Food stamps/EBT Cards review: Food stamps 228

YouthInRevolt91 has way too much time on his hands for writing novel size comments about food stamp use. I smell a 19 yr old virgin aspiring to be a pharmacist in Walmart. Your 19 yrs old go have fun while your still young! Quit worrying about issues that will always be there. However, Ill give you a thumbs up for putting yourself through school and working hard.

Anyways, That couple that used food stamps to purchase crabs made me very irritated regarding their stupid "guvament" comment. I do agree that food stamps should be regulated like wic. Maybe that would eliminate ridiculous spending.

Why am I a jerk if fact dictates the proof. My statements are directed to you, not in comparison to this country...the issue is important of course, and i never said it wasn't worth my time. If your writing for your blog, why slap it on a comment? I doubt anyone is really going to read what you have to say with that gargantuan size word count you just attacked the servers with. By the way your very welcome :)

on and on and on you go with the name calling, i dont think there is an adult on here come on people. Talk about the things that matter. Your just cruel to call names and put down people you dont even know! dont any of the nastiness that spouts out of you make you feel a little bad. some of you have nothing nice to say ever. no empathy not even any manners i feel sorry for you

i wanna go back to Mute talking about luxury swiss cake rolls. are you telling me if you were on ebt and your children went to school and all the other kids got some sort of treat in there lunch that they should just have to eat carrots and salami sandwiches, its not your place or the governments to decide what our children should eat, i feed my son healthy but sometimes they deserve a treat, i wish i could go all organic but too expensive, i bring in $445 every 2 wks and i only get $140 a month for food stamps. i sure know that is a hefty amt of free money to support 2 people. like i said b4 this is the first time i have been on welfare since i had my son. i have always worked and paid taxes since i was 15 yrs old. and im sure people like you are all judging me when i get me 140 dollars a month. What a joke

You cant buy alcoholic beverages or oils with foodstamps.

Well I also work as a cashier for a well known grocery store here in Florida ..I had a customer check out in my line just the other day.She had ordered a Wedding Cake from our BAkery ( special order) The cake went for a little over 200.00 and was paid using a EBT Card...So Folks thats where your tax dollars are going for the ones who do work in this country.. as they say "Your TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"
WHOSE THE IDIOTS NOW?

im not saying buy them everything i just mean a treat once in a while definetly not steak and lobster, until you are in the position where you get layed off from you job and cant find another one for the first time in your entire life, and your a single parent you have no clue what your talking about. I have worked my whole life, so there are some people out there who dont want to be on food stamps who would rather work. people shouldnt generalize when they dont know the circumstances

and obviously dawniette your not a mother, suzay i agree that people should not abuse the system believe me i do . I just dont think everyone who has a bridge card is a bad person or abusing it. like i said i worked my whole life except for now and im trying like hell to get a job cuz believe me these so called funds that your and my as well hard earned taxes dont give nearly enough to survive

You need to shut the hell up. I am 25 a mother of two and my husband works 57 hours a week, and I go to school full time trying to get my nursing degree so I can better my childrens lives. So I do get EBT to helo us make ends meet while I am in school. So screw all of you that want to judge me. My husband pays his taxes too. Not all people are just sitting on their [censor] sucking off the goverment. I am a good person, I take care of my children and volunteer in my community. You people should feel ashamed for making people like me about cry everytime people see me using EBT. I know they are judging me and have no idea my story. You close minded people need to wake up and look in the mirror at yourself and stop judging people you dont know... Oh and just so you know I only buy healthy food so prepare wholesome meals for my children so [censor] OFF!

