Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Food Stamp Riots Plague The Nation?

Customers turned ugly as overflowing grocery carts were left abandoned in the aisles.



(WND) On Oct. 14, when a temporary power outage caused the Electronic Benefits Transfer system, or EBT, that allows people on government assistance to buy food using a digital card with a set spending limit to go down in two Louisiana Walmart stores, chaos resulted when shoppers suddenly found their food stamp debit cards could not be used to buy food.

When Walmart corporate headquarters allowed people with food stamp debit cards to buy food anyway, shoppers in the Wal-mart stores Springhill and Mansfield, La., shoppers stripped stores bare, with the result that

Local law enforcement had to be called in when the EBT cards were once again turned on and Wal-Mart discovered shoppers with as little as cents on their food stamp debit cards were found attempting to steal as much as $700.

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Posted By: Chris Carmouche