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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
you do realize there are two EBT cards
the SNAP=food stamps
walfare=cash assistance
wonder which one this deadbeat was trying to buy the smokes with?
In IL it’s 2 separate balances, ! card. It’s called a Link card here or as some of us like to call it...the purple Visa.
From Illinois DHS website. This is federal law signed by Clinton and a (R) Congress. It applies to every state.
Work Requirement If you are a single parent who is able to work and your youngest child is under age 6, you must work or participate in a work activity for at least 20 hours per week. If you are a single parent who is able to work and your youngest child is age 6 or older, you must work or participate in a work activity for at least 30 hours per week. Two-parent families are required to work 35 hours per week. If you work, you must report your earnings every six months. Your cash benefits are reduced only $1 for every $4 you earn, and the department helps pay for necessary child care. Work and training activities include: unpaid work experience, on-the-job training, job search, community service programs, vocational education, subsidized employment, work-study, VISTA, Job Corps, and JTPA. Activities that address barriers to employment include treatment programs for domestic or sexual violence, substance abuse, and mental health disorders. For parents under age 20, attending high school or GED classes counts as a work activity.
Boned Turkey anyone?
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Interesting that these would be verboten. I wonder if it's because they don't want people to be self-sufficient in any way. Personally, I think a little farming is just the thing for these folk.
Well that’s all fine and dandy, however enforcement is a whole other ball game. The law can say whatever it says but without the enforcement part it’s useless. I know a couple single mothers who I can tell you right now DO NOT volunteer anywhere for the benefits they receive.
Yup. That's good stuff. What I'd also like to see is some of the data captured by some of the large chains on exactly what is purchased on the cards. They'd be able to generate some really interesting statistics, I'd bet.
MREs cost too much ($3-7/ea), there’s too low production and they are too calorie laden.
Your acuaintences are lucky!
One in every four TANF cases has experienced a sanction.
In Illinois,as in most states,TANF recipients face sanctions,or reductions in their cash grant,for failure either to participate in a required activity or to cooperate with child support enforcement. Sanctions in Illinois become more severe as noncompliance persists. Initially,the cash grant is reduced by 50 percent; after three months of noncompliance,it is eliminated altogether (Illinois Department of Human Services 1999). With the third instance of noncompliance,the state immediately imposes a full-grant sanction that must remain in place for at least three months. Overall,26 percent of TANF cases have experienced a sanction,with almost all attributable to failure to participate in a required activity (Figure II.3).
Hell! I’m pretty sure the DMZ is still littered with “Ham and M-f*ckers”, date nut roll, and beef aus jus, which smelled suspiciously like dog food
The nice thing about ‘Cs’ is that they weren’t just a meal, they were a weapon system. Out of ammo? Use the chicklets with an improvised sling shot. No sling shot? Use the crackers as a shurrekin. No time for a booby trap? Leave the cigarettes and watch their heads implode when they try to suck air through them. No water for waterboarding? Threaten to use the toilet paper on them. They’ll sing like an opera company.
Except that MRE’s are insanely expensive. It makes much more sense to put strict limits on processed foods, to require EBT recipients who have residences with a kitchen to use it.
Serving the same vintage in the Corps in late 70's.
Tell that to some of the unemployed I know and they'd kick your ass.
I'm sick of the attitude around here that anyone who needs to rely on public assistance, or might in the near future, is a useless do-nothing or that anyone not employed right now is unemployed by free will.
Preposterously, I know even now I'm too "cash rich" for assistance of any kind. I wouldn't know how best to apply for such things if I needed to. I may up relocation to farm country just to survive after one more push in a metro area.
I have a few friends in their 60s who've lost jobs. I know one gets food stamps. He used to handle billing for an internet host company.
The youngest one could not get EEOC to take his case of age discrimination because they deemed his position unique. What's unique about running electronics and electrical at a hotel in a major city that EEOC lacks data to draw comparisons? He did say he was the only white person at the EEOC office.
Another board did rule he was terminated illegally which made him eligible for unemployment for awhile but he's in a field where age is a barrier to employment. I was with him one afternoon when a headhunter called and flat out told him the client is probably "looking for someone younger." He's now losing his house.
I'm talking about college educated people too.
Part of the problem is once people see you've reached a certain level of education or a certain career position, they won't consider you for something "beneath you" no matter how badly you need most any job. Conversely if it's seen you've taken jobs to get by, you're harming your prospects with jobs in your career field because HR will discriminate.
All of this presupposes you can get an interview, that you can get beyond the barrier of automated job application sites. These days you've little way of knowing if human eyes will ever see your application or resume and some places don't have those positions to fill, they're just collecting data.
I always through it was two different card but I guess it’s not. I remember the old day of the paper stamps. should bring those back
Same here! (Fujitsu). I haven't noticed as much as you about those EBT cards, but I have noticed at Chevron convenience stores that the welfare crowd does love to buy some junk food with their EBT cards, then turn around and purchase $30 worth of lotto tickets with cash. The funny thing is watching them come in 30 minutes later and buy MORE lotto tickets... Ugh.
Fujitsu is one of the companies I contract with :)
The “mart” does not sell lotto. But some of the convenience stores I make service calls do. They report the same. I don’t think you can directly pay for lotto tickets with the cash portion of the EBT card. But you CAN use the stores ATM to get cash from the EBT card and then buy the tickets with said cash.
The stores can do nothing to stop this or they can get in trouble from the EBT police (program administrators)
Wana try again?
Cell phone is likely an Obama phone. So that is free.
Nails? Probably traded some food for the service from a friend.
That leaves 158 bucks to buy 1 dollar lotto tickets with.
Where do you get this information?
Trust me. Very.. very.. very FEW people getting cash are working 30 hours a week ANYWHERE.
There are requirements but they are so low it’s not even funny.
Those of us that hire people see them all the time. They will come in and apply for a job you can tell they have no intention of accepting. One of the requirements is you have to actively be looking for work.
No problem. Just apply for jobs your not qualified for, or blow the interview.
Ech.. most don’t have Obama phones. Trust me. Not enough features.. have to have unlimited texting and internet. Obama phones don’t provide that....
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