Posted on 07/03/2012 6:00:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
It can be used to buy gasoline too.
Could lead to a reduction in participants.
< /SARC >
The entire Obama$$/EBT card situation infuriates me, too. We scrimp and save and do without so that those who sit on their collective arses ALL DAY can go out - without any guilt or shame - and buy non-essentials/luxury brands and items...on OUR dime!
We are becoming a country with no sense of pride as well as becoming morally bankrupt.
At the same time the professional welfare crowd (poverty pimps) in California aren't making it any better and are probably still distressed that EBT did cut the costs of food stamps and welfare.
Sweden is actually getting rid of cash transactions through the use of EBT. They say this will eliminate bank robberies, and will dramatically reduce incidences of street theft but probably not home invasions or rape.
Somewhere somebody's defense lawyer is already working up the criticism of the EBT system that will get his client out of jail on a murder charge.
The world is changing right under our feet.
This has been going on for a few years now. This is a funny video about it. Most people don’t even know about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII
EBT ...the soma of our age.....................
So maybe “Peggy the moocher” was right after all-
“I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car...”
Anyone remember the $2K debit cards that were given to the “victims” of Hurricane Katrina? Reports were that many of them were used to purchase Louis Vuitton handbags and lap dances at strip clubs.
EBT cards can also be used at ATMs, thus getting around any ban on using them at particular places.
There was a time in the not-too-distant past in this country where it was shameful to accept charity. I would hardly call it “charity” today but vote-buying graft.
EBT is nothing more than wealth transfer incarnate...... or in plasticate.......................
I agree with everything you say, except the use of the word "becoming".
Now, let's say you are on the Mississippi Gulf coast after Katrina and about the only thing left is a casino/boat up on the shore. Coast Guard makes them use metal superstructure ~
Should the emergency cards be prohibited from use in the casino?
Actually, the question is preposterous since no one had electricity ~ so those cards aren't going to work.
I hope you realize we have some Freepers who think alcohol and tobacco should be sold free of charge or taxes ~ as a sort of birthright.
People who say they’re angry, or furious, about such practices, yet do nothing — truly disgust me. They’re generally cowardly, complacent moocher-enablers, too comfortable to rock the boat or make the slightest change in their own lives, for the sake of their country. In the Revolutionary era they’d have been the ones remaining loyal to the Crown.
Wasn’t it in the 60’s that they used to say, “if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem?”
Whining and suffering in silence is no part of the solution.
I've seen other people who refused to allow their impoverished neighbors go without basics.
What part of "shame" was it you were involved in?
There is a HUGE difference between charity and forced wealth transfer.
Everything is taxable.
It has always been so.
John Roberts just put it in writing.....................
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