Hubby and I were in Dan's yesterday behind this lady who bought $82 worth of "groceries" and paid with an EBT card. I didn't really pay much attention to what she was buying, but Hubby sure did. He waited until we were outside to tell me what was bothering him. She had apparently bought very expensive steaks and chips with her EBT card. So clearly if that is what she is getting, she doesn't need EBT.
I like the program, I think it's great for the less fortunate people, but I think they need to do something to weed out the people who abuse it. How do these people even get approved for EBT? Let me guess she is a single mom and has a decent paying job, clearly has enough to support her small family, but since she has a child the government feels like they need to help her by supplying her with expensive steaks and junk food. Ridiculous.
You know another broken government program they need to do something about it is Unemployment. My sister has been on Unemployment for 9 months and hasn't once looked for another job. I get it, she was pregnant, and then had a baby and couldn't work for awhile, but she is more than capable of working now, but doesn't care. She gets $400 in food stamps, and $200 a week in Unemployment. Her rent is a whole $150 a month, she has to pay for utilities, and cable, her car is paid for, and my mom pays for her insurance and cellphone bill.
You know with the way most of the economy is, with insanely high unemployment rates, they decided to allow people to feed off the government longer than the 6 months they have allowed in the past. Apparently they pushed it up to 18 months now! My sister is currently living the high life off her insane Federal Tax Return. I'm sure she got 4k or more because she is a single parent of two. So the unemployment rate has nothing to do with why my sister isn't employed.
Instead of increasing the number of months someone can have unemployment why don't they just come up with a program that will help people find a job. Even pay to relocate and their first month's living costs. The way the system is now it's only enabling America to be lazy. It's only putting a band-aid on cancer and something needs to be done about it.
In her defense- her rent is 250 a month, but yes I see where you are coming from and I wholeheartedly agree.
ReplyDeleteIts the government's job to keep their head up their ass. That's why I couldn't get help with my $1,400 per month Rx bill, even though my primary pays next to nothing and when I have to mail my secondary proof that I need help, I have to carry the cost for sometimes close to 3 weeks while also paying for things the gov't. assumes I've got handled like food and rent. All this on my job that pays about $1,600 a month. So not only are there people that are taking advantage of the system, but there's people that could actually use the help that fall through the cracks because we have things called jobs, regardless of how shitty the pay is. My cousin Rynae was in the same boat for a while after she had her two kids and her first husband left her. She needed help, but she had a job that paid more than $20,000 a year, so the gov't refused to do anything. Insurance and assistance are great programs to have, but only if your life sucks hard enough to qualify.
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