Free ObamaDollars: The EBT Card for Cigarettes and Alcohol
What can I buy. You CAN use SNAP You CANNOT use SNAP benefits to buy: Beer, wine, liquor, cigarettes or if you have not used your SNAP EBT card at all for.
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Jun 02, 2014 Bill that would ban using EBT cards to buy cigarettes you can use it to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products. You can also buy these.
I just recieved my EBT card in the mail today and I was wanting to know if I can buy Cigarettes and beer with it? My friend told me you can't get beer and smokes with the card that you have to go the grocery store and pay a little more for somebody elses groceries with your EBT card and get them to buy your... show more I just recieved my EBT card in the mail today and I was wanting to know if I can buy Cigarettes and beer with it? My friend told me you can't get beer and smokes with the card that you have to go the grocery store and pay a little more for somebody elses groceries with your EBT card and get them to buy your cigs and beer with cash in exchange. I was just wanting to know if I can get just get it with my card or will I have to go to the store and do what he does? I just recieved my EBT card in the mail today and I was wanting to know if I can buy Cigarettes and beer with it? My friend told me you can't get beer and smokes with the card that you have to go the grocery store and pay a little more for somebody elses groceries with your EBT card and get them to buy your cigs and beer with cash in exchange. I was just wanting to know if I can get just get it with my card or will I have to go to the store and do what he does?
Posted on 07/03/2012 6:00:37 AM PDT by Kaslin My son called me, furious. “I was just in line at the grocery store, and the girl in front of me had all this food and paid for it with an EBT card,” he told me. “Okay,” I said, trying to calm him down. “You’ve lived here all your life--you know that’s normal in L.A. ” “Yeah, but her boyfriend was in line right behind her and he had beer and all kinds of alcohol and then he got cigarettes and they paid for it with their EBT cash card after they got all their food!” he yelled. “I saved all week to buy my stupid groceries. I clipped coupons to save a few bucks, bought off-brand things and then I ended up paying for all of their food and their party stuff, too !” I didn’t know what to say because basically he was right. The public relations makeover for the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card is not only changing the entire system, it’s also taking away the last bit of “good shame” (the type you feel when you’d rather not be doing something) previously associated with using food stamps. The EBT card looks like any other ATM or credit card: And in California, you’re not only allowed to use your EBT cards at almost any fast-food restaurant, they actually seem to encourage it with large signs in their windows, billboards and advertisements. It’s simply no big deal anymore. You just swipe your card and there’s your food. (By the way, why isn’t Michelle Obama all over this “free junk food” thing? But I digress …) The easy-to-use EBT card has, of course, already had its share of abuses. In a 2010 Los Angeles Times report, EBT cards were being used in places like Indian casinos and strip clubs. According to The Times, it was discovered that nearly $5 million in cash benefits were spent or withdrawn from ATMs at casinos and poker rooms between January 2007 and May 2010. “The cards, which provide recipients access to federal as well as state cash, were also used in tourist destinations, including the Las Vegas Strip, a remote Hawaiian island that is home to two Four Seasons resorts and on cruise ships leaving from ports around the globe,” The Times reported. To try to combat the abuses, a bill was introduced last year by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee which bars welfare recipients nationwide from using their EBT cards in casinos, strip clubs, liquor stores, massage parlors, medical marijuana dispensaries, bars and even cruise ships. California liberals immediately called the bill “discriminatory ”. Jessica Bartholow, a spokeswoman for the Western Center on Law and Poverty said, "These measures come from a place of wanting to smear the names of low-income people who are looking toward the [welfare] program to help end hunger and homelessness." In then-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s defense, he fought to combat welfare fraud--including the use of fingerprinting food stamp recipients-- but he was shot down every step of the way. It’s not just California-- EBT abuse is happening nationwide. In Washington, Republican Senator Mike Carrell tried to pass a bill that would ban the use of EBT’s in tattoo parlors, bars and gun shops. “In Washington State EBT cards and their PINs are sometimes sold on sites like Craigslist. Then the sellers report them stolen and get new ones,” Carrell said in Spokesman.com. The report says that approximately 37,000 cards a year are reported lost or stolen and are replaced. The good news is that a phenomenon is happening throughout the United States in which regular citizens are starting to take a stand. In Peterborough, New Hampshire, 65-year old store clerk Jackie Whiton refused to sell cigarettes to someone using an EBT cash card. Whiton claimed she initially didn’t realize that there were two different types of EBT cards: one used strictly for food and one that can be used as a debit card for any items, including cigarettes and alcohol. However after being reprimanded, Whiton told her manager that she still wouldn't sell to EBT users because she didn't think it was right. "I made the statement, 'Do you think