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It is far past time for serious restrictions on the use of these cards. Not just for bail, or cash, but for many of the approved food uses as well. I have read they are able to be used at ATM's now in some areas.
A convicted drug dealer — who cops said wanted to use cash from his taxpayer-funded EBT card to post bail — is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing the reform-resistant Patrick administration for a crackdown.
Kimball Clark, 45, was locked up Friday on drug-dealing charges — again — when he was overheard using his one phone call to ask the person on the other end of the line to “get my EBT card and go to the ATM and get the money to bail me out, get me outa here tonight,” according to a Boston police report........
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.
Meanwhile, another few trillion are given to banks to pay out executive bonuses. You people have no sense of priorities.
I am not in favor of bailouts at all, period. If a business fails, it fails. If the consumer market has a need, a new business will take its place. Millions of people collecting the various forms of welfare adds up to substantial funds, and the abuses of said funds are the topic of this thread. My priorities are to strip down the BS and argue for a lean, efficient government. I suggest that many have no sense of consequence as opposed to priorities. Each successive generation expects more and more to be given out. We are over-encumbered.
I am not in favor of bailouts at all, period. If a business fails, it fails. If the consumer market has a need, a new business will take its place. Millions of people collecting the various forms of welfare adds up to substantial funds, and the abuses of said funds are the topic of this thread. My priorities are to strip down the BS and argue for a lean, efficient government. I suggest that many have no sense of consequence as opposed to priorities. Each successive generation expects more and more to be given out. We are over-encumbered.
Fair enough, but why focus on piddling stuff like this? If your priorities are a lean, efficient government, the trillions upon trillions we spent propping up banks that should have gone out of business makes social service fraud look laughable by comparison.
I guess executive bonuses don't incense you as much as some criminal cheating the system out of a few hundred bucks but if that's the case, your priorities are seriously out of whack. We could have paid off every mortgage, every student loan, with the money we gave the banks. We could have fixed the roads, funded pensions, helped the poor, made this country a better place. Hell, even if you don't believe in all that, we could have bought some pretty cool new toys. Instead, our tax dollars were divvied up among the already rich to pay off bad bets.
This drug dealer can pay for whatever the hell he wants with his piddling government assistance, it's just flies feeding on a corpse.
It is far past time for serious restrictions on the use of these cards. Not just for bail, or cash, but for many of the approved food uses as well. I have read they are able to be used at ATM's now in some areas.
A convicted drug dealer — who cops said wanted to use cash from his taxpayer-funded EBT card to post bail — is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing the reform-resistant Patrick administration for a crackdown.
Kimball Clark, 45, was locked up Friday on drug-dealing charges — again — when he was overheard using his one phone call to ask the person on the other end of the line to “get my EBT card and go to the ATM and get the money to bail me out, get me outa here tonight,” according to a Boston police report........
In addition to severe restrictions on usage, I think there should be a stigma attached to using EBT cards. They need to be blaze orange with the letters "EBT" as big as they possibly can be on both sides. I've watched people wield EBT cards at checkout counters and it's almost like there's pride of ownership to actually have a credit card to swipe. There should be no pride. Stigma would go a long way to prodding people to get off the government dole.
I think there should be a stigma attached to using EBT cards. They need to be blaze orange with the letters "EBT" as big as they possibly can be on both sides. I've watched people wield EBT cards at checkout counters and it's almost like there's pride of ownership to actually have a credit card to swipe.
It's more along the lines of they are proud they are spending YOUR money and not their own........
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