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Not all EBT card users joined in on "limitless" Walmart shopping spree
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Posted on 10/15/2013 6:56:06 AM PDT by TigerClaws

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To: MrB

We know which accounts over-ran their accounts....put them in jail...they are nothing less than thieves.


21 posted on 10/15/2013 7:23:14 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: dead

Actually a follow up story said the gubment would only pay the amount actually on the EBT card. The rest is on Walmart.

So for over $500 in theft that’s a felony. They have all the names, addresses, video of the folks. Politicians going to let them round up a few hundred voters,get them convicted and off the voter rolls?

Walmart going to risk angering the crowd giving it 25-40% of its revenue?

Doubt it on both counts.


22 posted on 10/15/2013 7:23:52 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: C210N

I know some good folks who have been forced to food stamps in the Obamaconomy. They bargain shop and don’t wipe out the balance on the card as fast as possible.

I know a family that grew an acre garden this summer after paying for seeds and plants with food stamp benefits. They use the card for things like bread, milk, and meats but have a winter’s worth of veggies ready to go.

The father’s factory closed its doors and left him with 6 kids and no means of support (Mother died a few years ago).


23 posted on 10/15/2013 7:26:48 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: TigerClaws

That’s the “hook” for businesses as well.

If you “accept EBT”, then you have some guaranteed shoppers in the form of people who don’t care how much something costs because someone else is paying for it.


24 posted on 10/15/2013 7:30:06 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: TigerClaws
Doubt it on both counts.

They might. I'd bet that WalMart has substantial losses from shoplifting on a regular basis, and a high percentage of the people who abused the cards are among those doing it. Having them arrested and/or banned from the store could easily make up for any lost business.

25 posted on 10/15/2013 7:31:18 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: DungeonMaster

Few lobby harder than Wal Mart for an ever increasing food stamp budget.


26 posted on 10/15/2013 7:33:29 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: MrB

Right. Stuff like Coke and other likely EBTer purchases has a huge mark up.

Of course, if Moo-chelle were really concerned about obesity, there’d be limits on what EBT purchasers could buy. They’d sign a deal with Jenny Craig and get all the fatties on Welfare as customers.

I see at least 3-4 people in ‘scooter’-type things simply for being too fat to walk every time I go to Walmart.


27 posted on 10/15/2013 7:38:44 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

The media is just pathetic. This is one of the 3 biggest outrages of the year (1. WWII and other memorial closings, 2. Obamacare rollout) yet they are desperate to try and find the “silver lining” to report so as to avid the obvious news of a kleptomaniac Black underclass rampaging through WalMart.


28 posted on 10/15/2013 7:41:05 AM PDT by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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To: TigerClaws

I wonder how word spread so fast. there is almost no way that many people were shopping under normal conditions, just happened to notice that their limit was removed, and promptly went bonkers.

was it social media? did people shout it from the street corners and the rooftops? obama phones? what?


29 posted on 10/15/2013 7:47:04 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: TigerClaws

A certain group of people were just doing what that certain group of people are privileged to do by virtue of license from a foolish society. They was taken’ from whitey, using their free food cards, payback for all that has been took from them. They be getten’ their stuff. We are fortunate their (group psychotic) didn’t turn into a killing frenzy.


30 posted on 10/15/2013 8:02:05 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Tea Party Terrorist
Few lobby harder than Wal Mart for an ever increasing food stamp budget.

Well that's just disgusting.

31 posted on 10/15/2013 8:02:41 AM PDT by DungeonMaster
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To: dead

As of earlier this morning, it was being reported that the “Ministry of Free Sh!t” had told WalMart that they would have to bear the loss, because they accepted the faulty cards. Has there been a change?


32 posted on 10/15/2013 8:20:39 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: TigerClaws

The title is correct. To illustrate: The EBT card holders in Hawaii, Alaska, and Maine could not participate because they did not live within driving distance.


33 posted on 10/15/2013 8:25:55 AM PDT by sport
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To: TigerClaws; WayneS
If WalMart has to eat the cost, I stand corrected. Perhaps WalMart hasn't contributed enough to Obama and the DNC.

But I'd wait to see what WalMart's lawyers have to say about absorbing the loss for the failure of government computers.

Politically, the gubmint will say one thing for public consumption, but they'll be a quiet deal down the road where the taxpayer pays for the party.

34 posted on 10/15/2013 8:28:02 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: arthurus

You seeemed to be serious when you penned that post. Or maybe I just couldn’t hear your snicker.

Left unanswered, however, was the question of how best to handle the resulting riot if WalMart cashiers would refuse to ring up more than the normal EBT limit.

Somehow, I think you purposely didn’t address that question.


35 posted on 10/15/2013 8:29:22 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Damn ObamaCare, full speed ahead!)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

Wal-Mart is going to be what G.U.M. was in the former Soviet Union.


36 posted on 10/15/2013 8:31:20 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Arm_Bears
No—The ones that didn’t were drunk, stoned, or otherwise unaware of the great opportunity that had presented itself.

Or, forgot to charge up their Obamaphones and didn't get the call.

37 posted on 10/15/2013 8:32:48 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: MrB
If you “accept EBT”, then you have some guaranteed shoppers in the form of people who don’t care how much something costs because someone else is paying for it.

How hard would it be to program the scanners to reject EBT for other than basic needs?

38 posted on 10/15/2013 8:37:41 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

They are already set up that way, but the “accept” list is pretty loose.


39 posted on 10/15/2013 8:39:50 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: TigerClaws

One Ark-La-Tex man....

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Okay, am I the only one here who does not know what that means? Does it mean he lives in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas simultaneously?


40 posted on 10/15/2013 8:41:37 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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