Not all people where you are right I was speaking to those who where! I completley understand that some people do abuse the system. The ones who are not bashing on all people I was not speaking to but some ignorant people where talking about my situation and others like it! Thank you very much!

personally, i think that there should be limits to what they can get. honestly, the crap food is cheaper in America and so it makes sense to buy it because you get more for your money. I don't care if you get hot food or canned, but i do think you should get food. however, I also think that if you are on food stamps your life probably isn't that great. even though i think it's in your best interest to get food, Ultimately i think you should get whatever makes you happy. If you have money and you're scamming the system, well...then i'm sure it'll come back and bite you in the butt some day. White people buy crap with their food stamps too. just cuz you don't see it doesn't mean they don't. there are many things in this world to be mad about. life isn't fair. My house depreciated 70, 000 since i bought it... I cant do anything with it and there are people who don't make any money who live in new apartments bigger and nicer than my house. oh. well. ebt. oh well. you never know...maybe you'll be on EBT in the future and have a hankering for a lobster.

foodforthough you are so right life is not fair. there are people who abuse the system and there is nothing that you can do about it, so why sit and crab about something you are never going to change. if people buy junk that is there problem if they do not want to eat healthy and take care of themselves. they get a certain amount of money and once it is gone too bad for them they should have made better choices. it is not like when they buy lobster they get more money.

well. i can see how you would be upset that you are paying for someone else's lobster. I'm not saying be foolish with the money. I'm just saying that if i were down and out and felt like i couldn't get out of the [censor] hole that is my life. I might be inclined to purchase a good meal once in a while to try and make myself feel better. poor people aren't UNDESERVING or less of human beings. maybe some of them are, but again, i'm not referring to professional moochers. and STEALTH...sweetie...really you are a bitter woman. you do a whole LOT of complaining on this board and position yourself to be this high and mighty perfect person. i'm sure that if we were to investigate you, beyond your attitude, we would find some large dirty secrets and wrongdoings...

I'm sure that there are many legitimate complaints on this board. and I don't think anyone here is arguing for people that people who drive hummers ...
I'm glad to hear that you are perfect. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I guess the son of god is really a woman going under the screen name Stealth Pilot...get over yourself. you are just as pathetic as the people who make the dumb complaints. look at how you spend your free time. You thrive off of what these people say and what they think about you. I mean you do have a complaint lodged against you. You must feel perfect and special. what a princess...

Hi.

There was a time my husband lost his job from the school system and I was only working 20 hours a week, and an hour drive to there. We had maybe $50 a week to feed 4 people, sometimes less.

I found out about Food Stamps, applied and got them. Thank You God. I was so excited to take that card and buy food for my family.

After several years, we still qualify and both work FULL TIME jobs. So we accept the food stamps. We don't eat out but have high daycare costs, so the food money wouldn't be there w/out our EBT card.

I am so thankful we have money every month. We still add to it with our own money and budget it out.

It is sad when people are abusing it but we do not.

momtmykids2010 god bless you

You can make complaints against people abusing the welfare system. In CA the government really started cracking down on that. Look on line for a 1800 number on the welfare fraud, usually there is a website, or on the welfare website for your state. When I lost my job, I actually can qualify for food stamps. I was honest about how much my boyfriend made, and thus couldn't get them. In these hard economic times, many families rely on Food Stamps.

I don't agree with families ill using food stamps, it is wrong, especially when the tax payers are flipping the bill. Food stamps should be used for healthy food, that benefit everyone in the family. I don't believe that even with a EBT card that food stamp receptionists could get any kind of alcohol. In CA, that is forbidden, and you wouldn't be able to use your EBT card for that purpose.

mommykids2010,
There is nothing wrong with using what resources you have to to feed your family! When times are rough, you use whatever means to feed your babies. God bless you and your family!

SP,
I also agree with you, when my son was younger, he went to school with this little girl whose mom had a expensive car. But yet she was receiving food stamps, welfare, and her daughter got free lunch at school. One day her ignorant [censor] came into the school, driving in her 100, 000 dollar car, and in front of everyone in the office made a complaint about the "free lunch" her daughter was receiving and how she would get a stomach ache over it! How is it she can afford a car like that, and yet be on welfare, food stamps, and free lunch?! I working my [censor] off to support myself, my kids, and I drove a run down Jeep!? I have no idea why someone didn't turn her welfare fraud [censor] in! If I knew her I would have! What a [censor]! I don't understand how people like that live with themselves?!

