After they pound the table with "RACISM!" a few hundred times, they move on to attacking our men and women in the military as leeches and welfare recipients.
Posted on 04/08/2015 5:53:55 AM PDT by cotton1706
Yes. 2 dollars in food stamps for $1 in cash is the going rate I think.
“How much food stamp money do you think people get?”
It varies by the number of beneficiaries in the household and other factors.
This is an old article (2011), but it’s this sort of stuff that have people hoppin’ mad when they see how their hard-earned tax dollars are/have been used, under the guise of helping the poor:
http://humanevents.com/2011/01/15/gettin-fat-gamblin-and-cruisin-on-food-stamps/
A lot of the loopholes with EBT cards have been/are being closed, but the ‘government’ (state & Feds) haven’t exactly been responsible in the way OUR money has been distributed and it certainly goes to a lot of folks who should not be getting it. Having stood behind the two carts of a couple who were buying steaks, crab legs and a lot of other food that I myself could not afford, yet I was paying taxes that gave them the means to buy “luxury” food items, it pi$$ed me off royally. I’m still not over it. There are people who legitimately need help - no one should go hungry in this country, but the means to help them has been greatly perverted.
After they pound the table with "RACISM!" a few hundred times, they move on to attacking our men and women in the military as leeches and welfare recipients.
Anecdote:
When my x-wife and I were newlyweds, we were both in college and working part-time minimum wages jobs. We barely scraped by and watched very penny.
My wife and our next door neighbor became friends and one evening went grocery shopping together. When they returned, I was helping unload the groceries when I was horrified to see a big, expensive rump roast — something that we could in no way afford — in our bag. I told her we had to return it because it was too expensive.
She laughed and said that our neighbor had paid for it with her food stamps and given it to her because she felt sorry for us.
Um, why should Michelle Obama get to tell middle class kids, who do not apply for federal school food discounts, what to eat, in local schools?
Please, enlighten us on how middle class kids buying food with their parent’s money is using the public’s money.
I know. It's $4.50 a day on average per person. So 50+ pounds of steak would eat up 4+ peoples entire monthly allotement. No pun intended.
People with morals.
From the beginning of our nation, it was traditionally Christian churches that administered charity and assistance to the poor and the needy. This act fulfilled God's will and commandments, and in the process, the Gospel message was spread to those who needed to hear it.
I have worked in some of the worst urban neighborhoods, distributing food though our church. We did it all on a shoestring budget and with food donations, and fed hundreds of people in a few hours.
Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of dollars in these same cities disappear every year by the liberals who run them, and what "assistance" they pass on to the poor is either nonexistent or negligible.
Here’s another unusual thing I have noticed that happens on the first of the month in grocery stores.
Obviously poor people with an entire basket (or two) filled with Tide liquid laundry detergent.
WTH?
That stuff is EXPENSIVE! and why would they need that much !?!
Is there some sort of drug they make from it?
Your prices are high! It isn't usually too hard to find steak for less than $10 per pound. But even so, I quickly googled and found in my state, the average food stamp benefit is $127 per month. A family of four could easily be receiving $500 per month in benefits. Some folks receive more.
Thus, a cart with 50 lbs. of [expensive] steak is plausible.
sitetest
good question
maybe they export it for some reason?
Let Milbank pay the difference
This is true right up until someone starts spending someone else's money. If I loan or give someone else money, I can indeed demand terms and/or refuse them that money if they don't spend it the way I like. People who use EBT cards are, by definition, spending someone else's money, so, yes, how they spend that money is indeed for me (as a taxpayer) to decide.
If they don't like the terms, they are free to get money elsewhere.
http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/
Two articles that are related to your observation.
“So 50+ pounds of steak would eat up 4+ peoples entire monthly allotement.”
Yes, exactly. Which is why when we see this stuff we can be certain that the purchasers are fraudsters who do not actually need the benefits. If they needed the assistance on a daily basis, then they would not be spending their entire allotment on luxury items as soon as the card is refilled.
No, they resell it for cash profit. Easily portable but expensive item that everyone needs, so it is basically a barter item for them.
I have personally seen EBT recipients buying steak, crab legs and every type of junk food, not once but numerous times. I also have often witnessed EBT recipients pay cash for beer, cigarettes and liquor and then using their EBT for soda and junk food
By his own admission, he was abusing it. And as in this article, the guy was using EBT for what could be deemed non-essentials. I have no problem with WIC et al. Milk, veggies, bread, etc. But Twinkies? Nope.
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