On Saturday, the socialist welfare debit card (EBT) system went offline for a few hours in several states due to a computer system failure, leaving grocery stores and other retailers unable to verify the balances in the accounts. In several areas where EBT "clients" represent the majority, near riot conditions quickly developed.

In Mansfield Louisiana, local WalMart managers foolishly decided just to allow EBT clients to continue checking out their "purchases" without verification, and apparently without limit. Word quickly spread that the store had effectively upgraded all the EBT cards to Platinum, and there was a mad rush for the free food (see video):

"The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police... It was worse than any Black Friday [shopping frenzy] that he's ever seen...the shelves were cleared out...

People were loading up their carts, until the cards began showing limits again around 9 pm. One woman was detained because she rang up a bill of $700.00 but only had $0.49 on her card. She was held by police until corporate Walmart said they wouldn't press charges if she left the food... When the cards came back online and it was announced over the loudspeaker, people just abandoned the carts full of food in the aisles and left the store... Walmart employees could still be seen putting food from the carts away as late as Sunday afternoon...

Walmart shoppers Stan and Judy Garcia feel very differently. "That's plain theft, that's stealing! That's all I got to say about it," said Garcia...

-- KSLA News, Louisiana

"Xerox, a contractor in charge of EBT Cards, has an emergency backup procedure in place that allows retailers to call Xerox and authorize up to $50 in purchases per recipient during such outages. The Wal-Mart locations in Springhill and Mansfield did not act in accordance with the procedure. Going forward, it's up to the retailer to decide whether to eat the costs of fraudulent purchases..."

-- Times Picayune, Louisiana

The honest shoppers who were offended by the looting may not realize that "plain theft" is the principle upon which the entire system is based. Not only do working families have to buy their own groceries, they are also forced to pay for the bureaucrats and the welfare bums who routinely abuse the system. They lie about their incomes, sign up for multiple cards, load up on overpriced junk food, and sell cards for cash and drugs at the local "Obama Express". The program, which has doubled in size since Obama was elected, now costs over $75,000,000,000 per year, plus interest.

Socialism is wonderful, comrades! But only for those on the receiving end. To paraphrase Karl Marx: "From each according to his stupidity, to each according to his greed!".

"Most people who live off the government have no concept of private property [or honest work]. They literally do not believe that stealing large quantities of food from someone else is morally wrong...This is the only life they know, and this is how they are born, raised and trained by the [Socialist] Democrats... As this small EBT card glitch clearly demonstrates...this is exactly the same way these people will behave when the federal government goes into default and nearly 50 million EBT cards stop working nationwide... [These] proud owners of Obama phones, Obama food stamps, Obama unemployment checks and Obama subsidized housing...have absolutely no clue that the government upon which they wholly depend to put food on the table is teetering on the verge of permanent collapse."

-- Mike Adams article

"Walmart corporate has now gone public with the most bizarre pro-theft explanation ever heard. Allowing EBT hoarders to ransack the stores and steal tens of thousands of dollars in merchandise while denying any inventory to other [legitimate] shoppers was "the right thing to do," the Walmart company now says... Wouldn't it be "the right thing to do" if Walmart simply allowed everyone to engage in free, unlimited shopping sprees and did away with the entire concept of anyone actually [working and] paying for products?"

-- Mike Adams article