lady at the buffet has an ebt card and Iphone

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Anonymous wrote:I see this every year at the Salvation Army Angel Tree Distribution. There I am with my family looking hot and disheveled, dragging out bags of new selected gifts and bicycles to mom who have been to the beauty salon that morning, have decorated fingernails two inches long, makeup, tight new clothes, boots, new purses and better iphones than I use. In fact they don't even put down the phone to bother to thank us - the donors to the salvation army - nor do they even respond when I wish them a "Merry Christmas". Most, if they check their backs, complain that the microwaved they asked for it is not in there. I'm done with the attitude of entitlement. ANd yes all of these moms are perfectly capable of working from what I can observe.

I had the same experience with distributing "angel tree" gifts. (Not sure it was the Salvation Army program....it was similar, though.) It was more than 20 years ago, so I don't remember the logistics of how we did the distribution, but I know that we (the individual gift-givers) actually handed our gifts to the specific families. (We had been given a list of wishes from each family, and some of the items they were asking for were a fortune. I stuck with the more modest gifts for a fsmily of three children and ended up spending about $100.) On "distribution day," we handed out the gifts - and as I gave a big Meeey Christmas to each of the kids, they took the gift and left. No smile. No thank you. Nothing. And the mother was with the kids, of course, and SHE didn't even say thank you. They just figured that they're poor, I'm "rich," and they're entitled.

Or maybe they were ashamed. Yes, they should have said thank you, but, why did you need it if you gave with an open heart?

Question, PP. Have you ever handed anything directly to a recipient who gives you the death stare of hatred? I do it every Saturday afternoon at our church's food bank. No one has ever said more than demanding something we don't happen to have that week. I do it with an open giving heart and then we gather for a prayer afterward to help us overcome the hatred we experienced.

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Anonymous wrote:The OP is sickening, but DCUMs, don't kid yourself - whether she's real or a troll, this is a pretty widely held opinion. I just looked at a FB post my friend from HS had liked; both are waitresses. The post was a rant about some waitressing complaint and quickly degenerated into dozens of rants about people on public assistance. It also was unashamedly racist. I don't know what percentage of the American public thinks this way, but it's not insubstantial. These are the Trump voters.

I'm the poster who could have taken aid but didn't. What perpetuates this is the resentment from people like me who were struggling, and we watched people just like me cash in. I'm white. I saw other white people do this. You people in DC with your pensions and healthcare have no idea how the rest of us really live. You're completely delusional.

I don't have a pension and my healthcare is through my employer. I save for retirement and pray it is enough for when I am no longer employable.

I still manage not to take a shit on poor people on assistance, though.

Also, think about what you just said: you are made because you needed help and didn't take it. YOU needed help and DIDN'T take it. Someone else did. And, for that, you are resentful because YOU needed help, and didn't take it.

Let me clarify. I was resentful because when I said cash in, I meant use the benefits fraudulently. Some people I saw used benefits but were working for cash under the table. One person I knew lost her job, could have accepted another, but decided working wasn't her style, so she stayed on bendfits for as long as she could, while renting out rooms in her apartment for extra cash under the table. Another woman I know got benefits, lied about her living situation and was living with her boyfriend, so she could continue benefits. One person I knew was receiving benefits but decided to build a pool in his yard. That's why I'm resentful.

+1 I'm a different poster than above, but I saw the exact same thing. A woman renting out rooms in her 3-bedroom tax-payer subsidized apartment for cash under the table! There is so much scamming going on with these assistance programs, but responsible people who are getting by on their own are the ones who are insulted.

Ok, and there are plenty of people who use the programs to get them through hard times and better their situations. Should we cut them off because some people abuse it?

No, but there are some easy steps to stem the abuse. Why was the woman in a three-bedroom apartment in the first place?

Similarly, I was reading about the housing projects in Brooklyn called the Pink Houses. They were interviewing a woman who was living alone in a three-bedroom apartment, and had been there for something like 30 years. She didn't want to give it up, and apparently the way the policy is set, they couldn't force her. In the meantime, there is a long list of families with children waiting for units. Now....what is wrong with that picture? (I realize this is a NYC project and not federal, but it's the same concept as above.)

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I hear conservatives telling me I shouldn't be envious of those making more. So why are they apparently envious of those on EBT?

As a White defense contractor I'd like to thank conservatives for voting for bloated defense budgets, ensuring I can keep making $$$.

Either sanity will prevail in November or I'll make more money. Win-win for me!!

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Anonymous wrote:I hear conservatives telling me I shouldn't be envious of those making more. So why are they apparently envious of those on EBT?

As a White defense contractor I'd like to thank conservatives for voting for bloated defense budgets, ensuring I can keep making $$$.

Either sanity will prevail in November or I'll make more money. Win-win for me!!

You think we're envious of people on EBT? Whoever said that? We just don't like the way responsible people are insulted and those on welfare programs are applauded.

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Welfare is "the new work"

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/31/welfare-is-the-new-work/

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Anonymous wrote:Can you use EBT for prepared food?

No.

You can't use food stamps for prepared food, but you can use TANF cash, unemployment, foster care stipends,or the money you earn from summer youth employment, all of which come on EBT cards.

I recently noticed a sign on a cash register reading:

WE ACCEPT EBT

- at Starbucks.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you use EBT for prepared food?

No.

You can't use food stamps for prepared food, but you can use TANF cash, unemployment, foster care stipends,or the money you earn from summer youth employment, all of which come on EBT cards.

I recently noticed a sign on a cash register reading:

WE ACCEPT EBT

- at Starbucks.

That's ridiculous. Taxpayers should not be buying people Starbucks coffee. We really need to get more restrictions in place as to how these funds are spent so that the money will go further toward covering "real" food.

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I am sure there are abuses but what percentage of the budget are these Ebt cards? A very small sliver I am sure. There is waste that should be cut but I get nervous messing with peoples' food stamps. Many elderly count on these to eat.