Hardly a week passes that I am not in the check-out line behind some EBT/food stamp user.
I can't help but notice that less than a third of them shop as we do, buying a lot of store and generic brands.
The other two-thirds buy premium brands, prepared foods, prime cuts of meat and other stuff we can't afford. Then, to top it off, they drive away in vehicles we can't afford either.
Does anybody else notice this?
Yes! I also would like to know why our tax dollars are used to feed kids breakfast and lunch all year round in some cases, meanwhile their “parent” has an EBT card?
Yes.
The ratio is different (we have had a lot of job losses around here recently and John Deere scales down), but you are right.
I actually talked to one woman about this. She said that the benefits were such, her and her family couldn’t afford to go off the Stamps, so she and her partner (can’t remember if she said husband or not) work under the table for cash.