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The EBT card should be for food only, how come people use then to go and get 17% Sherry cooking wine at the groceri store and get away
with it? They are drinking up the EBT cards that way!

I work hard and can't even get help with anty benefits cause I work!

Somebody needs to look in to this fast, this is my tax money they are drinking up!

Thanks!

By the way, my friend is an alcoholic and this is how he gets drunk on the 1st every month

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Shan Nancy Barlow
, US
Nov 12, 2018 11:47 am EST

I think the workers are racists. Because I know someone with no kids who are black & have pretty much have the same income as me. Well the black guy gets almost 200 bucks a month from food stamps. Me a white women gets less than 60 bucks a month

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dovebirds
, US
Aug 20, 2018 12:52 pm EDT

I have been fighting food stamps now for 4-5 months now regarding the amount that they give me which is a total of $15.00. I gave up working at the moment because my mother is 88 years old, she fell and hurt her hip so she is walking with a walker and not very steady on her feet and is a fall risk, I have to help her with everything. I cannot and won't
leave her alone and on her own. I am 67 and retired, but my social security income has to pay for my bills, car payment, secondary medical insurance, car insurance and 2 credit card bills, which use up the total of my SS income. I had an argument with them for the simple reason that my food stamps are not consistent and the amount that they have given me, I don't know who out there can survive on $15.00 a month when there are people working, earn more than what i receive from SS a year and that there are black people getting 250.00 - 350.00 monthly. I am a white woman and want to know if perhaps this could be a racist issue. I do know that 99% of the employees at Children and Families are black. This is very upsetting and very unfair if this is the case, otherwise what is the reason why I am only receiving $15.00 a month. It is embarrassing to ask my family for help all the time because I have no gas to take my mother to the Dr. or have no food in the house. ?

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gapeachy
, US
Apr 24, 2015 3:59 pm EDT

The ebt/food stamp program needs a complete and thorough overhaul. Abuse and entitlement us rampant across all genders and races!. I think the best solution is cut options down to necessary foods only and to help with fraud, open government run commissary type stores that supply only basic necessity items. Change the law so that the cards can only be used at commissaries or food banks only. The qualifications need to be modified to include more elderly people on fixed income as well. This program was developed for short term help...not a lifetime entitlement.

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FEDUPIN TAMPA
Tampa, US
Apr 18, 2015 8:18 pm EDT

I realize that some people are down on their luck, sick, elderly etc. BUT THESE BENEFITS SHOULD ONLY BE USED FOR BASIC FOOD ITEMS! NOT PRIME STEAKS, FROZEN KING CRAB LEGS AND THE LIKE! THIS IS A SHAMEFUL MISUSE OF TAXPAYER MONEY...OUR GOVERNMENT IS NOT...NOT WATCHING THE COOKIE JAR WITH OUR HARD EARNED TAX MONEY IN IT. AND ANOTHER THING! i HAVE TO PASS A DRUG TEST TO MAKE THE MONEY PEOPLE WASTE...BUT NONE ONE HAS TO PASS ONE TO GET IT HANDED TO THEM! THIS IS UTTER...###!

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ash1988
Cape Coral, US
Jan 19, 2015 9:04 am EST

If you think all your taxes go to food stamps your ignorant.we pay ten cents a day for government programming less then a gum ball.but don't worry they made huge cuts so now a family of four looses 20 meals a month!do you know why?because that money is going to our corporations! So would we rather feed the rich or feed the poor?regardless you are going to have to pay taxes! And who knows where your money is going!?maybe the government wants u to think you to think are feeding hungry mouths!And even if my tax dollars are feeding citizens I would rather feed us then feed then our corporations which we are doing now !and I'm more angry over that then government funding for our citizens!

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GEM SMITH
Poughkeepsie, US
Mar 15, 2014 5:39 pm EDT

This is to all the people on here knocking people that's get food stamps, you'll don't know what some people struggles are. I am a single parent, I work 40+ hours a week. I get food stamps, I buy my children chips, juice, and candy occasionally with my ebt card, if it's edible it's food, it may not be a nourished meal but children deserve a treat too. If I don't have enough cash for diapers and the store is going to let me buy them with my ebt, I sure will. I think the ones on here complaining is racist, and mad because they don't get food stamps. I'll bet if someone offered to sell them some of there stamps they wouldn't hesitate to take it, then they'll get in here and talk about that person. Some people do sell their food stamps, instead of judging them ask them why. Please stop saying that black people are abusing the system, when the system is abusing black people, and have been for years. So if they found a way to get over so what, we have been slaves to the government and still are. My tax money goes toward food stamps too and I can care less what others do with their food stamps, I know my children are not hungry.

