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:
Steak is over rated for some, all that red meat no good for you anyway. They give them cows all kinds of things. In the feed too.Lobster has always been a wealthy man’s food. Candy comes with every holiday, one holiday to the next.
What is this ? Full movies ?
They should ban soda too.
Way over due,,,
Leslie Vey I worked in a bank all through college as a teller. They come in with 8 checks for assistance all made out for a kid with a different last name. They would cash the whole thing, dirve over to the local Walgreen’s at one end of the parking lot and buy their booze and cigarettes. Then drive over to the grocery store at the back of the shopping center and buy their steak and lobster. They would tell the kids that they were going to eat good and take them to McDonalds.
Leslie Vey I guess you think this doesn’t happen, that our inept govmt actually can control it. http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/debit-limits-welfare-tobacco-alcohol-tanf-ebt-snap-1282.php
It’s a luxury item if the working class rarely have it why should someone who is living off the system granted some people truly need help at sometime in life but was NEVER intended to be full time hence why it’s called transitional assistance !!! The abuse and fraud needs to be reigned in!
Party of Small Government, my$#%&!@* Just small enough to fit into your grocery cart, or up your wife’s v****a.
THIS IS ANOTHER B******T LAW HE JUST GAVE MILLIONS IN STAMPS TO INVADERS DO YOU THINK THIS WILL WASH? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
No cigarettes, no alcohol and no fast food!!!!!!