Posted on 08/25/2011 4:48:09 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BANGOR, Maine — A local woman saw a young couple opening water bottles and dumping out the contents in front of Shaw’s grocery store on Saturday and pulled out her iPhone and videoed the two brazenly committing the common food stamp scam.
She then went into the store at around 1:30 p.m. to report what she saw and police were called to investigate the fraud.
The Bangor couple, a 23-year-old man and a 17-year-old female who turned 18 on Sunday, told the investigating officer that they had purchased two cases of water with funding provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program.
(Excerpt) Read more at bangordailynews.com ...
Several months ago, I was going shopping at Giant Eagle. As I approached the door, a “minority” woman asked if I had a shopping list. She told me she would purchase the items on my list, if I would pay her 75% in cash. I said “No.” She then dropped her fee to 50%. I told her to drop dead. She screamed at me as I headed into the store.
This is how Uncle Tom Obama gets his.... “$1.00 in food stamps generates $1.86!”
Home Shoplifting Network? Ouch!
All these young people did was sacrifice their prime rib easily purchased with their foodstamp card in return for bottled water which they could turn into real cash.
Frankly, they'd been ahead of the game by buying a steak and then selling it to their neighbors for a discount.
The next busybody do-gooder is the ol'gal taking a picture of this going on imagining that she's discovered something.
Be better for her to start a campaign to eliminate the bottle deposit law. That way none of the poor will be tempted to violate the law. We are all ahead letting them practice being honest.
YOU paid for the water. THEY got the cash for the bottle refund.
This is why we should keep congress from passing new laws.
One would have to be awful desperate to not even want to use the water before getting the small fraction of its price as cash — literally nickles and dimes. Technically it’s a scam but it’s a pretty pitiful scam.
All this food stamp Snap horsedoo is setup to be scammed, has been from the start. Sort of another reparations methodology and they get by because they also let crackers scam.
There used to be a perfectly good way to feed the poor, it was called Commodities. There was a small local outlet run by USDA that would give those authorized enough essential foods for a week or so. Am betting the grocers wanted in on this action and waaalaaa Food Stamps through the stores that didn’t give a damn is the system was scammed so long as they got their “share”.
Yeah, you missed clicking on the link to read the article that tells you why.
You missed it because like most honest Americans you don’t understand all the govt assistance scams that go on all the time.
Their friends don't have any money either, and if they did, they wouldn't buy food with it.
24 bottles of nutritionally void water at 25¢ each purchased for $6 in food stamps. 24 empties returned for the libtard-imposed 10¢ return fee = $2.40 in cash they can spend on whatever. Just rational economic actors acting rationally.
Food stamps shouldn't be good for bottled water. Sheesh!
If these idiots were smart they’d buy a case of 24 for 4 bucks and turn around sell them for a buck a piece. Its damn hot out there...
But of courxe my state allows food stamp recipients to get free bottled water, but still forces me to pay sales tax on bottled water when i buy it (nearly all food items are sales tax-exampt).
The bottles can be returned for cash
Plus, people in maine may be willing to spend 5 bucks a bottle should the hurricane hit. Morons!!!
“But they were recycling, right?
Saving the planet, right?
/s”
I can beat that: They COULD have sold their food stamps and would have probably got just about as much on the dollar. At least they were working for their money.
Double, vomitous /s
Indeed, and that water was $6 but how much did it really cost taxpayers to get the $6 to that leach? All those gub'mint employees and their perks and their theft ...
Then there's the problem in the inner cities where we have people in charge of children and they have no idea how to cook. I've participated in charitable activities that get around that problem ~ we taught the children to cook ~ I provided suitible recipes from my mother's vast knowledge of how poor people stretch their pennies.
We had 12 girlscout troops and about 5 boyscout groups, plus an older teenagers program ~ there were Catholic priests and nuns working with Lutheran and Baptist ministers, and folks with overseas missionary experience all over the place.
Someone got pots too. Many of them had no pots for cooking.
That’s something your average “I want to feel good about myself so I support public assistance policies” liberal really doesn’t, or refuses to, get -
people act rationally.
Whenever you try to address the issue from this angle, that people act rationally, they will deny it. Part of this, though, is that they have their own superiority complex to feed, thinking themselves “smarter than most people”.
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