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pinballaddict
ST PETERSBURG, US
Feb 22, 2014 11:24 pm EST
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I am very tired. My dad just died n I had to jump the hoops for reverifacation for food stamps.Almost a total waste of my time and my phone time.I don't even know why I bothered. I have a lot of bills and a lot of anxieties. I reported my changes of doing surveys online. Most months not making anything.The last $36 check I got was May 2013. I really don't understand the drop in my foodstamps. I was getting $138. Then it dropped to $128. Now I am getting $21 monthly. I do agree some people do abuse the system messing it up for the rest of it. We help so many other countries. It would be nice if we took care of our own! Nobody in the USA should go hungry or without clean drinking water. Idon't care who you are. Color is only skin deep, ugliness goes all the way to the bone

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Get ova it
Ur Town, US
Dec 02, 2013 7:03 am EST

F.Y.I White people buy dumb ### with food stamps and they sell them. It's different ### happening all over this world so u can't jus throw the blame on a BLACK person. From what I read it's more White people getting EBT than BLACKS so don't get angry if y'all got denied, jus work harder. The Government spend they extra cash the way they want to and no ones fixing that. So what we get extra food stamps and buy what we want.

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zeplow
, US
Nov 01, 2013 8:26 pm EDT

i really think our government needs to restructure the ebt card program and now the heallth insurance program. The people that work are getting kicked out of health insurance what next. Why work when you get every thing handed to you for free there's no incentive to work anymore.

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zeplow
, US
Oct 30, 2013 3:49 am EDT

you know there are alot of people out there that honestly use the ebt card they work, go to school, and buy healthy foods. The people that abuse the system buy junk food, energy drinks, donuts and pop with the ebt cards are the ones that need to get audited every month. Again if they can buy booze, cigs and scratch off tickets they don't need no ebt card. What really gets me is they go to a convenience store to buy their food or they send their kids there 5 times a day to get their junk because they are to lazy to go to a grocery store where things are cheaper and they could use a coupon if they had the energy to get there and cut out a coupon!

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mrs.parsons
waterford, US
Sep 16, 2013 7:43 pm EDT

Im a bridge card holder. I have 3 kids I work and go to school. Guess what?! I also wear top fashion brands. I have a juicy couture purse ed hardy shoes and more...I hear so many people talk trash behind my back at the grocery store when I pull my ebt card out. Funny thing is no one has had the guts to tell me to my face and if they did id gladly share my secrets...its called being a smart shopper...im going to school for fashion and I love it but I also believe in resale and salvation army. I have found all my stuff there and I dont pay over $5 for a pair of shoes or $3 for a purse and all my clothes are under $5 as well. I also have a galaxy phone.. wanna ### about that too? Well seeing as how I cant afford a laptop nor internet for my schooling I found paying 50 a month for unlimited everything was more up my alley. If this is all you have to complain about then it must be nice being you. I feel more people should be concerned about their own problems. If you dont know the situation its better to keep your mouth shut rather than open it and prove yourself a fool.

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pal65
Taunton, US
Jul 11, 2013 8:17 am EDT

You know, anyone that really needs this benefit would not let an unused balance up to 5000.00! I don't even have that in my savings account. It is really crazy..and I disagree with the comment to stop complaining about people buy with the EBT card. It is for the NEEDS..not the WANTS of the people who need them. Seriously, if you are using it for a tattoo...you don't need the beneftis. They need to go back to the old way of doing things. They need to seriously audit the people receiving the benefits..because you know what..we work for everything we have and some of this money is going to people that know how to scam the system.

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Upset taxpayer
Belleville, US
Jun 10, 2013 6:51 pm EDT

I work in retail and 2 days in a row now the lady buys coffee and candy on her foodstamp card leaves comes back the next day and returns it.I'm not gonna say where I work but for some reason we must have a glitch in our store because the computer doesnt let us return the amount of the foodstamps back onto the card so we have to give cash back over 100 dollars each time. This is very frustrating to me.These people cry poverty but are frauding the state and the taxpayers.They really need to take a good look at every body.

