[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yet in studies of the diets of people on food stamps, they're shown to eat less seafood than the rest of us, and about the same amount of beef. (How they would buy cruise tickets with their benefits is unclear.)

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.

[Iron Munro]

Yet in studies of the diets of people on food stamps, they're shown to eat less seafood than the rest of us, and about the same amount of beef.

And of course they tell the truth about their steak, lobster, booze and vacation cruises because everyone knows they can't buy those things with their food stamps or welfare.

[nascarnation]

I read a story about how this is done in rural Kentucky.

Folks buy 100 bucks worth of soft drinks in cans with EBT.
Then they take the cases of soft drinks to another store which buys them at the back door for 60 bucks cash.

And repeat.

[ConservingFreedom]

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.

Good point.

[PapaBear3625]

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.

I would not be surprised if welfare women are working off the books as housekeepers. Her employer gives her a shopping list, she buys her employer's food with her EBT, her employer reimburses her in cash.

Meanwhile, the welfare woman can get all her staples from the local food bank, which is also subsidized with government money.

One thing the next president should do is have somebody root out all the duplicate programs, merge them, and eliminate double-dipping.

[bgill]

Buying stuff to be resold is too bothersome. Decades ago, they had already figured out how easy it was to just sell the card.