I work a second job, three nights a week, running a cash register at a Dollar General. Just making some extra cash. A woman came in the other night and purchased a lot of foodstuffs; cereal, canned veggies and fruit, lunch snacks, stuff like that. She paid with a Food Stamp Debit Card. No problem.
As I finished up, however, bagging her items and handing her the receipt, she looked to her right and noticed a display we have on the counter.
"Oooo! Pez dispensers!" she said, excited. "I love Pez!" She then started looking through them. I'm going to assume that everyone reading this knows what a "Pez" dispenser is. If not, just ask.
Anyway, she picked out a "Batman" Pez dispenser, and handed it to me to be rung up. She said that she'd "just pay with her card". I replied that I didn't think it would take it, but she could try.
She assured me that it would; after all, Pez is candy, and candy is food. Well, I was right. The taxpayer-provided card wouldn't pay for her Batman Pez dispenser. This meant that, if she really wanted it, she'd have to dig in her purse and come up with a $1.06 of her own. Clearly pissed at this denial of her whims, she huffily decided not to buy it.
And welfare doesn't give many of its recipients an overwhelming sense of entitlement, huh?