Posted on 02/19/2016 10:38:02 AM PST by nickcarraway
And of course they tell the truth about their steak, lobster, booze and vacation cruises because everyone knows they can't buy those things with their food stamps or welfare.
Somewhere there is a guy with a ring around it.
With my own eyes: King Crab legs, steaks, & the most expensive bagged dog food in the store. Two carts full of stuff that I (working full time at a good salary & living independently) could not afford. The man & woman were dripping with what appeared to be very nice gold jewelry, they both had cell phones, & the woman was dressed to the “T”. I’m still pissed off ..... and this was a few years back.
—Everyone I see at the Food Lion that uses EBT usually drives a new car.—
A couple months ago I was standing in the “No more than 12 items” line behind a minority woman. She had at least 30 items in her cart. Paid with an EBT card. I had one item so I was right behind her out the door. She was parked a couple spaces from my 15 year old Highlander. She got into a giant black Caddy Escalade. It still had the stickers in the back side window and temp plates! EBT!
I was actually in a store when a guy was peddling food stamps to people waiting in line in an Illinois town.
There were no takers. Only looks of disgust for the guy who wanted to sell something back to us that we had already paid for.
I play that game too. It’s fun in a weird kind of validation way.
Exactly. And, if it's an urban myth, why have so many of us (myself included) witnessed such purchases first-hand?
When you (hire lawyers to) word things as carefully as that, you can make any study support any conclusion you want.
So, I guess I gotta learn not to trust my lyin’ eyes week after week? Like the woman I got stuck behind in line who used $325 on her EBT to buy a cart full of spare ribs, steaks and chops? Or the woman who bought $30 worth of flavored bottled water, gum, candy and chips? At our local discount grocery store, because of people’s EBT habits, clerks are actually trained NOT to judge or react to the things people buy with EBT. It’s tough to work a low-wage job at a grocery store and see person after person using EBT to buy things you can’t afford.
Yup.
And a checker at Top Foods told me about the gal earlier that day who bought $30 worth of GUMMY BEARS...
True story.
With my own eyes, 6 raw oysters per package. 4 packages bundled together. 5 bundles of packages. All EBT.
You have to admire the widespread, powerful clairvoyant abilities of New York-based writers.
The writers can accurately depict, predict and critique people and actions in states the writers have never visited.
+1
It was real when I worked in a grocery store in the late 70’s/early 80’s.
I read a story about how this is done in rural Kentucky.
Folks buy 100 bucks worth of soft drinks in cans with EBT.
Then they take the cases of soft drinks to another store which buys them at the back door for 60 bucks cash.
And repeat.
The WIC program works better than Food Stamps at providing basic nutritional items, because it mandates what items can and can’t be purchased. I would rather see Food Stamps eliminated and WIC expanded. Most of the fraud would weed itself out of the system.
A drive through section 8 areas will fail to unearth any fighting fit females.
I’ve literally seen welfare queens buy lobster with EBT.
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