Food stamps do serve a wonderful purpose, it provides food for people in need of it. I do agree that it should be more regulated. I am glad that I live in a country that provides this. It would suck to live in a country were if your poor and cannot afford food, you starve...

maybe they got the car before they got the food stamps. if you make payments on a car and are honest about it to DSHS you can still qualify for food stamps. I'm sure she had the car first. I can totally see how that made you feel that way. but in all fairness you never know. maybe they lived in that car

I am not sure... It was a Esplanade! It was more her complete rudeness to the staff at the school, and her complaining about a free lunch. My kids also receive free lunch. It is the same as if you pay for it. It isn't like you stand in a different line or something! She was one of those ignorant, rude, stupid people you want to slap. Yelling her ignorant mouth, to the school staff in front of anyone who happens to be in the office! She was trying to insinuate that because her child got free lunch, her kid didn't get the same quality food as a child that pays for it. That isn't true at all! Schools really try and eliminate embarrassment for children that get free lunch by using codes, or their school ID number. In kindergarten that is one of the first things they want kids to learn. In CA, is strict about receiving food stamps. If she had reported that car, than she wouldn't be able to receive food stamps. I am on Caliptima right now. Which is Orange County's version of medikaid. They want to know everything about you. They found some stocks my dad had for my oldest son! I had no idea about them. When I lost my job, and tried to see if I qualified for food stamps, my income did. But since my boyfriend made to much money, I couldn't receive them. She was lying somehow... Hope one of the office staff turned her stupid [censor] in for welfare fraud. She deserved it!

my mom pays my bills and rent at this time because i live in a very small city with very little opportunity, sometime ago i was let go from my job because the company left the area. i have been receiving benefits and feel that i would starve without them. i don't know how anyone makes ends meet these days its very difficult. i am very grateful to receive assistance at this time and don't feel i am taking advantage of anything, i too am honest on my paperwork that is required in making the decision for who is and is not eligible to receive the benefits. i drive a benz too! now what? it's a 1997 and my MOM payed for it years and years ago! so don't always judge a book by it's cover, makes one appear to be ignorant and you really don't want that do you? good luck to us all during these difficult times, we are just beginning to see how bad things are going to be, you'll see...and the very people here complaining will (hopefully not)likely end up using their own EBT cards, be careful and THINK b4 you talk or comment about thing, one good characteristic in people is the power of being objective and unbias, try it you'll liike it. peace.

actually, statistically speaking the recession is over and ended in 2009. The Index is above the recession level of -0.7 but below its long run growth rate. Thus, the economy is growing but slowly.

ladida

The women I was talking about had a new Escalate, this ladida was before the recession, and my kids were young. The ignorant [censor] I was referring to had a drug dealing boyfriend, that was making bank. How ethically can you possibly think that someone that is driving a brand new Escalate could possibly be eligible for benefits! Her was brand new, with the thousand dollars rims on every wheel, and everything! She is one of those women, that uses the welfare system! I don't think a twenty year old benzs in anyway constitutes the same as a brand new Escalate! An Escalate is the vehicle that OJ drove! That type of car is worth some money! My mom worked for the district this happened at and I did hear her life story! How is it okay, for anyone to use foul language in front of my three children, cussing and acting ignorant?! Yelling on the top of her lungs like a total uneducated trash! Not to mention her own six year old child! That day, my kid was ill, and I was taking him home! I had to hear her total lack of consideration for anyone else in that office! She so overwhelmed the receptionist, I had to wait until her tirade was over before I could sign out my kid from school! It isn't ever okay to cuss and yell, and scare young children with her foul mouth!

How is that an attack on you? I don't like people who use the welfare system unethically like that! I to, am honest about everything, because I don't want to end up in jail! I am obviously not doing well in this recession either!~ Or did you miss the part where I am unemployed?! So, yes this recession has effected me, and I am all for using whatever resources are available. How do you know, if I have not gotten food stamps at one time of my life too?! I am getting my health insurance from the state of California. If, I didn't live with my boyfriend, I would be getting food stamps too! Stop assuming I am attacking every low income person, that is having a hard time. I know lots of people who have been on welfare, food stamps, and medikaid! I have friends that have used it to go to school and better themselves, and I am all for that! I just had a friend graduate from college and get her B.S. in business administration. I had my ex leave me with two kids I had to support. There have been many times that I was on Caloptima or Medi-cal! At one point in my life I was on welfare, because my ex boyfriend was stalking me and would get me fired from every job I would get! If it wasn't for welfare, my and my children would have starved, and had no place to live! Eventually, I found work at home, so he couldn't do that anymore!

