One day, an old friend of mine and I went to go eat lunch at the Publix sandwich deli. We were behind two ladies who used their SNAP/EBT to charge their subs. Later, as I was getting some other foodstuffs checking, they were in front of me at the cashier with a bunch of WICS items and presenting the certificates for the kiddies’ supplements.
Then after those exchanges, each put up a big bottle of wine on the counter and plopped down $20 cash to pay for it.
That’s exactly what SNAP, WICS etc. used for - pays for the things they need to eat, and leave them cash for liquor, smokes, lottos and whatever. Makes the cash they do have double or triple in effectiveness.
This has been my experience and observation as well. The ghetto queens in my neck of the woods drive around in leased Mercedes carting around 3, 4, 5 kids; the kids are in rags while mom is dressed to the nines sporting a Prada or Gucci handbag; and they have the gall to show up to charity events begging poor for school supplies while their wrists jangle with gold bracelets, and they have diamond-encrusted hoops in their ears.
Personal responsibility is dead.
Here’s how you solve this problem. Open up grocery stores strictly for EBT folks and have ONLY healthy, non-junk foods. Their food stamps aren’t good anywhere else. Stop allowing these parasites to have cash. They won’t use it wisely.