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I have been a cashier at walmart for about 4 days and the other day some asshole who obviously was able to work bought a pack of a cigarettes. The machine allowed him to purchased it with a foodstamp card...

I am very pissed off about this :x :x
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lololol, that's america's money being put into good use

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so they hired you again? Pretty surprising.

To be honest, I don't think you have all that much to complain about with people living off your tax money.
America basically pisses on poor and homeless people, not much of your tax money going their way.

Holland has one of the highest [don't know the word for it] 'uitkeringen'* for homeless and sick people in the world.
I think it goes up to 1100 euro($1451) total per month if you've worked for 5 years and then got fired/sick.
The social system is actually so good it's not really stimulating to get to work for them, they'd lose a lot of benefits, actually decreasing their total income, so they just don't bother at all.
You'd think these people live in shit homes or trailer parks, but the phenomenon trailer park just doesn't exist here. We give these leechers housing as well. Also extra money for incidental purchases like a new washing machine, or even a computer. They must stay 'competitive' to get a job you know!

Enjoy the fact that all they get is a smoke and some food from your government while you can.

*: Anyone know the translation for this? Translator says "payment".
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lol that is bad...they should only be used to buy food and nothing else.
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woutR wrote:so they hired you again? Pretty surprising.

To be honest, I don't think you have all that much to complain about with people living off your tax money.
America basically pisses on poor and homeless people, not much of your tax money going their way.

Holland has one of the highest [don't know the word for it] 'uitkeringen'* for homeless and sick people in the world.
I think it goes up to 1100 euro($1451) total per month if you've worked for 5 years and then got fired/sick.
The social system is actually so good it's not really stimulating to get to work for them, they'd lose a lot of benefits, actually decreasing their total income, so they just don't bother at all.
You'd think these people live in shit homes or trailer parks, but the phenomenon trailer park just doesn't exist here. We give these leechers housing as well. Also extra money for incidental purchases like a new washing machine, or even a computer. They must stay 'competitive' to get a job you know!

Enjoy the fact that all they get is a smoke and some food from your government while you can.

*: Anyone know the translation for this? Translator says "payment".


i am not trying to generalizer or discriminate, but i know that lots of Moroccans do this. some of them are to lazy to work and just leech of tax payers
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maxietheboss wrote:
woutR wrote:so they hired you again? Pretty surprising.

To be honest, I don't think you have all that much to complain about with people living off your tax money.
America basically pisses on poor and homeless people, not much of your tax money going their way.

Holland has one of the highest [don't know the word for it] 'uitkeringen'* for homeless and sick people in the world.
I think it goes up to 1100 euro($1451) total per month if you've worked for 5 years and then got fired/sick.
The social system is actually so good it's not really stimulating to get to work for them, they'd lose a lot of benefits, actually decreasing their total income, so they just don't bother at all.
You'd think these people live in shit homes or trailer parks, but the phenomenon trailer park just doesn't exist here. We give these leechers housing as well. Also extra money for incidental purchases like a new washing machine, or even a computer. They must stay 'competitive' to get a job you know!

Enjoy the fact that all they get is a smoke and some food from your government while you can.

*: Anyone know the translation for this? Translator says "payment".


i am not trying to generalizer or discriminate, but i know that lots of Moroccans do this. some of them are to lazy to work and just leech of tax payers



MMM situation is the same in Belgium, but it you don't go to job interviews and don't make an effort to find a job, you'll get less and less money.

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The oh-so-shocking truth: Some people sell foodstamps for crack.

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inky wrote:The oh-so-shocking truth: Some people sell foodstamps for crack.


Which is why it's a card now. Sad stuff is sad.
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takolin wrote:
maxietheboss wrote:
woutR wrote:so they hired you again? Pretty surprising.

To be honest, I don't think you have all that much to complain about with people living off your tax money.
America basically pisses on poor and homeless people, not much of your tax money going their way.

Holland has one of the highest [don't know the word for it] 'uitkeringen'* for homeless and sick people in the world.
I think it goes up to 1100 euro($1451) total per month if you've worked for 5 years and then got fired/sick.
The social system is actually so good it's not really stimulating to get to work for them, they'd lose a lot of benefits, actually decreasing their total income, so they just don't bother at all.
You'd think these people live in shit homes or trailer parks, but the phenomenon trailer park just doesn't exist here. We give these leechers housing as well. Also extra money for incidental purchases like a new washing machine, or even a computer. They must stay 'competitive' to get a job you know!

Enjoy the fact that all they get is a smoke and some food from your government while you can.

*: Anyone know the translation for this? Translator says "payment".


i am not trying to generalizer or discriminate, but i know that lots of Moroccans do this. some of them are to lazy to work and just leech of tax payers



MMM situation is the same in Belgium, but it you don't go to job interviews and don't make an effort to find a job, you'll get less and less money.


Used to be that way here but I think it has changed a while back >.>

Pretty lame IMO but meh...They're still human.
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thats cause they have wellfare as well its pretty much cash i know someone who has this
the money is separate example they receive 300 dollars for food stamps each month then wellfare money 200 dollars they can buy anything thats food and not food with the cash oh and also go to a bank and receive that cash they cant take the money from the food stamp part

how they use it when paying at a cashier i have no clue (btw being a wallmart cashier im surprise they didnt teach u this :? )

now im not sure if its called wellfare or not
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ineedhelp wrote:thats cause they have wellfare as well its pretty much cash i know someone who has this
the money is separate example they receive 300 dollars for food stamps each month then wellfare money 200 dollars they can buy anything thats food and not food with the cash oh and also go to a bank and receive that cash they cant take the money from the food stamp part

how they use it when paying at a cashier i have no clue (btw being a wallmart cashier im surprise they didnt teach u this :? )

now im not sure if its called wellfare or not


EBT cards at walmart are treated exactly like debit cards

on another note: some guy came to my register today and said "I'm from the south. I'm from ohio." I was like wtf
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