What I cannot stand, is people like that women. Who thinks the world owes her something. If her and her low life boyfriend are making bank on drugs, than I am sure that he can support his girlfriend and her daughter! It is a slap in the face to have to deal with a low life like that to families that are truly struggling to survive. Or do you think it is okay that she was getting with welfare fraud?!

Your judging me, so let me tell you something. My ex-boyfriend was extremely abusive. I lived in fear of my boyfriend killing me and my children. On top of that, try his stupid [censor] getting me fired from every job I could get, and dealing with him beating me up in front of my young kids! So, your not the only one that had it tough in life! And yes, I did call the police, who refused to do anything! Welfare was my means to pay my rent and bills at that time, until I was safe from him! So, your judging me, let me make this clear, I have had hard times too... So get off your high horse!

Drug test everyone who receives EBT.

Make adjustments to the EBT system: make it like WIC. Restrict purchases to only foods with nutritional value.

Audit anyone who seems suspicious.

Leave the EBT funds for people who really need them. People who work hard, yet still don't have enough to eat.

I wish I would have Sp. I was terrified of him, and what he would do to my children. Law enforcement is a joke in LA county, and if I had blown his head off, I would have ended up in jail, and my kids wouldn't of had a mother. He will get his, I believe in karma, and he will one day understand and deal with the consequences of what he did. He has to live with the fact that his oldest son hates him, and will never forgive him. I cannot even imagine how it would feel to have your kids loathe you. I suppose he will. It made me stronger, and one day when my kids are raised, I want to go back to school to help abused women.

Stealth I wasn't actually calling you Jesus. I was making fun of you...like YOU thought YOU were close in stature...

stealth. that's actually assault also

SP,
I did fight back and kicked him in his junk a couple of the times he hit me. But than he would beat me up more. Domestic abuse is a horrible situation for any women. I was young and naive. The abuser brings drama, manipulation, and abuse into your life. When I did end our relationship, he became more abusive and mean. My ex was good at chipping away at my support network, and making me feel isolated and alone. Eventually you start to feel like you deserve it.

To this day, I hate law enforcement, because I did get a restraining order, called them when he left bruises up and down my body, and they didn't do anything at all. I also don't believe in our justice system, child support system. Been screwed by both one to many times... It takes years to rebuild my life. The only good my ex boyfriend did was give my children. I hope that I have raised them to respect women, not to ever hit a girl at all! I have always been honest with my children, and had long discussions about the past. So, they hopefully will show the wisdom I didn't when I was young. Now that my son is almost seventeen, I can point out that I was pregnant with him, to help him understand the consequences of not using reliable birth control, and also being in a unhealthy relationship. I have to deal with a man that ruined my life for the rest of my life...

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.. It has me. I was lucky that my ex didn't kill me. Many years I thought he would. The sad thing is four months after my second child was born, my looser ex had another child, whose life he ruined. The mom is so stupid that she stuck around hoping he will change, and they can have happily ever after... With men like that, there is no happily ever after, just heartache and pain. In not moving on with her life, and finding a healthy relationship, or receiving counseling, she has chosen to also destroy her daughter's life. In a few years, her daughter will be knocked up by some looser that is just like her dad... How sad for her..

The difference between her and me, is I didn't want my children to grow up and be abusers, or think it is okay not to be a dad.. I wanted better for myself, because I deserved better, and my kids deserved to live in a safe environment. My oldest son remembers the abuse, and he is having emotional problems because of it. So, for the four years that he dealt with his father and the damage that was done to him because I chose to bred with a abusive low life. Can you imagine the trauma that his daughter is going through?!

