I have worked for 13 years as a cashier in a grocery store...

Really?? Attacking the OP, who has a job, and sees the leeches sucking our country dry. Sure, congress helped create this mess but the leeches took advantage and "eat" away at our hard earned money that you and millions of others surrender as taxes.

My company gave us an ultimatum about eight months ago, take a pay cut or they would layoff a third of the employees. We had no choice and took the cut. I have looked for another job but most companies in my field are laying off their work force.

Now my rant........so my pay is cut by 25K and we are on a strict budget. I have been looking for a second job but most are taken by people over 65, who are returning to work and ask for lower pay. Other managers tell me I'm over qualified or are afraid I will take their positions. Prospects are very slim at best.

Anyway, after being turned down again, I met my wife at the grocery store to do our weekly shopping. We gathered what we needed and waited in the check-out line behind a couple and their four screaming, smelly and filthy kids. Their parents wore new, expensive clothes. Manicured nails on both of them. Her shoes, my wife commented on, were $500. Here I'm thinking he or she must have a great job.

After the cashier rings up both of their carts of food, the woman pulls out an EBT card. I had not been paying attention to what items they were buying until the cashier, who became irritated, told them he had to start all over because they could not use the EBT card to buy over half of their items. As he started again, I noticed the crab legs, whole crabs, liquor, wine, beer, choice meats, lobsters, variety of fish, lots of junk foods and sodas.

Here I am buying rice, beans, meats on sale. Anything to create lots of meals for the least amount of money. After the cashier rang up the EBT amount, which was about $325, he tallied the remaining items. $655 was the amount owed that could not be used on the EBT. The husband pulls out a wad of $100 bills. The cashier and others around us just looked in disbelief. He had easily 4- to $5,000.

When they walked out with their carts of food, people around us became angry as did the cashier. Some made comments toward them about sponging off the taxpayers. The woman blurted out, "You all are the stupid ones for not taking advantage of the system.".

After paying, we went to our eight year old car to load it. I looked over and that same couple were loading bags into a brand new 2014 Lincoln Navigator. The man kissed his wife and told her he would meet her at home after he picked up the pinball machine. He walks over to a 2013
Ford F-350 and gets in with one of the kids. As he drives off, the kid was not buckled in to the car seat.

I hugged my wife. When we arrived home, she looked at me and said, "We may be struggling at this point in our lives, but I'm happy to be married to you. We are an honest, hard working family who can be proud."

She's right. My only concern is to take care of my family. The leeches, in time, will receive the karma they deserve. Rant off........

I have seen "food stamp" days go from steady,to crazy , non-stop busy, in the past few years. The abuse I have witnessed by American citizens on this program is disheartening.
This is not a big town... Maybe 12,000 to 14,000 people...
If it weren't for the food stamp recipients, I would be out of work, or have my hours cut greatly...
But.. I really hate the abuse of the "system"
NOBODY should be allowed to rack up $300 in (mostly JUNK)
groceries, and still have $300 + left on their balance!
And I AM NOT exagerating when I say "junk"! Most of the people who get A LOT of food allowances, spend it on
frozen, dinners, cookies, soda pop, , and GOOD, High Quality cuts of beef. SS disability days... just as bad.
How sad... These programs were meant to help people in need,and they became nothing more than a big government tit that nobody wants to wean from.

I have seen "food stamp" days go from steady,to crazy , non-stop busy, in the past few years. The abuse I have witnessed by American citizens on this program is disheartening.
This is not a big town... Maybe 12,000 to 14,000 people...
If it weren't for the food stamp recipients, I would be out of work, or have my hours cut greatly...

I have seen "food stamp" days go from steady,to crazy , non-stop busy, in the past few years. The abuse I have witnessed by American citizens on this program is disheartening.
This is not a big town... Maybe 12,000 to 14,000 people...
If it weren't for the food stamp recipients, I would be out of work, or have my hours cut greatly...
But.. I really hate the abuse of the "system"
NOBODY should be allowed to rack up $300 in (mostly JUNK)
groceries, and still have $300 + left on their balance!
And I AM NOT exagerating when I say "junk"! Most of the people who get A LOT of food allowances, spend it on
frozen, dinners, cookies, soda pop, , and GOOD, High Quality cuts of beef. SS disability days... just as bad.
How sad... These programs were meant to help people in need,and they became nothing more than a big government tit that nobody wants to wean from.

I agree with you, but I'm equally concerned that you have been a cashier for 13 years...are you like all tarded and shit?

They'd only grow pot and opium poppies...

My company gave us an ultimatum about eight months ago, take a pay cut or they would layoff a third of the employees.

We had no choice and took the cut.

they should implement a program to teach people on food stamps to grow their own food giving them seeds/soil etc.

would create jobs too

Or one that didn't bow down and suck enough big fat cock of authority to get a government job like you did.

What bothers me is that you live in a small town where that is happening. All this welfare is being used as an excuse to be lazy and out of work. And yes, it's a serious problem. I'm in Switzerland, there is government support for the poor, but it's tightly controlled to prevent abuse forcing people to move to find work or start a business and they don't really care if it seems racist to people either (Don't like it, move straight back to Erkelstan).

Meanwhile, in other European countries, it's being abused a lot. The problems are nearly identical to the US, entitlements, welfare, etc (In some cases even far worse than the US, the blacks there are tame compared to the North Africans here).

I don't understand why it's so difficult for people to band together and start their own operation. They prefer to be dependent on the government, living the high life, instead of actually creating a future for themselves and their community.

My plant in small town USA with its measly 50 employees gets hundreds of applicants every week. The ones I've talked too really have no motivation to create something, they all instead feel entitled to everything. So this tells me the problem is freaking huge and is going to have huge repercussions for the rest of the world if this keeps up.

Well said!

My main problem with the OP is the simultaneous. complaint about junk food and good cuts of meat. So which is it, junk food or God cuts of meat? Seems no win.

It seems like you're confusing shitty yank eating habits and necessity to some degree.

They wouldn't need food stamps if you didn't allow your fucking Un-American leaders to ship all your factory jobs to China. You stupid Americans never seem to be able to grasp that concept. It's like you can't see the forest through the trees.

What kind of moron works as a cashier for thirteen years?

Your assumptions about me make you feel.. ???
I made a post ... You assumed A LOT of (false) detail about me. I don't post much here. This may be the third or fourth time in the past 3 years...
Pretty sure it will be the last.

It seems like you're confusing shitty yank eating habits and necessity to some degree.

They wouldn't need food stamps if you didn't allow your fucking Un-American leaders to ship all your factory jobs to China. You stupid Americans never seem to be able to grasp that concept. It's like you can't see the forest through the trees.

Hey OP!

Read your reply to Brief.

To the point and you shut him up... So much that he had to whine like a little bitch and still couldn't redeem himself from being owned.

You are doing a job, a necessary job and with GOOD pride.

You're not abusing the system and a "useless eater" like the ones you've witnessed.

A lot of haters in here, but then, it's because they spend too much time in here I suppose.

Good show sir, good show!

Double This

Inequitable trade enabled by both democrats and republicans got us here. We have decimated our manufacturing buy outsourcing and automation. There aren't enough white collar jobs to make up the difference. Heck, how many college graduates can't even find work. Do the math.

I agree with you, but I'm equally concerned that you have been a cashier for 13 years...are you like all tarded and shit?

A individual cannot obtain more then $200 a month on SNAP. It

Does not matter how many family members you have or how many children you have.

The MAX a SNAP user can get is $200 a month. (You can get SNAP in the child's name if you wanted)

Why not do the research yourself and stop with the he said she said bullhonky?