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SSWW
Savannah, US
Jun 10, 2013 3:42 am EDT

I have an EBT card and you can't even purchase cooking wine that has 0.1% alcohol in it. It's black listed in the computer if it has any alcohol content at all period. You guys are taking extreme examples and using it as an excuse to complain about the few losers who abuse food stamps.

The food stamp program does cost tax payers, but it's such a small amount compared to Oil subsidies, Bank bailouts, or war, that if you complain about it, you've really just got a chip on your shoulder. Hell, you're even paying for people that go to the emergency room with no health insurance.

Go do something productive instead of wasting your time complaining about something that actually does help thousands of families who just want ends to meet. There's bad apples in all walks of life.

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me and mines
orange park, US
May 10, 2013 3:13 pm EDT

I don't like the person that was talking ### about black people and ebt I for one have four kids and a husband and we get food stamps their for people who need it and if we choose to buy junk food whats really wrong with that! And as far as white people go they get ebt and they have a high percentage of getting ebt jus like blacks and they dont always buy food I've witness them doing wrongful things such as sell them so please don't talk down on just black people

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ebtguy
Huntington Beach, US
May 09, 2013 9:45 pm EDT
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So, it never occured to you that this man could be mentally ill? I just re-applied for the foodstamp program about a week ago and most of the people I saw in the welfare office were in dire straights. A lot of them were living on the streets. Trust me I know how bad this ecomony is right now because I used to be a long haul truck driver. Before I had my accident in September of 2011, I used to see a lot of people living in their cars in truckstop parking lots. So what about me? I fell off the back of my truck in Septemver of 2011. I couldn't walk right after that. I didn't have health insurance because I had recently left my job with a major trucking company to become an Owner Operator - which means I owned the truck and the company and booked my own loads. I worked for 5 months off and on in severe pain, all the while thinking that I had merely pulled a muscle in my leg. Well in April of 2013 it got to the point where I couldn't even get out of a chair. I had to use a cup to go to the bathroom at night because I could no longer get out of bed.

I went into the emergency room and was immediately diagnosed with a Deep Veinous Thrombosis in my right leg and a massive Saddle Pulmonary Embolism in my lungs - This is a medical complication that has a kill rate of 30 percent. I waited five monthe to get medical treatment because I don't believe in taking advantage of the system. By waiting so long to seek treatment I have now contracted a secondary conditon to DVT, which is called Post Thrombotic Syndrome. It is a condition that causes life long pain and swelling of the affected limb. I went from being a pretty healthy guy, being able to drive my truck 18 hours a day, to now having to take 4 heavy duty pain killers just to be able to move around. I'm on blood thinners, suffer from transient lung pain due to some damage that the blood clot has done to my lungs. I can't kneel down, I can't squat, I can't stand for more than two hour without taking pain meds, I can't sit for more than two hours without pain meds; and even when I do take the pain meds, sitting down for more than two hours causes me to have constant level 5 pain.

I had to get rid of my truck because I can't even climb in and out of the thing anymore. My savings are being depleted because I can barely get around. The doctors all claim that there is nothing wrong with me. They won't back a disability claim. So what else is there for me to do? Just because you see me buying some iced tea (I drink 3 two liters of iced tea each week) and one two liter of soda a month, it doesn't mean I'm abusing the system. I need the sugar in the tea to help my bad leg with circulation, and I also have to take a lot of Potassium Glutamate pills in order to prevent cramping. Without sugar and potassium pills, my leg gets cramps every 3 minutes all night long; and trust me when I tell you this, pain killers do absolutely nothing for leg cramps.

I want to work again. I want to go out and make the big paychecks again, but how? I was a professional driver which means I will not drive a car, or operate any type of heavy machinery while on pain killers. I simply won't do it. So on the day I had to drive down to apply for the foodstamp card, I didn't take one single pain pill the entire day. By the time the day of standing in line and walking around all over the place was done, it felt like someone smashed my foot with s sledgehammer. So what kind of job is going to hire a guy that limps, takes pain killers, is on blood thinners and can bleed to death from a paper cut, and needs to move a lot slower than everyone else. I have to stop on the streets and let old people go ahead of me because I walk a lot slower now than I did before my leg got messed up. I'm only 37 years old and my 64 year old mother can walk three times as fast as I can! All the doctors will do now is hand me 120 Norcos a month and tell me to have a good day!

