Posted on 08/26/2011 4:26:26 PM PDT by danielmryan
It was the first Monday of the month, and a line numbering more than a hundred spilled from the doors of the District's largest food stamp office and down the sidewalk nearly a half-block to the corner of Seventh and H streets NE.
Children darted among the adults as the procession moved at a funereal pace toward the building -- a 10-minute walk from the U.S. Capitol -- where food stamps are dispensed. The hustlers who trade drugs, stolen goods and cash for food stamps waited patiently outside for people to emerge clutching books of stamps.
"For a $65 book, I am not going to give you over $30," a man wearing a leather jacket said as he and his partner did a brisk business almost within earshot of a security guard posted at the front door.
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LOL! You got that right.
Part of it discusses the introduction of those cards. As other posters have pointed out, there's still fraud a'happenin' now.
Here's another way. Remember those EBT-holdin' people that buy lobsters and steaks with their stash? The ones with the fine cars?
Ever stop and wonder how they got the $ for those cars?
"I don't need no ****** receipt! It's new! Not even touched by my hands! Just gimme the money back!"
And again, the money gets spent...
Or: instead of chowing down, the lucky buyer of food-stamp luxuries goes to the food bank, eats the food-bank food and sell the goodies for 50 cents on the dollar. And again, the money gets spent...
This article is so bogus! There is no such thing as “food stamp books” anymore. At one time food stamps were paper coupons that were the same as cash. Not only could you sell them on the street for fifty cents on the dollar, but every little bodega and mom & pop store in America were buying them for cash, too. It was very corrupt, and very wasteful. About ten years ago they wised up and changed the system. Now food “stamps” come on a card with a PIN. It’s gaudy and has a big American flag on it. So when you’re standing at the checkout counter at the grocery store, everybody can see that you’re swiping a food stamp card. And if some loser gets desperate enough to sell it, then he has to sell his PIN, too.
This article is so bogus! There is no such thing as “food stamp books” anymore.The article is from 1997
The article is from 1997. Look at the header.
Just sayin'.
A friend was in a grocery store behind a WIC “client.” Big mistake. The WIC transactions take forever, because every single thing in the basket is evaluated individually by a program that works off the bar code of the item.
The woman was buying a loaf of bread that was rejected by the program. The clerk went back and got the “right” loaf of bread...and it cost a lot more than the one the WIC recipient had picked in the first place!
That’s government nutritional planning for you. Personally, I think we should go back to the old surplus food program.
What people got was food. It was all nutritionally good stuff if not wildly attractive (canned meat, butter, processed cheese, powdered eggs, cornmeal, flour, beans, powdered milk, canned veggies). They had to cook it themselves, and there were recipes available and even cooking classes that gave them suggestions. Or if they traded it to somebody else for something they wanted (that is, butter for fruit, for example), that was something they did on their own.
“so why not do some “nutritional planning” for people who eat on the taxpayer’s dime?”
It bugs the hell out of me to see these families of 3-400 pounders in the store, knowing it is my tax dollars at work
You should have done it at 50%, at least you would have gotten some return for your taxes paid
only give them fruit and vegatables, and you could solve the obesity epidemic at the same time!
we got those people here also, we call them “scooter fat” because they are so fat they have to ride around the store in those scooters meant for the handicaped.
I would not be surprised if a great number of welfare women worked off the books as maids, nannies, etc, and traded groceries with their employers for additional cash.
This “news” is 3-1/2 years old.
Actually, I doubt if there are any “food stamps” anywhere in the country now. Pretty sure they all get plastic cards — called here in MD “Independence” (chortle!) cards.
They would just sell the food.
. Why not ping him to his own thread? He's still here.
“The cards were issued to cut down on the embarrassment of having to count out food stamps at the cash register”
Have to disagree on that one , these folks are not embarrassed by anything. They took the stigma of freebies away at the school level. Every kid, no matter the family income , gets a free lunch card now days. It’s like playschool foodstamps
About 35 years ago, my wife and I were foster parents, to mostly 9 year olds and under. W.I.C. started delivering groceries to our door, even though we told them that we didn't need it, mostly milk, cereal, cheese, peanut butter, rice, etc. It was all quality stuff, especially the cheese and peanut butter were quite tasty.
Obama voters.
To BobS: What's old is relevant again. If you have any FR memories, as well as any comment on this article you posted way back when, please join in.
Are you suggesting it would be better placed in Chat?
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