Posted on 03/29/2012 6:37:40 AM PDT by raccoonradio
When will this Republican war on women end?
Strippers are women too, you know.
And now comes this report of the EBT [Electronic Benefits Transfer] Card Commission, suggesting that perhaps the state should comply with new federal laws and stop providing the layabout community with free lap dances.
This is practically a hate crime. Bad enough they’ve already banned EBT cards at package stores. They sell limes at packies [package aka liquor stores], and single moms need limes, you know, to ward off scurvy. It’s for the children.
One recommendation was to “eliminate cash benefits and require POS (point of sale) use only.”
It went down, 6-1.
Only Rep. Shauna O’Connell of Taunton voted for it. She and a couple others worked hard on this report, but it’s almost impossible to go up against the Welfare-Industrial Complex, also known as the Democrat Party.
There’s no way these layabouts and their Democrat enablers will ever give up the free cash. I mean, if you can’t use an EBT card to get cash, what’s the point of having one? You get your food from the local food bank, or church, or some other charity. The fatherless kids get all their meals at school, for free. The EBT card is for all those essential non-essentials, like visits to your local nail salon or tattoo parlor.
Go ahead and laugh. But plenty of thugs get pinched because the cops can identify them by their tattoos. It’s a law-enforcement tool.
Naturally, almost everybody on the commission voted for a “financial literacy” program. Oh yeah, that’ll be about as useful as your average inner-city job training program.
Deval and his gang would like to crack down, they really would. But there’s no money, don’t you know.
Like two years ago, when the Democrats said they couldn’t afford to run a check on every welfare recipient to see if they were in the country legally — not at the outrageous cost of $7 per illegal.
This time the state considered photo IDs for the EBT cards. It was the same old story: “The Department did not have adequate staff to process the necessary volume of photo IDs, and did not find that photos were a deterrent for fraud.”
Of course they’re not a deterrent. The cops never arrest anybody for EBT fraud. It’s too dangerous — they might lug an illegal alien, and that is absolutely verboten, especially in an election year.
On page 14 is an interesting chart showing where the EBT cards were used most often in January. The welfare crowd cashed out $346,807 at Cumberland Farms, $286,194 at 7-Eleven, but only $223,898 at Market Basket. Obviously, they’re not doing a lot of comparison shopping.
But why bother, when you’re using OPM — other people’s money?
Howie Carr list ping
Isn’t the Commonwealth great?
The spirit of Mass. is the spirit of America
The spirit of the red white and blue
The spirit of Mass. is the spirit of America
The spirit that we want to share with you
My favorite EBT story is what happened in Lynn MA where a woman got an EBT card that didn’t belong to her and went to a store where she bought a bunch of cans of soda with it. Without taking them home to drink them, she started dropping the cans...still full of soda...into a cash redemption
machine, damaging it.
I only needed to enter ebt lynn soda into yahoo and got the article I posted on FR. (note: the store in question is at the site of what used to be Lynn Hospital. I was born across town in Union Hospital, but I can imagine people saying, “Where was I born? Oh, somewhere near where the
frozen foods aisle is now.”)
>>LYNN — Police arrested a woman at a Lynn Stop & Shop Saturday after she allegedly stole $64 worth of soda cans from the store and attempted to feed them into a digital can return machine in exchange for money, according to a Lynn Police incident report.
>>According to the report, Officer Craig Fountain was watching loss prevention video while on detail at the grocery store, located at 35 Washington St., around 8:45 p.m. when he observed 36-year-old Tina Cafarelli purchase 18 12-packs of assorted soda and pay with a state-issued electronic benefit transfer (EBT) card, which she allegedly also stole. Cafarelli immediately took the cans to the store’s digital can return machine and attempted to deposit them without emptying them.
>>When Fountain and another officer approached Cafarelli, the report said, she initially told them her name was Susan Russell, the name on the EBT card, and refused to give Fountain her real name, instead giving two false names and two false social security numbers. She was eventually identified at police headquarters after being taken into custody, the report said.
