Drug dealer uses EBT card for bail (healthcare, school, rating)
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This is where your rant unravels. Taxpayer dollars didn't go to the "already rich to pay off bad debts." They went to corporations that needed toxic assets removed from the books and liquidity injected into the credit markets. There was a reason for that. If they had the money, then there would have been no need for bailouts. It's really as simple as that. Somewhere along the way, you're conflating several different issues. Just because it serves to complete your erroneous thought process and class warfare theme, it does not mean that it's accurate.
Those companies should have been allowed to fail, not proppped up and rewarded for their failures using tax dollars. The enormity of those bailouts dwarfs any legitimate concern about food assistance abuse. It's just another sideshow used by those in power to distract you while they steal everything else.
I would think since there is a widespread, sweeping sentiment over the SYG law and how peoples right to defend themselves needs to be ABOLISHED over one isolated incident....
That same sentiment should apply here, no? An isolated incident where a man is defrauding an entitlement program to get out of jail for selling drugs...
I am certainly not against helping those that truly need it, but this needs to be limited to; fruit, vegetables, meat, bread, (real) juice and milk. There are plenty of great and healthy meals to be made with those restrictions.
just yesterday i walked past a new women's clothing store that just opened, and they had a sign up front that said 'we now accept EBT cards.'
and here i thought they could only be used for food..
that was posted after the post i just responded to, and in any case, it in no way negates anything that i said.
Well...
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Those companies should have been allowed to fail, not proppped up and rewarded for their failures using tax dollars. The enormity of those bailouts dwarfs any legitimate concern about food assistance abuse. It's just another sideshow used by those in power to distract you while they steal everything else.
This! If it were to happen to a small business owner, it's on that owner to fix it, or close up shop!
I believe this only applies to people who receive cash benefits. Food stamps is for food and cannot be withdrawn from any bank. Only cash can, and only few who actually qualify to receive food stamps also qualify for these benefits because the criteria is so extreme that you must be impoverished and/or below poverty guidelines and have children dependents living with you, in addition to those who are disabled and may receive them as well. Receiving food stamp benefits is not a cash benefit.
Regardless of what type of money was appropriated to this guys EBT card, he is still using taxpayer money to bail himself out of jail.
It really is a humorous circle. Tax payer funded police arrest a guy for dealing drugs (which is earning him tax free money), he uses tax payer money to bail out, will likely be getting tax payer funded legal help, and then will be housed in a tax payer funded prison. Yes, this is exactly the way we should be operating a society.
just yesterday i walked past a new women's clothing store that just opened, and they had a sign up front that said 'we now accept EBT cards.'
and here i thought they could only be used for food..
Gas stations also now accept EBT cards. I guess people are food shopping at the gas station too.
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