We lost control when we ceased the embarrasment of having to pay with food stamps. Now the social parasites flash their EBT cards like they are Donald Trump flashing a no-limit credit card, which in essence these turds have become and stink just as bad, backed by what we sill soon find are are NOT unlimited tax receipts.
Feed the poor but forget the cards. Make them go to the food warehouses in their gleaning, to get basic food substances. Anything over an above that they can pay out of their own pockets.
Just go to any Casino in Oklahoma and see how many social parasites are gambling on YOUR money. When you pay for their food it just frees up their own money that should have been used to sustain themselves in dignity, but now thanks to government pre-determinators of human outcome, get diverted to their immediate gratification, and indignity of gambling, drinking and doing drugs with YOUR re-distributed money. Fungible money re-distributed to fungus like brains. Money never allowed to be invested in the American economy but consumed by President Parasite and his horde of vote purchased social leeches.
Doesn’t really matter who accepts it, anyway. They could buy what they need anyway, or else they should be institutionalized. All food stamps, etc. ever did was augment income. They could buy more now, for instance booze in addition to the cheetos, or whatever.
Basic economics.
The democratic communist manefesto is to keep them federally funded, dumb, dependent, drunk and on drugs they will soon loose thier desire and ambition if they had any to begin with. Like zombies the masses will follow the next bottle, fix, food line free bee thrown to the throngs of human wreckage they have diabolically planned
But we can no longer afford to give all military retirees free health care. Oops, that ship has already sailed. I mean cheap health insurance.
Under no circumstances should EBT cards be used at ATM machines for cash. They should be used ONLY for goods.
I guess then nothing’s to prevent them from selling the goods for cash, but that would take some ingenuity and motivation and if they had that in the first place, they wouldn’t be needing EBT cards.
The real reason the government went to EBT is it’s much cheaper than printing and mailing food stamps and checks. Before EBT people got a check and cashed it, and spent it however they wanted anyway. Here in CA they banned EBTs from being accepted in bars, strip clubs, casinos, etc. So now they will just get the money and a regular ATM, then go to the bar, strip club or casino, but there will be no embarrassing electronic trail.
The left doesn’t care what the underclass does with its free money cards. All it cares about is that the money was forcibly taken from honest, hard-working people and given to people who faithfully vote democrat.
*Ahem* Point of order.
Some people are on food stamps for legit reasons. I work with a lot of single parents, parents of children with major health problems, etc., and the pay is not so great where we work. (Job is VERY steady, though, so a lot of us stick around for that reason)
We complain about all of our jobs going to China. However, my factory is still here despite a recent “leaving for China” scare.
The government subsidizes low-wage jobs with food stamps, welfare, medicaid, free school lunches and free text books. IMHO. The government also subsidizes grocery stores and food processors because if you are on EBT and manage right, you can go to any store and buy any name-brand product you want. Stores that have a high number of EBT customers have higher prices, IMHO, because no one is really shopping for sales.
Unintended consequences.
I’m sure abuse goes on because anywhere there’s money people want to be able to get exactly what they want. And food stamps come in one big monthly lump sum to your account.
Anyway, think about whether all the “safety net” stuff might be government subsidizing low-wage jobs.
YMMV
There should be NO plastic moocher cards. To feed the poor, commodity stores should be available in ghettos that would dispense staples such as flour, sugar, fruit, vegetables, chicken, pork and ground beef. This would mean that actual food might get to the children of these families, instead of taxpayer money going to bars, prostitutes, drug dealers, and porn. Perhaps the lazy breeders would have to actually cook and feed their families instead of using their EBT cards for blond dye jobs and spangled nails.