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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: catsmtrods on December 06, 2010, 04:21:55 PM
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So I'm standing in line at the local grocery store with my $1.99 sandwich special and bottle of water for my 1/2 hr lunch break. The woman in front of me ask the clerk to get her benefits card out of her wallet as she cant. So now I know that I am paying for her stuff so I look it over. I missed the first bag as it was full b4 I caught on so who knows? The bill was $94 for 2 bags. So I see 1/2 pint fresh raspberries @ $4, a pint of deli whitefish salad @ $8 something, A real fancy loaf of bread from a high end local bakery that I dare not even enter. A couple of fresh avocados that I know are over priced at this store about $1.50 ea. and 4 boxes of high end pasta and rice dishes that I can't afford so I make my own. Then in her cart she has this little dog a chihuahua or something ya know like Paris Hilton all dressed up in embroidered sweater and sitting in a pillow bed! I follow her out to see her get in her brand new Subaru (of course!) I know she has a cell phone I pay for and no doubt a big screen HD TV. This is whats F'd up! This person does not need assistance cause if she did I would see her over at Aldi where I shop buying cheep canned goods and staples like beans and rice like I do. So I work like a dog and eat beans and rice while she lives high on the hog and on my back! I see all the libs promoting violence I tell ya, I cant wait, bring it!
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I've been on-again off-again wondering whether to go suck up as many "benefits" as we may be "qualified" for, just to drain the trough a little more and hasten the starvation of the beast.
So far the better angels of my nature have kept me from it. But dangit, if I didn't have to pay so much for food and heat and light, I could have a big-a$$ flatscreen too!
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Had a similar thing happen to me a few months ago someone spending hundreds of dollars on a EBT card. I struggle as a single mom to put food on the table for my kids
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At some point the mass public will no longer take this kind of welfare. It is the majority that pays for the few.
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Ya know, I don't make much money, can't find a job and working is questionable for me and I have YET to apply for any benefits. I seem to get by on my meager retainer. There's bunches of stuff I always want, but, they just have to wait. I'm happy to have a fairly new PC, (built it myself), cable TV, internet, food in my belly and a roof over my head.
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I once saw some lady buying crab legs at the local Winn-Dixie using an EBT card. My blood pressure went up 10 points. I'm not saying that people on Food Stamps have to eat beans and rice, but crab legs?? :mental:
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Had a similar thing happen to me a few months ago someone spending hundreds of dollars on a EBT card. I struggle as a single mom to put food on the table for my kids
I also had that experience but on the other side. I was private duty nurse for an old lady that had turned everything over to family and gone on State aid. Anything she wanted family bought her, a big brand new car, lovely apartment, It was after all her money but she didn't have but SS on the books to live on.
She wanted to have a big party for family and she gave me her food stamps then about $200.00 worth and sent me to a up scale grocery store for lobsters and steaks. When I pulled out the food stamps not only did the clerk but a couple of people behind me gasped. Darn I thought they were going to assult me. When I loaded the food into her big new car I heard some very rude remarks behind me.
Me with 4 kids to support worked 40+ hours a week and I was just doing my job. I believe I was making $5.00 pH darn but those steaks looked good., we had meat just 2 times a week.
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I've been on-again off-again wondering whether to go suck up as many "benefits" as we may be "qualified" for, just to drain the trough a little more and hasten the starvation of the beast.
So far the better angels of my nature have kept me from it. But dangit, if I didn't have to pay so much for food and heat and light, I could have a big-a$$ flatscreen too!
I think Glenn Beck talks about how it's part of the plan by the left to overload the system.
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Ya know, I don't make much money, can't find a job and working is questionable for me and I have YET to apply for any benefits. I seem to get by on my meager retainer. There's bunches of stuff I always want, but, they just have to wait. I'm happy to have a fairly new PC, (built it myself), cable TV, internet, food in my belly and a roof over my head.
And I bet you have a clear conscience and appreciate what you have. I salute people like you. :cheersmate: You might not have much, but you appreciate what you do.
Material possessions don't impress me and I pity those fools who are so shallow that they feel the need to rush out and get themselves further into debt in order to buy the latest gadget.
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I also had that experience but on the other side. I was private duty nurse for an old lady that had turned everything over to family and gone on State aid. Anything she wanted family bought her, a big brand new car, lovely apartment, It was after all her money but she didn't have but SS on the books to live on.
She wanted to have a big party for family and she gave me her food stamps then about $200.00 worth and sent me to a up scale grocery store for lobsters and steaks. When I pulled out the food stamps not only did the clerk but a couple of people behind me gasped. Darn I thought they were going to assult me. When I loaded the food into her big new car I heard some very rude remarks behind me.
Me with 4 kids to support worked 40+ hours a week and I was just doing my job. I believe I was making $5.00 pH darn but those steaks looked good., we had meat just 2 times a week.
The person who took those food stamps committed a crime. When I was cashier in California it was the rule to ask for Food Stamp card of person cashing in those food stamps if they did not have the ID I did not accept them. I rarely had food stamp people come thru my line. I am sure the word got out.
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I quit tagging along to the grocery store 35 years ago due to foodstamp fraud not being good for my health. When you live in a small town you know who the cheats are.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336028/Work-doesnt-pay-Child-poverty-unemployed-families-falls-rises-working-homes.html
Proof that work just doesn't pay: Child poverty among unemployed families is falling ... but INCREASING in working homes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335989/Middle-class-face-450-VAT-rise-20-rate-slash-spending-power-families.html
The New Year’s rise in VAT will cost the average middle-class family up to £448 a year, a report by a leading economist claims today.
