Back in 2008, I had a second job as an overnight cashier at our local Walmart. (If you want to see what would be the equivalent of a circus sideshow, go into a 24 hour Walmart after 2:00am). My shift was from 9:00pm to 6:00am, and for some reason, I always got to work on the last day/first day of the month shifts. At exactly 12:05am, people started coming thru the checkouts with baskets LOADED to the gills. One customer piled so much stuff on the checkout belt, IT WOULDN'T MOVE! Another customer and his wife came thru with 2 shopping carts, totaling about $275. The same couple came back thru 3 hours later, with another 2 shopping carts, this time totaling $260. None of the other customers had less than $100 of groceries.
This madness went on from 12:05am until about 4:30am. And all of them had two things in common.
They all paid with an EBT (food stamp) card,
and they all were younger and more fit that I am....
Your tax dollars at "work", folks....