How Unwise are We on Food Stamps and Such Other Welfare?

Thought some more on welfare fraud, on how clerks at stores often let Food Stamps be used for coffee or cigarettes, or used for other things it was not intended for.

I don't know how much it happens, but I know it happens. Nor, do I like it that we set up a system where it can happen. We give them a debt card, send them down to the grocer with a debt card that is suppose to only be used for food, but with no way to say whether it will only be used for food. I wonder if all the clerks at all the stores are even trained to know that Food Stamps are for food only. If they are not, why ever do we suppose they will not stop someone from using the Food Stamps for non-food items?

It is, you must admit, not very wise of us to create a system with such obvious holes in it. Tsk, tsk.