Good Parents

For many moral reasons, we do not accept food stamps/EBT at the store. I don't agree with the system, or most of the people using them. 

Here's an everyday scenario. A mom or dad come in, usually with two to three kids. "Give me a pack of your cheapest smokes, and what cheap vodkas do you have?" At this time the kids are picking out a candy bar or bag of chips. Both $.99. I ring up their $3.75 cigarettes, and the $3.80 bottle of Potter's Vodka. The kids come up, "mommy, daddy can I get this?!" "No! We don't have money for that!" they shun their children. "How much is it?" they ask. "7.55" I tell them. "you accept EBT right?" they pose. "I'm sorry, no we don't" I respond. They proceed to get mad, and tell me how absurd it is that we don't. When absurd is probably just a cool word they heard on a show, and they don't know what it means. They pull out a crisp $100 bill, and pay. 

I thought they said they didn't have enough to buy the bag of chips that cost $.99? Strange. Isn't EBT/food stamps given to you to help with the care and well being of your children? Apparently, it's given to quench the alcoholism of the parents. I don't have kids, but I do know that a parent should go without before their child ever does! I would not ever bring my children with me to go spend food stamps on alcohol. There are people like this all over the country, milking the system. When, there are also people who would use it for the right reason, and they can't even qualify! It is my belief that the system needs a serious overhaul, and parents like these should lose their children until they can prove they deserve them. Until they realize the error of their ways. 

I grew up on food stamps, and still we didn't have much. Practically nothing, but our parents did without too! While nowadays there are kids who have never had a Snickers bar, because their "parents" need there alcohol, cigarettes, weed, and miscellaneous other substances. It sickens me to witness, and pisses me off the Child Protective Services exist for no reason. They must spend all day facebooking and playing farmville, because they're not doing their jobs. This is just another example of our country's mixed up priorities.