Carr: Tsarnaevs’ tab just the beginning
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 By: Howie Carr
One hundred thousand bucks? I guarantee you that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the welfare that’s been dished out to these Chechen chiselers over the last decade.
It’s “stunning,” said someone at the State House who’s seen the documents. It’s a “bonanza.” It’s also business as usual when it comes to taking care of foreign freeloaders, legal or illegal.
The scope of the welfare these people were grabbing is so immense that even Gov. Deval Patrick’s PC veneer is wearing thin. Last week he went so far as to drop the usual euphemism of “benefits” to admit that they were “on the dole.” Such hate speech!
It’s now been confirmed that the Tsarnaevs got Section 8 housing. They lived in Cambridge. Rents are expensive even in the not-so-nice parts of the People’s Republic. Let’s figure $800 a month in subsidies, over 10 years.
At that rate, Section 8 alone would come to $96,000. (If these numbers are off, Gov. Patrick, feel free to give the Herald the 500 pages you turned over to the Legislature so we can write a correction.)
Then there’s the “cash” — also known as EBT cards, and “SNAP,” formerly known as food stamps. And Mass Health.
The only documents Deval has turned over, under duress, involve state-run programs. What about the federal handouts available to these poor persecuted political refugees, who sometimes took six-month vacations in their native land where they were so oppressed?
Ever hear of “crazy checks”? That’s SSI, and it’s not just for widows and orphans anymore. SSI now includes a scam under which parents get their minor children diagnosed with some sort of usually invisible malady, making them eligible for $400 or $500 a month.
Tell me KleptoMom didn’t know about this grift.
And here’s a quote from a neighbor in The Wall Street Journal last week about Tamerlan: “His back was in really bad shape.”
Can somebody say SSDI — disability. Nationwide, we’re up to 8.9 million people on “disability,” and that’s growing by close to 100,000 a month despite the so-called recovery. Even more people go out on “back problems” than on that other epidemic malady, “sad feelings.”
After two years on SSDI, you’re eligible for ... Medicare.
This was just one foreign family, admitted legally. Now they want to give amnesty to at least 11 million illegal aliens — all of whom will be eligible for welfare immediately, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
Do the math. Then go out and get another job, or maybe two. The next tidal wave of Tsarnaevs is counting on you.