Vitter: EBT card fraud in Louisiana should disqualify recipients

KSLA-TV12 ^ | October 31, 2013 | Carolyn Roy

[RBStealth]

Wow! David Vitter the Junior Senator FROM louisiana!

Stands for right and wrong!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Vitter will be charged with wanting to take food out of the mouths of babies. He will be called hateful and lacking compassion for the needy.

It seems so simple to me. We know who charged how much on these cards. We know who went over their limits. Simply deduct it from future allowances until repaid. Why can’t that simply happen automatically?

[nesnah]

You forgot to mention being called racist as well, as we all know that the Amish are heavily into EBT hand-outs.

[a fool in paradise]

Fraud should disqualify voters???

[SandRat]

Don’t stop ther....put them on a chain gang.

[bert]

The cards are like a checking account. The accounts were overdrawn. The holders in effect wrote bad checks.

The future deposits must be used to pay the overdraft

[MamaDearest]

Amen to that! Since Walmart refuses to prosecute the perpetrators of the SNAP fraud incident, I won't shop there again. Rewarding criminals is not my idea of being socially fair and just. Everyone else pays more for the losses - as if the items had been shoplifted.

The people who took far more than what they were entitled can live on the spoils of that crime for the rest of their days. They should be permanently barred from participating in SNAP for the rest of their lives. Crime should not pay.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How are things in 1964? I miss that place.

[Biggirl]

God Bless Sen. Vitter!

[Venturer]

IMO it was theft and they should be charged with it.

[Biggirl]

Doubt it.

[Biggirl]

As long as there are security cameras, then it should not be a problem since it was a store and they have them.

[sergeantdave]

“as we all know that the Amish are heavily into EBT hand-outs.”

It’s time to stop referring to thieves as Amish because:

1. It’s hackneyed and no longer humorous.

2. Low information voters will believe it’s the Amish abusing the system.

3. We need to use truth in labeling to identify the real welfare scrounges, cheats and thieves.

[blackdog]

Not ten minutes ago I was in a Memphis Family Dollar, where a young man purchased cigrarettes(Newports) with his EBT card. Corner of Jackson and Evergreen.

I asked the cashier how he can do this with his EBT card and she had absolutely no idea what my question was about?

[leapfrog0202]

It seems so simple to me. We know who charged how much on these cards. We know who went over their limits. Simply deduct it from future allowances until repaid. Why can’t that simply happen automatically?

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Absolutely agree! It’s theft and fraud. If you or I took that much food from Wal-Mart knowing we had no way to pay for it, we’d be in jail.

[kcvl]

Maybe they can charge the nail salons (and the perps who use them) too since I have seen people use them to get their nails done! I couldn't believe it!

What else are we furnishing to these good for nothing, fat *ss, baby breeding leeches?!

[freedumb2003]

>>It’s time to stop referring to thieves as Amish because:<<

It is a standard-issue meme that is used as sarcasm.

[Gay State Conservative]

In the summer of 2012,a few months before the election,the Massachusetts Department of Multi-Generational Welfare mailed a letter to every person in the state that was getting any kind of welfare (food stamps,medicaid,welfare,etc,etc) reminding them to register to vote and to vote in November.Of course *I* didn't get such a letter...but then they only have my name in their DMV and income tax databases.Anyway...of the tens of thousands of letters sent out it was discovered that something like 42,000 of them were returned as “address unknown” or “addressee unknown”.IIRC it was something like 20% of the letters sent out that were returned that way.When asked about it our Governor,Osama Obama’s lifelong pal,said these reports were just anecdotes.

[Red_Devil 232]

If I stop using Amish I would have to resort to what I do call them and get banned from FR! Maybe I could just use Namish?