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Lucille
01-06-2013, 04:13 PM
On The Dole And Watching The Pole: The New Normal EBT-Card User
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=46837


I’m glad the FSA are enjoying themselves. It seems they are using their EBT/SNAP cards at strip clubs. The government is aware, but they’re doing nothing about it. JPM gets their cut, no matter where the card is used, so don’t expect the abuse to stop anytime soon.
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On The Dole And Watching The Pole: The New Normal EBT-Card User
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2013

Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip club – where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a NY Post investigation found. From Bronx strip clubs to gay dive bars in the East Village, US taxpayer-sponsored EBT cards have been inserted into ATMs and food stamp ‘cash’ has presumably been used to feed another need. The Post found dozens of pubs, nightclubs and tobacco shops where welfare dough was dispensed – and presumably spent.

We should not worry too much though as Hilda Solis put us straight on how many millions of jobs these EBT-card fund recipients are creating and while we pass no judgment on those receiving and using the funds in whatever they see most fit, Cato’s Michael Tanner summed it quite succinctly: “This is morally scandalous, I have nothing against strip clubs, but that’s not what benefits are for. I don’t blame [recipients]. If you are poor, it’s a crummy life and you want to have a drink or see a naked woman. I blame the people who are in charge of this.” 32oz sodas made us gulp; rare steak tough to swallow; but take away the strippers and liquor – anarchy.

Via NY Post:

They’re on the dole — and watching the pole.

Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.

A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank’s Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx.

phill4paul
01-06-2013, 04:46 PM
Seems to me if they know which card was used and where then it would be easy to simply cancel the card.

belian78
01-06-2013, 05:03 PM
Seems to me if they know which card was used and where then it would be easy to simply cancel the card.
And if the SNAP program were actually there as a bridge for individuals between jobs, those cards would never be allowed to be used in such ways. On the other hand, being as that they are being transitioned into another layer of control over the serfs, this is working just as intended.

Anti Federalist
01-06-2013, 05:05 PM
God bless their hearts, isn't that just precious.

madengr
01-06-2013, 10:06 PM
Strippers need to eat too, and if they weren't stripping, they might be on the dole too.

idiom
01-06-2013, 10:13 PM
Just fifteen years ago... it was the other way around.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA3W36JVnRc

Origanalist
01-06-2013, 10:18 PM
Strippers need to eat too, and if they weren't stripping, they might be on the dole too.

Right, so we need to subsidize their income.

ghengis86
01-06-2013, 10:21 PM
how do i get one of these cards? and a free phone too?

ClydeCoulter
01-06-2013, 10:24 PM
Did the article say "DOZENS"? Do they mean they found only "DOZENS" that did this?

Origanalist
01-06-2013, 10:26 PM
how do i get one of these cards? and a free phone too?

Get in line


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YfGLB8LO1aM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio&feature=player_detailpage