
Several months ago we were in line behind a well-dressed (white) woman at the local Wal-Mart who was using an EBT card, but who wasn’t familiar with how to use it. The checker patiently guided her through the process, and after the customer had gone we commented on how we didn’t expect to see well-dressed person using an EBT card. The clerk told us that he had a customer earlier using an EBT card who only wanted a bag of ice, a couple of candy bars for her kids and $100 back in cash. We asked the clerk if she could do that, and she said that she had to do it, it was store policy. She said that all the time she was ringing the customer up, the customer was bragging to her friend about her new Mercedes.
I was recently told without shame about a woman in someone’s family who was on assistance and has a 40” and 70” tv in her home.
No.
I am not generally in favor of government food programs as a matter of principle.
If we do have them, they should be vouchers for low cost basics like carrots, eggs, canned milk.
Lest any lurkers out there think that this is rich Persevero saying “let the poor starve,” I have been qualified for food stamps most of my adult life buy have not taken them, with the exception of some WIC vouchers.
90% of the freeloading deadbeats getting government assistance are scamming the system.
When I go to check out at a grocery store, I can’t see a card someone else is using and I don’t care - it is none of my business. I don’t know their personal situation, I know nothing about them and shouldn’t.
I won’t be the food police, I won’t condemn anyone for what they buy or don’t buy as that’s what liberals do.
think this is bad?
I just learned that the fedgov collects all the homeless types from northern (liberal) states and transports them to warmer climates. in many cases, to Hawaii... where they live on the beach in tent cities and receive weekly welfare checks... for life
that’s right... you’re working your ass off and giving 60-75% of it to the fedgov... who turns around and puts 65% of that received into these entitlement programs
think about that next time you’re thinking of taking a vacation but have to do a ‘stay-vaction’ instead
I'd rather see folks like that get federal dollars then send my tax dollars to foreign thugs to fill their Swiss bank accounts.
Now, right from the outset of this article, let me make it abundantly clear that I do not believe that most people are abusing the system.
OK, I’ll do it for you. A majority are.
Things will begin to turn when we have a right wing with leaders who attack the parasites that support the domestic communists and seek out means and methods to neutralize them.
I just saw a tweet from a college student working part time that a customer bought 2 latte’s using EBT cards.
I saw and EBT user buying 4lbs of $8.99/lb shrimp at the grocery tonight. Peeves the hell out me.
Example:
“Yo Tyrone, who you be votin foe in 2012?”
“I gots to go wit Obama baby. The democrats be givin out moe betta gibsmedat.”
About EBT cards- a lot of the reason why so many people are on it is the obvious (no jobs, and that’s a FACT)
but that it is no longer a shame to use one. The more mainstream the EBT card becomes, the more you see using them. There USED to be a stigma attached to the old “food stamp” usage. Not anymore! It’s almost de rigeur in some places to have one, in fact I think there is some EBT card envy going on.
I could legally get the EBT card. I am actually poor enough. I won’t get one, and there is a very invasive process one must go through to GET one. For one, the whole biometrics thing creeps me out. They also ask for very personal information concerning all you know, may live with (bad for those with room mates) for those of you considering getting an EBT card, please let us know if you are able to get one without taking the biometric IRIS scan. I know the SNAP program tricks people into giving up information they need not give up, for instance:
social security numbers/names of people you may live with (NOT required, but ASKED for as if it is a requirement, thus tricking people into giving up that info)
give as LEAST information as possible, and see if you are able to get an EBT card and not take the “photo” which is not a photo, but an IRIS scan.
Who said life is fair?
Is it right? No
Fair is a liberal word.
I couldn’t get food stamps as a Hurricane Katrina survivor after I relocated to Texas. They as much as told me that middle class white men pay for food stamps, they don’t receive them.
Remember, food stamps is based on income. Stay out of debt, get paid in bursts, and some years you are “poor” despite wealth.
It’s fair as lonf as they die of starvation before their next stamp payment arrives.
to me it has nothing to do with “fair”.
it is just not right.’no way you look at it.