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Nope and it disgusts me how many times I see people in 711 using them to buy absolute junk food food.. then pull out $100 for a carton of smokes.. fucking ridiculous ..
It's a welfare debit card basically..
So every time you enter a place a business and see 'EBT accepted here'.. they're talking about food stamps.
They made them cards instead of stamps so that it wasn't embarrassing to use them.
I think they should be made from 8.5 X11 sheets of hot pink paper. Maybe if people felt a little embarrassed using them they'd work harder to get off of them.
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(honestly I can't tell if she's parodying the welfare lifestyle or encouraging it)
With Paper stamps you got cash back as change, and you could sell them for cash to other people.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCCrawler
With the Eat Better Tonight card it's a bit harder, although not impossible, to do that. As far as buying junk food, everything In this country is junk food now in some way.
I was at Albertsons down here ( originally from highlands ranch so this whole EBT food stamp thing is new to me) any way went to pay and I had some sort of junk food probably fried chicken and I saw EBT on there and made some Joke about oh yeah I'm paying for this on food stamps. The clerk said oh okay you want this on you're EBT. I looked up and said no I work.
Went to sonic down here and EBT is a Fucking payment option! I work at T-Mobile I had a customer cone in to pay her bill , it was past do and suspended. They all had smartphones. She pays part of it and said she would pay the rest when she gets her welfare check next week, and her daughter gets her check from the state. They leave and go and get into a very decent vehicle.
If we're going to buy this BS that government should have some sort of hand in paying for poor people's food then we need to do away with this EBT crap and open up a chain of Government Stores where poor people can go pick up their free food. Then it will be healthy and cost effective.
My wife and I are frugal, we tend to buy mostly the store brand versions of food and we buy pretty healthy food. Often we end up in line behind one of these welfare queens buying nothing but over priced, less healthy "Name Brand" foods, whipping out a huge wad of cash to pay for the few things EBT won't cover and then following them out to the parking lot where they invariably get into a car that cost 3 times what mine does (with aftermarket wheels that probably cost more than my car).
Too many people in the cart, not enough pushing ... eventually those of us pushing the cart are going to get fed up walk away (or worse, start shooting those in the cart).
What we really need to do is go back to the old way of doing things ... private charity to help the downtrodden. Once upon a time we had plenty of "mutual aid societies" and churches that fed the hungry, clothed the naked and sheltered the homeless. It was seen as charity and not something the poor were entitled to so the plus (and the real reason for charity) is that those that had connected with those that didn't so that the bonds that hold a society together were strengthened and those that didn't have were taught to be better and wanted to be better.
You don't have to believe in God or be a Christian to see the wisdom in 2 Thessalonians 3:10.
We need to go back to the old way, this way isn't working. I remember a time when I was taught that it's embarrassing to be on food stamps, now one of my cousins is on welfare and food stamps and she's proud of this... WTF? So you can't provide for yourself and your son without government help, and you're PROUD of this fact? I would be ashamed and doing my damnedest to be getting out of this shitty situation. [Rant1]Quote:
Originally Posted by Zundfolge
Welfare in all forms should be done away with. ANd yeah I mean WIC and other "single mom" helpers.
The base problem is a lack of consequences. When the Pilgrims landed and nearly starved the first winter largely due to the fact many of them felt the work was beneath them, the following year Standish instituted the "no work, no eat policy and things were better. When my family crossed the Appalachians if they did not work, they starved. If they did not pay attention to thier surroundings, they were killed. When a man raped a farmers daughter he was shot, if he stole the mans horse he was hanged or shot. If you were disrespectful, at best you were beaten and at worst, shot or hanged.
In todays "civilized" society there is a severe lack of consequences. Get knocked up because your too stupid or uncaring to keep your legs together? No problem, theres an app for that. Steal a families life savings? No problem, a little prison time with cable and free internet, and theres an app for that too. Decide that work is work and it sucks? No problem, theres multiple apps for that. Be a lazy slovenly bastard with bad genetics(that shrinking gene pool thing again) and end up with heart, liver, and kidney disease? No problem, the .gov has you covered.
But hey, dont you worry about it, I will keep working away and paying my taxes and being a decent (not nec good) citizen so the dregs of society can continue to watch reality tv on their big screens my tax dollars paid for, while their kids go to school and fuck off and learn nothing useful, that my tax dollars also paid for, and their babymamas can continue to talk on the cell phones I pay for.
Oh, and yeah, I have nice things, but my wife and I work our asses off to get them, and despite of everything we will continue to have nice things.