Posted on 03/12/2011 10:28:29 PM PST by wac3rd
Context: A standard Safeway in an upper-middle class East Bay suburb of San Francisco, 8:30 PM PST.
I just got home from the grocery store where I went to get a few items for my wife (vegetables, chicken) etc. and was getting my retired Dad a gift card so he can make ends meet. He is not doing well and living on Social Security and a part-time job, and I know he needs the money for food (and dog food).
I was going through the self-check out but there was a sign "no gift cards" so I went back into the regular line.
There were two women, both about 5' tall and only spoke Spanish, they had 5 children, all under 5 years old and they were chatting and screaming, normal kid stuff.
They had a full basket, and when they were done, pulled out WIC (Food Stamp) cards and charged over $200 on it. The card didn't take the first time, they had to remove items, etc. but finally, the Latino family left the grocery store.
I only had a few items, including my father's gift card, so I came out right as one of them drove up in a late model Ford Expedition with the shiny flashy rims. There were 5 car seats and some kind of Spanish music coming out of the speakers.
I bust my ass to feed my family, pay taxes and keep my family above water...who the hell takes my tax dollars to give to these illegal invaders and their spawn?
I was so angry thinking of my Dad back East clipping coupons while these 3rd Worlders steal every week from the US taxpayer.
I am angry, really angry. I have had enough.
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She runs the bakery and has customers ordering custom cakes for their 2 year old's birthday parties and paying for them on their EBT card. These aren't your standard sheet cakes with a plastic car on them like most people would present to a 2 year old, these are actual molded cakes in the shape of a car ($150-$250).
She also noticed that many of these "customers" usually return the following Monday wanting money refunded because their little darling was "less than satisfied" with the cake.
The store, not wanting to make a case of it, would usually refund the money in cash or a gift card. A few weeks ago the wife decided that the refund would go back on the State issued EBT card and proceeded to call the welfare office to get instructions on how to proceed with the refund.
It turns out that there is no process to refund money back to those cards and as a plus the case worker on the other end took interest in why custom bakery items were allowed in the first place. They are looking into it and the "customer" left without the refund and if the lady had any common sense, should be pretty nervous about her ongoing "benefits".
Amen to that!
Nearly all immigration into the USA should be halted immediately and for an indefinite period of time.
Any and all illegals must be deported immediately.
Automatically, the country is better off.
In Oak Ridge and Knoxville Tennessee Shinny New Yukons are the prefered Illegal’s Ride. They drive better vehicles than many engineers and scientist. Go to about any store with a Western Union and you’ll see them wiring money south. Bad part is they even hurt the working poor citizens. By that I mean if you go into second hand stores where some folk buy kids clothes, there own work clothes etc and you will always find illegals shopping it never fails.
I only had a few items, including my father's gift card, so I came out right as one of them drove up in a late model Ford Expedition with the shiny flashy rims. There were 5 car seats and some kind of Spanish music coming out of the speakers.
How is this possible, that they can qualify for food stamps, yet drive a vehicle like that? I don't get it...
Your story makes me angry, too wac3rd.
Double back seats to accomodate all the welfare checks, HUD vouchers, food stamps...errrr, children.
Leave the country, renounce your citizenship, get a really good tan, change your name to Juan Gonzalez (and have 3 or 4 fake ID’s as well), sneak back into the country illegally ... viola ... problem solved. Entire cities and states will bend over backwards to get you signed up for all sorts of freebies.
Gringos are suckers.
Or (when off-duty) drink WHILE they drive.
I’ve been in a car when it happened.
OMG. HOW do they get away with this crap??
Join the club.
I am so proud of Arizona and other states that are pushing ‘kick-out-the-scumbag-illegal-aliens’ legislation I could applaud all night. That kind of legislation needs to “go viral” across the nation, from red state to red state. (Screw the scumbag Democrat blue states - - let them be magnets and “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens who have been displaced from civilized states.)
That gives me a tiny bit of hope at least...
It would be funny if it wasn't true.
Welcome to my world.
“I am mad at the system and the pandering, loser politicians (both GOP and Dem) who will do anything for power, even bankrupt us.”
That’s where to put the blame, and even more appropriately, us, who keep electing these irresponsible people.
Me too, however a strongly worded letter will probably be issued ..... to the case worker and my wife.
I'm still proud of both of their efforts!
Ugh, don't get me started. I became a conservative way back in the days before ATMs and direct deposit were widely available. It occurred when I would have to wait in long lines at the bank while on my lunch hour. I was depositing my full-time job paycheck, and often one from a part-time job.
In front of me were the welfare queens - dressed 'to the nines' - and with expensive-looking fingernails and jewelry - cashing whatever check they used to get from The State around the 1st of each month, little kids all around them. They obviously didn't work - it was easy to eavesdrop, as they were SO loud.
The memory of it still pisses me off...
Yep - disgusting to the core.
Welcome to Columbus, Ohio.
Ten years ago I argued that there should be a sign hanging from the Statue of Liberty that reads, “NO VACANCY”.
Today the sign needs to read, “TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT”.
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