Walt-Mart, Xerox and food stamps

Who is to blame??

Wal-Mart for allowing the purchases? Or the people for knowingly purchasing over their limits?

In my opinion, they both are.

Wal-Mart should not have allowed such purchases and the people should not have taken advantage of the situation.

Walt-Mart knew that those purchases were wrong and they allowed them anyway, so I don’t see why they should get paid for their own bad judgment.

The people on food stamps should not have purchase carts and carts of groceries knowing they were not authorized to do so.

The food stamps department knows the food stamps recipients that overcharged, so they should suspend their monthly benefits for up to the amount they spent. These people should not go hungry; after all they have all the foods that they just “bought”.

I don’t see why these people should be getting future benefits with our tax payer’s money when obviously they are not deserving of them.

I don’t blame the Xerox company because it was a computer glitch, and as soon as they noticei t they fixed the problem, besides they have a clause specifying what retailers should do in such a case.

I blame Wal-Mart for knowingly allowing it and the food stamp recipients for knowingly taking advantage.

And the key word is: “knowingly”.

Both sides knew they were on the wrong and they did it anyway, so they cannot blame anybody but themselves.

In my opinion, this is a simple solution; just deduct the expenses from future benefits. And Walt-Mart should know better.