Do you know that we have prisoners in prison who eat better and receiver better medical care thn the poor and working poor in this country? Our government spends more on the military and sending millions of dollars to Egypt, Israel, and many other countries while you guys argue over a poor person getting 200 dollars a month to feed themselves. Have you ever tried to eat on 200 dollars a month? Before I got huer, I used to spend 25 bucks a day on food every day while on the road. Now I have to really budget to make the EBT money stretch. So before you go around passing judgement on people who use the EBT card, try and walk a mile in their shoes before you open your mouth.

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dougwagz
Spokane, US
May 04, 2013 2:35 pm EDT
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And the people who are on ebt and putting it to use... YOU should be even more upset than I! Why are you defending the ones who make a bad name for it. If there weren't people abusing the system there would be more money for the people who truly utilize it.

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dougwagz
Spokane, US
May 04, 2013 2:28 pm EDT
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1) Whoever says there are bigger things to worry about than EBT is either oblivious to the situation or is on ebt and misusing it themselves .
2) I have no complaints about the people who use ebt for healthy eating and essential food (although the definition of essential has gone so damn far out the window i.e. Ice Cream and Soda)
3) I Do however have a huge problem with people who abuse the system that I and many others around me have supported for far too long.
In college i had a roommate who was on ebt and I NEVER once saw him use it for anything other than candy and soda from our local gas station. He had absolutely no incentive to buy anything healthy and in return lived a depressing and junk filled life.
If that isn't abuse then please tell me what is.

Just last week i was in a local Safeway checking out behind a "man" who wouldn't even take his unlit cigarette out of his mouth to converse with the checker. If that wasn't enough to piss me off he then proceeded to check out with a ebt card to pay for his absolute garbage food which included 2 gallons of ice cream, 4 cases of generic soda, a dozen donuts, 3 bags of Doritos, and 2 gallons of what couldn't have been more than sugar water labeled as juice. After she bagged his groceries he just stared at the checker as if he didn't know what to do next, until a man three people back yelled "can you not even put your on groceries back in the cart" which then made the check jump around the counter and do it for him.
WHY IN THE WORLD SHOULD I HAVE TO ASSIST PEOPLE LIKE THIS!
GOVERNMENT WAS NOT CREATED TO SUPPORT US!
IT IS INTENDED TO PROTECT US, OUR PROPERTY, AND OUR FREEDOM TO MAKE A LIFE FOR OURSELVES.
NO. ONE. OWES. US. ANYTHING!

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lil boombostic
mon, US
May 03, 2013 6:52 am EDT

Nobody is saying to stop food stamps where just saying some of the things your getting is not fair! Why get mad as long as you can still get food? Hummmm! Maybe you getting it for the wrong reasons. Guilty!

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lil boombostic
mon, US
May 03, 2013 6:47 am EDT

I don't think its fair that single parents as well as unfortunate couples are out here struggling, can hardly buy a pack of gum but these card holders living it up being able to buy high price seafood and sweets its just not fair. It makes you want to give up and let the system support you. It has to stop!

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nothingtoeatthanksgivingorchristmas
Santa Fe, US
Jan 30, 2013 11:00 pm EST

To the original poster:
With friends like you who needs enemies. Take your friend to an AA meeting.
To notaloser: great post thanks.
To all: report cashier abuse each time it happens. Smug self righteous cashiers should be fired.
I was approved for emergency footstamps on Jan. 18. Its Jan. 30 and they said I will get an ebt card in a week. I am hungry at at my ropes end.
The process has been humiliating and soul destroying. The foodstamp office on cutler st in albuquerque is horrendous. They are haughty and don't care at all. I wish every

politician

politician would be required to experience applying for foodstamps .