The hike is the equivalent of a £2billion overall loss in disposable income and will affect many households ‘harder than they expect’, a study into the impact of the tax rise has warned.
Do you suppose any government will ever "get it?" :thatsright: :banghead:
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Cats, are you sure what didn't push you over the edge was that this person was driving a Subaloo? Just askin..... O-)
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Cats, are you sure what didn't push you over the edge was that this person was driving a Subaloo? Just askin..... O-)
Subaru/ Volvo ....... both Libtard machines......... :stirpot:
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Cats, are you sure what didn't push you over the edge was that this person was driving a Subaloo? Just askin..... O-)
Na, I knew that was comming. Just the fact I work 40-60hrs and can't afford rasberries out of season. Hell the only rasberry I ever had I grew! I never tasted whiting salad I might like it but the $$ keeps me away. That bread is way out of reach. It's just not right!! I'm sick of it!
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The person who took those food stamps committed a crime. When I was cashier in California it was the rule to ask for Food Stamp card of person cashing in those food stamps if they did not have the ID I did not accept them. I rarely had food stamp people come thru my line. I am sure the word got out.
This was back in the 1980's and food stamps were a new thing to me. There were no cards to prove indent and the methods were sloppy.
People would go to the What ever it was called once a month and get their allotted number of food stamps in a tair out booklet. Those who were unable to get there were mailed the booklets to their home. The stamps if one could call them that, were in progression with $1.00-$5.00 -$`10.00, each booklet held IIRC $25.00 worth of stamps.
These stamps were often sold for less the value so the recipients could get cash to buy soap, toilet paper, shampoo, etc. non food items but necessary for them.
The military commissary's took food stamps, and coupons and it was a surprise to me to see all the young woman with kids in tow that were using them. These were the dependents that had to live off base as the waiting list for free housing was very long.
What to do, I became a Scofflaw and traded full price cash for stamps as people needed diapers for their kids, even Xmas and birthday presents. I did not make one penny on the trade, and I never had a twinge of conscious that I was doing anything wrong.
This was a underground act that we Officer and Chiefs wives did when we knew about a young enlisted mans family was in need.
Here is how it worked, once a month we would each put $50.00 in an envelope and give it to the wife of a Wardroom's husband.. She in turn turned the money over to a couple of wives that had the job of deciding what family needed the money the most---number of children, health issues etc. We except for those two wives had no idea who or what family the money went to.
The stamps were mailed to us, with no return address. We had the choice then to use them ourselves or give them to a family in need. Most of us did not even open the envelope we mailed them back to a PO> box with no name on it, just Resident or Box holder.
We took to this as a covert mission, keep the family's of the men on Subs intact or at least comfortable while they were gone 3-8 months. While our men were on patrol everything top secrete, we wives also had our secrets that helped keep good men at their jobs of defending us.
Then too there was the secrecy of the whole thing that almost made it a game to us, a mission that was to benefit our country. ---our husbands would become closed mouthed about their job and we in turn had the satisfaction of knowing we were also closed mouth to them for the same end, to insure the dependents of our men would not become a burden to them or worry as they were far away.
I do not know if we were breaking any kind of laws, perhaps we were as all the rigamoral about getting help from one place to another came up.
If we could keep just a couple family's intact, that was our goal and it did keep quite a few of the men in the nuclear Navy in service then heading out to make more money in civilian life.
Things have naturally changed, now id are needed and that plan has been thwarted, but I am sure there are other ways that we can help the dependents, a large Coupon exchange for example is now going on, and perhaps the Wives and dependents have found a way to do much as we did 30 years ago.-----Where there is a will, there is a way.
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So, Vesta, you are admitting to committing fraud?? :fuelfire:
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Oh, come on, Thor--it's the first weekend of the month! You know the story!
Like where I'm at--go to Market Basket and check out the massive lines...and damned if it ain't the same story...alternating carts of food, then booze/smokes, food, then booze/smokes...each pushed by one of the parents, kids hanging on, running amok, the usual bullshit.
Yeah, my patience is running out.
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So I'm standing in line at the local grocery store with my $1.99 sandwich special and bottle of water for my 1/2 hr lunch break. The woman in front of me ask the clerk to get her benefits card out of her wallet as she cant. So now I know that I am paying for her stuff so I look it over. I missed the first bag as it was full b4 I caught on so who knows? The bill was $94 for 2 bags. So I see 1/2 pint fresh raspberries @ $4, a pint of deli whitefish salad @ $8 something, A real fancy loaf of bread from a high end local bakery that I dare not even enter. A couple of fresh avocados that I know are over priced at this store about $1.50 ea. and 4 boxes of high end pasta and rice dishes that I can't afford so I make my own. Then in her cart she has this little dog a chihuahua or something ya know like Paris Hilton all dressed up in embroidered sweater and sitting in a pillow bed! I follow her out to see her get in her brand new Subaru (of course!) I know she has a cell phone I pay for and no doubt a big screen HD TV. This is whats F'd up! This person does not need assistance cause if she did I would see her over at Aldi where I shop buying cheep canned goods and staples like beans and rice like I do. So I work like a dog and eat beans and rice while she lives high on the hog and on my back! I see all the libs promoting violence I tell ya, I cant wait, bring it!
Ain't it nice knowing you and I helped someone feed at the pigs trough while I have to get bread at the Wonder Bread Outlet?