Our entitled class

From the New Hampshire Sentinel Source:

Clerk loses job over stand
Jackie R. Whiton of Antrim had been a six-year employee at the Big Apple convenience store in Peterborough until a single transaction sent her job up in smoke.

The store clerk was fired after she refused to take a customer�s Electronic Balance Transfer card to pay for cigarettes.

Whiton said a young man came in to the store to buy two packs or cigarettes on May 29. When she asked him for his ID, he handed her his EBT card.

EBT cards are used for both food and cash assistance programs. There are two types of cards: one can only be used for food. The other can be spent on anything and used just like a debit card.

Whiton said she did not think EBT cards could be used to purchase cigarettes and refused to sell to him. The two �had a little go-around� as the line got longer behind him, said Whiton.

�I made the statement, �do you think myself, that lady and that gentlemen should pay for your cigarettes?� and he responded �yes,� � Whiton said.

The "gentleman" in question is part of the $80 Billion dollar/year problem -- we taxpayers are so subsidizing his life that he has no impetus to get off his ass and find a job. That $80 Billion is just the food stamp program -- this doesn't begin to touch all the housing and benefits and cash payments that our government is handing over to these mokes. I do not begrudge having a safety-net out there for people who fall on hard times but it needs to be short-term with drug testing and job training playing a significant role.