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Surprise: Some Folks Are Abusing Their EBT Cards
Townhall.com ^
| March 31, 2015
| Vivian Hughbanks
Posted on 03/31/2015 2:54:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
Budget legislation passed by Congress last week includes cuts to some welfare programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
The cuts have already attracted backlash from left wing activist groups like the feminist group UltraViolet, which launched a campaign to petition Congress to restore the funding.
Overnight, the U.S. Senate voted for a budget that literally takes food away from hungry children, UltraViolets campaign pleads. The budgets that have now passed both the House and Senate make deep, painful cuts to the food stamps program.
TurningPoint USA responded with a little digging. Heres what they found:
After a brief search on Twitter and Instagram, Turning Point USA uncovered more than one hundred documented examples of welfare recipients abusing, mocking, and making light of welfare programs. Ripe with abuse, Twitter users attempt to sell food stamps, trade the stamps for weed, and purchase expensive food items.
Several of the social media posts use the hashtags #EBT, #EBTgang, #EBTcard, #EBTsquad, and #TeamEBT many of which depict a culture of glorifying the use of Electronic Benefit Transfers (EBTs.)
A few examples of the Instagram posts from TurningPoints investigation:
The rest can be found here.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ebt; fraud; scum
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To: Kaslin
Some Day, I might actually get an image link to work in FR.
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posted on
03/31/2015 3:27:56 PM PDT
by
Usagi_yo
(The wealth gap is actually a privilege gap.)
To: Kaslin
The scam starts with the stores that are subsidized by the government in the form of EBT cards.
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posted on
03/31/2015 3:28:39 PM PDT
by
pallis
To: Usagi_yo
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posted on
03/31/2015 3:31:37 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Kaslin
ATM machine inside a Gas Station in Clemson SC, Well placed between the beer cage and the Paraphernalia display.
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posted on
03/31/2015 3:32:03 PM PDT
by
Usagi_yo
(The wealth gap is actually a privilege gap.)
To: Gen.Blather
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posted on
03/31/2015 3:41:49 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Red_Devil 232
Ummm, not just limited to blacks. Whites, Mexicans, Muslims, Asians, all know how to scam the system.
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posted on
03/31/2015 3:42:27 PM PDT
by
Engedi
To: RightGeek
Thomas Sowell made a brilliant comment on this- he said that if you were destined to be poor for the rest of your life, what country would you choose to be poor in?
The USA is the only country where the poor people are fat. (and have cell phones)
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posted on
03/31/2015 3:49:06 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
To: SoConPubbie
We have a bunch of Somalis, they have kids up the ying yang and their carts are full to the top. I don’t know what they buy because I don’t get behind them in line.
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posted on
03/31/2015 3:52:43 PM PDT
by
tiki
To: Kaslin
Surprise: Some Folks Are Abusing Their EBT Cards
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posted on
03/31/2015 4:09:44 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("Victim" -- some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.)
To: Kaslin
I was riding my bike with the kids and unfortunately we rode through the Ombamaville area, at a restaurant there was a sign that said, 'We accept EBT', but then at an urban clothing store and at a Ross Clothing store, both had 'We accept EBT'.
I didn't know shoes were food...
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posted on
03/31/2015 4:17:21 PM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: ExCTCitizen
AFDC cash welfare cheques were discontinued a while back, IIRC...
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posted on
03/31/2015 4:21:58 PM PDT
by
__rvx86
(¡SI SE PUEDE! (Cruz 2016!))
To: SkyPilot
Shameeka...? What another name successful people have...
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posted on
03/31/2015 4:22:22 PM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: ExCTCitizen
A president who could even so much as enact a policy where EBT cards and other food stamps could only be used for the basic necessities, in terms of food or water, needed to stay alive and public housing could only be the bare minimum needed to have a roof over your head would be nothing short of a miracle worker. The vast majority of Republican presidential hopefuls simply do not and would not have it in them to even get that far.
To: Kaslin
Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs yahoo ^
Posted on Tue Aug 10 17:38:51 2010
"
The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by closing a tax loophole used by multinational corporations and by reducing food stamp benefits for the poor...The legislation provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or to ensure that more teachers won't be let go before the new school year begins."
Mutually Assured Destruction [Tues. debacle confirms growing rift between Dems & teachers unions.] American Spectator ^ | 11/5/10 | RiShawn Biddle
"
Congressional Democrats angered centrist school reformers, MoveOn.org-style progressives, and other party activists in August when they voted to ladle $10 billion in federal subsidies (funded from future cuts to the Food Stamp program) to school districts in order to stave off layoffs of 160,000 teachers (or just 2.6 percent of the nation's 6.2 million school employees). In turn, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers poured more than $40 million of their hefty campaign war chests (including more than $15 million by the NEA in the last weeks of the election season alone) to help the Democrats keep full control of Congress."
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posted on
03/31/2015 4:43:32 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
03/31/2015 4:44:54 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
03/31/2015 4:55:53 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Kaslin
Haha, the morons who post pics with their card numbers visible gonna get a nasty karmic bite! #Howstupidarethey?
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posted on
03/31/2015 5:02:26 PM PDT
by
W.
(Democrats + their media stooges wanted the US out of Vietnam so the Communists would win!)
To: Vigilanteman
Exactly. They will buy for daily meals what most other people buy as a special meal.
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posted on
03/31/2015 5:27:24 PM PDT
by
matt04
Comment #39 Removed by Moderator
To: Patriot Babe
Prayers to you Patriot Babe. May God bless you. Hang in there.
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posted on
03/31/2015 5:33:01 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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