There was a time when there were standards for getting food stamps (now EBT cards). The food stamp program was designed to help families with the necessities. You couldn’t buy anything you want with food stamps.
When my oldest son worked at a grocery store, he was indignant when a woman came through the checkout line with foods that were not permitted to be purchased with food stamps. She protested to the manager. He let it pass. What does he care? He’ll get his money no matter a food-stamp holder purchases.
More than 45 million people – 15 percent – are on food stamps. That’s about one-sixth of the population. A general rule of economics is, “The more money you throw at a program, the more you get of it.” Is it any wonder that obesity is America’s number-one health problem? Maybe Mayor Bloomberg should be looking at EBT cards as the problem for obesity and not Big-Gulp drinks.
It’s now worse than this, at least in Massachusetts. “If you are a tax payer in Massachusetts, you get to fund EBT cards for those who want to buy tattoos, manicures, body piercings or porn.” The legislature had the good sense to stop the madness, but it seems that Governor Deval Patrick had other ideas.
“According to the Boston Herald, which first reported the veto, the governor berated the legislature’s stab at banning the purchase of specific items like manicures, tattoos, guns, porn, body piercings, jewelry, and bail by saying the move was ‘political grandstanding’ at a time when such reforms are already on track elsewhere.”
Read More at godfatherpolitics.com. By Gary DeMar.
Photo Credit: Leif Koldal (Creative Commons)
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Why is anyone getting excited about food stamps being traded. they were trading them for whiskey, beer years and years ago. it wasn’t a coverup at all, just a well known fact. Beer joint got them at a big discount, traded them in at the grocery. nothing to it , no big secret. no one to stop them. no one tried to stop them. that was about forty years ago. i am sure it is still going on. today.
So if it wrong for so long it is OK? people like me who worked all our lives do not want to pay for your beer.
If you had a job you would understand this maybe.
it just makes me sick to have to work every day so some lazy bum can get food stamps and use them for their beer manicure and other things that it was not designed for , it is supposed to help people , all the places that take them need to be fined and the people who use them like that .. need to be cut of ..