myself, that lady and that gentlemen should pay for your cigarettes?' Whiton told the New Hampshire Sentinel Source. "And he responded 'yes.' He was very capable of working, so I told him to get a J-O-B." She was fired soon after. Yes, Ms. Whiton was wrong since the rules in her state say it is okay to use EBT cards for the purchase of cigarettes and alcohol—but our question nationwide should be why is this even possible? How can “free” alcohol and cigarettes help poor people? Maybe the only good thing about this EBT bonanza is that it is making a lot of struggling 20-somethings like my son and his friends very angry. Kids who were previously Democrats are now seeing the difference between what Obama and his regime are promoting in America—complete government dependence—and the Conservative/Republican stance, which is self-sufficiency. For a political party that is always whining about ‘leveling the playing field,’ it’s not looking very ‘level’ to people like my son and his friends, who actually have to work hard for a living and are realizing first-hand that they are the ones paying for someone else’s food--alcohol and cigarettes. The entire Obama$$/EBT card situation infuriates me, too. We scrimp and save and do without so that those who sit on their collective arses ALL DAY can go out - without any guilt or shame - and buy non-essentials/luxury brands and items...on OUR dime ! Somewhere there's a group of government employees who worked to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse inherent in the old food stamp and welfare check operations, and they are now getting criticism because EBT operations aren't yet perfect. At the same time the professional welfare crowd (poverty pimps) in California aren't making it any better and are probably still distressed that EBT did cut the costs of food stamps and welfare. Sweden is actually getting rid of cash transactions through the use of EBT. They say this will eliminate bank robberies, and will dramatically reduce incidences of street theft but probably not home invasions or rape. Somewhere somebody's defense lawyer is already working up the criticism of the EBT system that will get his client out of jail on a murder charge. The world is changing right under our feet. You didn't say anything about "forced'. Now you want to change the subject ~ but remember credit cards, cash, gold, silver, cows, pigs, chickens ~ you name it ~ all have a history of being used to make symbolic wealth transfers ! That's what they do ~ chickens are the best though because a poor man can slaughter and eat the chicken in one meal with little waste. Cows are a problem ~ which is why the Sumerians invented those little clay 'bulls", and then invented "press in bulls', and finally went from their accounting system for bulls to the world's first written language. If they'd stuck to gold and silver you'd be illiterate ! Get rid of all EBT cards, food stamps, WIC vouchers and every other program and go back to commodities. Stand in line for your cheese, flour and eggs and be damn happy that you can get that. Got this off another forum. We should get it out there everywhere. The Ten Planks of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto (and How Democrats Implement Them) Abolition of private property rights (via eminent domain, zoning laws and UN Agenda 21) Institution of a heavily graduated income tax (by calling it “taxing the rich”) Abolition of all rights of inheritance (through a confiscatory estate tax on “the rich”) Confiscation of the property of enemies of the state (through lawless application of asset forfeiture) Centralization of credit into the hands of the state (Federal Reserve, bailouts of crony-capitalists, FTC, etc.) Centralization of the means of communications and transportation into the hands of the state (FCC, DOT, FEMA, etc.). Consolidation and subjugation of all major industries to central government control (EPA, OSHA, ICC, etc.) Mandatory labor union membership (public-sector unions, automatic withholding of union dues, “card check,” etc.) Equitable redistribution of all wealth (TANF, SSI, EITC, SNAP, etc.) Free public education (and food and health care and cell phones and Internet access, etc. The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward (1926–2001) and Frances Fox Piven (b. 1932) that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty". Food stamps, SSI disability and underfunding of Social Security via Obama's tax cuts are all ways to break the bank. Obama's handlers are not inept, they are evil. They care not the suffering that will befall our nation as long as they are the ones calling the shots. Many people would rather have the power to distribute the last loaf of bread in a starving kingdom than grant freedom in a wealthy one. LOL! Where have you been ! We worked our butts off to ‘reform’ welfare and finally made some positive changes when Newt was in power. We put time limits on people receiving welfare claiming welfare was a boost in a hard time, not a bed for life. Liberals just undid what we fixed in the dark and made it worse. That is the way life swings in the US. Right now they are undoing what we put in place to keep criminals off the streets. The revolving door is back.
Jul 03, 2012 The EBT Card for Cigarettes and Alcohol it with their EBT cash card after to use EBT cards for the purchase of cigarettes and.
Jan 15, 2013 known as welfare. Like most debit cards, EBT cards can be used food stamps and now EBT card to buy tobacco or alcohol is.
Can buy Cigarettes card that you have to go the grocery store and pay a little more for somebody elses groceries with your EBT card and get them to.
Can you get cigarettes and beer with EBT card/ Food Stamps?
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