"The Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system allows recipients of government food stamps to purchase goods using a digital card with a set spending limit, but for a few hours over the weekend, that limit disappeared for many users visiting Walmart stores in Louisiana."
Xerox, which hosts some of the infrastructure used by the EBT card system, told KSLA that a power outage during a routine maintenance test caused the temporary glitch."
Walmart workers phoned their corporate headquarters to ask how they should handle all the shoppers with unlimited, government-funded spending limits, and were told to keep the registers ringing."
Shoppers gave mixed reactions to the incident, with one man in the Springhill store told KSLA it was simply "human reaction" to stock-up when given the opportunity. Shopper Stan Garcia was more critical of the unscrupulous shoppers, however, saying that taking advantage of the brief glitch in the benefits system amounted to "plain theft. That's stealing, that's all I got to say about it."
CBS News
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Free stuff is a pulley on which good character is hoist into public view, to cite Coleridge.
"Normal human reaction" is not the opposite of "plain theft" so the news people are kind of stupid.
Oh, I almost forgot.
It's popular entertainment so they're just flattering their audience.
See? Now it makes sense!
It's a feature, not a bug.
What happens when the site gets redesigned and works like ChoomCare?
The Lefties have just had a glimpse of what happens the day the system goes down and stays down. Do they honestly think they'll be safe in their gated communities?
(prolly, but the aristocrats at Versailles thought the same thing)
Suddenly, all those people buying AR-15s don't look so foolish.
Do they?
The whole country is imploding to appease the gibsmedat crowd. Because "If we don't...they'll RIOT!" Let them riot. Let the giant pimple pop. The riot(s) will spur a response. Just as there was an engineered revolution to make it a "normal human reaction" to steal, there must be a counterrevolution back to morality. Barring that, straight down.
Amateur video taken on shoppers' cell phones shows dozens of shopping carts, piled high with merchandise, abandoned in the aisles of one Walmart after the announcement was made that EBT cards were once again showing accurate spending limits.
I wonder what they were buying? What are the chances they deduct the overages from next month's benefits?
Obama and Pelosi have created masses of liberated takers.
Lem, maybe you should add a "No good deed goes unpunished" tag.
Relevant video footage.
H/T Cody Jarrett
Imagine they votes democrats could get if they promised that the EBT WOULD pay for pot and alcohol.
It's a human right!
The whole country is imploding to appease the gibsmedat crowd. Because "If we don't...they'll RIOT!" Let them riot. Let the giant pimple pop. The riot(s) will spur a response. Just as there was an engineered revolution to make it a "normal human reaction" to steal, there must be a counterrevolution back to morality. Barring that, straight down.
It's a nice sentiment, but it won't happen only because there are enough on the left who would call it a travesty of human rights injustice to let that pimple pop since it might potentially take out some democrat voters and they can't have that until amnesty is passed to fill in more democrat voter ranks. This country has already pulled the trigger at the gun pointed at its head and now we just get to see te bullet travel through it in slow motion. National suicide has already occurred, but the body doesn't know it just yet. It hasn't felt the drop to the floor.
Depressing thread on this topic at Ace today. Makes me want to make some of those zombie spike traps like in The Walking Dead.
Maybe it was a trial run of a new A&E show called Bait Card.
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