Liberals LOSE Their Minds as Ohio Plans to Require Photo ID for Food Stamp Cards
An Ohio State Auditor, David Yost, has found MASSIVE loopholes in the $2.5 billion food stamp program which leads plenty of room for fraud.
In an effort to eliminate this waste, Ohio is planning to require photo identification to be added to EBT cards.
From Right Wing News
State Auditor Dave Yost, along with State Rep. Tim Schaffer and State Sen. Matt Huffman, announced the legislation Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. At a Statehouse news conference Yost said fraud accounts for millions of dollars in the program, formally known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Yost says that there is a 5% fraud and administrative error rate with OH food stamp system. The bill was introduced to both the State House and State Senate but it included an exemption to opt out for ‘religious’ purposes. The snowflake executive director of OH association of Food Banks, Lisa Hamlet-Fugitt, claims that this legislative move is unnecessary. She even says that those who need benefits will feel bullied or intimidated by these new requirements.
Are you kidding me? People on public assistance may have their tender feelings hurt because they will have to have their picture on their EBT card? I know how to fix their self-esteem issues right away…. Just tell those who are afraid or ashamed of having their picture put on an assistance card to get the hell off welfare. That way they will have no need to feel guilty or ashamed because they will have a job and confidence that they can provide for themselves without Big Brother holding their hand through life.
I quite agree with State Auditor, Yost when he called this ingenious plan a “no-brainer”. Unfortunately, it’s the people without brains who will complain the loudest. Do you think this legislation will pass?
I wish that would pass here in Florida, I have heard of people selling their cards for cash.. I think photo I.D is a start to weed out fraud. I also think they should drug test. If you need the help you should not mind these rules. If you don’t like it go to work, get a job. Welfare was only supposed to be a helping hand when things got tough, not a way of life.
I definitely agree. Welfare is for the disabled, not for the lazy and those who choose not to be productive. It’s simple: get a job.
Yes it will be so nice if all the states apply this issue!!!
I have personally seen one woman use five EBT cards at Walmart buying one small bag of potato chips and cashing out the rest of the card balanced. The Walmart employee actually broke the law by doing this. No one can use another persons card.
Did you report it?
I don’t think it will be that long and Trump is going to stop a lot of that mess. And thier $600.00 phones has to go and be replaced with a $60.00 phone, you know how many Kid’s that the Illegal Immigrint’s have that has those big phones I have seen Kid’s as little as maybe 12 year’s old, Stupied. But why not if the Government is going to pay for it.
Waiting for this to be a Nationwide Law, especially with Chicago, Detroit, rampant as hell of fraud
I back you on this one, Kevin.
Seriously, a photo ID should be required if you want to get food stamps or if you want to buy prescription drugs. This nonsense has continued long enough. Require the ID, and voila, at election time the problem is solved. Great idea. They even card the elderly for alcohol, why not require an ID for drugs and free money? Duh, it takes a monkeys mind to get it.
and a drug test………………….
If this passes (which it should), there should be no more argument about showing an ID to vote. The idea that having to show an ID to vote is racist, but having to show ID to turn on electricity or water or ANY utilities, is not racist, is ludicrous. Having to prove who you are has nothing to do with race. It is how every company & country in the world prevents fraud.
Yes, It will under this Administration.
All states need this ASAP.
Heck, it could be used for a form of Voter ID for those the left claims are too stupid to get a photo id.
BTW, what religion prohibits getting your photo taken???? smh
YES!
Please get this in New York! I know for a fact that the drug dealers here in NY are taking the food stamp cards as payment for drugs.
The reason they are so upset because if they have their photo on their card, they can’t sell it for cash at the little storefront shops that are being used as a cover-up for welfare fraud… I’ve seen this fraud 1st hand, it’s real and running wild all over the country
Trump’s administration should make this mandatory nationwide. I know of people with multiple kids who were getting $1,000+ a month on SNAP and selling their kid’s benefits for 50 cents on the dollar. They used the money to buy alcohol, drugs, tobacco products, etc and their kids and adopted kids went without. This person would take the “buyer” shopping for groceries and whatever the bill was, the “buyer” would give her half that amount in cash, afterwards. Unfortunately, this scenario would not be stopped with a photo ID. Personally, I think kids ate better when people got commodities instead of cash cards.
