This is about fraud and about changing the SNAP system! Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Facts: Although SNAP is a federal program, state agencies run the program through local offices. Ok, I worked at Walmart for 15 years and saw so much waste and abuse with the food benefit programs. One day, I cleaned out a cart. I picked up a grocery receipt. It was for $365.00 - paid for with an EBT card. There was NO food on it, except for 1 bunch of red grapes!..There were cases and cases of pop, chips, sweets…all JUNK!..There was also a balance left on this card. The government gives out too many food benefits. People are getting a thousand dollars or more. Here are some of the things people do with all of that. Since they can not buy alcohol or cigarettes with food benefits cards, the people will have a person buy them liquor or cigarettes…like, a $40 bottle of liquor and in turn give that person buying the liquor, $60- 100 dollars in food, paid for with their EBT bridge card! I saw this many times. My own neighbor did this! Another fraudulent thing they do is: In Michigan, we have a bottle deposit of 10 cents. People will buy cases of pop, then go outside and pour it out in the parking lot. Then the person will take the empty pop cans and bottles and put them through the bottle return machines. With the bottle return receipt, they will pick up cigarettes or liquor and pay for it with the money from the bottle return refund! The bottle/can refunds should be used only on the purchase of more bottles or cans of the same beverages! People also buy non-elegible people groceries in exchange for rides, merchandise, etc. They are wasting benefits meant to feed themselves and their children when they do these fraudulent things! This is true! Pop is not nutritious, and neither is a lot of the other things people buy on the SNAP food program! I propose this, to not only end this fraud but to make America Healthy again: Change what items can be purchased with an EBT card!!! Make the foods allowed for purchase only basic healthy food > meat, fish, dairy, bread, fruits, vegetables, eggs, juice, and basic staples like flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, spices, and herbs! If these people on the SNAP program want cookies, candy, cakes, etc, then let them get their asses off of the couch and learn how to cook! The people would bitch to high heaven. Let them! They will get used to it. Not only will these people eat healthier, but they will also no longer persuade as many people to purchase liquor or cigarettes for them in exchange for food. People in this country are addicted to junk food, not real food. I proposed this before, but people told me, “Vicki, that would be too hard. You would have to change the whole barcode system!” Bullshit! It CAN be done, even if it is a huge undertaking! If we can send people into space and take them out of space, surely we can change the food barcode system! This change will make a great impact on people’s health. Eating healthy reduces diseases like obesity, diabetes, cancer, etc. People will have more energy, have better brain skills, strengthen all of their organs, and probably live a lot longer. We live in a society where there is a spirit of entitlement. So many think they are owed everything and look for free this and that. Another thing that might occur if the food benefits system is changed…is people wanting/demanding their junk food, might actually go to work just so they can buy it!! And, it is NEVER good to make the government your “daddy” because that is when the government owns you!!! Anyway, that is my suggestion to all of you. I hope you get to read it…
God Bless You and Your Families.
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I don’t think changing bar codes would be necessary. I stores should be required before ringing up item to ask if they will be paying with an EBT card. Once that is entered into the stores system it would only allow them to purchase healthy items. It would require new coding for the store systems, but it would probably be an easier fix then the other way around. Also EBT cards should not be allowed at fast food places.
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