And this isn’t intended to trash everyone. What the article addressed was people looking down on EBT card users. There are some pretty good reasons to, where we like them or not.
Did you by any chance see the long lines at alternate post offices after the 1992 riots? There on the street for the first time in plain sight were the Welfare Recipients.
Oh my, these 300+ pound women lurching down the street... many of them.
Think they aren’t getting food stamps. Think they need them?
If they would clean up welfare and the EBT and the free lunches and the..., and on and on it goes... most of us wouldn’t complain.
There are clearly many abuses going on.
Do I object to people down on their luck getting some help? No. Is that what is taking place most of the time? I don’t think so.
Those that aren’t abusing the system, I support getting some form of assistance temporarily.
Unfortunately they are not really abusing the system...
Years ago, they received government surplus food and vouchers to pay for rent and utilities...Then the gov't decided it wasn't fair to them that we worker could buy the brand new tv dinners and they couldn't...Wasn't fair that we could buy ready made meals and they couldn't...It wasn't fair that we could buy candy bars and they couldn't...
Somewhere in there their kids started getting free school lunches...
Then the poor started getting food stamps to spend as tho it was money...And of course they were easy to sell and trade...The gov't made it easy for them to do...
It ended up that they got the EBT card to buy what they wanted and could even use the card to get cash...
We trash the people who abuse the system but their actually doing what the gov't allows them to do...
“If they would clean up welfare and the EBT and the free lunches and the..., and on and on it goes... most of us wouldn’t complain.
There are clearly many abuses going on.”
Back in 2006, I was at a Ralph’s market in Malibu, and a chick bought a 100+ dollar log of filet mignon on food stamps. She got into her 3-4 year old, top-of-the-line Mercedes Benz, and left......
Chick had good taste.