Seattle welfare recipient lives in million-dollar home

[bookjones]

Just cheat on your taxes Books.



It's not that hard and everyone does it.

Sighs. No. I want YOU to cheat! Whatever it takes so I can finally get me some Charlotte Olympias dude. Make it happen Grammar Hobo.

 

[mikita's helmet]

Sighs. No. I want YOU to cheat! Whatever it takes so I can finally get me some Charlotte Olympias dude. Make it happen Grammar Hobo.

AKA "Hobo with a red marker!"

 

[the canadian dream]

Fine!!



Operation..Maple Syrup Heels begins tonight!!!



It may involve a 30 lb dog and a certain member of your American cabinet. Are you in?

 

[bookjones]

Fine!!



Operation..Maple Syrup Heels begins tonight!!!



It may involve a 30 lb dog and a certain member of your American cabinet. Are you in?

**** YEAH! Now that's what I'm talkin' bout! As I have almost no scruples when it comes to shoe matters I'd gladly sacrifice pretty much any American for a pair of Charlottes---how do you want me to send them over the border? In shackles, Gologotha-style on a crucifix, on a pyre ready to be lit up like a Duraflame log?

 

[the canadian dream]

Why Fed Ex of course

 

[roshinaya]

Fixed your quote for ya

Ah yes, the good ol' free market will solve everything, Away with the government.

 

[supraman]

Ah yes, the good ol' free market will solve everything, Away with the government.

It worked in the past. At least it has a history of working. Whereas government solving all our problems *checks the economy* oh yeah doesn't work and never has worked but yeah let's keep doing it.

 

[Tater]

It worked in the past. At least it has a history of working. Whereas government solving all our problems *checks the economy* oh yeah doesn't work and never has worked but yeah let's keep doing it.

It works fine, just look at Greece.

 

[winos5]

Whats a luxery food item? Just out of curiosity. Are we talking about 30 dollar steaks or are we talking about healthy food here which is often more expensive than a 99 cent shit burger.



There are going to be abusers of every system. Media etc do a great job at exploiting the rare abuser yet never really put focus on those who actually use the system properly.



I have cheated a system or 2 in my lifetime and probably will again at some point. We all have. I don't believe anyone who says they haven't.



Just saying.

The same day this article about the million dollar home and luxury vacations on welfare came out there was an article about Food program abuses. People gettting Alaskan king crab legs, lobster, filet mignon ect... with food stamp/program cards, That is what I mean by luxury food items.



I benifited from food stamps and unemployment as a child when my Dad lost his full time job for about 6 months (During the Carter administration). Wouldn't surprise me if he cheated because he worked multiple small jobs during that time and some paid cash under the table I'm sure. I've never received welfare benefits directly of any kind and I don't cheat on my taxes. It's not worth the risk too me.

 

[supraman]

It works fine, just look at Greece.

They are a stalwart of excellent fiscal management.

 

[supraman]

The same day this article about the million dollar home and luxury vacations on welfare came out there was an article about Food program abuses. People gettting Alaskan king crab legs, lobster, filet mignon ect... with food stamp/program cards, That is what I mean by luxury food items.



I benifited from food stamps and unemployment as a child when my Dad lost his full time job for about 6 months (During the Carter administration). Wouldn't surprise me if he cheated because he worked multiple small jobs during that time and some paid cash under the table I'm sure. I've never received welfare benefits directly of any kind and I don't cheat on my taxes. It's not worth the risk too me.

I was a cashier at a grocery store when I was 19. I seen people do this first hand. Pissed me off that I had to serve those people when all I wanted to do was tell them to get the **** out of my line.

 

[IceHogsFan]

I benifited from food stamps and unemployment as a child when my Dad lost his full time job for about 6 months (During the Carter administration). Wouldn't surprise me if he cheated because he worked multiple small jobs during that time and some paid cash under the table I'm sure. I've never received welfare benefits directly of any kind and I don't cheat on my taxes. It's not worth the risk too me.

The key to your statement is six months and based on your comments of the situation I would not have a problem with that. Those benefits are designed to assist with short term needs and emergencies which it sounded like your family needed.



I get frustrated with seeing and reading of years of abuse, lifetimes for some and the generations that becoming dependent upon them.

 

[roshinaya]

It worked in the past. At least it has a history of working. Whereas government solving all our problems *checks the economy* oh yeah doesn't work and never has worked but yeah let's keep doing it.

When in the past? When has there ever been a free-market?

 

[Tater]

This was written by a 21 yr old female who gets it. It's her future she’s worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare big government state that she’s being forced to live in! These solutions are just common sense in her opinion.



This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX Nov 18, 2010





Put me in charge . . .





Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.





Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.



Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.



In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..”





Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.



If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.



AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

 

[supraman]

I like her, is she single. Her and I can have little libertarian babies.

 

[bookjones]

This was written by a 21 yr old female who gets it. It's her future she’s worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare big government state that she’s being forced to live in! These solutions are just common sense in her opinion.



This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX Nov 18, 2010





Put me in charge . . .





Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.





Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.



Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.



In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..”





Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.



If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.



AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

Oh good lord. What a crazy *****.



I am an employed, law-abiding taxpayer so let's see what I can come up with if I got to determine how my tax dollars were parsed shall we. . .



Put me in charge of the money for the highways and roads! I don't drive. I live in the city and work in the city. I take public transportation or pay out as I go with taxis. I am tired of my tax dollars subsisidizing fucking surburbanites and their insatiable thirst for their cars. I'd rather not keep paying into the state and federal highway, interstate, tollway infrastructure because I could care less if every goddamn suburb dropped off the face of the earth tomorrow. You want to work in the city, live in the city then take some mass transportation or else work in the burbs where you can choose to have YOUR tax dollars maintain the transportation infrastructure. I would only give the money that would normally be allocated to the transportation infrastructure to those non-city people as subsidies if they can prove that they are taking mass transportation or who's cities are making an effort to start designing and building feasible mass transit systems (but they better make it PDQ! as I have zero patience for people who think driving a car on finsihed and maintained roads is an inalienable right). It's not my fault people want to live out in the boonies. And good lord, the relief we could get from the fuel dependence---just a win-win situation that keeps on giving.





Put me in charge of the money that goes to state/public universities. *I* went to a private college. Why the **** should I have to help pay for tens of thousands of average Americans to send their kids to the University of Illinois, Illinois State, etc. **** that. You want to go to so-called "public" universities and colleges then I am affraid under my totalitarian regime they will have to start implementing plans to switch to the private sector model. Either raise kids smart enough to win scholarships or grants which have no payback requirements or pony up yourselves or else make your kids get jobs and pay themselves even if it the average years for earning an undergrad degree must go up to 8-10. Otherwise get used to just not being able to go to non-private college and find a way to get along with all the rest of the traditionally under-educated population who have to make do.



Put me in charge of the glorious monies from this nation's beloved farm subsidies. TALK about welfare. Don't give a **** if farms/the land have been in families for generations---not my fucking problem. Either be able to operate a farm or not. If you can great, grow shit and then sell it to market but don't expect me to any longer keep helping you to own a family business. Additionally, if you can operate a farm stop growing an excess of crops which the market doesn't support. If you can't afford to operate a farm without subsidies then get out of the farming business. Since this is billions we're talking about I'd say that money should be used almost ANYWHERE else.





Yeah, see how easy it is to sound like a "me and mine" crackhead hysteric?

 

[mikita's helmet]

Oh good lord. What a crazy *****.

Come on BJ, she's lived, she's suffered, she's 21.

 

[Tater]

Oh good lord. What a crazy *****.



I am an employed, law-abiding taxpayer so let's see what I can come up with if I got to determine how my tax dollars were parsed shall we. . .



Put me in charge of the money for the highways and roads! I don't drive. I live in the city and work in the city. I take public transportation or pay out as I go with taxis. I am tired of my tax dollars subsisidizing fucking surburbanites and their insatiable thirst for their cars. I'd rather not keep paying into the state and federal highway, interstate, tollway infrastructure because I could care less if every goddamn suburb dropped off the face of the earth tomorrow. You want to work in the city, live in the city then take some mass transportation or else work in the burbs where you can choose to have YOUR tax dollars maintain the transportation infrastructure. I would only give the money that would normally be allocated to the transportation infrastructure to those non-city people as subsidies if they can prove that they are taking mass transportation or who's cities are making an effort to start designing and building feasible mass transit systems (but they better make it PDQ! as I have zero patience for people who think driving a car on finsihed and maintained roads is an inalienable right). It's not my fault people want to live out in the boonies. And good lord, the relief we could get from the fuel dependence---just a win-win situation that keeps on giving.



Roads/highways would still be needed for taxis, buses, trucks to deliver food to supermarkets....



Put me in charge of the money that goes to state/public universities. *I* went to a private college. Why the **** should I have to help pay for tens of thousands of average Americans to send their kids to the University of Illinois, Illinois State, etc. **** that. You want to go to so-called "public" universities and colleges then I am affraid under my totalitarian regime they will have to start implementing plans to switch to the private sector model. Either raise kids smart enough to win scholarships or grants which have no payback requirements or pony up yourselves or else make your kids get jobs and pay themselves even if it the average years for earning an undergrad degree must go up to 8-10. Otherwise get used to just not being able to go to non-private college and find a way to get along with all the rest of the traditionally under-educated population who have to make do.



