Something I saw on the internet reminds me of the "welfare queen" story.

[raccoon]

It’s about an man in the army, just barely getting by, and he claimed he saw a family in Walmart buying $800 worth of groceries with an EBT card and driving a new Genesis car.

I don’t believe this story. I don’t think anybody gets anything like that much in food stamps.

Your thoughts?


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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. It's on the interwebs so it must be true, right?

[ms liberty]

3. Bonjour!

[TheBlackAdder]

19. Story rewrite: Guy who couldn't get job, enlists in Army, gets out and can't get a job again.

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I stopped reading this because it's one of those Click Next 100 Times articles that you suffer through to drive their site view statsistics.

It could have been written on one page in 10 paragraphs, but painfully forces you to keep clicking to the next page.


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So it's one guy dependent on the government complaining about someone else getting 'free' government aid.

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[Ferrets are Cool]

20. I refuse to utilize that style of click baiting, so I'm with you

[niyad]

2. First of all, how does he know it was an EBT card? They look like any other. Second, with the

social distancing that even wal-mart enforces, there is no way in hell he could have seen the card. Third, I know of no state with that level of benefit.


I call BS.

[MaryMagdaline]

6. Good points

[jimfields33]

15. Highest is 768. But you have to have 3 kids and zero income

https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2020/04/22/usda-increases-monthly-snap-benefits-40

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. How'd he know it was an EBT card? Easy! The customer was probably not white.

So of course, welfare queen.

[safeinOhio]

4. Another "feel bad" story that the

deplorables love. Put it in that basket.

[MaryMagdaline]

5. Very hard to believe. So you're close enough to see what type of card they are using

Which means you’re standing right behind them in line. Nevertheless your purchases were rung up so fast that you were out the front door in time to see the person’s car? They must have been both greedy AND slow as hell in loading up their car. (If you had one or two items you would have been in the fast lane, not behind an 800.00 purchase.)

I don’t remember ever spending more than 500.00 at a grocery store and that was shopping for big Christmas parties at Costco.

I don’t know how much goes on an EBT card per one family.

Finally, how do we know the family driving a genesis didn’t all lose their jobs in COVID? Maybe they qualify for food stamps and they’re about to lose their car as well or maybe they have no car and borrowed a friend’s car or grandma’s car?

This country is full of a-holes (and not the ones on food stamps)

[niyad]

9. Excellent point about the car as well.

[Statistical]

7. Good reason to just have UBI. Everyone gets it, what they use it on is up to them.

[JI7]

8. This type of crap is all over the internet and the right wingers all pass it along to each other

[haele]

10. So, he was stalking them?

Anyway, all state benefits get loaded the statevissued EBT card, unemployment, SNAP, and maybe Social Security and VA disability on a federally issued card.
So, the situation is more likely that Mom or Dad on SSI stays with "the kids" (or vice versa in this time of COVID) and they all went to Walmart together in a new car bought with whichever family member was not receiving benefits.
There are quite a few people living in an economic "desert" where "free" banking services are limited to those with good credit, the ability to keep a $1000 balance at all times, and/or direct deposit. So the EBT card is the only way they can access their benefits other than by state issued coupons.

Haele

[raccoon]

11. Thanks for everyone's input. I figured it was BS.

And some of you made some good points about the car and how could he tell they were using an EVT card.

[Squinch]

12. No doubt there were lots of steaks and crab legs in the basket.

[MaryMagdaline]

14. This!!!

All time greatest hits from RW talking points

[Turin_C3PO]

13. Probably fake

but even if true , this says nothing about the alleged EBT user. It’s theoretically possible to get $800 if you have let’s say, 8 kids. Also this person may have been left a nice car in a will or had it given to them by a relative. That said, the story is likely false.

[blueinredohio]

17. If you have 8 kids and only a mom will that feed that many people?

I doubt it. When I get just a few things it usually ends up $100 or more. When I was younger I had to be on welfare for a minute. I didn't get enough food stamps to fed two of us much less a whole family. And being as the welfare office was all the way across town I used my parents car because I didn't have one.

[Turin_C3PO]

23. Every thing you say is true.

I'm on food stamps currently. I have advanced cystic fibrosis and my only income is SSDI $976. I normally get $17 in food stamps monthly. I'm often low on food by the end of the month. Luckily, our governor authorized all people to get the maximum amount per person during the pandemic so I've been getting $194 EBT monthly recently. It has been a tremendous help.

[Mopar151]

16. The answer, in "blue-eyed soul":

Joe South!

[Chainfire]

21. I have been hearing about "Welfare Cadillac's" for over 60 years and ain't seen one yet.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Judge Not

Judge Not

I was shocked, confused, bewildered
as I entered Heaven's door,
Not by the beauty of it all,
by the lights or its decor.

But it was the folks in Heaven
who made me sputter and gasp-
the thieves, the liars, the sinners,
the alcoholics, the trash.

There stood the kid from seventh grade
who swiped my lunch money twice.
Next to him was my old neighbor
who never said anything nice.

Herb, who I always thought
was rotting away in hell,
was sitting pretty on cloud nine,
looking incredibly well.

I nudged Jesus, 'What's the deal?
I would love to hear Your take.
How'd all these sinners get up here?
Has there been a huge mistake?

And why's everyone so quiet,
so somber? Give me a clue.'
'Hush, child, ' said He 'They're all in shock.
No one thought they'd see you.'

David (Johnny) Nixon

[raccoon]

25. That's great! Thanks for posting. NT

[ck4829]

24. How does he know it was an EBT card? Was it store credit?

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Was it someone’s house that burned down?

[Bettie]

26. Generally speaking, EBT cards look

like standard debit cards.

Oh, and the guy is likely making it up because he saw a family that he assumed MUST be on SNAP because...well, thinks they LOOK like "those kind of people".

I live among these assholes, some of whom will say, loudly that all people who aren't white are on "welfare and food stamps".

Yet another reason I want to get out of this town that seemed nice when we moved here 19 years ago.