Today I visited a Burger King with a BIG “EBT Accepted” sign. Wonder how things will play out there when the cards fail.
Some months ago I was in a grocery store and saw a woman stalled at one register, arguing with the clerk that she was sure her “card had been loaded” to pay for the merchandise she’d put in her cart. She was there when I went in and was still arguing with him after I’d paid for my groceries and was on my way out the door.
In an earlier, more sensible time people who were unable for some real reason to earn their own way were offered a home at a “poor farm”. My parents used to joke about being “headed for the poor house” when things were tough. That is really the only reasonable way to provide for such people and it was a dark day when we allowed someone to suggest that such persons should be given cash to spend on their own. You don’t give small children money and tell them to go out and buy groceries, you buy the groceries and prepare a meal for them or you take them to an eating place and supervise them. Adults who are unemployable should be treated the same way.
We have millions of “EBT” cardholders who will solicit to sell their benefits at half price to raise cash to spend on drugs, alcohol, concert tickets, fancy wheel spinners, tattoos and the list goes on and on. This is what actually goes on even as the number of “EBT” cardholders continues to rise at a rapid rate. Anyone looking at this country from a disinterested perspective must be morbidly fascinated by the sight of such a looneybin.