Posted on 10/14/2013 11:37:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you ever wondered why we recommend prepping, and stockpiling food and emergency supplies, one look at what happened this weekend Springhill and Mansfield, LA should tell you everything you need to know – and will give you a glimpse at what this country will look like during a nationwide crisis.
Over the weekend, the debit system that allows people on government assistance to buy food, temporarily went down. The resulting chaos is a small glimpse at what I believe will happen, should the government plunge this country into some sort of economic collapse.
A couple of Walmarts in Louisiana decided to allow people to shop, even though the system was down and they had no real way of knowing how much credit people had on their cards. The resulting chaos had the store’s shelves in Springhill and Mansfield, LA stripped bare, as food stamp recipients attempted to defraud the grocery stores.
When the system went back online, the grocery store found people who had as little as .49 on their Food Stamp cards attempting to steal over $700 in food. Local police were called in as the crowd started to turn ugly, and overflowing grocery carts were left abandoned in the aisles.
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Throughout the country people took to Twitter threatening to riot.
A number of people, thinking the government shutdown had affected their food stamps, took to Twitter with threats of violence and rioting.(Continued)
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It will be the real Zombie Apocalypse.
Huh?
Wouldn't it be great if brave men like these were still around to "address" the problems with Holder's people?
The point being that black Patriotic Conservatives need to rise up and take the feral thugs out. I think that will send an unambiguous message that animalistic behavior will not be tolerated. No offense meant to animals, of course.
You did not stutter.
Point taken.
Here in Toledo, the supermarket loud speakers announced every 15 minutes that EBT cards were not being accepted presently and there was no problem. The dumba**es running those stores that continued to accept “limitless EBT” cards need to be collecting food stamps themselves I think.
If Obama had a shopping spree....
They were told to do so by Wal-Mart headquarters in Arkansas from other articles I’ve read.
Possibly out of fear for their lives.
as long as the tax payers aren’t paying for this blatant fraud, waste, and abuse.
Spread the rumor that the ETB cards now only work at the Whole Foods Market on the white side of town where the liberals live
Of course we will, somehow.
We have been, so far.
HA!
Priceless.
:)
*rimshot*
If you wrote for Letterman, he’d actually be funny.
Forget the waitress.
Tip me.
Wal Mart and Xerox seem to be fighting amongst themselves over which of them will be be paying for this. That’s fine with me.
Walmart will pass the loss onto paying customers.
I rarely go there anymore.
The implication seems to be that keeping their fellow blacks enslaved is brave—and that is unseemly.
yeah, there’s that.
/salamander sneaks up on a sleeping Shibumi and pushes him over
Yep.
It was a dry run for Obama.nsmall scale this time, but he knows what chaos he can cause next time.
We used to be called the silent majority and then the tea party. The rioters/looters will soon find out that it’s not just Korean grocers who have guns.
Civil war was never about slavery it was about northern aggression. It was about rremoving states rights in favor of central government.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Events such as this help capture and chronicle the true essence of the obama voter.
This was nothing more than a “dry run”.... bank on it.
You say otherwise?
You bet this was a dry run. EBT cards went blank in only 17 states on a nation wide program?
Someone posted a map of the states where the obamabots got shut off. The states were California, Midwest swing states and the deep south. Texas and Oklahoma were thrown in to poke a finger in their eyes. barak has a special hatred for TX and OK.
IMO the next ebt glitch will be nation wide. Maybe the weekend before Thanksgiving.
As much as pro-abortion rights groups are fighting for “choice”.
The consumers will pay for this theft. It will be added into the price of items.
My only complaint was that the looters didn’t burn the place down. I’m serious. Companies like walmart that participate in these systems deserve every bad thing that happens to them. They knew damned good and well what “customers” they were catering to by getting on the EBT gravy train. I hope this costs them millions.
When SHTF goes live, nationwide, none of those carts will be left in there. There will be, however, some bodies in their place.
This crap happened in one place, with JUST the EBT card holders. Imagine if it’s everywhere else at once.
You CANNOT afford to wait until this happens to stock up. If you do, you will most likely die. There will be gunfights on the parking lot.
Now that’s a little extreme. Every supermarket, 7-11 and bodega in America accepts EBT. You want to shut them all down?
Yes. Someone picks my pocket and I hold a grudge over it. I’m funny that way.
IIRC, they called management and management told them to take them.
Another Walmart store closed for the duration and didn’t suffer this problem.
Lesson: It is called “initiative.” Show some.
Zombie Apocalypse -
(It’s not about the undead)
They were afraid of unrest:
A free for all wherein the entire store is emptied, equipment damaged and possibly injury to their employees and other customers.
No, Walmart will have to eat this one:
http://www.ksla.com/story/23688829/food-stamp-shopping-spree-who-pays
If you’re a walmart customer or stockholder you will pay one way or another though.
That’s their decision to make I guess.
As I posted on several other threads, the EBT customer base got ‘restless’. My local walmart is about 150 miles from the one in the link. Friends of ours were there Saturday when this happened. One ‘lady’ on hearing her card didn’t work shouted loudly ‘imma burn down dis store’. Other similar demographic individuals in the store shouted agreement and a great clamor began. Our friends got out of there as quickly as they could and we later heard that particular walmart started just giving the EBT holders $50 per day.
Better than losing *all* your merchandise, the store equipment and possibly someone getting injured in the free for all. This way they just wrote down some food. A free for all would have seen all the TV’s, electronics, housewares, clothing and everything else walking out the door as well.
I guess the folks that work for a living will just have to oay a bit more for their wal mart supplies at leadt until the stolen merchandise is paid off. us working folk love watching people on food stamps eating better than we do though, so it will be AOK.
Sadly, you’re correct.
Yes, there were black Confederates. New Orleans had a great deal of free black business owners. When the (damn) yankees occupied the city, they took to looting, raping women, burning, etc. A resistance unit was formed of free citizens, black and white. It was their city, too.
This was a test run for the real event coming.
The left has trained their mascots well -
threaten violence if “whitey” doesn’t give you what you want.
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