Quote Originally Posted by Kellog View Post
If anyone sees me in the grocery store or Wal-mart using WIC vouchers don't give me any grief. DSS Foster care and adoptions just took custody of 2 of my grandchildren and placed them with my wife and me. I now have 5 grandchildren ranging in ages from 3 months to 3 years living with us. Anybody that says anything about me using WIC when I get in my 2010 F150 may get more than a mouth full. Don't judge a book by it's cover fits well in this thread. I don't post on here much at all anymore, but this topic got me fired up and I had to let loose.
Thanks for making that point Kellog. We have dozens of everyday examples of how the system is bad. Many first hand, many passed along the gossip chain and magnified along the way. It's good to have the positive side voiced by someone familiar, but most folks are too embarrassed or intimidated to do so.

Quote Originally Posted by Whompus Cat View Post
I've heard from a grocery store manager that a lot of times folks will go into a store, buy a bunch of expensive steak, lobster etc. with food stamps then return it to get cash so they can buy liqour, beer drugs etc. Then this meat/food that has ablsolutely nothing wrong with it must be thrown in the trash. This kind of stuff should be illegal, policed and for the very first offense should cut off their "aid", be charged with theft and jailed.
Businesses must register to accept WIC, it isn't forced on them. Most of them turn a good profit by doing so, if not they wouldn't go thru the application process. Your friend the manager probably didn't bother to tell you how much they make on the folks that don't cheat, but it's bound to be way more than they lose in cases like you were told about or the store would stop taking the vouchers or accepting ebt cards.


I am by no means supporting public assistance to those who can support themselves and their family by legal means. I am absolutely against the way that the system encourages young women to have baby after baby in order to get more $$ coming into the household. That and many other bad policies need to be fixed. But there are many good people who are helped by the programs and they shouldn't be tossed aside.

I'm not a flaming libtard any more than I'm a radical rightwing nutcase. I just wonder why being reasonable is so unpopular. I really hope that the public will be given enough reasonable choices next year to make a difference, but I guess, given the current atmosphere, that really isn't a reasonable expectation.