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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My wife is a cashier at 7-11. She came home angry once telling me about a customer that came in and paid for her junk food with an ebt card and then pulled out a one hundred dollar bill to pay for her gas. Gas that she put into her MERCEDES.
My wife put in a year at Wal-Mart many years ago. She too has stories regarding the seedy underbelly of humanity which is rapidly becoming the norm.
Sounds like the experience my Son had at the Walmart here the other day - couple in front of him, bought a computer, a 32 HDTV, and a bunch of other things - then paid for a bunch of food with an EBT card. Outside they were parked right down from him, and he watched them load everything into a Lexus.
Wouldn’t that put an expense burden on the charity, that it doesn’t already have? How would that info get disseminated?
“I’ll have those n*rs voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” — Lyndon B. Johnson
Scarborough ME. Home of Ken’s Fried Clams. Yum.
People have differing attitudes aboput what assistance is for. My grandson said it is to help people through hard times. I say it is to keep them from starving to death.
100% agree
You are absolutely right, but guess what would happen if anyone seriously submitted such legislation?
I witnessed this once at a local grocery store, three people ahead of me in line all using the EBT cards.
I was *this* close to blurting out “Another one of those damn cards? Doesn’t anybody f***ing work around here?”
I didn’t say anything, but I wish I had.
My wife is a cashier at a Walmart in CA. I hear all about what you described.
Just wow. Welfare state of mind on clear display. Good for this young woman to write so well about her experiences. There is a whole new generation to wake up. We’ll need more, many more, like her.
www.peopleofwalmart.com
I was at Walmart the other day and the two women and 4 children in front of me had 4 carts That rang up to $667.00. She tried to pay with an EBT benefits card from New Mexico and it would not work here in Colorado. She and her mother argued with the cashier and then her mother pulled out a handful of benefits cards from Colorado and paid with them. I have never bought even $400 worth of groceries at once in my life.
Every one of us should send that photo and receipt to our Congresscritters and Senators.
That’s the fiduciary DUTY of a charity,
to account for how its donations get distributed.
The whole point is that a charity receives its donations through voluntary contributions, not by sticking a gun to people’s heads and then not being accountable for how that money is spent.
Yes I can imagine.I worked in a grocery store 25+ years ago and watched the same stuff go on then and it has not got any better.
Agreed, and that includes those on the government dole as employees.
I was a bagger/cart boy in a Pennsylvania supermarket 40 years ago. Same crap. Some well-dressed sleaze would use food stamps at the checkout and I would help her load up her brand new Lincoln Continental. No tip, either.
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