It wasn't long before a couple of posters accused me of lying, racism, etc. with statements like "Do you know how hard it is to get on food stamps?" or "How do you know the guy didn't just lose his job and is making payments on that car?"
I know what I see and the vast majority of people I talk to about it (including the store clerks) have similar observations.
My mom worked for DHS. She's a conservative, and a hardass to boot, so she got a disproportionate amount of the "Tough Cases", but I digress.
She used to figure that somewhere between 3 out of 4 or 5 of her clients were gaming the system in one way or another. The ones who were "double dipping", or working AND getting gov't checks, she could do something about. The rest were just lazy. Nothing illegal, they just knew the system and how to work it.
So your observation probably isn't too far off the mark.
exactly..
before I married my second wife, I was part of the working poor.. man, I was broke. I paid my child support and rent, heat, electric and car payment. That left me with little else. I often saw people at that time using their food stamps (that’s what they were in those days) and buying filet mignon or porterhouse steaks, etc... my diet was chicken for 16 years ! Even broke, I still had 3 meals a day, I was never hungry.
at times, doing the right thing and paying your own way in life, does make you feel like a chump..
“I made the simple observation that roughly two thirds of the EBT card users who I stand behind in the supermarket checkout line buy food that I can’t afford”
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Over the weekend I went to a local seafood store that mostly sells high quality items from good sources. A little on the expensive side but a nice luxury from time to time. I just happened to notice ‘EBT’ was prominently displayed among to the accepted credit card logos in this high end store.