What prompted me to look that up was...
At a gas station/convenience store, I watched a 300#, 5’0” bleach blonde, (complete with 4 sizes-too-small capri pants and cankle tattoos), spend 5 minutes getting her EBT card to read so she could purchase her 44oz soft drink and a King Size candy bar.
As the long line grew behind me, there were audible sighs as she then asked for 2 packs of smokes @ $5.50 each and paid for them with 6 ones and a pile of change that had to be counted out.
This whole welfare state has gotten absolutely and completely out of control. I’m so sickened by it that after 4 years at this job I’m getting out the first chance I get because people like the one you just described are so numerous it would make most peoples heads spin if they saw it every day.
These are generally able-bodied people, perfectly capable of working. There are countless couples and young men who use their girlfriends cards and they don’t marry these girls because then she’d lose her benefits and he’d lose his freeloading meal ticket.
I don’t begrudge someone in need on a temporary basis but this is now a way of life and not only are the recipients by in large ungrateful, they are entitled in their minds and think nothing at all of how bad it looks to buy tobacco and booze with other people’s money.
It’s outrageous and until people get as pissed off about it as I am having watched it for 4 years, it will never change. I make it my personal mission to tell everyone I know and can what I see. Most people don’t even know that they get cash. Straight up cash. No way at all to see where that money goes and the government of IL, broke as it is evidently doesn’t care.