Reply #31: My wife works at a grocery store

[Poppyseedman]

I can tell you some REAL horror stories like the young people who come though her line with rolls of 20's enough to choke a horse, with diamonds as big as rocks, necklaces that cost thousands of dollars, yet pay with a Food Stamp card that has several hundred dollars of cash left on it for that month and send in their sister to use the rest with the same ID card.

People who spend literally hundreds of dollars on absolute crap they think is food.

People who line up their family member use their Food Stamp card that will use up all $1,800 in one shopping spree.

People who dress and drive better cars than we do as a family and outright tell my wife how they manipulate the system to get as much money as possible.

People who are married but declare themselves as single unwed mothers to increase benefits.

people who tell the agency they have grand kids as household members to increase their benefits to the max. Their mothers also declare them as household members.

My wife is a very compassionate person, but in the last year she has worked as a grocery store cashier has totally turned her around with the food stamp program. She tells me maybe 1/3 the people she see use the program actually need it, The rest are just sucking off the system like leeches. A vast majority are immigrants

It's broken and needs to be fixed.