Shipping food abroad is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon barrels line the walls of markets in almost every Caribbean area of New York City. Customers pay about $40 in cash for the barrels and typically ship them with $500 to $2,000 of rice, beans, pasta, canned milk and sausages, The Post reported.
“Everybody does it,” a worker at an Associated Supermarket in the borough of Brooklyn told The Post. “They pay for it any way they can. A lot of people pay with EBT,” or electronic benefit transfers, which replaced paper food stamps.
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Hay Caramba!!
ReplyDeleteReally??? Does anyone really care if some poor family struggling to make ends meet saves two scoops of rice a week to send to their starving relatives in Panama??
ReplyDeleteI don't have a problem with helping poor countries like Haiti, but this people has to stop. They are basically using money from others without consent. They'll have to stop the food stamp program soon because most people gets over 500 a week for food costs and as far as I know with 500 a week is enough to feed a family of 4-6 for a month if they don't go to fast food places every day.
ReplyDeleteWhat would Jesus do?????????
ReplyDeleteWe pay for other countries that cant
ReplyDelete? WTF.
if people want to help their relatives overseas, they should use their own money.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteReally??? Does anyone really care if some poor family struggling to make ends meet saves two scoops of rice a week to send to their starving relatives in Panama??
July 22, 2013 at 2:31 PM
Are you really that stupid?
Since that goof failed to answer your question, I will propose it to him again --- hey 2:31, are you REALLY THAT STUPID???
ReplyDeleteI feel fairly confident at least a portion of that food is being resold on the other end.
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