So when are they going to stop the idiotic practice of giving food stamps to fat people?
Why doesn’t her husband help out feeding the kids?
5 kids and no mention of “Dad”.
Oh, and cut the fraud and there would be plenty left over for the truly needy.
Taxation and benefits without representation is our doom.
Child support is bad enough when you pay someone to treat your children like crap and blame you, but tax payer taxed by welfare thar way with a government middle man getting the political kick is outright evil.
I manage to feed 3 kids on way less than that. And MY kids don’t get free breakfast/lunch and dinner at their school either. Plus snacks sent home on the weekend in little backpacks, just in case precious gets a craving.
She only REALLY has to provide 6 meals a week for those 5 kids. What’s she doing with all the money?
Can’t feed em? Don’t breed ‘em.
CBS....please stop with the horseshit.
Both you and I know this baby-entitlement machine gets a lot more in government assistance than you deceptively lead us to believe with a paltry $600/month for 5 kids.
How about TANF (temporary assistance to needy families -WELFARE), WICS, Section 8, ObamaPhone, Utility Assistance, School breakfasts and lunches, EITC amounting to $5000 a year in her case.....just stop with this bullshit. She has more discretionary money each month than I do.
The entire middle class is being transitioned to government dependency: THIS IS STRATEGIC.
Maybe I will be able to afford lobster now.
Why did she have 5 effin kids if she can’t feed them? Ask the HARD questions mr reporter.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
SUPPLEMENTAL SUPPLEMENTAL SUPPLEMENTAL SUPPLEMENTAL
So few seem to notice that word....Food stamps are not meant to be the whole budget
Just once - ONCE - I’d like to see one of these stupid reporters ask these hard luck food stamp recipients if their kids get free lunch at school. And then ask them about breakfast. And then report it. How many meals do this lady’s kids actually eat at home?
This article shows what BS this whole food stamp thing is....
$600 a month goes to feed herself 3 meals a day, and her kids 1 meal a day, and 3 meals on the weekends. They ALREADY get free breakfast and lunch at school.
If you can’t feed yourself and 5 kids this many meals a month on $600, you are pitiful.
Beans. Rice. Canned or frozen veggies. Milk. That’s all they need but noooo this is a marketing ploy by the commies. The music may soon stop.
Where’s daddy? Maybe he could buy HIS kids some food.
They shouldn’t be getting the equivalent of money to start with. There should be a place in each county where they’re given a sack of beans, a sack of rice, and a large block of cheese. And quit making uncle sam the baby daddy over and over.
We’ve all heard the line that America is becoming an entitlement society or welfare state, with half of U.S. households now receiving some type of government benefit. But a CBS 21 News investigation has taken that stat one step further to show you how much people are actually getting for free. A few years ago, reporter Chris Papst worked with a single mom who had two children. She turned down a raise because she said the extra money would decrease her government benefits. It was hard to understand why she did that, until Chris started working on this story. “You do what you have to do as a single mom,” explained Kristina Cogan. “And that’s what I did.” ……she admits living a life off the government can be comfortable. “If you’re going to get something for free, are you going to work for it?” Cogan explained. “It kind of like sucks you in.”
Here are some of the horrific details.
For this story, CBS 21 researched what government programs are available to a single mother of two making $19,000 a year. What we found was incredible. Our family would be eligible for $14,976 in free day care, another $13,400 for Head Start and Early Head Start, $7,148 in housing vouchers, $6,500 for weatherization projects, $400 to pay heating bills, $480 a year for a cell phone, with an extra $230 for a land line, and $182 in free legal advice. The family would get more than $6,028 in food assistance and another $6,045 in medical assistance. The mother is eligible for $5,500 in Pell Grants for school with an additional $12,000 for the Education Opportunity Grant; SMART Grant; and TEACH Grant. Our family would also get $6,800 in tax credits, and $1,900 in withholding would be returned.
Add it up and this family can get $81,589 in free assistance.
There’s nothing in the story to suggest that Ms. Cogan is utilizing all these programs, but the plethora of available goodies certainly helps to explain why so many people decide it’s easier to be moochers rather than producers.
I should worry about her?
Is she worried about my kids?