I watched a woman with 2 gov’t cards buy groceries, 1 cart plus a little, then another cart with a lot of clothes, books and I don’t know what else. I didn’t know there were different cards for different items. She used one card for some of the groceries and all of the clothes. The other card she used for groceries. Her fingernails were beautiful, as was the pedicare, the clothes she wore were not from Walmart.
It is so bad up here in my little north Georgia town, it is a shock to me when I go to Walmart and do NOT get behind one with a WICs certificate, or an EBT card, or both (most times). For the things they need that aren’t allowed, grandma (also on EBT, but has a SS check now) brings the cash for the beer, wine and smokes. All it takes is a little baby and a penchant to sit in their Section 8 trailer/rental house eating cheese doodles all day long.
So what happens when the economy crashes and all of the EBT cards (Electronic Benefits Transfer) flash **ERROR**?
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You know, I hope you and Gaffer never have the humiliation nor the need to be on the dole, but the fact remains, times are tough, and I refuse to judge others unless one is willing to walk in their shoes! Yeah, the system is abused and it needs to be fixed, but I am glad there is a system for those families and their kids who had the rug pulled out from under them by the Obama administration and Bush Jr’s reckless handling of the economy! While those who caused this mess due to sheer greed were saved by stimulus, the real victims are those families who lost their jobs or careers!