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You touched on the major problem.

Those cards are abused all the time, and the checkers get nothing but grief when they try to keep people honest.

I’ve been in line behind some of those people, and invariably the ones I’ve been behind always have a problem and hold the line up.

After a while the checkers cringe to see another EBT card customer headed toward them. Who could blame them?

Out here we have a problem with people who are well to do, hiding any evidence of wealth with their adult children. Then they get government services although they live in a massive home, have a relatively new expensive vehicle, and gold chains hanging off their body.

Then these folks get almost violently angry when they are asked for co-pays or the like at healthcare agencies.

If people are courteous, generally they are cut some slack. If not, it’s human nature to be angry at them.

I have personally witnessed three insidents.

1. Person tries to use the EBT card for forbidden items. They throw a temper tantrum and this holds the line up. Everyone wants to ring their neck.

2. Guy and his wife come to a hospital pharmacy. He’s wearing gold chains, an expensive gold watch, and an expensive suit. She’s dressed to the nines. They are asked to pay a $10 co-pay on a prescription and he goes nuclear. Can’t get the meds unless he forks over, so he pulls out a roll of cash about 1.5 inches thick. He pays trashing the person serving him relentlessly, as if it’s her policy.

3. It’s a junior college and I want to take some classes. I’ve registered and the lady at the counter was very nice. Just in front of my inline is a young kid dressed rather well. His fees are $25.00 and all he’ll say to her is one word, meaning he wants the state to pay for it. He gets his way. The lady looks at me like, can you believe this idiot. She never says a negative word, and just our eyes meeting told me volumes.

We’re being had, and have been for decades.