My night at the local Kroger RANT!

[snakesnfrogs]

food stamp and welfare fraud are the biggest scams around here---if what you saw at Kroger last night pissed you off, don't come to Memphis. It would give you a heart attack.

 

[rudder]

That lady must have been to the group that cried the loudest when a bunch of state governers tried to turn welfare into workfare.

 

[kami]

I'm glad we have that workfare thing here in Ontario. if you are capable, you gotta work for those welfare checks. Two doors down, there is a little 3 unit apartment, and there was this lady with as couple kids who "lived" there. She actually lived with her boyfriend on the other end of town, but would come by and pick up her welfare check out of the mail every week. She never even went into her apartment. Total welfare fraud.

The good news is, we reported the leeching skank-ass bitch and she got in big trouble.

 

[Wedesdo]

i would have shot her to make this world a better place.

 

[Alienwho]

One thing that pisses me off, is I gotta "friend" that moved here from Australia a few years ago. Well he obviously has enough money to buy his pimp ass thug clothes and nintendo crap but not enough to pay for his skool lunch.

:|

 

[luv2chill]

If drugs were legalized you wouldn't see this happening.

I agree it's really annoying, but would you want to trade lives with them? I highly doubt that a pimped out Navigator is going compensate for the ultimate emptiness that goes along with that lifestyle.

Plus, it's only money. I pay taxes, and I work, and I make a good living, and I'm happy with my situation. Personally I feel sorry for those people, because they have not been nearly as lucky in life as have I. Their driving a high-dollar vehicle isn't going to change that sad fact.

l2c

 

[bigd480]

it's not like if they weren't making their drug money and abusing the system they'd be working, they'd be out trying to rob me, so at least it keeps the public a little safer...

if it were up to me i'd put a limit on how long you can be on welfare, only give credit for the # of kids you have when you start on it, and require you to have a job within a month to keep receiving it...

 

[Soybomb]

<< If drugs were legalized you wouldn't see this happening. >>

I'd like to see how that would prevent welfareabuse......

 

[luv2chill]

OK it wouldn't completely prevent abuse of gov. welfare programs, but what you wouldn't see is these people driving super expensive cars while paying for groceries with welfare checks. Luckster is right... 99% of these people are getting all of this nice stuff with drug money.

Do you really think a measily welfare check is going to cover a monthly payment on a Lincoln Navigator? Hell, I don't even think it could cover the payment on a Tercel.

One of the roots of these problems is that we've got all of these people hooked on addictive drugs. So the solution is to make drugs illegal? Boy that has worked wonders. We've got prisons chock full of drug offenders and the war on drugs hasn't done jack sh!t. Meanwhile, you've got drug dealers, who can charge insanely high prices because they know they can. What does the average joe in the ghetto do to be able to afford to get his fix? He steals a car and sells it to the drug dealer in exchange for drugs. He holds up a convenience store for the $300 in the cash register. Also, people will go on welfare to pay for groceries so they can use everything extra for drugs.

Legalizing drugs won't do much for current addicts other than drive the price of drugs down. Dealers will go out of business and you'd see drug money going back into the gov rather than in the pockets of dealers. You'd see a considerable decrease in the number of flashy cars with 20&quot; rims out there on the streets.

Plus, kids naturally seek out things that are illegal. Legalizing drugs (along with an awareness campaign portraying EXACTLY and HONESTLY what they can and will do to your body) might actually encourage kids to stay off of drugs (at least the bad ones anyway).

This is all my humble opinion, of course. But I stick by my statement that these flashy cars are paid for with drug money, not welfare checks. If you want the flash cars to go away, make drug prices bottom out. To make drug prices bottom out, create legal channels for obtaining drugs.

l2c

 

[Robert01]

<< Kroger is the biggest and oldest grocery store chain in the U.S >>

I thought that was actually Food Lion...

There's obviously different sides to this issue. If a person is capable of working, then that's exactly what they should be doing: working for their money. If a person cannot earn a decent job due to lack of education, the gov't should assist that person in school (as long as they are taking appropriate courses towards their career; in addition, their grades must be good).

It's annoying, but there's no definite way to stop it without hurting those that need it.

 

[Ulfwald]

You know, I don't mind paying for those who need it, but when I see something like this, it just chaps my arse. I used to work in the projects as private security/volunteer police, and every week a new officer would come in in plain clothes and &quot;sting&quot; the welfare leeches. He/she would pose as a buyer, they could get 200.00 worth of food stamps for about 50.00, why? because cash buys drugs, food stamps won't. We would then arrest each and every one, report them, and then DFACS would come in and take the alloted food stamps and buy the groceries for the home. But, most of them would get their &quot;stamp&quot; privileges back in a month if they promised to go to rehab.

Welfare:

Government ordered child support for kids you did not make.

 

[Pretender]

200.00 worth of food stamps for $50? Hell, I wouldn't mind paying $50 and getting 200 bux worth of money for groceries. Where can I sign up?

 

[olds]

When I got out of the Army (1987) I had to work two jobs and was still living in poverty. One of those jobs was as a maintenance mechanic for a realty company. They owned all section 8 (gov't funded) apartments. I would go into these units to fix something and they would be sitting on their new couch, listening to their new stereo and or tv while admiring their new car in the parking lot. They would make fun of me because I was working for a living, living in a run down studio apartment driving a $800.00 used car. It used to pi$$ me off thinking that my tax dollars went to support them but I was proud that I was taking care of myself. I for one, would like to see welfare limited like unemployment. XX numbers of months then you are on your own.
Emulexsaid: &quot;being pregnant and not working is a precarious situation, i think if you guys were pregger and not working, you might think differently of the situation...&quot;

Why are these women having babies if they can't even take care of themselves?

 

[PG]

Why are these women having babies if they can't even take care of themselves?

I've got a pretty pathetic story too.
Many years ago I worked in a grocery store. I had a friend who worked in Customer Service, and one day during break he said he wanted to tell me a story.
He had to cash a lot of welfare checks, so after a while he knew what they were for. One young girl came in and had a check she wanted cashed. He could tell from the type of check and the amount that she had 3 children. It was a check for a special program where the mom got a set amount of money per child per month. To cash a check, the girl needed to show several forms of ID. One of the forms of ID that she presented to my friend was a MIDDLE SCHOOL BUS PASS. :disgust::frown: