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Your EBT Card Has Been Denied... At The Spearmint Rhino
America's welfare state is about to suffer a double whammy of epic proportions. On one hand, extended unemployment benefits are now running out at a pace of 100,000+ per week, as more and more American's lose eligibility for Komrade Samov's 99-week sponsored vacation, meaning millions of Americans heretofore sitting comfortably on their couch playing Call of Duty and collecting $400 a week will now start having to think for a change - never a good thing for any regime that relies on its electorate to be docile as drunk and fat Hindu cows. And now this: "New York would prohibit welfare recipients from spending their tax-funded benefits on cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, and strip clubs under a bill passed overwhelmingly by the state Senate on Tuesday. "I understand that people need food stamps," said Republican Sen. Thomas Libous, a Broome County Republican. "What I don't understand is why they need to go to strip clubs, buy lottery tickets, go to a 'racino' or buy alcohol." Wait, you mean you can't spend other people's money to pay for a lap dance? What crazy form of inhumane austerity is this. And isn't spending taxpayer dollars at the Spearmint Rhino one of the amendments to the post-Obama constitution? But perhaps the scariest implication is that New Yorkers actually do spend their EBT money at the Spearmint Rhino right off the card, being ripped off with the traditional 15% plastic surcharge instead of just paying cash. Now that is really stupid.
More on the "Public Assistance Integrity Act"
Libous said New York must restrict the spending by recipients whose benefits are linked to debit cards to conform to federal law. President Barack Obama signed a law in February that will require states to restrict how the cash portion of social services is spent, or lose 5 percent of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funding. New York risks losing $125 million next year.
Others questioned the need for the restrictions, saying they were a slap at the poor.
And though this Act is far from being voted through, already the civil rights brigades are screaming bloody strip club murder:
"It's a prejudice, I think, about poor people that we are seeing represented more than any statistical or study of behavior," said Sen. Bill Perkins, a Harlem Democat and one of the few senators to vote against the measure. "If they have evidence that there's a rash of that, I'd like to see it."
Then there is the GOP response:
New York's Republican senators who led the bipartisan 56-3 vote Tuesday said New Yorkers are amazed the law allows such spending now. The law prohibits the use of food stamps to buy alcohol or tobacco products, but it's allowed under the "cash allowance" contained in the EBT cards.
"'They can do that? Are you kidding me?'" said Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican, in recounting constituents' reaction. "That outrage is well placed," he said.
"Right now, under the law, you can use the cash assigned for gambling, alcohol and lottery tickets," Libous said. "We get quite a few complaints on an annual basis."
Some state officials are concerned the federal measure, and its 5-percent penalty for failure to enact restrictions, infringes on states' rights to distribute federal welfare benefits under their own rules.
Of course, since most strippers, despite their name, are not equipped with magnetic strip readers, and since most EBT cards will still dispense cash, we can't help but wonder just what is the whole logic behind the idiocy of on one hand generously handing out welfare benefits to anyone with a pulse, and in some zombified cases. without, and on the other coyly posturing for political reasons.
Either way, this sadly may mean that the time to officially short RICK has come.
It, of course, also means that soon enough the #OccupyScores crowd will be firmly in place on the main dancing area, beating their bongos in sync to Pour Some Sugar On Me.
In conclusion, what else but... My EBT.
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Damn!! I was wondering why my card just got denied
Can I haz bath saltz?
Im chained up in slavery-slavery-slavery
By extension, shouldn't all those politicians be barred from buying all the coke, hookers, cigars and Chivas with state monies?
If its good enough for the fucks in congress, at least the poor sap formerly employed by MF Global can have a taste.
Fucking idiot douche nozzles all around
They earn their fucking money man! They sweat blood to get their contributions from JPM.
Oh boy..
That’s really going to hammer the service sector lap dance stats for the rest of the year.
Don't you get it? Reagan proved that we need to shop till we at the very least drop! Without shopping the whole economy will drop. And that means buying the most frivolous, unnecesary, disposable, cheap thrills available. Shop quick shop hard!
Electronic Booty Transfer.
Fucking take away the EBT strip club card and watch the 85 IQ Jerry Springer crowd steal more Tide detergent. It will fucking happen.
The "Public Assistance Integrity Act"
Funny, elected officials in New York using the word "Integrity".....................
XXX Rated EBT song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luo40WjBKWI
EBT = subsidy for businesses that target the poor = keep the poor fed so they don't revolt = $200/month = vote buying by republicans (southern) and democrats (inner city) for their ignorant constituents.
right way to do this is through direct distribution of basics like butter, salt, rice, etc. not money.
the natives will be restless.
The rich can spend their bailout welfare at Spearmint Rhino.
you mean rich likethe traders at AIG?
"AIG made more than 73 millionaires in the unit which lost so much money that it brought the firm to its knees, forcing a taxpayer bailout."
lets get back to the real issue.....corrupt wall street.
I bought a lot of lead and brass based precious metals (cash - not direct on card) with my 4 weeks of EBT sponsored vacation unemployment before I found another job. Smart or selfish? You decide, I'll be busy stacking.
Wait till they (and you) have to line up for your 5 lb. bag of government rice thrown from a FEMA truck. Stock up on long term storage food now, while it's cheap and available.
Obamney 2012, Hasten the Collapse
everyones' booze/booty/bubble gum tax card
Contrary to the made up idiocy of you in the urban chest shaver brigade, southern repubs arent living on EBT. Whatever their misconceptions and issues, that isnt it. The mentality of the southern blue collar type is very much that if they cant earn it, they dont want it or need it- and if times get tough they will band together for as long as they need to. As a point of reality, the cost of living in the rural south is low enough that one can live decently in an area with little ot no crime on a modest income.
For some reason it just makes you lefty tards feel good to pretend it is that way.
Most people don't leave the county they're born in, except for vacations.
Doesn't matter if it's Dekalb or New York.
http://timiacono.com/wp-content/uploads/10-12-09_food_stamps_by_state.png
Top 10 states with largest % of population on food stamps
In the 2010 fiscal year, $65 billion in food stamps were distributed, with an average benefit per recipient in a household of $133 per month.
AIG received $170 billion in taxpayer bailouts after posting a loss of $61.7 billion.
corporations win.
but you know who LOVES food stamps more than the poor? Fortune 500s who service the poor.....
An EBT enterprising entrepreneur could open up an holistic grocery next door 2 a strip club & provide healthy eating, drinking, & inflamed joint-massage.
1) Got any actual SOURCE material, not just numbers pulled from thin air and entirely unsubstantiated?
2) Got a breakdown that shows political affiliation and food stamp usage and actually proves what you say?
Im betting the answers are no and no. You actually think that proves your claim?
Where's "Oregan?" And, if California, which contains roughly 30% of the nation's welfare recipients didn't make the list, I'm not buying it...
Right on, Brother!
There's nothing funny about funny money.
I am always surprised by what I learn on this site.
@economics9698
85? That's generous. Regardless of mental capacity, the Springer demimonde are the sub-68 functioning retarded.
Paul Krugman has suggested a stimulus package whereby the threshhold to receive EBT cards would be reduced significantly, effectively doubling the number of EBT card recipients to approximately 100 million persons, and allowing holders of EBT cards to purchase tobacco, alcohol, bath salts, and even services (such as manicures, pedicures, massages and hair weaves). The other portion of the Krugman Stimulus & Financial Hole Digging Act of 2012 would call for the United States to offer and sell 22 trillion USD worth of treasuries in order to fund the 'Defending Against A Hostile Uranus Invasion Program,' whereby each U.S. household would be provided with plasma and particle ray guns, along with enough radiation resistant material to encapsulate their homes with.
If you recommend dropping cash from a helicopter, you are laughed at. If you give a long winded rationale for more EBT cards, you get a Nobel prize.
"the Krugman Stimulus & Financial Hole Digging Act of 2012"
This is very funny, and all too true. How does that saying go again? ... "If you find yourself digging a hole, the best course of action is to stop digging!
Edit: The linked video is "currently unavailable."
Poor choice of EBT song. This one is much better...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII
CAUTION: DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE A TAXPAYER
Yack!
Conrad, sorry about posting a link to the same song.
FWIW, I did link the 'clean' version.
No worries fellow tube inhabitant. Here's to hoping more people see it and indulge. And here's to doubly so hoping ZH sees it fit to include in the article on an update :D
Damn! If she had a Platinum version of that card she could go to the head of the security line at Pearson Airport now....
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1212973--american-express-cardho...
I could never understand why they named my favorite 'ocracy' after my least favorite Disney character...
http://images.wikia.com/kingdomhearts/images/8/84/PlutoCG.jpg
You warned me.... should have heeded it....
After I paid my bills today, I have $100 to live this week. I have a 30 minute commute (car gets 31 mpg), daughters lunch $3/day, and we only have meat for two meals... hope to god I don't see an EBT while I am at the store tomorrow with my change bag. I might just find my breaking point.
On a more positive note, at least my state has some restrictions. They do not allow the purchase of any hot food items. I used to think that was a bad idea. My rationale was that if their gas and/or electric is shut off they wouldn't be able to have any hot meals for their kids. After watching that video, I realize that the way I used my assistance when I had it is much, much different than how some use it. So now I am glad for the restrictions.
What a world, what a world...
..."Shop quick shop hard".. Nice word play there CE. Like it.
I don't believe this article has anything to do with unemployment benefits, but rather welfare checks. Last I heard, most of the unemployment checks were physical and unable to be restricted after cashed or deposited into an insolvent bank.
A brief aside: I think this site would be more beneficial to everyone if, instead of just pumping physical metal purchases and hyper-inflation scenarios, it also played devil's advocate and suggested what it thought a printing press central banking system would do next other than ignite a catastrophe. There just seems to be so little respect given to the ability of the mainstream media to sway the masses and/or the politicians to appease the sheeple that the "doomsday" scenario is painted as an inevitability here on ZH. There's almost always more can kicking. I simply think you are undersestimating the ignorance of the masses as it pertains to these issues and the lengths TPTB will go to keep the ponzi alive.
And enough with this Graham Summers guy...plllleaase!
Bravo!
Slavery would imply that some hard manual work was being done.
Oh it is being done.... by whom was not clear....
"My EBT, my EBT, Eating good, potato chips"
@Waffen
I believe that you and I understand the intended levity of this "song," but I can't help but think that good men died to create this worthless society. All for naught....
For thousands of years good men have been dying because they believed a load of bullshit from some self-appointed leaders and their publicists. It was nearly always all for naught.
define "good"
EBT collecting dumbasses who fund local businesses which happen to sell alcohol, so that the business owner can send his kids to college is not necessarily "bad" if you look at the big picture.
compare EBT abusers to those like Romney and Bush BORN with millions who want to ensalve you even more.
Moochelle Obama is the biggest EBT abuser in the US. Living for free in WH (section 8 at it's finest), free food at the WH (no need to go to Safeway and swipe her card), free transportation (govt. limos, planes, etc...), the best healthcare (no visits to the free clinic for her and the kids), need I continue??
hahaha.....you must be poor.
yes point fingers at someone while ignoring the white elephant in the room.....
Do you want to compare michelle obama to the lives of ditzy hedge fund manager wives or hollywood whores?
how about that heather mills gold digger who got $50,000,000?
How about kobe bryant's gold digger wife who wanted $75,000,000?
Turn on the TV, if you really want to see freeloaders getting rich off of backs of others.
Although you sometimes irritate me aldo.... you do make me think.... so +1 for that
The banks get money for free. Fiat paper is a joke, why not just give each American $100,000 a week, let this charade end as it should.
+1 for the comment and two thumbs up for the boobs
The next time some dickbag claims 'deficits don't matter', the '$100,000 for each warm body' stimulus should be beat into their smug-fugly faces.
Fucking morons
I'd rather see the money go to strippers then propping up insolvent banks. At least they are contributing to society
didn't you watch inside job?
bankers do spend money on strippers....actually they go even deeper....prostitutes.
Right, having more welfare babies
Party of the century in the USA! Would definitely increase tourism...
don't worry, soon to be app for the ipod and the "cube" that connects to the ipod to swipe your gov benefits to that fav stripper of yours.
Nice panties !
Is she pregrant?
Where does she keep the card swipe thing-a-ma-jig?
She's (it's) a robot. There's a nearly hidden slot between her legs. Ain't technology wunnerful?
Let's just say it's a "lip-reader" - and not on the face!
Forget the panties. =)
I had a hard time reading the article. However, I think People will find a way to trade on EBT because there is plenty of ways to swipe cards such as on Cell Phones and such that are equipped with a card reader.
If the gal is preggo, and your EBT is bad, you could pay for the lapdance with say... baby formula bought and paid for with your EBT.
Nope, that's perfect female form right there ...about as good as my avatar I would say.
Yes with
What No camel Toe either?
I can't get past the photo long enough to read the article. Damn I love women!!! How could any man be into da' frank n beans? I'll never get it. And thank God for that.
And thank you for changing your avatar!
She is a drag queen, look closer between the legs
Hope & Chains while illegal alien Obama and RINO Fidel Rubio want more amnesty.
oh snap!
This law will have the same effect as preventing the poor from buying yachts, pro baseball teams, and senators.
enter... Black Market for SNAP cards... In other news... "SPEARMINT RHINOS BITCHEZ!"
I've been in line at stores and had someone ask me if I could buy their stuff in trade for their snap credits.
"It's an even trade!" I was told.
And no, I did not trade my paper for credits. Funny because there was a point when I didn't think it could get worse than using funny money.
50 cents on the dollar exch rate for SNAP cards.
The government is stupid and so populist in their thinking and their behavior.
The government? The same government that has "hired" Central Banks to issue the supply of "money"?
Really Lizzy, who is the idiot here? The government, the economists and bankers, or the people that allow these two regemes to run their world?
Well Said. I love the name too.
This didn't happen overnight. The solution will take a while to coalesce. Certainly longer than we'd like.
no doubts on all of the above...
40 oz. Olde English High Gravity ought to command a premium...
SNAP cards are backed by the extractable amount of Steele Reserve from the Kwik-E-Mart mines
Oh SNAP!
This is good info. After my 6 figure severence and other hot to trot assets fail I look forward to this fun and apparently quite musical money.
Better start stakin out your terrain now... It's quite territorial in that part of town...
Eff you.
I rather keep the 40 ounce silver thank you.
At least I managed to flee the land of 20/20.
"50 cents on the dollar exchange rate for SNAP cards"
... sounds like the kind of business JPM might be interested in -- I'll give Dimon a call and see if he wants a piece of the action ...
While you're on the phone with him, whisper- "g u i l l o t i n e" .
Thanks
I think JPM is in the SNAP card business. They get a fee for each swipe. Who knows who gets the card balances that are never used. Ask Jamie. It might be a substantial sum.
50 cent (or less) on the "snap dollar" has been the motto of the pusherman since... well... the snap card.
The other economy.
I'm willing to bet >30% of social-security checks in the big city go to the pusherman too for predatory drug lending.
Black Market? Racist much?
didn't think of that until you just brought it up... Thanks for bringing it back to the forefront of everyone's attention...
I think most tend to NOT think about it anymore. It's a foregone conclusion.
SNAP.
Blackmarket -- da hood be one big ass market.
It be rayciss.
The kind of ass you need to take a bus and a train to get around to the good side.
At least these little wee ones are still able to perform without danger of heart failure.
If the wee ones were not allowed to work at the Rhino, the Mammys at the Project can put on something for you.
Better bring sufficient drink to ease the shock on your eyes and brain.
No Bitches, Bitchez..
file this one under "you just can't make this stuff up"
A dollar spent is a dollar spent.
I don't give a shit if they buy food, booze, or overpriced booze at a strip club.
How many dumbasses are actually buying the requirements for a meal, and fuck you organic food tools because you pay twice as much for nothing but the word.
And why should any of you idiot fucks care if your tax dollars go to food or booze? It's still leaving your hands and going into someone elses.
But the point that no one seems to understand is THERE WILL ALWAYS BE WAYS TO GAME THE SYSTEM AND PEOPLE SMART ENOUGH TO USE THOSE WAYS.
Pass all the fucking laws you want, no way around what I just wrote.
Uhm ... I think the "anger management" seminar at the YMCA starts at about 8pm ... just say'in ...
Marla Singer is going to be at 'testicular cancer', just so you know...
Also, their (YMCA) soda machine will accept your EBT, Mr. Foil.
*snif - snifFFF* trav? is that trav7777?
@forexskin
No, gully just seems to be a dick whereas Trav777 used to piss people off by saying sensible things such as that if you stuff the United States with 3rd world people then you will end up with a 3rd world country.
So, uh, Gully...anything you want to splain about how you spend your free time and how its paid for? ;-)
Well he definitely isn't spending his money on his meds.
It's hurtful to restrain a man's trade like that.
Gully Foyle you need help but in the meantime use that food stamp card and buy yourself a few grams of gold.
If the personality shift that guy has undergone is any indicator, I dont think it was grams of gold.
"And why should any of you idiot fucks care if your tax dollars go to food or booze? It's still leaving your hands and going into someone elses."
Well, a lot of those SNAPPERS have youngins.
Think about the children...
The booze and the "chillun" are not exactly independent phenomena.
"But the point that no one seems to understand is THERE WILL ALWAYS BE WAYS TO GAME THE SYSTEM AND PEOPLE SMART ENOUGH TO USE THOSE WAYS.
Pass all the fucking laws you want, no way around what I just wrote."
You just made a good case for less regulation.
Forget EBT cards and go back to commodities. Beans, Flour, Salt meat, cheese, Etc. People on assistance had to go down and pick them up in person. Now that would be a sight to behold.
As well as less of a "system".
or more eugenics....
Organic means to fertilize with the pile of composted shit.
At least we become REAL friendly if you purchased that kind of crops from me.
Isn't ZH the repository for that file already? I swear not an hour or two goes by without me reading ZH and thinking that.
Shit!!
This is an outrage! Booze and strippers are some of the only local industries left in the US, buy American! Strippers, both receiving and giving "stimulus".
it's all going to the asian strippers. its easier to swipe yer card in their horizontal box.
Horizontal? I thought it was vertical
"When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery"
-Neal Stephenson "Snow Crash"
Is there really a Spearmint Rhino in NYC now? I know they are all over the Los Angeles(and SoCal) area, but I didn't know they've come to the East Coast.
I was so sure that "Spearmint Rhino" referred to a deviant sexual practice that I was almost afraid to Google it. But Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearmint_Rhino) claims that the name "is not a codename or reference to anything." What a disappointment.
I hear you. I've done that before when somebody referred to a lemon party. I made the mistake of googling that.... I have never been right since.
you too?
Well whatever you do, do NOT google Dirty Sanchez.
Or Santorum.
Shit, when you put them together do you get a Rubio?
pods
Throw in Palin and you got tubgirl.
Yer thinking of the experiment rhino. I googled it and have felt sheepish ever since.
Trust me on this one , for pure style points the deviant sexual practice titled "Jelly Donut" takes the cake for the perfect blend of misogyny and visual imagery.
"not a codename or reference"
Yeah....not phallic in the least. LOL
You would be surprised at what managed to make it to the other coast.
In my time all you needed was a large sign at the door warning that if you are easily offended by Adult etc etc etc...
Fucking tyrants.
The tyrants want to take our dignity! If we can't use our EBT cards to score booze & smokes & play the Wild Cherries machine at the tittie bar, what good are they? What, we're supposed buy Pampers and wheat bread and fucking 2% milk with them? Fuck that shit! They're treating us like second-class citizens. Total disrespect.
the poor aren't always without us, walrus without mercy
Total Eclipse of the Heart - YouTube
When one considers the culture created for people like the 'EBT man' it's easy to actually feel sorry for him. He is not much more than a grown-up child, still depending on someone else for everything, never experiencing the struggles of life, learning do despise things like working, being responsible for himself and family. But on the other hand you have the enablers, statist politicians that profit from taking from the deserving and giving to the underserving. In essence creating this corrupting culture that is the ruin of nations. Those are the tyrants you speak of and hate.
No alcohol? The NY Senate might need to install bullet proof everything.
Yeah ~ the 18th Amendment worked out real well too... Got a lotta cool gangster movies out of it in the end...
People who have enough dole money to spend on strippers have another source of income. ODB lives forever!!!
They've got it down to an art in the UK literally, GLC Jobcentre "at the jobcentre life's a laugh they give you free money for your autograph"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI3WQD1rXtI
Off to the Tropical Lei! Will they still accept SNAP @ Royal Spa and Massage? I need my "theraputic massage" after Ben the Powerbottom speaks tomorrow.
When they "BAN" sugar based drinks and soda, in my "Baskin Robbins" give me a call! My Local Bar/Strip joint is just fine! / sarc
Gas, grass, or ass....nobody rides for free
K-DEE Baby!
Gas is easily managed when you dont have a job and grass can be mowed by a snot faced brat for 5 bucks and ass is somewhat more challenging as you get on in years.
Where do you find these kids that will cut your grass for $5? More like $50 for tiny lawn where I live.
Marijuana Bonsai...where FTD meets DEA.
You should be able to get a decent "1/4 acre" for that these days; move out of the sticks! ;)
The kind that are working for the Landscaper. He cuts the land now. I don't bother going outside much anymore.
Cleetus doesn't have any grass or money for gas, but he wants to know if you want 10W40 or P12 grit.
COD is the shit.
Are YOU ready for a zombie attack?
Sure, who are we attacking?
Where's his Cape?
Nanny state for the proles.