Everyone I see at the Food Lion that uses EBT usually drives a new car.
I hate to tell the NYT, but I have seen the Food Stamp Queens and Kings with my own eyes. Sorry, guys, but the phenomenon is real.
I was about to say the same thing! Why even waste the electrons to publish this article if it REALLY isn’t a problem.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve watched someone use their money for beer and cigarettes and my money for food. The system is fraudulent by nature.
ding-ding-ding!
Exactly....
How about passing a bill that would work? The grocery that I usually shop at has a program where if I buy certain items then I get a one or two or five cent reduction in the per gallon cost of gasoline as participating filling stations. If their computer system can handle something like that then why can't it handle identifying items that can be covered by food stamps from items that can't? Swipe your card at the beginning and as the items are scanned then those which are ineligible won't get applied to the food stamp total and have to be paid for in cash. Wouldn't be requiring stores do something like that be more effective?
It is a well known fact that many very wealthy people receive food stamps. They show no income because they have blind trusts they live off of. I have professional knowledge of this.
My brother owned a house in a very bad section of town
He rented it out, and they paid the first month rent and moved in. They never paid again. it took him months to evict them
The next tenant did the same thing. And the next, and the next...
Finally, he learned his lesson and showed up to collect the welfare check for rent on the first of the month when the mailman brought it and THE FIRST FOUR TENANTS WERE THERE TOO WAITING FOR A CHECK - THEY WERE STILL GETTING RENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR MY BROTHERS ONE APARTMENT.
You would think a simple database check would have noticed 5 rent checks being sent to the same address.
So don’t even try to tell me there is no fraud, I’ve seen it first hand.
He reported them to Welfare and the checks stopped, so they burned his place down. He didn’t learn anything, he is still a stupid liberal.
I know a Chinese guy who runs an Asian grocery store.
He just put in big tanks for Alaskan crabs, oysters, Lobsters.
One Alaskan crab was $35/lb. I asked him - who pays that for crab?
Then he said “its all EBT.” He pointed to a group of Russians out in the parking lot getting into a Lexus and said “they paid with Foodstamps.”
I only know what I hear and see....
A guy I work with calls Escalades “Welfare Wagons”
It is not a myth. I’ve waited behind some of these people in the checkout line. Very few of them spend money on the kinds of groceries that will stretch a dollar and are actually better for you. Flour, corn meal, potatoes, greens, beans, onions, peppers, corn. Mostly I see prepared kludge, meats, and high fat junk food. And yes, I have seen crab legs and shrimp in abundance.
This is such unmitigated horse crap. The pixels to produce this tripe were completely wasted. I’ve seen with my own eyes grocery carts loaded down with food I can’t afford as the shopper hangs up their iPhone and pulls out and swipes their EBT card with their extravagantly-done fingernails. Back when I was trying to feed a family of 6 on $120 a week. Do we need a safety net for folks who need one temporarily? Absolutely. Do we need a Tempur-Pedic California king sized bed for them? Absolutely not.
Anyone remember this dude!!!Recently in Phoenix we had a couple that defrauded the Food Stamp system of 93,000 in a little over thirty-six months. Well reported, but not to the author of this article.
Many college student seek emancipation to get grants and food stamps while on an extended play time in their twenties.
Food stamps should be restricted to rice, beans, flour, etc.
It's not about what they EAT but about what they BUY.
I know you are a liberal Claire so I will use small words.
They buy expensive and easily resalable items using their EBT card. They then sell those items for cash. They then use the cash for whatever they please. For example, cruise tickets.
When I worked in a grocery store, we loaded the meat case with premium steaks on the first week of the month.
It was cheap grind and hamburger helper in the case on the last week of the month.
Every month for years....