This purchase was made in Wisconsin, probably using the Wisconsin QUEST card.
Benefits are fixed, and distributed monthly. Unused funds are accrued on the account, and can be used later. If funds run out before the end of the month, it appears that the user is SOL.
All that said .... if we accept for the sake of argument that the funds are there, available for use, and a fixed amount, why should we care what they're used for? If bozo buys lobster and runs out of money after 2 weeks, he's stupid, but the taxpayers are out no more or less than if he was more responsible and ran out of money after buying a month's worth of cheap food.
This is fun to scream about, but in reality does it makes any difference to the taxpayers of Wisconsin what these folks do with their welfare money?
Nope.
Your posts are idiotic.
Ok, you make a good point, but I would counter that with this:
The point of welfare is not to spend your money like an idiot until it all runs dry and you get the next month’s check. The point of welfare is to help out when you are in a temporary slump. Yet when people go around blowing their government hand-outs on Lobster and Steak, how will they ever pull out of the slump? They won’t. They’ll stay poor and on food stamps. It’s a way of life for them. They will remain in the system and suck up more and more tax payer dollars, instead of doing the right thing by using the money wisely to get themselves out of a bad situation.
So I guess in the short term these situations don’t hurt the tax payers in the short term. However, over the long term it does; because these people remain in the system, spending money like morons and still expecting more....
but then again, these leeches have no intention of changing, so maybe it really doesn’t affect tax payers any more than it already did.