Speaking of EBT Card Malfunctions...

As pertaining to this specific incident, do you not find it troubling that people are so eager and willing to knowingly steal? None of these people will ever be prosecuted or even vilified for knowingly stealing as much as they can carry. This sets a great example for future Americans who just see our government as a perpetual money tree... morality be damned. Or do some of you believe these "lucky" folks honestly believed their cards suddenly had no limits and they could legally clean out the store?

I find this trend in human evolution far more concerning than an inept government that couldn't find it's ass with both hands. And the fact that none will be forced to pay the store back only strengthens this idea that it's perfectly fine to take as much as you can carry as long as everybody else is doing it.

What is happening to the idea of self respect and pride?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-576 ... louisiana/

The Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system allows recipients of government food stamps to purchase goods using a digital card with a set spending limit, but for a few hours over the weekend, that limit disappeared for many users visiting Walmart stores in Louisiana.


Walmart and local police in Springhill and Mansfield confirmed to CBS affiliate KSLA that officers were called into the stores to help maintain order Saturday as shoppers swept through the aisles at two stores and bought as much as they could carry.

Careful there Rick. You even whisper "food stamps " on this board and the snarky foaming at the mouth posters will come out of the woodwork screaming and ream you out a new one faster than a bum on a ham sandwich.

I warned ya!

Unlimited debit cards sound like a great economic stimulator to me. Krugman would love it! :woo hoo:

My favorite line was "Walmart corporate told the stores to keep the registers ringing" ChaChinnnggg!

LOL Greedy capitalists!

This behavior also shows stupidity. They know who spent too much and are talking about cutting benefits in the coming months. So the unethical horde will have extra food to spoil and have less food in the coming months.
It would be like a group of Native Americans killing the entire bison herd in one location and letting most of them rot, instead of following and culling out a few head every month. Then again, maybe people were smarter a couple hundred years ago.

Ahhh, but THIS little "cyber hiccup" (both blocking the program AND allowing unlimited purchases) is just a MICRO glimpse of a HUGE fubar......look down the road......IF this was just
a corp. computer screw-up (Xerox, I think)....just WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE IF IT WERE A
CYBER ATTACK BY TERRORISTS?????? :pop :pop :faint:

As for me, I'm disgusted by both the people and by WalMart. I think the penalty for both the store and those who participated in it should be a year's sanction from participating in the program at all. Not having to pay the money back, not having to go without benefits until what they bought equals what they would have received, but not being eligible to participate in the program at all for an entire calendar year. Maybe the next time both will think twice about doing what they know to be the wrong thing and acting in an ethical manner instead.

Most Underbelly Americans actually belong in Tijuana....the culture is now that looooowwwwww.....

As long as those on educational welfare realize how much more they take from all of us vs. these folks down at Walmart one time.

Let's say one of these means tested folks took $1000 worth of food.

That would make them far better of a person than someone who lives in the foothills of the rockies in their own home with two cars and then had the balls to take $12,000 from their neighbors to educate their kids PER YEAR. These losers are not even means tested and do what those folks in Walmart did x10 or x100 or more. AND They feel good about their taking.

I just hope none of the people being critical of those who took from the EBT system took far more from their neighbors by gaming the local systems the same way.

In my world, you are all in the same group and those that used the system to take $1000 are far better people with higher morals than those that take $120,000 per kid from their neighbors to support their educational welfare if they were not in fact poor and in need. That is over 100x more taking BTW.

But don't get me wrong, all those that take from others or use the govt systems (or loopholes - like not having means testing for educational support) to get more for them when they are not in need are inferior.

Plus the cards did not malfunction, both the people and the govt program did.

PrintSmith wrote: As for me, I'm disgusted by both the people and by WalMart.

Oh I don't know about Walmart PS, they probably just followed procedure and are more afraid of getting sued than giving away a few thousand dollars of groceries. According to this USAtoday article, they get sued on the average once every 2 hours each day, or about 5000 times each year. Besides, the state or the payment processors are making the call (approving the transaction) and are probably liable once Walmart notifies them that "hey, something appears wacko with the debit cards".

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nat ... t-usat.htm

JMO......gaming the system is the m.o. within today's society.....it can be in a small,innocuous
way OR in large and obscene ways....corp tax loopholes for instance......ETHICAL BEHAVIOR is
passe......until we hold our highest officials responsible/accountable NOTHING will change because
the "average Joe/little guy" sees the examples being set AND accepts the paradigm.....JMO....
cheating is rampant within academia....both military and collegiate......WHERE do you think that
behavior stems from? Take a long hard look at our "America".....WHY would the Walmart incident
surprise you?

There's a reason that the DOW doesn't want you feeding the wildlife. they get dependent upon that support and stop working as hard to provide for themselves. The parallels with people are not incidental, rather they are predictable. And I am of the opinion that this is precisely why the "progressives" have expanded individual entitlement spending to 60% of all federal spending and worked so hard to remove any stigma attached to being on the fedeal dole. EBT cards are but one example of that.