I am the lucky one that escape my abuser...She still has to deal with his drama and abuse... : (

I agree with you SP. If your not doing anything wrong, than who cares who searches your house. LA County Law Enforcement, besides New Orleans, is I believe one of the worst in the country. To many criminals get away with murder, child molestation, abuse because of a technicality. In child molestation cases, a sexual predator is only charged with one out of four child he molested. I have gotten counseling for domestic abuse, not because I had to, but because I wanted too. Do you know that most men that abuse their wife/girlfriend and children, don't serve any jail time. If they do, than it is a short stint? If a stranger came up to me and beat me up leaving bruises all over my body, they would be charged with assault. But many women, who's men abuse them, and want to leave their abuser, still get beaten up, or the abuser will kill them. I was told that, if you call the police you have a fifty fifty chance of a police officer that abuses his wife/girlfriend. Not real reassuring. The laws in California now, punish the women more than the abuser. In many cases the children are removed from a home where abuse is happening, but the abuser in most cases spend no time in jail, and are rarely charged with anything, or even required to take classes, besides anger management. The women have to take abuse classes, have monitored visitation, need to find employment... I am not saying that is wrong, but the abusers usually get off scotch free... Most even get visitation rights even though these men have a long history of domestic abuse.

I think it is a good idea that the laws force women to leave their abusers and the children are removed from the home. What I don't agree with, is that so many men get away with it beating up their women, with little or no consequences. What I don't agree with, is how the laws more punish the abused... Laws should also support these men from stopping this behavior, forcing them to stop doing drugs/alcohol, and try to stop the cycle of abuse all together. What these men will do is move on to their next victim... By not stopping the violence on both ends and forcing the abuser to be held responsible for his actions also, their just stopping part of a huge problem. Instead these men become empowered because like my ex, they feel that they can get away with anything...

I AGREE IF PEOPLE NEED FOOD STAMPS I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT THE DES OFFICE SEEMS LIKE THEY GIVE THE CARD OUT TO PEOPLE WHO DONT EVEN NEED IT. I HAVE A ROOMATE HERE WHO HAS BEEN ON FOOD STAMPS AT LEAST 16 YEARS AT FIRST HE HAD HIS KIDS CAUSE HE WIFE DIDNT WANT THEM, SO HE WAS ALSO GETTING MONEY FOR THEM. I CANT BELIEVE THEY NEVER WENT AFTER HER TO PAY BACK SINCE HE HAD THE KIDS, WELL THE KIDS R OVER 21 NOW HE STILL GETS STAMPS AND MEDICAL MONEY HAS STOPPED. THEY HAVE NEVER SAID TO HIM TO LOOK FOR A JOB HE IS NOT SICK OR HURT, THE EASY WAY FOR HIM NOT TO HAVE TO WORK HE GOT ALL THIS MONEY FROM THE LIGHT RAIL BUT THAT WAS OK WITH THEM. IT IS JUST CERTAIN PEOPLE THEY HELP I HAVE NO AGREEMENTS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO NEED IT BUT HE IS ABLE TO WORK AND 16 YEARS OF FOOD AND MEDICAL FOR FREE. MY BROTHER WHO IS ON SSI TRIED TO APPLY AND THEY GAVE HIM 10.00 IN FOOD STAMPS SEE HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS, THEY GIVE IT TO THE PEOPLE WHO DONT NEED IT AND THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT THEY TURN THEM DOWN. SOMETIMES I THINK THIS WHOLE THING IS A SCAM. IF THEY LIKE YOU THEY WILL GIVE YOU THE EBT CARD AND DONT HAVE TO WORK JUST KICK BACK AND THE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO STRUGGLE DOES NOT SOUND RIGHT TO ME. BUT THAT IS THE SYSTEM I PAY TAXES FOR PEOPLE WHO TAKE ADVANAGE OF THE SYSTEM I KNOW ANOTHER PERSON WHO SEPARTED FROM HIS WIFE APPLIED FOR STAMPS AND GOT THEM AND HE PUT THE KIDS DOWN AND HE DOES NOT HAVE THE KIDS AND DOES NOT HELP OUT WITH THEM, I SEE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. IT IS NOT FAIR FOR THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT AND THE PEOPLE WHO DONT SHOULD GET A JOB. THAT IS HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT. GROWN MEN SHOULD BE OUT THERE WORKING INSTEAD OF COLLECTING FROM DES. FOR THE REST OF THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT THEY DESERVE TO GET IT, THIS ROOMATE I WAS TALKING ABOUT WHAT EVER HE DOESNT USE HE GIVES THE REST TO HIS DAUGHTER WHO DOESNT NEED IT. AND DES SHOULD IT WAS OK AS LONG AS THEY HAD THE PIN NUMBER AND THE CARD THEY COULD USE THE EBT CARD. WHAT KIND OF [censor] IS THAT ITS FOR THE PERSON WHO NEEDS IT BUT THAT IS WHAT THEY TOLD ME. I REALLY THOUGHT IF YOU REALLY NEEDED FOOD YOU WOULDNT BE GIVING IT AWAY TO SOMEBODY ELSE AND ITS LEGAL TO DO THE SYSTEM IS SCREWED UP. THAT IS HOW I FEEL ABOUT FOOD STAMPS AND THE MEDICAL WHEN THEY GET THERE PILLS THEY SELL THEM IT JUST MAKES ME SO ANGRY I HAVE ALWAYS WORKED AND THESE LAZY PEOPLE DEPEND ON DES AND THEY GET WHAT THEY WANT. PEOPLE WHO NEED THE EBT CRD SHOULD GET IT NOT THESE LAZY PEOPLE WHO CAN WORK.