>>A Lynn District Court judge ordered Cafarelli held at Essex County House of Correction in lieu of $250 bail during an arraignment Monday, where she was formally charged with larceny under $250 by false pretense, destruction of property over $250, obstruction of justice and receiving stolen property.
Stop & Shop manager Kevin Wilson estimated the damage to the machine to be “well over $250,” according to the report. Wilson, could not be reached for comment.
Cafarelli is due back in court on Feb. 14.
Just curious; did the media include a photo of Ms. Tina with the story? Does not sound like one of the usual EBT card abuse suspects.
Without taking them home to drink them, she started dropping the cans...still full of soda...
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Now, instead of spending the $7.00(?) to check to see who is authorized to get the card, they will be able to put signs on EVERY can ‘machine’ to tell people to make sure the cans are empty.
Definitely a product of the system, to lazy to empty the cans or, worse, not realizing the machinery works better when cans empty.
Whoever devised this ‘scheme’ should put his thought process to good, as I am sure there are really some entreprenurial skills hidden in that thought process.
Actually he should be convincing the people to go buy the sodas, start collecting the plastic 2 litre bottles, crush the cans, fill and sell the refilled 2 litre bottles, giving the original purchaser a ‘cut’ for their efforts.
If handled properly, a good ‘cottage industry’ is on the horizon.
I had no idea this kind of sh*t went on, even though I've been behind young able bodied EBT card users here in SW Pennsylvania who continually buy the kind of food I can't afford and drive away in cars I can't afford.
What do these cash redemption machines give for the cans? A nickle a can? Even if you can find a $1.50 generic brand six pack in a dollar store environment, that's 20 cents on the dollar, tops. Even the total wastrels around here have the ambition to take them to an under-the-table cash wholesaler who will give them 40 to 50 cents on the dollar.
And soda pop??? I thought you were supposed to buy food with EBT cards. I've listened to arguments between EBT card users and cashiers who basically explain to them that if it isn't tax exempt as food, it can't be purchased with an EBT card. This includes some weird stuff in Pennsylvania like non-carbonated beverages with less than a certain percent of real fruit juice.
I'm waiting for some aspiring politician to propose that the local government take over the current under-the-table business of buying and selling EBT cards for cash. They could at least operate openly and give these shiftless b*st*rds the opportunity to redeem their cards for 40 to 50 cents on the dollar and save damage to soda can redemption machines.
My understanding is they can get cash back after an EBT purchase, That makes it much easier to buy cigarettes and lottery tickets.
This is MA. No surprise. I think former gov (thankfully not former US President!) Mike Dukakis had a program to give
fake social security numbers (here you go, Mr Obama) to help
illegals get benefits (like a drivers’ license?). And Martha Coakley, Scott Brown’s opponent in 2010, once said on the radio that “in Massachusetts technically it is not illegal to be an illegal”.
Good to know.
>>and drive away in cars I can’t afford
Welfare Cadillacs
Yes, the woman would not have gotten much money for those
FULL cans but she did it anyway.
Yes they can buy soda pop—even if the “sugar water”
isn’t good for you. Meanwhile the Comm. of Mass.
is trying to do things like get soda machines out of
the schools, etc. for health reasons—then how do they get the can revenue?
(At the postal facility where I work at least there are
bins set up for people to throw their cans in, and the
Social and Rec. Committee makes money by redemption.)
Update on the situation from Boston talk station WXKS:
>>The Blue Ribbon Commission charged with proposing charges to the EBT welfare cards in Massachusetts is expected to release a report today. Among the changes preventing their use at strip clubs, tattoo parlors, nail salons and gun shops, and a ban on the cards being used at ATM at those locations. However, getting cash from another ATM and out of state use would still be permitted under the plan. Republicans call the proposals inadequate wanting the ATM option eliminated saying how that money is being spent can not be tracked.
http://www.talk1200.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=392190&article=9965737
And I thought I'd seen everything . . .
Both of my kids were born at Lynn Hospital, my dear EX graduated from Lynn Hospital School of Nursing, the town is in the toilet.
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