Life's Good On EBT Street (Welfare money for trips to Hawaii)
Boston Herald ^ | September 22, 2011 | Michael Graham
“I just swipe my EBT .. . Every day I get my ‘swipe’ on . . . I mean who cares? It’s the EBT it’s not food stamps.”
— YouTube rap song, “My EBT.”
Welcome to EBT Nation!
Gone are the days of food stamps and social embarrassment. Forget using taxpayer benefits for government cheese and day-old bread. When you’re “EBT’n’ ” (like the cool kids call it), you’re livin’ large!
Walk through Downtown Crossing, for example, and you’ll see signs at Tello’s for hip jeans, tops and lingerie. You’ll also see another sign: “We Accept EBT!”
Now nobody’s going to confuse Tello’s with Barney’s, but are Massachusetts workers really paying $400 million a year so folks on the dole can buy (to quote Tello’s catalog) “sexy chemises” and “designer denim?”
Apparently we have to. Otherwise, what are EBTistas going to wear on their next vacation to, say, Hawaii?
Yes, Hawaii! Channel 5 reports that “more than $2.3 million in Massachusetts welfare money” has been spent in locales outside the state in a three-month period, including Hawaii, Las Vegas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
So grab your “free” SafeLink cellphone, hop in your government-subsidized Deval-mobile, grab a burger at one of the restaurants taking Electronic Benefit Transfer cards and head to the airport. The isles are waiting!
And if you’re short on walkin’ around money, no worries: The Patrick administration offers online “Tips On How To Use Your MA EBT Card To Get Cash Benefits.”
We have no way of knowing if that particular three-month period examined by Channel 5 was the norm because, as the station discovered, the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance has never
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They need work farms and boot camp 24/7 for these leeches
