EBT cards = the new ATM card? (home, employment, gated)

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by ebbe

Food stamp fraud has doubled since 2009. Taxpayers are on the hook, you know. Not a good thing for anyone.

It has? Would love to see this information. I would believe that prosecution of food stamp fraud, or identification of food stamp fraud, has doubled, but I would need to see good evidence to believe food stamp fraud actually doubled.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by timberline742

It has? Would love to see this information. I would believe that prosecution of food stamp fraud, or identification of food stamp fraud, has doubled, but I would need to see good evidence to believe food stamp fraud actually doubled.

I think he meant food stamp USAGE, but I want to say that is up threefold since 2009.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by jayrandom

At least I could recognize wordplay as humor and not poor comprehension.

No because City-Data is inundated with the sort of trolls who can't be bothered to read a whole sentence never mind an entire post, before they have comprehended it enough to spout off such nonsense. And then you have many that are just thick in general. So sorry if that was my first reaction, maybe I'm just too uptight sometimes.

Originally Posted by jayrandom

I'm guessing you've never read Oscar Wilde. Don't. You wouldn't like it.

I was introduced to him in high school. I hated literature then, but one particular teacher had an amazing way of instilling an appreciation for all those great writers to little sh$%s like me. I happen to have distant relations to another notorious Irish play writer of yore.

[Mr. Joshua]

Originally Posted by goyguy

Here the teabaggers go again with their delusions of rampant welfare fraud while Wall Street and the big banks do the true bleeding of the taxpayers.

Is that you Elizabeth?

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by mr. Joshua

is that you elizabeth?

:d:d:d

[bolehboleh]

Originally Posted by massnative71

No because City-Data is inundated with the sort of trolls who can't be bothered to read a whole sentence never mind an entire post, before they have comprehended it enough to spout off such nonsense. And then you have many that are just thick in general. So sorry if that was my first reaction, maybe I'm just too uptight sometimes.




I was introduced to him in high school. I hated literature then, but one particular teacher had an amazing way of instilling an appreciation for all those great writers to little sh$%s like me. I happen to have distant relations to another notorious Irish play writer of yore.

Thank you Jay for defending me, but I'll take it from here...

Mass...I'll be sure to email you first about any silly joke and/or play of words I use while online. Last thing I want is to be considered a troll.

[luvmyhoss]

Originally Posted by snatale1

You have a cite to this? I call BS! Since when to drug dealers take plastic?

The wording was a little off. She went to the ATM machine and got cash with the EBT card. Cops followed her.

[Beachcomber4]

I find it mindboggling that on another thread, a poster was chastised for wanting to purchase a condo in Boston for his college student son to live in. His parenting and values were called into question. Since when is being successful and adding to the economy a crime? Yet when someone brings up a something like this, posters take the side of those who perpetrate real crimes. This "we are getting screwed so it's okay to screw the system" attitude is really getting old. No one side is right but if both stop trying to justify their actions by claiming their crime isn't as bad as the others, we will be in a much better state literally and figuratively.

[luvmyhoss]

Originally Posted by Beachcomber4

I find it mindboggling that on another thread, a poster was chastised for wanting to purchase a condo in Boston for his college student son to live in. His parenting and values were called into question. Since when is being successful and adding to the economy a crime? Yet when someone brings up a something like this, posters take the side of those who perpetrate real crimes. This "we are getting screwed so it's okay to screw the system" attitude is really getting old. No one side is right but if both stop trying to justify their actions by claiming their crime isn't as bad as the others, we will be in a much better state literally and figuratively.

I agree with you, some of these responses boggle the mind.

[dravogadro]

Often, wealth and poverty are neither earned nor deserved.

I cannot comment on MA but in other states, 1/3 use welfare never to return.
1/3 are on the fringe and fall back onto it throughout their lives.
1/3 never leave.