Ahhhhh I got to see our tax dollars working

[Spur]

So I stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few things for my wife on my way home last night. Don't do it often and forgot how busy they are at 5:30. Of course there are about 20 registers, but only 3 open and lines to the back of the store. As I'm waiting in line I can't help but notice the gal in front of me. A fairly large gal with 2 kids under 12, both fairly large as well. She was manning 2 carts full to the brim. The first one was full of chips, cookies, candy, and 6 boxes of donuts (not the little boxes, I'm talking about the big flat 24 package boxes) I was trying not to be judgmental, but couldn't help but laugh at the correlation between the choice of food and the size of the likely consumers of the food. The cashier got thru the first cart and I noticed that she stopped and totaled the bill. The total was over $500.00 bucks, almost as much as my families monthly budget for food. Then I see the lady pull out an envelope full of food stamps to pay the bill. I'm not kidding when I tell you there was nothing of any nutritional value in that cart. I then realized the 2nd cart was full of beer, wine, and cigarettes, stuff you probably can't buy with food stamps. The cashier rings up the 2nd cart which totaled over $200.00 bucks. The lady pulls out a stack of $100.00 bills that had to total over $2K and pays for the booze and smokes.

I felt like a Saint as I carried my meager healthy items out to the truck.

I'd like to take this opportunity to say "thank you" to each you for your willingness to work your @$$es off to pay taxes to make sure this family has the basic necessities of life.

 

[woodzy]

good ol' WIC

 

[thomps33]

just another example of what's wrong with society and why socialized programs are not the fix all solution

 

[woodzy]

woman prolly doesn't work, bleeds the welfare system and gets severely overweight while doing it, has a couple kids who inherit her awesome eating habits and life plan, and they all get to go to the hospital for diabetes and high blood pressure on our dollar. I would have to guess we(taxpayers) pay her rent as well. What a great life she's carved out for herself

 

[Super B]

woman prolly doesn't work, bleeds the welfare system and gets severely overweight while doing it, has a couple kids who inherit her awesome eating habits and life plan, and they all get to go to the hospital for diabetes and high blood pressure on our dollar. I would have to guess we(taxpayers) pay her rent as well. What a great life she's carved out for herself

Unfortunately her children will follow in her foot steps as adults. Sad.

 

[zach477]

I see that sh*t on a weekly basis at the grocery store and it makes my blood boil! Last time I checked booze and smokes are not necessities, if you can’t afford food for your family you can’t afford booze and smokes for yourself. As far as the crappy food she was buying, I have yet to see any produce purchased with food stamps….it’s all frozen dinners and junk food. Not only are these people too effen lazy to make it on their own to the point that they don’t use govn assistance, they can’t even cook a decent meal for their kids. Oh s*it look at the time, better pop in a frozen dinner for supper, after that the kids can snack on junk food while playing video games on the new PS3 hooked up to the 53” plasma until 2am so they are too tired to give a rat’s a*s about anything that’s going on in school tomorrow. While they waste away in front of the TV, the parents and their worthless friends are smoking and getting sh*t housed at the kitchen table. There is no reason this should be tolerated and not monitored. It’s as simple as an ID swipe every time you purchase smokes or booze, no matter what the age. If your ID comes up that you are receiving govn assistance….tough luck b*tch, come back when you can make it on your own. The problem then will be they will spend all their money on smoke and booze while the kids starve. It’s pretty hard to explain to your 5 year old why our cart isn’t full of $20 worth of candy and another $30 in junk food while the person in front of ours is while paying for it all with food stamps. The last time she asked I couldn’t be polite and appropriate like I should have been. She asked if we could get a jumbo tub of cheese balls like the lady (very similar to what was mentioned above) had. I said “Tara, we already have Oreos at home for a snack” ..then she asked why not … “we don’t need to spend our money on more unhealthy food like that anyway, plus we don’t get free money from the government to pay for our snacks…..besides you don’t want to get fat like her do you?” By the reaction of the clerk and mom, they both heard my comment…..

 

[thomps33]

Unfortunately her children will follow in her foot steps as adults. Sad.

and we continue the evolutionary change to obesity and laziness. People wonder why these are such big problems, the policies support it! I guess it helps get certain political parties votes to. I think if they don't have a job and want help, make them do manual labor to earn the perks!

 

[woodzy]

^^ that would be nice! Or if they have food stamps, all they can buy is PB & J

 

[Spur]

woman prolly doesn't work, bleeds the welfare system and gets severely overweight while doing it, has a couple kids who inherit her awesome eating habits and life plan, and they all get to go to the hospital for diabetes and high blood pressure on our dollar. I would have to guess we(taxpayers) pay her rent as well. What a great life she's carved out for herself

Don't know for sure, but I was thinking she was married and her Hubby probably worked, just couldn't afford to buy cigarettes and beer plus food for the family. I mean don't you think you should spend what money you do make on the important things like beer and cigarettes? There are programs you can use to buy the non essential things like food.

 

[woodzy]

^^lol

 

[ripnit]

Glad to see I'm not the only one that sees it this way. Have ? maybe I'm being to judgemental then I work up to 16hrs a day and say BULLSH--!!!!!

 

[Rob1334]

Take the stamps away, put her out in the pasture to graze, get the kids in a fat camp where they can learn to eat right and lose weight, then monitor their grades till they are straight A - - only then can they let momma out the pen.

 

[milehighassassin]

Strange because the last person I saw use food stamps had an electronic debit card. I am pretty sure they went away from paper food stamps many years ago.

 

[NDflatlander]

It's so frustrating to go to the grocery store around the first of the month and see the individuals who have brimming full carts of the expensive food pay with that food with their government assistance. I'm well educated (will be paying for that for the next 10+ years) have a great paying job, work hard during vacation and weekends on the farm to make some extra money, and I still can't afford the expensive groceries for myself that we pay for, for those individuals. What a load of bull honkey.

 

[tudizzle]

Yep October 1, 2008 the state of Montana stopped issuing paper food stamps and introduced the EBT card which is similar to a debit card.

 

[Gainster]

Strange because the last person I saw use food stamps had an electronic debit card. I am pretty sure they went away from paper food stamps many years ago.

Here in michigan it's called a Bridge Card & they just nailed a couple guys for trading theirs for heroin

For many or most here it's a lifestyle passed from generation to generation.

 

[Team Wild]

My wife came back from the store last week just pissed. The lady in front of her was getting, steaks, crab meat, a cake, shrimp, cigs and wine. She ran her food stamp card through and it didn't have enough "money" on it... The lady joked... "it must have been the shrimp"... She then busted out her cash to pay for the shrimp, cigs and wine...

Our neighbor girl has a sister thats on welfare and she reguarly trades food from food stamps for drugs.... Her sister will buy her diapers and she will take them back to walmart and get cash for them....

I can't wait for these mooches to get free "to them" health care. I'm sure they will find ways to scam that system out of money too.

 

[Spur]

Yep October 1, 2008 the state of Montana stopped issuing paper food stamps and introduced the EBT card which is similar to a debit card.

These were cards that the cashier swiped thru some bar code reading device. Not the regular CC machine. The cards must be worth so much per card because it took 3 or 4 cards to cover the bill.

 

[woodzy]

Out here it is just like a check card from what I've seen.

 

[Blu Du]

Strange because the last person I saw use food stamps had an electronic debit card. I am pretty sure they went away from paper food stamps many years ago.

that is what i seen too. she was good looking and very well dressed and she bought her food and was even able to get 20 cash off the card. i was pizzed