Apparently it isn't fraud because the whole world now knows about it and he hasn't been prosecuted. Did he game the system, yes. It it morally objectionable, absolutely. Is he a typical case, no. But that certainly doesn't stop Faux News and their lemmings from trying to make a federal case out of it.
No one drives an escalade, eats lobster, and lives a decent life off $200 a month. I make that much money in less than half a day of work. He'd spend that much money a month just filling his Escalade up with gas. What a ridiculous out of context story.
Should he be receiving food stamps? Absolutely not, but to make him the poster child for people on food stamps who don't have any other source of income is ridiculous.
Should he be receiving food stamps? Absolutely not, but to make him the poster child for people on food stamps who don't have any other source of income is ridiculous.
The implication from the report I got was this person lives off foodstamps and it affords him all these luxuries when he could be working implying people on foodstamps have it easy and don't have to work. It was not that he should not receive foodstamps because he has another source of income. That's how I took it anyways.
Fair enough. I see it differently. I see it more along the lines of there is no way this guy should be collecting foodstamps and he shouldn't be able to game the system like this. Foodstamps are crucial for many families to survive, but not this clown. I don't see this as a left or a right issue. I would hope everyone finds this appalling.
That's Politics nowadays, and while vile and dishonest, it's also brilliant because it works. It gets the clueless, low information sheep to believe he is typical, that EVERYONE on Welfare/food stamps is gaming the system, and wants to be on those programs, because it's a great situation, and you, the viewer/reader/listener are getting rooked because EVERY one of your hard earned tax dollars is going to frauds like this.
Not saying that EVERYONE on food stamps is like this guy. There are bad apples in every bunch. But, guys like this, shouldn't be able to qualify for food stamps, and if they do, they should be auto-enrolled into a work/job training program to get them off tax-payer assistance as soon as possible. It should be mandatory.
He can do it, he doesn't work, he sits at the beach all day, no kids to take care of.... whats stopping him from looking for work, or going to a job training program to teach him skills to fend for himself?
I totally agree. Guys like this need to be investigated and disqualified. The program needs better enforcement, which would mean more fraud investigators, which of course, the far right would object to because it would grow the Public workforce. face)(*^%
Guys like this ARE presented as the typical recipient, however, and people with low intelligence and low curiosity just accept it. See Reagan and his pushing of the Welfare Queen stereotype. Things like this, presented as typical, work for a specific audience it's being targeted to. An honest presentation would decry that this guy is a bad apple, a rare exception, and the system must be fixed to prevent frauds like this.
