For starters …
(a) I don’t go to the grocery store all that often.
(b) When I do go, I use cash. No credit cards. No debit cards.
That was, until Sunday night. I had to make a last-minute trip to ye olde grocery store to pick up a few things. Short on cash, I resorted to the charge card. The clerk told me to push a button on a little machine and swipe my card. I had a choice between Debit Card, Credit Card and EBT Card.
EBT Card? What the hell is this?
That’s “Electronic Benefits Card.” A supposedly more “humane” way of saying “food stamps.” Instead of carrying around their little “get out of work free” booklets the food stamp crowd now has their own nifty little charge card! They charge, we pay!
So, welcome to the world of push-button plunder! The pitiful poor have now automated the task of reaching in someone else’s pocket to meet their own so-called “needs.”
“So called?” Yeah. Since when do the pitiful poor need frozen pizzas, doughnuts, prime steaks and ice cream to sustain their existence? If they want the good stuff --- then pay for it, dammit! Don’t just walk up to the cashier and push the “make someone else pay for my food” button.
Do I want the poor to starve? No – but I don’t want to pay for a feast either. With very few exceptions, these freeloaders with their food stamps and EBT cards are right were they are because of their own irresponsible choices and decisions, so let’s not reward their irresponsibility with the good stuff.
Now --- I’m not just complaining here. I actually do have a few suggestions for reform.
1. Limit what these looters can buy with our money. Generic items only. No desserts. No soft drinks. No cookies, Frosted Flakes or bagels. Just the basic staples that are needed to provide basic nutrition. They want something fancy? Pay for it.
2. A special check out line for the freeloaders. I just don’t want to sit there with a cart full of food that I’m going to have to pay for with money that I actually earned, and watch some double-wide mega-bar babe with six screaming children with three different last names load the belt with her frozen pizzas, ice cream and other nutritional disasters and then hit that “EBT card” button. Productive Americans should only have to take so much.
3. Put the freeloaders over in their own lane in the far corner of the store with trainee cashiers. Make them carry their plunder out themselves. They could use the exercise. Hell, it’s not like they have anything else they need to be doing ---- like working, for instance.
4. Above the freeloader’s check out line how about a nice neon sign which says “Your tax money at work.”
5. As a freeloader leaves with their plunder require them to walk by the other check out lanes and thank one of the people standing there for paying for their food.
6. Anyone EBT freeloader seen departing the grocery store in a car less than five years old will have their groceries and their EBT card confiscated.
Let them eat cake.
(a) I don’t go to the grocery store all that often.
(b) When I do go, I use cash. No credit cards. No debit cards.
That was, until Sunday night. I had to make a last-minute trip to ye olde grocery store to pick up a few things. Short on cash, I resorted to the charge card. The clerk told me to push a button on a little machine and swipe my card. I had a choice between Debit Card, Credit Card and EBT Card.
EBT Card? What the hell is this?
That’s “Electronic Benefits Card.” A supposedly more “humane” way of saying “food stamps.” Instead of carrying around their little “get out of work free” booklets the food stamp crowd now has their own nifty little charge card! They charge, we pay!
So, welcome to the world of push-button plunder! The pitiful poor have now automated the task of reaching in someone else’s pocket to meet their own so-called “needs.”
“So called?” Yeah. Since when do the pitiful poor need frozen pizzas, doughnuts, prime steaks and ice cream to sustain their existence? If they want the good stuff --- then pay for it, dammit! Don’t just walk up to the cashier and push the “make someone else pay for my food” button.
Do I want the poor to starve? No – but I don’t want to pay for a feast either. With very few exceptions, these freeloaders with their food stamps and EBT cards are right were they are because of their own irresponsible choices and decisions, so let’s not reward their irresponsibility with the good stuff.
Now --- I’m not just complaining here. I actually do have a few suggestions for reform.
1. Limit what these looters can buy with our money. Generic items only. No desserts. No soft drinks. No cookies, Frosted Flakes or bagels. Just the basic staples that are needed to provide basic nutrition. They want something fancy? Pay for it.
2. A special check out line for the freeloaders. I just don’t want to sit there with a cart full of food that I’m going to have to pay for with money that I actually earned, and watch some double-wide mega-bar babe with six screaming children with three different last names load the belt with her frozen pizzas, ice cream and other nutritional disasters and then hit that “EBT card” button. Productive Americans should only have to take so much.
3. Put the freeloaders over in their own lane in the far corner of the store with trainee cashiers. Make them carry their plunder out themselves. They could use the exercise. Hell, it’s not like they have anything else they need to be doing ---- like working, for instance.
4. Above the freeloader’s check out line how about a nice neon sign which says “Your tax money at work.”
5. As a freeloader leaves with their plunder require them to walk by the other check out lanes and thank one of the people standing there for paying for their food.
6. Anyone EBT freeloader seen departing the grocery store in a car less than five years old will have their groceries and their EBT card confiscated.
Let them eat cake.
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