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notaloser
Albuquerque, US
Dec 21, 2012 6:02 pm EST

Ughhh...the racists comments are ridiculous and it's unbelievable how some people feel the need to make such a distinction in this day and age. I don't think race has any place in this discussion, when people from all races experience financial difficulties to the point where they have no option but to apply for an EBT to feed their families. I question the cashier grilling these customers over their purchases in the first place. Are you one of those people who broadcasts "Are you paying with EBT" in front of the whole line just so you can make sure these people feel like utter crap?

I paid into this system for decades, while working from home, homeschooling my 3 kids and dealing with an abusive husband making over $120k a year. When he walked out the door, he paid nothing. I sold off whatever I had from jewelry, CDs, books, furniture, etc. just to buy food from the dollarstore and put gas in the car. No one did anything to help. Not one single organization stepped up, in fact, I ended up in court without an attorney because his got a board position with the only domestic violence group in the city, creating a conflict of interest so none of their attorneys could help me. I lost everything, including our home...no alimony after 14 years of marriage...nothing. I applied for an EBT card when I had $2.56 left in my account and no way to feed my kids.

While abuse in rampant in any area, people figure out how to play the system rich or poor. My ex-husband goes on one ski trip and vacation after another with his girlfriend, practically lives at Starbuck's and maintains an upper middle class lifestyle, while he refuses to even give my kids $5 to watch a movie with friends or pay for clothes...anything he can get out of paying for. I have to be both parents, while going to school full-time and working. Our lives have changed dramatically...we bus everywhere because I no longer have a car. We're staying at a motel, because my credit is ruined now and expenses leave me with $58 a month to buy food, clothes and everything my kids need.

Having an EBT card meant being able to feed my kids for the month, but in no way does it cover all the groceries. I'm still out of pocket for quite a bit, but it makes a huge difference. It takes me 2 hours each way to get to class, so when I'm coming back around 9:30pm we walk to the nearest store to get groceries. In this instance, Sprouts is the closest place to walk to. I've had cashiers mistreat us, the anger and resentment is obvious...the need to let everyone know we're paying with an EBT card seems to make them feel a little better about their own lives. This has happened at Albertson's, Smith's, Walmart, Whole Foods, Sprouts, etc. Just using the card makes me feel sick with dread.

You complain about people misusing the cards for snacks, junk food, energy drinks, etc. without thought that 7-11 might be the closes place for someone to get to and there aren't a lot of options. You seem to forget that most of the food we eat, as Americans, qualifies as junk whether it's a packaged Betty Crocker "meal" or whatever it is. Conversely, I could spend significantly more to buy quality food without all the additives and junk while facing the same scrutiny...how can YOU afford to buy food here...off the government's (our) dime? Every group, up in arms is going to be upset that people without means are able to get the same things they have to pay for from their own pockets. My ex-husband is one of those people and he has plenty of company in this regard.

I know plenty of single people, on "unemployment" who get EBT funds and use them without feeling remotely embarrassed at Trader Joe's. While, I had to wait for nearly 3 months for my application to go through when we were homeless and not getting any sort of help for anything. Then, I got hit with the 6 month EBT review months early...nothing mailed to me, so I'd know ahead of time. It turns out my card was shut off just before Thanksgiving. All the supporting documentation has to be printed out and mailed in, but I have to choose between spending a few dollars to print everything and buying food once again at the dollarstore.

Sure this means I can't get my kids anything for Christmas, but I can't even buy food to make anything let alone some special meal. When I called into the EBT office, the caseworker could really give a crap...heartlessly dismissive. She told me to call around for food boxes. Good luck with that over the holidays. If you didn't sign up for the holiday program at The Salvation Army (no idea how or when you'd even do that), you are out of luck because this is who they are helping...there aren't any food boxes to be had. This holds true for Catholic Charities and many organizations out there. The best I could hope for is to take 2 buses and show up on a set day of the week, across the city, to get a bag of random stuff I'd have a hard time making a meal with.

I'm not ungrateful, even if this rhetoric sounds close...it's just a little hard to make something with 5 cans of green beans and nothing else. it doesn't feel like Christmas, that's for sure. To knock people down for EBT abuses...exactly, why aren't you trying to get your friend some help when talking badly about the person seems like a slimy thing to do instead...put something in a forum rather of stepping up. Clearly, you have absolutely no idea what it's like from another perspective.

