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“Everybody does it,” said a worker at an Associated Supermarket in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. “They pay for it any way they can. A lot of people pay with EBT.”
A lot! Now there is a major scandal. Now when it reaches "a whole bunch" maybe we can have a FBI taskforce and if it reaches "s*$#load levels" we can hope for a Congressional investigation!
And then there is this fool!
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Last week, a woman stuffed dozens of boxes of macaroni and evaporated milk into a barrel headed for her family in Kingston, Jamaica. She said she didn’t have welfare benefits and bought the food herself.
Now I must admit that I was astounded by the blue barrel thing when I saw them at a major neighborhood supermarket, so being the nosy person that I am, I started inquiring. The folks that I had under my investigative eye were Liberians and they explained the process to me, it was quite interesting. But one thing the story left out, is that often times, there is a back flow of money from relatives back home who actually pay for many of the items shipped to them because, well, if you paying out of your own benefits, you'll kind of find yourself on the wrong side of the ledger at the end of the month.
"NY food stamp recipients are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti"
From the article: "The feds say the moveable feasts go against the intent of the $86 billion welfare program for impoverished Americans."
So, not illegal.
So in addition to wanting to tell poor people exactly what they are allowed to eat, you want to tell them what they are allowed to do with the food too?
And y'all say liberals are busybodies trying to tell people what they can and can't do.
From the article: "The feds say the moveable feasts go against the intent of the $86 billion welfare program for impoverished Americans."
So, not illegal.
So in addition to wanting to tell poor people exactly what they are allowed to eat, you want to tell them what they are allowed to do with the food too?
And y'all say liberals are busybodies trying to tell people what they can and can't do.
i don't care what people do either money they earned, I do care how they spend the money I earned on themselves and their over seas relatives.
From the article: "The feds say the moveable feasts go against the intent of the $86 billion welfare program for impoverished Americans."
So, not illegal.
So in addition to wanting to tell poor people exactly what they are allowed to eat, you want to tell them what they are allowed to do with the food too?
And y'all say liberals are busybodies trying to tell people what they can and can't do.
If they don't need it to eat they don't need it at all. How dense do liberals need to be to not see this as abuse of the system?
If they don't need it to eat they don't need it at all. How dense do liberals need to be to not see this as abuse of the system?
Pretty damn dense apparently
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