I can't disagree with that.



Put me in charge of the glorious monies from this nation's beloved farm subsidies. TALK about welfare. Don't give a **** if farms/the land have been in families for generations---not my fucking problem. Either be able to operate a farm or not. If you can great, grow shit and then sell it to market but don't expect me to any longer keep helping you to own a family business. Additionally, if you can operate a farm stop growing an excess of crops which the market doesn't support. If you can't afford to operate a farm without subsidies then get out of the farming business. Since this is billions we're talking about I'd say that money should be used almost ANYWHERE else.



Same as above.



Yeah, see how easy it is to sound like a "me and mine" crackhead hysteric?

 

[TSD]

Oh good lord. What a crazy *****.



I am an employed, law-abiding taxpayer so let's see what I can come up with if I got to determine how my tax dollars were parsed shall we. . .



Put me in charge of the money for the highways and roads! I don't drive. I live in the city and work in the city. I take public transportation or pay out as I go with taxis. I am tired of my tax dollars subsisidizing fucking surburbanites and their insatiable thirst for their cars. I'd rather not keep paying into the state and federal highway, interstate, tollway infrastructure because I could care less if every goddamn suburb dropped off the face of the earth tomorrow. You want to work in the city, live in the city then take some mass transportation or else work in the burbs where you can choose to have YOUR tax dollars maintain the transportation infrastructure. I would only give the money that would normally be allocated to the transportation infrastructure to those non-city people as subsidies if they can prove that they are taking mass transportation or who's cities are making an effort to start designing and building feasible mass transit systems (but they better make it PDQ! as I have zero patience for people who think driving a car on finsihed and maintained roads is an inalienable right). It's not my fault people want to live out in the boonies. And good lord, the relief we could get from the fuel dependence---just a win-win situation that keeps on giving.





Put me in charge of the money that goes to state/public universities. *I* went to a private college. Why the **** should I have to help pay for tens of thousands of average Americans to send their kids to the University of Illinois, Illinois State, etc. **** that. You want to go to so-called "public" universities and colleges then I am affraid under my totalitarian regime they will have to start implementing plans to switch to the private sector model. Either raise kids smart enough to win scholarships or grants which have no payback requirements or pony up yourselves or else make your kids get jobs and pay themselves even if it the average years for earning an undergrad degree must go up to 8-10. Otherwise get used to just not being able to go to non-private college and find a way to get along with all the rest of the traditionally under-educated population who have to make do.



Put me in charge of the glorious monies from this nation's beloved farm subsidies. TALK about welfare. Don't give a **** if farms/the land have been in families for generations---not my fucking problem. Either be able to operate a farm or not. If you can great, grow shit and then sell it to market but don't expect me to any longer keep helping you to own a family business. Additionally, if you can operate a farm stop growing an excess of crops which the market doesn't support. If you can't afford to operate a farm without subsidies then get out of the farming business. Since this is billions we're talking about I'd say that money should be used almost ANYWHERE else.





Yeah, see how easy it is to sound like a "me and mine" crackhead hysteric?

I dont think she was being completely unreasonable, she was more or less saying welfare shouldnt be a crutch to afford luxuries. The one time my mom made me work in a soup kitchen when i was 12 on christmas, exactly what this woman said was the case with 90% of the people I was serving.



I saw people arriving to eat in brand new cars and 300 dollars worth of clothes and shoes while im wearing my brothers hand me downs and payless shoes, because I was being supported by a single mother who didnt get government assistance. She would have for sure qualified, but she didnt feel she "needed" it. We didnt have cable tv for example all through jr. high, and only had one tv where the tube was going bad at that.



government assistance should not be there to provide you with luxuries, it should however be there to feed you, cloth you and house you within reason in your time of need.

 

[winos5]

I dont think she was being completely unreasonable, she was more or less saying welfare shouldnt be a crutch to afford luxuries. The one time my mom made me work in a soup kitchen when i was 12 on christmas, exactly what this woman said was the case with 90% of the people I was serving.



I saw people arriving to eat in brand new cars and 300 dollars worth of clothes and shoes while im wearing my brothers hand me downs and payless shoes, because I was being supported by a single mother who didnt get government assistance. She would have for sure qualified, but she didnt feel she "needed" it. We didnt have cable tv for example all through jr. high, and only had one tv where the tube was going bad at that.



government assistance should not be there to provide you with luxuries, it should however be there to feed you, cloth you and house you within reason in your time of need.

And penis pumps. We need to provide penis pumps when needed, to the tune of 240 million in medicare benefits.