A few months back I was at the corner store, Bitch bought like $30 worth of food and drinks with her EBT, then pulled out cash to pay for cigs, lotto tickets, and liqour. Everyone in the line was readey to kick her teeth in.
My mom is on disability for depression, bad knees, bad ankles, etc and hasnt had a job in a long time, she gets ~160 a month. Buys burger, chips, chicken, etc, food that you make yourself at home with pots and pans, nothing special like steaks or anything. People like her are what the system was designed for.
My friend is 23yo without a job, lives at home in the basement, and gets like 250 a month to buy pop, snacks, and freezer food.... Pisses me off.
Nothing but class. I stood behind a guy with his kid the other day buying food and a bday cake in one self check out lane on that EBT, then a bottle of Hennessy with cash money. I said you're welcome.
I bitched about this on 2004 on here the reason you pay more for food today is because of these morons they know people on ebt will Abuse it.. To feed the fat pigs who stay home.. More Taxes will cover all bets....
Also talking about Obamacare can you Imagine all the Plastic surgery that might be paid thou you??
When i lived in warren i swear dam near every person i was in line with used a fucking bridge card. Started to make me feel like the idiot paying for my own shit when everybody else wasnt
When i lived in warren i swear dam near every person i was in line with used a fucking bridge card. Started to make me feel like the idiot paying for my own shit when everybody else wasnt
Almost every time I go grocery shopping.
It really doesn't matter where you shop either and some of the most unlikely looking people whip that EBT card out to pay with it.
It's very discouraging and sometimes, it makes me wonder why I work so hard.
I see so many people at the Kroger by me paying with bridge cards. A lot of them are younger hot moms wearing nice clothes, have a high end purse, and drive new cars.
I was a poor kid that got free lunch. I hated it. It was embarrassing to get Christmas presents donated, and look like the welfare kid.
i think one of the cons with the card is to "buy" the lobster, then sell it to someone for cash at a much lower price. the seller then uses the cash from the transaction for whatever. a kind of money laundering of entitlement $$.
I remember back in the 80s the walfare system was better.. They had to goto a Special location. Get in the line get only Certain items like walfare cheese, bread, Powder milk and ect...
Not like what we have today is a Credit card free for all making long line at Kroger's and fucking us up with Higher cost of food... Walfare now is a scam.. Anyone can get it.. And use it to whatever they want..
In Las Vegas they could get Cash back from ATMs at the Casino only to use the money to Gamble until the State put a stop to it.. And it wasn't just Vegas it was California to..
In Las Vegas they could get Cash back from ATMs at the Casino only to use the money to Gamble until the State put a stop to it.. And it wasn't just Vegas it was California to..
i remember within the last 24 months that MI did some research on where bridge card $$ was withdrawn. they found cases where withdrawals were made in florida, casinos and cruise ships!
I used to work for GFS in Waterford and the store was pretty close to Pontiac. I used to hate working on EBT reset days because these families would come in and they would buy chicken wings, shrimp, lobster, candy, huge things of chips, premium lunch meats, cases of Gatorade, Monster energy drinks and pop. We were close to Pontiac and sold chicken wings in bulk, you can imagine the type of people that would come in. They all had about 16 kids that they just let run around the store yelling and screaming and the customers were sooooo rude to the workers. They had a sense of entitlement that I was their bitch and I had to do everything they said.
On these reset days we made 50% of our business on EBT. 50%!!!!!!
Almost every one of these people that used the EBT's would have a nicer phone than I did, have nicer clothes and have a brand new set of shoes on. Some of these families got over $500 on their cards each month! Its bullshit! They were not shamed that they were using these for their food, they again felt entitled.
I actually had to call the police on a man that would come in and shop once a month for a Mexican joint that he owned. He was from Mexico and from what the police told me he had all of his family move up here to the states and apply for Welfare and EBT cards. He would buy over $800 worth of food supplies for his restaurant and use about 7 different EBT cards to pay for it all.
Oh and we received emails from corporate saying that we need to watch out for people buying cases of pop with EBT and then dumping all the pop into the parking lot and then they go and return the cans to get cash.
exactly, its all about what you can scam for free. I also once knew a guy who was a buddys roommate was fat, lazy and went though jobs like water. Spent all his money on beer or drugs that he did make. Drove a nice car and mommy contantly sent money that he also blew on BS. He got $250.00 in food per month on his card and use to flip the fuck out if anyone ate his food in the house, we use to make fun of them all the time that we bought it anyways so quit crying. :sonicjay: It just blew my mind that they would give a single portly white male $250.00 a month to eat. Crazyness.
Try working as a cashier for 4 years, about 50 or so people would come in every couple weeks, and would do one of two things; 1) By a shit ton of chips, cart full of pop (literally), and banquets or 2) by $2-$5 worth of junk food, get $100 cash back and then come back in an hour later and purchase a couple 30 pks, and a 1/5 or two...with the same demoniation of $100 that you handed them an hour prior
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