The sad thing about the above situation is the “buyer” was the woman’s mother-in-law and she was taking food out of her own grandchildren’s mouths. Plus, she was not in need. Sad, very sad.
Liberals complain about everything that goes on in this country. Liberals will be the destruction of America or what is left after the illegal got done. Now Obama and his army of 30,000 plus are out to destroy Trump. Put Hillary and the gay illegal in prison where they belong. Our government is nothing but nasty, mean crooked bastards.
What about the welfare people who wear burkas? What good is a photo of a person with a burka?
Well, if there is a requirement to have a photo, and to match the photo to the user, then that would mean that those who choose to wear burkas will not be able to get EBT cards. Right?
I want to know how having a photo on the card would help if all that is required is swiping, or inserting it in a card reader? Unless of course, when attempting to use it, the merchant would be flagged to confirm the user’s i.d.. I agree it’s a first step but I think it could be thought out better.
In Missouri and Oklahoma, a few years back, EBT/food stamp cards had pictures on them of the user. That didn’t stop the user from handing the card to someone for cash or whatever. The other person would take the card and buy groceries for that household. The pics on the card don’t work if the stores don’t enforce the rule that no one is to use someone else’s card.
It’s so funny how the left looks at things. I recently watched a segment on Judge Judy where a woman actually said she got on disability because she didn’t want to be on welfare anymore!! So ridiculous! But great move Ohio if this is true! EBT, or snap benefits are and have been abused way too long!!!
I work in the court system and see these lazy cheaters milking the system while Libtard judges turn a blind eye to blatant lying and cheating on finincial affidavits. . Drain the swamp and drown the cheaters.
This should be made MANDATORY across the United States! Of course they’re going to be mad! But so what!! The main people who will be MAD are the ones MILKING THE SYSTEM! The people who truly need help will follow the guidelines in order to receive assistance, they are not there because they want to be, they are there asking for help because they truly need HELP! I bet more than half will have have to get off WELFARE and work, they know how to work the system and that infuriates me, our taxes help people in need, OUR VETS and our Elderly Seniors, people who need this help are unfortunately being left behind barely making ends meet, because of LAZY A** people not wanting to work and wanting everything free! This is not what OUR nation is about, but thanks to Barack Obama’s catch and release + letting thousands of Muslims come in, they automatically get the FREE RIDE, and still they have the audacity to say they WILL NOT WORK for an American, and milk our government, THANK YOU VERY MUCH BARACK! Illegals also do this, what the hell!??! Not fair NOT RIGHT! I have faith that our President Trump is going to fix this, there is just too much corruption! Liberals don’t get it and act brain dead!! Wake up time to shape up and if you don’t like it, then get the hell out! Go to the countries theses illegals and Muslims are fleeing from! I bet after getting a taste of their lives, you’ll be begging to come back and LOVE what America stands for! BUT don’t take advantage of our System either!!
As a previous checker at a super market, I can not even begin to tell you the abuse of food stamps. No wonder we have hungry children here. First hand I have seen adults use every cent of their food stamps the first of the month when they receive them, saving nothing for later, purchasing high cost meats, soda, items that would be health or carry them through the whole month.
My feeling, go back to commodities, at least the kids would have food to eat for a month. Most of the people using food stamps are forever clients, no education or desire to get a job. Instead of handing them a free card to be lazy, let’s educate them. Give the mothers schooling, since most are single mothers, and free childcare until they finish their schooling, after completeing their education allow them six months to find a job, then remove them from the system. If they fail to support themselves after that, then it is on them. Take the children and put them in a government funded staffed housing home where they can learn to be productive adults, then let’s see if that mother is willing to find a job.
Children learn by what their parents do, if the circle isn’t broken on this kind of behavior, it will never end.
It should be mandatory across the US! I seriously think if you need help with food for more than a lifetime max of 2 years (some exceptions I understand) that you should have to complete a technical school program to continue for a third year and then the water runs DRY! No more help because you would have a skill to get a JOB and buy your own.