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Nig hater
Mobile, US
Sep 26, 2012 9:04 am EDT

Stupid ###s...figures the black would do this...and all the blacks have 3 or more kids cause the get ramed by random other blacks and get AIDS and go on welfare to support their dumb nig kids who grow up to do the same thing over and over...give all the negros a pill so they can have no more kids so we can jus get rid of that disgusting race

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crooks taking my money
, US
Sep 15, 2012 2:00 pm EDT
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last i checked i never made a comment on race...and for your headache..take a motrin...

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mommy does it by herself!
, US
Sep 13, 2012 11:06 am EDT

If anyone that makes these complaints and makes an ignorant opinion of blacks, let the record show that blacks aren't the leading race receiveing benefits its actually whites since wewr going here with the stupid race card.Yes some people do abuse it just like people abuse non government based programs.I got a headace reading this.

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crooks taking my money
, US
Jul 11, 2012 1:17 am EDT
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i honestly hope that illinois is the next state for drug testing and lets see just how much money this state will get back..im a tax payer and i should have a say so on whats being bought...the state needs to really check into incomes on the ebt users..having a house and a nice car...dressed in nice clothes and a wallet full of hundreds...this shouldnt qualify for ebt..i would love to work for this state...i know plenty of people taking advantage of this...illinois needs to wake up and smell the cons on ebt...its just sickening...and those that really really need it get denied...wow...this country has literaly went to hell...work for what you can afford...give up the drinking, smoking and luxaries of life to pay for your own damn food...

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LLLLZZZZZZ
, US
Feb 10, 2012 9:32 pm EST

Just get rid of EBT and have warehouses like Sam's Club that have Government overstock Why do we reward corporations and farmers with tax breaks when they could supply them . Do you think the liqueur and tobacco would donate ? If your on welfare you should not be able to claim your kids as a tax credit you should not get anything back in taxes and if your kids are in the foster system you should have to pay child support to the state as any absent parent should.

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Trables
eagle lake, US
Jan 31, 2012 4:48 pm EST

In May of 2009 I got laid off from employment with a company that i ahd been working for over 11 years, was making over 39k per year, had a home, insurance, 401k, retirement - the whole nine yards, 2 kids a dog and a disabled husband. So of course I was the bread winner.
When i got laid off I was devastated ! We exhausted everything that we had in savings, my 401k plan, my retirement plan etc etc... then i had to file for unemployment so that i would have a steady stream of income to pay for things. Yes I did apply for DCF benefoits, I did get food stamps to help with groceries to feed my family and myself too. i was ashamed for the most part and hated doing that but then thought - you know i have paid in taxes for more than 15 yrs and i needed help from the government for a change so i took advantage of that help. i needed medical because i was scheduled to have a major surgery done before the layoff where they cut my insurance immediately so i had to cancel the surgery (that i really needed) carpal tunnel for more than 6 yrs already and only getting worse. Needless to say I agree with what most of you are stating about people that think that the government owes them this (which they don't) and those are the ones that are driving around in new cars, wearing lots of gold and large gold too ! since this has happened to me i have lost everything, had to sell my home, sell the truck i had to downsize to a smaller paid off vehicle and do whatever i needed to make sure that my family was okay and had a place to stay ! we never ex[ect things like this to happen but for people like me it was a godsend to have these benefits available to my family and myself as well. we have not abused the system at all and i see people doing that every single day ..

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s7rugg1e
mt. airy, US
Dec 14, 2011 8:25 pm EST

"My guess is because like the majority of us heterosexual men he doesn't like homosexuals." - Paul Vance

You're right, you're obviously a mental giant.

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s7rugg1e
mt. airy, US
Dec 14, 2011 7:58 pm EST

I have a feeling that the trolls here must really enjoy their mother's basement.

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s7rugg1e
mt. airy, US
Dec 14, 2011 7:02 pm EST

Well, the solution itself is very simple. If we don't reduce welfare to it's most basic form (a food allowance of $200-300 for a family with an expiration date), then soon those who are life-long entitlement chasers will never become productive citizens. People quickly begin to reflect the values of their nation. Our nation used to be one of hard-working, save every penny types, and consumerism and entitlement have in a way destroyed this fact.

If it ever comes to the point where the entitlement class can out vote the producing class, the country will go bankrupt and then those who bankrupted it will lash out in frustration. This may seem like an extreme statement, but it is an unavoidable truth.

