[JavaTheHutt]

By the way, a few years back while I used to do minor house repairs, I was paid several times with "foo famps." And the payers were not immigrants

My first job was sacking groceries in a mom and pop grocery store. One woman use to come in every week and buy several hundred dollars worth of groceries with food stamps (this was about 20 years ago, and she had $200-300 in food stamps every week). She was always driving either a brand new Cadilac or a brand new Suburban. I called the welfare office and told them what was happening. I don't know what the final outcome was, but she only came into the store one more time after I made that phone call.

[e_engineer]

I have witnessed the exact same thing as a grocery store customer. The woman I saw was also grossly obese, and her selection of "food" items consisted of junk food, vienna sausages (30 cans), and a large pile of the really thick black angus steaks.

Last summer, I went to buy steamed crabs for a special family party. Here in Maryland, crabs are very expensive, as I was waiting, a middle eastern looking man used his "Independence card" (food stamps use a debit card in MD) to buy $100 worth of crabs. As a taxpayer, I am furious that we are forced to feed these people delicacies.