Posted on 06/27/2012 6:12:04 AM PDT by smokingfrog
Jackie Whiton, age 65, had worked as a cashier at the Big Apple convenience store in Peterborough, N.H., for years. But then a couple of weeks ago she committed a firing offense.
She refused to allow a welfare recipient to use his EBT card to buy a pack of smokes.
How dare a taxpayer say no to a member of the non-working class? This is verboten in Obama’s America.
So she was fired. That’ll teach her. The gimme guy was a young man, about 20, and when he asked for cigarettes, Jackie Whiton handed them to him but asked for his ID. He handed her his EBT card.
“I said to him, ‘Do you think that the man in line behind you and the lady behind him want to buy you your cigarettes?’ And he said ‘Yes.’ Then he said, ‘Give me back my card.’ And I said, ‘Give me back my cigarettes.’ ”
The kid left and the man behind him in line then told Jackie Whiton, “You said just exactly what I was thinking.”
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Now, I prefer that approach much more than being lumped in with them...:)
bottled water, large steaks and crab legs ARE healthy food items. Expensive, but healthy.
As a military brat, me and my friends were fascinated with C-Rations. (granted, my parents put a lock on the kitchen, so we were always looking for food)
When we got them, we always went straight for the peanut butter, even before the little metallic brick of Hershey’s chocolate (which had the texture of baking chocolate, and not much more flavor)
The peanut butter was pure sugar, much like what you find on the inside of a Reese’s Cup. (I know you already know this...I am curious...did the guys in your unit go for the peanut butter too?)
I remember eating something with chunks of ham in it, but I doubt it was what people referred to as “Ham and MotherF****ers” because I don’t think I would have eaten it. Actually, it might have been ham and eggs...
We proudly had our “John Waynes” on chains attached to our scout knives.
Hahaha...when I was in Scouts in the Philippines as a kid, we had that canned turkey a few times when we were camping! I know this sounds kind of bizarre, but I thought it tasted pretty good.
Salty though, as I recall. Heh, well...I think there are a LOT of things that one might enjoy eating until forced to, and to the exclusion of everything else, at that.
I just read recently where Confederate prisoners in the Civil War were kept on an island in Boston Harbor, George’s Island where there is a large fort, Fort Warren.
The prisoners rioted over their food they were forced to eat...
They didn’t appreciate being fed lobster, morning, noon and night!
Ha...according to some other branches, sailors aren’t human!
No harm, no foul...:)
I've eaten my share of MREs and they are better than going hungry. Here in Texas, we laid the "main course" on the hoods of trucks in the summer. The crackers were always a hit.
The reality is that smoking is highly correlated with lower social-economic status. Tax payers are subsidizing cigarettes purchases... then they subsidize the health care when smokers get sick.
As everyone knows smokers die younger, so the costs are held down in that the subsides end at an early age.
You’re talking about the food stamp program. With that program, you’re right - you can’t buy cigarettes. But, there is a cash assistance program that is separate from the food stamp program - and both programs can be loaded onto one electronic card.
Instead of people carrying one card for food stamps and then getting another and separate card for the cash assistance program - they simply put the two programs onto one card.
And thus, if you’re using that card as the “food stamp program” - you can’t buy cigarettes. But, if you’re using that card as the “cash assistance program” - you can use the cash for ANYTHING you want to buy.
It does exactly that, as you say. You can buy a whole bunch of stuff in the store, run it up on one ticket and when you run the card, the register will only take payment for the items that qualify under the food stamp program and for nothing else. Then there will be a balance left which must be paid for with cash.
It’s already all automated and no matter what the clerk says or does - the register just won’t take any food stamp money for non-food stamp items - no matter what someone says or tries.
You can’t argue with a computer terminal that does that ... LOL ...
It’s illegal in Oklahoma and all states to buy cigarettes with the food stamp program -and- in addition to that - it simply “won’t work” on the electronic registers and terminals (which is where you use those electronic cards).
SO ... the bottom line ... is that it simply won’t happen and CANNOT happen, because it’s all done electronically.
HOWEVER a person can pay for cigarettes on that card - if they have the cash assistance program loaded onto that card. They don’t use the food stamp benefits (on that card) but they use the “cash assistance program” on that card - and that’s perfectly legal - even in Oklahoma.
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