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Firing squad ends clerk’s EBT stand
Boston Herald ^ | 27 June 2012 | Howie Carr

Posted on 06/27/2012 6:12:04 AM PDT by smokingfrog

Jackie Whiton, age 65, had worked as a cashier at the Big Apple convenience store in Peterborough, N.H., for years. But then a couple of weeks ago she committed a firing offense.

She refused to allow a welfare recipient to use his EBT card to buy a pack of smokes.

How dare a taxpayer say no to a member of the non-working class? This is verboten in Obama’s America.

So she was fired. That’ll teach her. The gimme guy was a young man, about 20, and when he asked for cigarettes, Jackie Whiton handed them to him but asked for his ID. He handed her his EBT card.

“I said to him, ‘Do you think that the man in line behind you and the lady behind him want to buy you your cigarettes?’ And he said ‘Yes.’ Then he said, ‘Give me back my card.’ And I said, ‘Give me back my cigarettes.’ ”

The kid left and the man behind him in line then told Jackie Whiton, “You said just exactly what I was thinking.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: dependentclass; ebt; foodstamps; onein7; wastedtaxdollars
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To: FrdmLvr

And half the price of a pack of cigs is taxes, so they get a big chunk of the money back.


21 posted on 06/27/2012 6:39:12 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Red Badger

Soma: “A gramm is better than a damn.”

EBT: “A swipe is better than a gripe.”


22 posted on 06/27/2012 6:42:12 AM PDT by Carlucci
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To: FrdmLvr
"Purchasing smokes, lots of smokes, with EBT cards should be encouraged for obvious reasons."

The problem with that is it takes to long and some people can smoke 10 packs a day and still make it to 90 years old!!

Must be a better way.......

23 posted on 06/27/2012 6:43:40 AM PDT by Johnny_cash
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To: Cboldt

With some cards they can buy smokes and beer, read the story.
And I know this lady and she doesn’t take any crap.


24 posted on 06/27/2012 6:44:54 AM PDT by sopwith (don't tread on me)
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To: PzLdr

I saw my share of C’s in training in 68 that had been in storage since WW2 also.

Makes one wonder exactly where we are heading in the country: cannot stop illegals from coming in, cannot deport them, cannot limit what goes out for food, cannot deny housing assistance and cannot force anyone to work.

We no longer have too few pulling the cart, the cart is now sliding backwards over the cliff.


25 posted on 06/27/2012 6:45:04 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: sopwith

It’s sad.
In better times, she’d leave a job like this and just go find another one.
In the Baraqqi Depression, losing any job is scary.


26 posted on 06/27/2012 6:47:15 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Lurker

The only “food aid” that should be available is 3 MRE’s a day.


I think that should be the only food they should get, but they will get fatter than ever.

http://www.mreinfo.com/us/mre/mres.html
From the site:
“Each MRE provides an average of 1,250 calories”


27 posted on 06/27/2012 6:48:25 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It's time to take out the trash in DC.)
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To: MaxMax
they refuse to work.

Because of automation there is a small percentage of the population that has nothing to offer the labor market. They can perform no task that can't be done cheaper and better with less hassle by machines. As automation increases this percentage will grow to 100% of the population someday. What we're witnessing is the beginning of that trend. Poor Americans starving is a thing of the past but we're pretty much stuck with more and more people permanently on food stamps.

28 posted on 06/27/2012 6:49:09 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: Cboldt
I think there may be 2 different kinds of EBT cards. One to take the place of food stamps, and another kind that is a debit card, which they can use to pay you disability benefits and stuff like that.

The following DFA programs are eligible to receive benefits using EBT:


29 posted on 06/27/2012 6:49:41 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: FrdmLvr
Purchasing smokes, lots of smokes, with EBT cards should be encouraged for obvious reasons.

Rethink that one; the lung cancer kills slowly and Medicaid will pay for treatment all that time.

30 posted on 06/27/2012 6:50:11 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of LibertyI'm st! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Conservative Vermont Vet

Cloward-Piven?


31 posted on 06/27/2012 6:51:39 AM PDT by monocle
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To: smokingfrog

Obama’s America = EBT


32 posted on 06/27/2012 6:51:46 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Lurker
The only “food aid” that should be available is 3 MRE’s a day.

A big AMEN to that!

33 posted on 06/27/2012 6:52:15 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of LibertyI'm st! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Arrowhead1952

I stood in line, along with 5 other people while a 20-something and her Mama pulled out their EBT card and paid . . . $75.00 worth of chocolate candy.

When they left, everyone in the store had something to say and it was all negative.


34 posted on 06/27/2012 6:52:55 AM PDT by imemyself
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To: smokingfrog

we’re in the computer age that being said the cash register could be programed to kick out items when the card is used or swipe the card first and the item won’t ring up.


35 posted on 06/27/2012 6:56:38 AM PDT by jrd (DO AWAY WITH THE EPA)
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To: Mouton; PzLdr
First they fed us the K-Rations. Then for a "treat" C-Rations. Then "LRRP" Rations. Edible. Have tried "Meals refused by Ethiopians." Better. Not great, but better than my generation of rations.

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What angers me most about many welfare recipients is they always seem to buy prepared food. One would assume they have nothing to do, so why not buy cheaper food, fresh food, and prepare it themselves? Homeless aside of course. I particularly enjoy watching welfare shoppers buy packaged, prepared food. Then head for liquor dept. then stop at the Red Box for a movie. Life is great!

36 posted on 06/27/2012 6:57:34 AM PDT by donozark (Col. C.Beckwith:I'd rather go down the river with 7 studs than with a hundred shitheads.)
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To: smokingfrog

A common usage of the EBT card is to give it and the PIN number to the heroin dealer in exchange for product. The dealer then goes and gets all his steaks and lobster on it. He either gives it back or the user reports it stolen or lost and gets another.

I can also tell you that nearly every person I ever arrested that had an EBT card also had a casino card as well.


37 posted on 06/27/2012 6:58:23 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: WKUHilltopper

I don’t know about other places, but in Oklahoma it is illegal to buy cigarettes with those cards.


38 posted on 06/27/2012 7:01:40 AM PDT by pepperdog (Why are Democrats Afraid of a Voter ID Law?)
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To: Lurker

The only “food aid” that should be available is 3 MRE’s a day. Period. If it’s good enough for our troops it’s good enough for them.

GREAT IDEA!


39 posted on 06/27/2012 7:10:11 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Obama is like Ron Burgundy - he will read ANYTHING that is on the teleprompter)
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To: pepperdog
Lookie here, and isn't this "special"! "Special" I say!

Her manager called the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services and was told that cigarettes — and beer — can be purchased with a cash (as opposed to a food) EBT card.

There are "cash" EBT cards! Special!

40 posted on 06/27/2012 7:11:57 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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