Surprise: Some Folks Are Abusing Their EBT Cards

Townhall.com ^ | March 31, 2015 | Vivian Hughbanks

[Usagi_yo]

Some Day, I might actually get an image link to work in FR.

[pallis]

The scam starts with the stores that are subsidized by the government in the form of EBT cards.

[trisham]

[Usagi_yo]

ATM machine inside a Gas Station in Clemson SC, Well placed between the beer cage and the Paraphernalia display.

[Paladin2]

Value is fungible.....

[Engedi]

Ummm, not just limited to blacks. Whites, Mexicans, Muslims, Asians, all know how to scam the system.

[Mr. K]

Thomas Sowell made a brilliant comment on this- he said that if you were destined to be poor for the rest of your life, what country would you choose to be poor in?

The USA is the only country where the poor people are fat. (and have cell phones)

[tiki]

We have a bunch of Somalis, they have kids up the ying yang and their carts are full to the top. I don’t know what they buy because I don’t get behind them in line.

[ClearCase_guy]

Surprise: Some Folks Are Abusing Their EBT Cards

[ExCTCitizen]

I was riding my bike with the kids and unfortunately we rode through the Ombamaville area, at a restaurant there was a sign that said, 'We accept EBT', but then at an urban clothing store and at a Ross Clothing store, both had 'We accept EBT'.

I didn't know shoes were food...

[__rvx86]

AFDC cash welfare cheques were discontinued a while back, IIRC...

[ExCTCitizen]

Shameeka...? What another name successful people have...

[youngphys01]

A president who could even so much as enact a policy where EBT cards and other food stamps could only be used for the basic necessities, in terms of food or water, needed to stay alive and public housing could only be the bare minimum needed to have a roof over your head would be nothing short of a miracle worker. The vast majority of Republican presidential hopefuls simply do not and would not have it in them to even get that far.

[familyop]

Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs
yahoo ^
Posted on Tue Aug 10 17:38:51 2010
"The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by closing a tax loophole used by multinational corporations and by reducing food stamp benefits for the poor...The legislation provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or to ensure that more teachers won't be let go before the new school year begins."

Mutually Assured Destruction [Tues. debacle confirms growing rift between Dems & teachers unions.]
American Spectator ^ | 11/5/10 | RiShawn Biddle
"Congressional Democrats angered centrist school reformers, MoveOn.org-style progressives, and other party activists in August when they voted to ladle $10 billion in federal subsidies (funded from future cuts to the Food Stamp program) to school districts in order to stave off layoffs of 160,000 teachers (or just 2.6 percent of the nation's 6.2 million school employees). In turn, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers poured more than $40 million of their hefty campaign war chests (including more than $15 million by the NEA in the last weeks of the election season alone) to help the Democrats keep full control of Congress."

[familyop]

Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”

Leviathan [Mostly through federal funding to state and local governments.]
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

Add the millions of government pensioners.

[familyop]

House bill would cut $4B a year from food stamps
Associated Press ^ | Sep 16, 2013 6:28 PM EDT | Mary Clare Jalonick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3067558/posts

Three-quarters of Americans think teachers paid less than they really are
Washington Examiner ^ | 9-16-13 | ASHE SCHOW
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3067473/posts

[W.]

Haha, the morons who post pics with their card numbers visible gonna get a nasty karmic bite! #Howstupidarethey?

[matt04]

Exactly. They will buy for daily meals what most other people buy as a special meal.

[SkyPilot]

Prayers to you Patriot Babe. May God bless you. Hang in there.