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In reply to the discussion: Clerk loses job for refusing to let customer use welfare money to pay for cigarettes [View all]
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)158. Fired because of ..."The two “had a little go-around”...
You call the manager and step aside.
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Clerk loses job for refusing to let customer use welfare money to pay for cigarettes [View all]
proud2BlibKansan
Jun 2012
OP
this kind of thing does make the progressives case for income assistance look bad...
CTyankee
Jun 2012
#5
This kind of thing? You mean, ignorant people trying to humiliate the poor and powerless?
EFerrari
Jun 2012
#13
You are right and I think of that. But I just had one of those "conversations" with my auto repair
CTyankee
Jun 2012
#31
I Think you have to come from a progressive background & an open family where political
Pyrzqxgl
Jun 2012
#85
I'm sorry, too, that we don't live in that kind of world, or at least not here in the U.S.
CTyankee
Jun 2012
#44
It differs from the anti-obesity arguments in that people have to eat to live but not smoke to live.
CTyankee
Jun 2012
#55
But don't you think it's hypocritical to slam the poor for trying to find a little pleasure in
sabrina 1
Jun 2012
#72
But I didn't "slam the poor" on anything. I was talking about the hard, political reality that we
CTyankee
Jun 2012
#93
if tobacco is eligible, it's because corporations & tobacco farmers lobbied to make it
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#95
GREAT point, and one's that very likely to be missed amongst the heat of the debate, even at DU.
bullwinkle428
Jun 2012
#148
In the absence of voters consent to provide aid, he would have been unable to buy cigarettes.
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#165
It's public money, and public funds, up to the point that a EBT card is funded.
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#169
LOL, so now this situation is my fault? Still doesn't make a lick of sense. n/;t
EFerrari
Jun 2012
#170
I wish I could say that everybody is on to the corporate welfare scam in this country but they
CTyankee
Jun 2012
#26
Yes indeed, in particular the purchase of Cadillacs using ebt cards just has to stop.
Warren Stupidity
Jun 2012
#152
Yes, if you refuse to allow a sale simply because the person is using a Welfare card
EFerrari
Jun 2012
#21
When did Big Tobacco care about choice? Remember the decptive adds and studies?
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2012
#81
This isn't a discussion about corporate propaganda. For that, you'd need to start your own thread.
EFerrari
Jun 2012
#101
if you can buy cigarettes with benefits, it's for the benefit of the corporations &
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#89
it's an eligible product on the card, what don't you get? and it's eligible because
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#103
We live in a system that guarantees that there will be poor people. Poor people are not infants...
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#125
Then in NYC she would be treated like every other supermarket customer.
Warren Stupidity
Jun 2012
#154
no, your post is bullcrap: i pay $9 a pack for cigarettes, and most of it is tax.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#106
Yes, she was playing morality police. If it'd been a mistake* I'd be for her. But she ran her mouth.
freshwest
Jul 2012
#176
the article says one type is for food only, the other type is for anything, even gambling.
unblock
Jun 2012
#6
WIC is a voucher. Very specific as to what you can buy with it. Milk, cheese, eggs, beans, juice,
Erose999
Jun 2012
#8
Jackie R. Whiton, had been a six-year employee at the Big Apple convenience store ...
Kalidurga
Jun 2012
#4
Further in the article it states, “She didn’t think it was right and just wasn’t going to sell..."
ieoeja
Jun 2012
#29
The cash portion can be spent at the discretion of the reciever of the assistance. n/t
cynatnite
Jun 2012
#15
If you're not going to allow poor people to buy smokes, why should you allow the rest?
cynatnite
Jun 2012
#46
Why do you keep saying it isn't our business when it is our money they are spending?
Bandit
Jun 2012
#94
moving to put all public benefits on these cards gives the public ever so many more
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#112
Yes, it is. Most people work hard for their money and when they see it squandered
MrTriumph
Jun 2012
#84
apparently only when poor people "squander" it. albeit the overwhelming majority
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#114
does it bother you that the military sells cigarettes and junk food to the troops?
Bluerthanblue
Jun 2012
#160
I thought in some states you can't buy smokes or alcohol with welfare cards.
southernyankeebelle
Jun 2012
#27
Notice how the store clerk and the customer are pitted against one another, while
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#69
+1. and it's because of the media meme -- "lazy welfare cheats, wasting our money"
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#86
Say what!? Taxpayers pass moral judgments every day about how their money is spent.
MrTriumph
Jun 2012
#87
I'm sorry but welfare is not for food. It is for your living expenses.
Warren Stupidity
Jun 2012
#155
This thread is a prime example of what makes the average person irate: Poor people
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#92
i've been kicking a thread about the attack on unions for three days. one response.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#115
really. why would any working class person vote democratic, when they're constantly
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#116
Got called for a jury on your hateful post-then I saw you'd already been PPRed....Good riddence
Rowdyboy
Jul 2012
#173
This just makes me so sad.....the whole idea of power over someone else.....
a kennedy
Jun 2012
#145
