Al Ritter
I’m sure
we have all been victims in food store check out hell as a morbidly obese
person struggles with multiple EBT cards and two to three carts of food. We
watch as over $1000 is rung up in sales only to be finally paid by us the
taxpayer. Then as you take your purchase to your car you watch as that same
person loads their SNAP benefits into a car that is most certainly worth more
than your car.
You wonder
to yourself “How do they get these benefits when I never did?”
Years ago
when I didn’t have two nickels to rub together, a wife, a new born child I
seriously considered applying for food stamps, but back in the early 80’s there
was a certain taboo attached to people using food stamps. I finally buckled
down, got a second job and eventually got to a point where I wasn’t living from
paycheck to paycheck.
Today SNAP
benefits have gone inter-generational, there is no longer shame or embarrassment involved. If a grandmother got them, she taught
her daughter how to get them, and then she taught her daughter how to get them.
These programs seem to get handed down in the family. Inter-generational
entitlement!
We see it
constantly on social media, morbidly obese people complaining about going
hungry…REALLY?
These same
people are now rationalizing shoplifting and looting if their benefits aren’t
restored. Is this what we have become as a nation? They are targeting Walmart,
Costco and others. What did these businesses do to them? Stealing is
justification in their minds for Congressional shutdown?
Now with
the SNAP benefits due to expire in November, there is going to be a lot of
finger waving going on in Congress. It should be interesting to see who blinks
first, the party that wanted to extend the continuing resolution to keep the
government open, or the party that wanted to give illegal aliens healthcare
benefits over SNAP benefits to lower income Americans.
When the
government shuts down, the money shuts down, what exactly don’t they
understand. I don’t think they understand that other welfare programs will most
certainly be shut down in the near future too.
View the
video here:
9 comments:
I get so tired of seeing this in grocery stores here locally, especially the attitude that accompanies it
I'm 100% certain that illegals are in this system too!
Then after using their EBT card they drive away in a new BMW
Shut it down! Get a f*cking job or starve like the rest of us
Some will call me too soft, but not including those with disabilities, over the age of 62, I think food stamps should be taken away in increments over a 6 month period to find work.
You can definitely tell who has to pay out of their own pocket when you go to the store.
This program should only pay for essentials. Not junk food or sodas, Also, fraud needs to be prosecuted,
Many, many people sell their snap. And I know of those who have sold the food they bought with snap. It is uncontrolled. And I have no solution to the theft. The food pantries are not vetted either. And where do people in the cities shop? I, personally, have never seen a nice grocery store in the inner cities. I am happy that there are programs to feed children in schools. It is a crappy world when it comes to deceit
Sugar IS bad for your health. Snacks are made out of crap. Read what is in food...
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