The welfare system of the United States is intended, in part, on good intentions and the desire to help those who cannot help themselves. It is also loaded with fraud and programs designed to win votes and to keep countless bureaucrats employed and well-payed as they administrate those programs. And there is always the potential for abuse as the benefits are provided to the unqualified or bartered in ways that are actually illegal. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) uses “EBT” cards, similar to a debit card, to provide those in need a means of securing food and other items, though the program restricts the use of the card for items like alcohol, tobacco, pet food, and hot or prepared foods.
There are almost 47 million people who are using EBT cards in the U.S. today, while in George Bush’s last full year as president there were 28 million using the cards. Clearly the poverty rate has not increased that much, although the claim of the Obama administration that the economy is doing much better and unemployment is significantly down is a blatant lie. Obama and the Democrats encourage people to get “free stuff” from the government, which is really extracted from the hard working people who pay taxes. It is hard to be the adult in the room and to say “no,” but one New York Republican State Senator is finally saying that there have to be limits in such things as EBT cards, and she is pointing the way in her home state for this out-of-control program.
State senator says there have to be limits, page 2:
Sad that they eat better than the working class.
Chances are if your on food stamps, you don’t have dental care, so another reason not to buy candy. The tax payer pays double and the kids have poor eating habits.
How about this bull$#%&!@*
I was in a walmart and a lady used her food stamp card to get cash back. This$#%&!@*got $100 in cash out. What happened to buying food?
To make it worse. She was parked right beside me in her nice new lexus suv.
i pay texas i wors 5 day,s a week and i cant by steak or lobster it fair
No one really thinks will stop them from purchasing these and other prohibited items, this like all the laws passed under Obama and this congress as empty as my wallet in April. If you want to stop the abuse, stop food stamps, ebt, subsidized housed, free education, free medical and a number of other wasteful programs.
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idiotic anxieties- corporate lobbying and bribery – no problem, loose nukes- no worries, polluting aquifers – no worries, destroying the oceans – no problem, spending trillions on wars around the world – so what, pumping dangerous levels of gases and carbons into the air- no worries
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Unfortunately been going on for 30 plus years. Lobster, shrimp, Top end cuts of meat ($7.00 to$10.00 a pound), in some states cigarettes, soda, energy drinks, candy. All on tax payers dime.
Did’t think those options were open before!