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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“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.”
I say it’s to keep them dependent on Government instead of working for what they need to survive.
Never mind my previous question. Graybeard58 clicked on your posting history and he realizes now the reason for it, he also assumes that you will not respond to him but he is not surprised in the least..
humblegunner - blog pimp alert.
for later
There are any number of solutions to this, none of which can likely be hashed out within the context of a message board post - and all of which would have intended consequences that would skewer some folks’ sacred cows and likely some unintended consequences as well.
“I paid over $50K last year in Federal Income Tax... I DO NOT DO “CHARITY” ANY MORE.’
Truth be told...you did about $50K in charity based on last year’s taxes you paid. :(
TRUE...and something you’ll never learn in history class:
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A lot of the fraud could be eliminated by greatly limiting what can be bought with food stamps.
I know of EBT card holders who buy very expensive food items and then sell them in their neighborhood for $.60 on the dollar.
If those expensive food items weren’t available for purchase with food stamps...
Seems like I saw an article recently about allowing food stamps to pay for fast food like McDonalds. Pure insanity.
My brother, who grew up in one of the richest zip codes in the US, is college educated and has never had a job thanks to the California welfare system. California is paying for his 3 bedroom apt and feeding his 3 children. Here is the kicker...California is also paying to feed their dog, which is a 200 mastiff.
They already know what goes on.
They’re okay with it.
Believe me, if it was the will of Congress to stop people from abusing welfare, it would be stopped tomorrow. It isn’t.
Think about it...they didn’t have much trouble passing legislation that said we could all be detained indefinitely without trial. They also managed to get the biggest piece of economy and individual rights-destroying legislation, Obamacare, passed in spite of the fact that the vast majority of Americans didn’t want it.
They already know all about this and a thousand other abuses of the welfare system. Believe me, they don’t lose a wink of sleep over it.
Sad. The Obama Nation.
Don't hold your breath waiting for a reply from the O.P., O.P. does not respond to peons, ever.
Frustratin’ ain’t it...
That’s all great, but there are plenty of people in rural areas, that probably don’t have local charities to depend on, or that don’t really get enough donations to take care of those in need.
Just doing a little pro bono advocacy work for a lottle red guy with a pointy tail and a pitchfork. It’s really easy to solve these kinds of problems by just typing it down on FR, but what would be required for even the realistic solutions, don’t have a chance of happening because it requires govt to do something, and that ain’t happened yet, has it?
FWIW, the first Somali refugees actually explored and discovered that Maine and Minnesota shared this trait.
Guess where most of them decided to settle?
That’s what charities are for. Or, I suppose if the people decide and it is allowed under their particular constitution or charter, state and local governments can provide emergency funding for such people. There is simply no authorization for such expenditures by the federal government.
“I would help her load up her brand new Lincoln Continental. “
Kinda like those people who come to the free food pantry with a pack of cigarettes in their pocket. I bet half the people getting free food are smokers.
“A lot of the fraud could be eliminated by greatly limiting what can be bought with food stamps.’
Agreed. 26 yrs ago when my husband and I had our first child I stayed home to care for our daughter and he worked...often 2 jobs...to pay for trailer rent and other bills. We were offered WIC which we did accept for one year. THAT is a MUCH better form of help. It said exactly what you could get which included milk, cheese, beans, bread, healthy cereals, formula (which I didn’t need as I breast fed) not ANYTHING that was junk period.
totally agree EBT/food stamps should also state what can and cannot be purchased. Now...I’m not saying anyone on EBT shouldn’t be able to buy a cake mix for their kid on his or her b’day...but there must be a limitation.
That’s the way it used to be, before the government wrested control away from charities. If you wanted charity from the church, you chopped wood.
My unsolicited $0.02?
The problem isn't the welfare leeches. If we switched from Gov't welfare to charity or just simple street begging, then they'd still exist. If there are handouts, there will always be people who will take advantage.
No, I think that the problem lies with the administrators of the programs, and the politicians who set the policies. The Pols spend the people's money like a drunken sailor. The bureaucrats betray their trust and refuse to properly distribute funding because 1) They're lazy 2) They're more interested in increasing their little empires, and the fraud helps them out 3) They're embezzling from the system, too or 4) one two AND three....
How do you fix it? No idea. The bureaucracy has become so entrenched at all levels, that I'm not sure it can be blown out. Maybe if the programs were cut entirely, from the top down.
Diet Mountain Dew???? Bastards.
“Oh and by the way, the day you come down for your food, you’ll spend a couple hours cleaning around the armory.”
No potatoes? Surely they can spare the spuds.
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