Rant!

[gunman42782]

Since when can a person on food stamps get money back at Wal-Mart? Was in line today and this chick has about $100 worth of groceries, then gets back cash, on her food stamp card!!! Thought food stamps where only for freakin food! Makes me so glad to go to work each day to pay for these people.

[tombogan03884]

There are 2 types of EBT  (foodstamp) cards.
One is just food, the other is food or cash.

[twyacht]

Your really surprised? Post Katrina, the pre-paid debit cards were prioritized to strip clubs and liquor stores... Kalifornia just finally got around to audit the EBT transactions, and they are even worse....

Sure most were used to help folks out. But those that play the game, have expanded exponentially. "Where's my free sh**" is the new norm...

[Timothy]

Here in the fine state of confusion, AKA, Massachusetts, one individual was issued 127 EBT cards!  There is so much fraud in the system here that even the socialists in the state house have begun to investigate!

Sadly, our Obama "lite" Governor is not doing a thing...or taking any responsibility!

[tombogan03884]

There is nothing wrong ( legally) with playing the system as long as you don't break any of the rules.
It's like tax loopholes exploited by higher income come people if the politicians thought it was so terrible to put your money off shore so they can't get it then why did they write the laws in a way that makes it legal ?

The problem with the US today is that the Founders screwed up badly when they wrote the Constitution, (which was also a politically drafted compromise document. That's why we had to have another war to get rid of slavery)
The mistake they made was "ass you me ing" Govt by honorable men elected by an intelligent and informed electorate putting the best interests of the nation before personal angles.
We don't have those.
We have self serving dumb asses worried about Guam tipping over elected by a bunch of even dumber asses with their hand out.
The Constitution should have been written with the assumption of a bunch of sleazy crooks elected by retards.

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[fightingquaker13]

It was. Its why only the House was popularly elected. The 17th Amendment was an error that should be repealed, and we ought to let the Electoral College work as intended. That and overturn Citizen's United, which was the worst SC case since Dredd Scott, and we'd be back to what Founder's wanted. The Federalist Papers did not show a great deal of faith in either the electorate or the elected. Madison and Hamilton merely trusted that the right machine would make vice work in the interest of virtue. They were right. The problem is that we have let populism in, and as always, its had a pernicious effect.

[billt]

This is no different than any other government program. It's full of abuse because no one who is supposedly monitoring it gives a damn because it's not their money. You could argue that it's "all our money", but the fact is it is not. Add a communist President, and it gets even worse. Money doesn't mean anymore to him, because when he needs it he simply authorizes more to be printed.

The only question is has all of it gone so far as not being able to be repaired? The answer is yes. It will take too much hard work and sacrifice. The bulk of todays voting electorate isn't interested in working, or jobs. They want more handouts. The more the better.

[Solus]

This is no different than any other government program. It's full of abuse because no one who is supposedly monitoring it gives a damn because it's not their money. You could argue that it's "all our money", but the fact is it is not. Add a communist President, and it gets even worse. Money doesn't mean anymore to him, because when he needs it he simply authorizes more to be printed.

The only question is has all of it gone so far as not being able to be repaired? The answer is yes. It will take too much hard work and sacrifice. The bulk of todays voting electorate isn't interested in working, or jobs. They want more handouts. The more the better.

The solution is simple.  No one gets free money unless it is voluntarily donated to non-government agencies for that purpose.

Maybe I should say the prevention is simple.  Solving the problem now is not so easy.

   

[fightingquaker13]

And people think a property requirement to vote was a cruel and anachronistic injustice. Gee, maybe those old dead white guys had a good idea or two.

[billt]

And people think a property requirement to vote was a cruel and anachronistic injustice. Gee, maybe those old dead white guys had a good idea or two.

They did. No question about it. It all comes back to "skin in the game". We saw what happened to the housing market when they let any idiot out there buy real estate without any of their own money invested. It's no different with voting. You let every dim witted minority out there cast a ballot without even proving their identity, let alone have any type of net worth, and you wind up with give away artists like Hussein....Twice.

Letting these minority idiots vote, is akin to letting the flight attendant fly the plane. It's in the best interest of no one. If you ask these blacks and Hispanics why they voted for Hussein, their answers are the definition of dumb. You can tell in the first sentence they don't have a clue. They just want something for nothing, and he's their best bet to get it. Political correctness, along with the fear of being accused of "racism", is destroying this country at it's core.