debbie madueno DO NOT WRITE IN ALL CAPS unless you want to be ridiculed and hated

Debbie,
If your friends that are abusing the welfare system bothers you, than turn them in for welfare fraud... Especially that [censor] that is using children he isn't raising! I get tired of people complaining about certain individuals. Turn their butts in, than they will go to jail, or no longer retrieve benefits! If more people who know friends and family that were abusing the welfare system turned their lying [censor] in, not so many people would get away with it. Why complain, if you as an individual aren't doing your part to make sure that the system isn't being abused?! In the least, that is three people not getting benefits that they shouldn't be!

Just because your friend gets drunk on cooking sherry, doesn't mean everyone buying it does.
Maybe, just MAYBE the person using the EBT card is actually COOKING with it.
It's a sad, sad world when the working person is envious of a food stamp recipient!

ALSO, I now purchase ALL of my cooking WINE, $18-25 can extra virgin olive oil(which lasts up to 1 yr), with EBT and will continue to as long as it is the method of which i purchase MY groceries...like i said, I buy everything I bought before the benefits and that includes the ingredients for gourmet meals, such as chicken in white WINE sauce, romaine and french baguette; dill lemon chicken, seafood bisque, etc... I DON''T DRINK IT...COOKING SHERRY'S TOO SALTY AND IS ONLY GOOD FOR COOKING, YOUR *AHEM* "FRIEND" IS A [censor] OR PROBABLY A SALT JUNKY, NOT A DRUNK.

i believe that anyone who has and is capable of contributing (presently or in the past)to the system has the right to buy whatever the [censor] kind of FOOD they CHOOSE to buy w. THEIR EBT card. I have worked since i was 16 (now 33) and decided, due to the current state this economy is in, to return to school full-time to acquire my engineering degree...and guess what? I GET FOOD STAMPS AND MEDICAL! anyone who doesn't like the fact that I get it can kick rocks, along with the proper kissing of my [censor]. I live in a house I pay for, have a yard w. a pool in it...and I cook out on my grill under my personally built 12X14 ft pergola, with food i purchase with MY (17 year) tax paid EBT card... and i neither feel embarrassed nor shame when i use it. in fact, some of the BAKING SODA i buy WITH MY EBT card goes into my pool. I buy the same foods I bought when I did not have the EBT card benefit. I don't like to see people abuse anything, but perception has a lot to do with everything. There have been times where I have looked at my check for a week and the taxes for that week totalled well over $500, so if i CHOOSE to sit beside my CLEAR EBT BOUGHT BAKING SODA SPRINKLED pool, drinking NAME BRAND lemonade that I bought with EBT ( and with or without a manufacturers coupon, YES I CLIP), IT'S MY CHOICE AND BUSINESS. unfortunately, the thing that pisses me off is that cashiers (with their mundane titles and occupations) feel the need to express disdain for people who contribute to THEIR JOB AVAILABILITY. WHAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ARE THOSE THAT DO NOT, HAVE NOT AND WILL NOT WORK, YET CONTINUE TO HAVE CHILDREN THEY CANNOT AFFORD(i mean they're expensive, who can really afford them?) AND SHOW UP LOOKING THE PART AT THE GROCERY STORE WITH THE 'BOYFRIEND' PUSHING HIS OWN CART OR HAVING 'HIS' GROCERIES BAGGED SEPARATELY ..THAT'S DISGUSTING AND JUST PLAIN LOW. I HAVE STOOD BEHIND THESE PEOPLE AND HAVE HAD TO MOVE AWAY TO ANOTHER LINE TO AVOID EXPRESSING THE TRUTH TO THEM...because it's really NONE of my business. As for the 'crab people' that plan to throw it away, they're stupid and don't deserve anything, yet they are the ones that ALWAYS qualify for aid...because that mentality alone is a depiction of their environment..SO IGNORE THEM...STUPID PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THEY'RE STUPID.

