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My Time at Walmart: Why We Need Serious Welfare Reform
TheCollegeConservative ^ | 12/13/2011 | Christine Rouselle

Posted on 12/13/2011 12:23:23 PM PST by gabriellah

During the 2010 and 2011 summers, I was a cashier at Wal-Mart #1788 in Scarborough, Maine. I spent hours upon hours toiling away at a register, scanning, bagging, and dealing with questionable clientele. These were all expected parts of the job, and I was okay with it. What I didn’t expect to be part of my job at Wal-Mart was to witness massive amounts of welfare fraud and abuse.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: dooomed; foodstamps; walmart; welfare
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To: Vigilanteman

Of ourse they were. SOP


161 posted on 12/13/2011 7:23:25 PM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: Hot Tabasco

Got none, but a new start would certainly be a good thing.


162 posted on 12/13/2011 7:24:17 PM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: Hot Tabasco

Ain’t got one, and ain’t my task...just lookin’ for one.


163 posted on 12/13/2011 7:26:48 PM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: gabriellah

Doesn’t Maine take in a lot of refugees from Somalia?


164 posted on 12/13/2011 8:25:51 PM PST by thecodont
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To: TLI
There's a bakery in Oakland, CA that was formerly family-owned, then became a co-op. I was in there the other day and saw a decal in the window that said they accepted EBT. Never saw that when it was under the old ownership.
165 posted on 12/13/2011 8:30:41 PM PST by thecodont
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To: Truth29

Several times I have been out shopping with the fam and noticed that everyone in line in front of us was paying with an EBT (welfare) card.

At the dollar store last week, the lady in front of me bought a huge pile of Little Princess birthday party decorations, plates, cups, etc. with her “food stamp” card.

At Wal-Mart yesterday, the lady in front of me bought a $69.00 toy with her EBT card.

And none of these people even said thanks!


166 posted on 12/13/2011 9:54:35 PM PST by fightinJAG (So many seem to have lost their sense of smell . . .)
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To: surroundedbyblue

No representation without taxation!

Walter Williams had a proposal that was something like everyone gets a vote, but people who pay taxes get two votes.


167 posted on 12/13/2011 9:56:01 PM PST by fightinJAG (So many seem to have lost their sense of smell . . .)
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To: TLI

Most people assume that it’s the bad economy that has led to the record number of people on food stamps.

However, a big contributor was the fact that Obamacare had a provision snuck into it that greatly increased the number of people eligible for food stamps.

So Obama deliberately set out to become the Food Stamp President.


168 posted on 12/13/2011 9:57:59 PM PST by fightinJAG (So many seem to have lost their sense of smell . . .)
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To: Gaffer

I am getting to that point as well. I “gave at the office” already.

And I have been involved with charities, especially for kids, and seen how often they are ungrateful for the toys and clothes they are given, and how really the rest of us have gifted them with stuff all year long, so it’s no big deal to them.


169 posted on 12/13/2011 10:03:06 PM PST by fightinJAG (So many seem to have lost their sense of smell . . .)
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To: stuartcr

Once you take the check, you are off the rolls automatically.

But, better to get rid of the hand outs for those that really don’t need them.


170 posted on 12/13/2011 10:03:45 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll vote for Mitt Romney when Hell freezes over. He's as bad or worse than Zero.)
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To: stuartcr
You honestly believe that’s a viable solution?

Wouldn't you honestly be happier down at your local Occupy camp than here among the right-wing Neanderthals?

The overwhelming preponderance of anecdotes here points to a system that is being looted on a vast scale by a huge class of professional moochers and parasites.

The drastic solutions (complete privatization of all benefits, loss of the franchise for food stamp recipients, etc.) that seem to horrify you are mild compared to what will happen when the whole welfare bubble pops.

171 posted on 12/13/2011 10:24:12 PM PST by denydenydeny (The more a system is all about equality in theory the more it's an aristocracy in practice.)
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To: BenKenobi

I wasn’t going to respond to this, but I’ve got to.

Ben — BS!

The reason Social Security is running out of money isn’t because of the people who worked their ASSES off, it’s because of the Government taking money away from SS to pay for their pet projects, and giving money to other countries so we can make them “friends”

The Government left huge stacks of IOU’s. So, get your facts straight.

Rant over. And no, I’m not on SS, I’m one of those busting my butt for my parents.


172 posted on 12/13/2011 11:28:37 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: gabriellah

The price of accepting an EBT card should be, you can’t vote.


173 posted on 12/13/2011 11:44:25 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Crousselle
Welcome, Christine!


174 posted on 12/13/2011 11:49:04 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: stuartcr

In otherwords, just stirring the pot by being purposely obtuse.


175 posted on 12/14/2011 4:22:28 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: DJlaysitup

Well FRiend, there’s nothing keeping you from sending more money to welfare recipients, is there?


176 posted on 12/14/2011 4:25:56 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: alex2011

Most criminals are on welfare anyway. End welfare and hang criminals. Problem solved.


177 posted on 12/14/2011 4:29:28 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Shadowstrike

The program was put in when the ratio of workers to those collecting was 10:1.

That ratio will soon be 2:1, and in 20 years, 1.5:1

So yeah, total ‘BS’. Truth hurts.

The system is unsustainable and needs to be dumped ASAP.


178 posted on 12/14/2011 5:53:03 AM PST by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman! 10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government)
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To: stuartcr

I agree, which is why we absolutely must throw those who do not “truly need” off the welfare rolls. Forever.


179 posted on 12/14/2011 6:44:46 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: fightinJAG

Our EBT cards are used transfer child support money, too. Since they are both processed the same at the register, there would be no way for someone else to know what the actual funds were from except that food stamps won’t pay for non-food items.


180 posted on 12/14/2011 2:01:23 PM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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