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s7rugg1e
mt. airy, US
Dec 14, 2011 6:49 pm EST

icu2 - thanks for proving that insulting another person with no facts to the contrary only makes you look stupid.

I've taught for 3 years in a 98% black HS in one of the most economically depressed places in the nation. I know that 75% of the people there need the basic services desperately, but there is a persistent 25% that sell their EBT cards to cash repay places. I have seen the mamas on section 8, welfare, and EBT cards drive around in Escalades. People may not believe me, but I worked in a HS where 75% of the kids got free or reduced lunch, and 75% of the students wore Coogi, Girbaud, or Ebisu clothes while sporting Ipods and the like. I'm also not saying that the poor should look poor, but when kids are wearing $100-200 an item clothing, you know someone's mama has some misplaced priorities. I've also lost a job in the last 3 years, but I worked my butt off to find a new one to get my family back on their feet.

But, of course, I'm "not too bright and have a poor grasp of the subject."

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s7rugg1e
mt. airy, US
Dec 14, 2011 6:33 pm EST

"EBT, EBT, watch me swipe my EBT"
I think the EBT should change to the WIC, where only basic assigned staples of foods should be available for purchase. An ID check should also be required. There should be a solid $200 allowance per family, and there should be no drinks, chips, fast food, etc. allowed. I am a teacher with a family (2 kids and a wife) and we are near the poverty line, but there is no way in God's name I can't cut to provide for my own family. I've had to deliver pizzas and work second jobs to keep the money flowing, but here is the ultimate point.

Provide for yourself and be responsible. BILLIONS of dollars of EBT money are being flushed every year because the government is too lazy to investigate EBT to cash fraud, illegal immigrant applications, and the like. Not only do the disabled need the money, but my two daughters expect food on the table every night, and they don't understand why they should be hungry when it's being divided onto other people's tables due to taxes.

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s7rugg1e
mt. airy, US
Dec 14, 2011 6:20 pm EST

Watch me swipe my EBT!

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fisty mcfist
St. John&, CA
Dec 04, 2011 9:08 pm EST

AGREES

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moonpies
fw, US
Dec 04, 2011 6:15 pm EST
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"well Mrs Obama is working towards using EBT food stamp to ONLY purchase healthy foods."

I don't see that ever actually happening. There would be too much confusion as to what is "healthy" and not.

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stillpissedat the man
hgh, US
Dec 04, 2011 5:39 am EST

well Mrs Obama is working towards using EBT food stamp to ONLY purchase healthy foods. and to the racist grocerer PAH-LEESE get a life and a better job where you not sitting at a register monitoring "the other side of the tracks" every move!

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moonpies
fw, US
Dec 02, 2011 2:55 pm EST
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I too went from making a good living, to being laid off, to being forced to get virtually any job that I could just to stay afloat. And that job happened to be a hourly store associate. I went from a good life, to making just over minimum wage and having to scrape and save just to survive. I was thankful to be able to use EBT during that time to get food. I too would see other people shoveling junk into their carts and paying with EBT, and it did make me wonder what their real situation was. But, with every benefit situation like EBT, there will be abuse and there is really no way to stop it.

I have since recovered and moved on from that, but I look back at that experience as a positive thing because it gave me a completely different perspective on things and I got to see both sides of the spectrum, something people like "Heckle" should someday do as well.

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Heckle
Los Angeles, US
Dec 01, 2011 10:03 pm EST

I definitely don't think that EBT abuse is cool but this is a hilarious thread because people who work as check out clerks are ACTUALLY judging someone else? LMFAO. Get a real job. What are you contributing to society by working as a store clerk for $8 an hour which is basically poverty level? YOURE the loser my dear delusional friend. Don't give me that "I'm in college" BS either, because by the time I entered college I was already a successful writer earning upwards of $45, 000 a year. Now I'm 28 and earning $72, 000 annually. You can make a good living doing other things you talentless losers. You have the right to judge someone because you work as a store clerk? That's embarrassing and comical.

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coca cola
Midland, US
Nov 27, 2011 4:05 pm EST
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i disagree on this if somebody does not work and not have to no money it is good if they have a food stamp card so what if people use the card for different reasons it is for a good reason