@ fdhgfj: do YOU accept EBT? :-P

Does anyone realize how expensive good nutritional foods are? Lean hamburger and turkey burger is too expensive. Most people, like myself, have food stamps, and that's all the money they can spend on food. Yes, I work, I'm a registered CNA, I work my but off, support my family of 4 and dont have extra money to buy good quality food to last the month. All I get is what they put on the card, $268, that's it. Try feeding 2 growing boys on that for a month, plus yourself and your husband! Around here the economy is so bad, the food, gas, and other prices keep going up, the wages stay the same. You have to travel so far for work that by the end of a 9 hour shift, you only made $15 dollars that day because the rest goes into the tank. Try being unspoiled and struggling to make it just "one more month". Good luck to you, because I'm sure without mommy and daddy's money you wouldn't be who you are. THANK YOU KATICAKE, YOU SAID EXACTLY WHAT I FEEL.

SHACHERO: I can't agree with you more either. People dont realize that it actually is embarrassing to use EBT at the register, most cashiers are as ignorant and arrogant as a few people on this topic. Why can't we people on EBT be equals, be normal? I'm glad I have EBT because almost all people I have met that dont get EBT are like the [censor]s on here. It is true, stupid people dont know they are stupid.

@SANCHERO I like you have also paid taxes since I was a teen, my husband still works his [censor] off everyday of the week and like you I also decided to go back to school because with my two children I was paying my entire check to daycare. I am finishing college so I can once agaon work and not need help and pay my taxes again. WATCH OUT Dawniette will tell you that you are horrible and need to get a job and not go to school. If you have children she will also tell you that your children should be taken away from you as you are a "welfare [censored]" who does not deserve children. Props to you for bettering yourself in this [censor] economy. If you need help to get by while doing so, then so be it. And personally I dont care what you use your EBT for (be it your pool or what not) that is your choice.

I hope people are not complaining about the EBT Cards because its completely BULL [censor], I was a former user and only used it for food and always reported my earnings so WHY do people even complain about this. It is really hard to get okay, because it will take at least 1 month to do it like the insurance I use to have Medi-Care which took me about 1 year. I just don't know why people like the Homeless are even trying to sign up instead of pan handling because this method is a great method to start a new life. I used it before and it paid for some of my groceries and was really blessed that I got it or I would be hungry and maybe even dead. I am still on Medi-Care because I don't have a FULL TIME job, I am earning my own cash and paying for my own food. So the EBT program is good but does take very committment to get it. So anyone complaing about this must be a RICH S.O.B. because those are the ones really stealing money by avoiding taxes and committing Tax Fraud.

I would also like to add that when I was using it, I felt really embarrassed especially if there was a huge line at safeway or lucky's. I try to swipe it as fast as possible to avoid people from seeing it. So when I see people actually complaining about this, they have to turn around and see how they would feel because now when I see people using it, I just hope they can use it wisely though because it is really not that much if they do qualify, I just hope those homeless people at least try to sign up for it though instead of pan handling.