Jindal moves to strip food stamps from abusers
It appears that these people will be made an example of.
Maybe when people receive initial food stamps, they should be told of the consequences.
This could have been easily viewed as felony fraud by those who stole the food.
Just getting benefits denied is not as bad as being thrown in jail for fraud/stealing
Jindal moves to strip food stamps from abusers
“Just getting benefits denied is not as bad as being thrown in jail for fraud/stealing.”
I hope the stores go after them with theft charges instead of writing it off.
>> to lose benefits for a year
Then what? They get benefits for years thereafter? Why?
From the report:
“A worker at a soup kitchen in Alexandria ... recalled feeling empathy when she saw the individuals, who otherwise could not afford it, stacking up on food.”
Pure evil.
“This could have been easily viewed as felony fraud by those who stole the food.”
IMHO, it would be very difficult to prove that charge in a courtroom.
If your Mom keeps the cookie jar on a top shelf and tells you to keep out of it, you know you’ll be punished if you put a chair on the counter top and climb up to raid the jar. However, if you find the jar conveniently located on a low table, with no one watching, and no prior warnings to keep away from it; you would probably be forgiven for assuming you could reach in and take a few cookies.
No guv, please give’m more food stamps or they’ll end up here in Texas.
You still have a bunch of your citizens who invaded TX during Katrina and still have not left.
That's how it's done.
Why did it take something like that to make the state take actions against those abusing the foodstamp program? Shouldn’t weeding out fraud and abuse by a priority from the very start?
Lack of funding is just a momentary speed-bump for profligate wasteful government.
Butts I B entitled. I’z gone’a goes and tells Obama and Holder ons ewe....
Won’t happen. People will start screaming about starving babies and they’ll fold.
Wait for it.
Practically speaking, he would be better off to just write this off. Any punishment will just cost more money.
Instead, he could use this as a launching pad to make improvements in the system that would be better for both Louisiana agriculture and the food stamp recipients as a group.
Agriculture is a difficult enterprise, and having a lean crop may actually be more profitable than an overabundant crop. Excess crops have been hurting American farmers since the early part of the 20th Century, and ways to reduce the excess often do them a world of good economically.
So what the state could do is purchase the excess crops, as a “bonus distribution” to those on food stamps. Stuff they would get for free in addition to what they get with their food stamps.
When president Reagan dumped excess government cheese, for example, it was not only of huge benefit to the cheese industry, but it *saved* the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars in storage costs. And it didn’t affect the retail price of cheese one dime. Oh, and lots of poor people got free cheese. What’s not to like?
Louisiana produces a lot of rice, sorghum, soybeans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, peaches, strawberries and melons. And remember, this only applies to *excess* crops.
And in the Louisiana has been trying for years to come up with recipes for nutria, perhaps it is time that food stamp recipients learn to appreciate nutria chili, nutria jambalaya, smoked nutria and sausage gumbo, stuffed nutria hindquarters, and nutria stew.
Since they might know the name nutria, various recipes could be called by its other names, Ragondin and Coypu. Same difference, fewer nutria.
didn’t the stupid asses think THEIR NAMES ARE ON THE CARD!!!!!
Someone was going to find out how much they charged...duh!!!
In my mind the abusers are guilty of writing bad checks. Perhaps they are guilty of overdrawing their accounts.
The amount due plus overdraft charge and interest can and should be taken from future benefits.
There is a strong precedent for the action. The Secretary of the Treasury overdrew his line by borrowing more than the legal borrowing ceiling. The overdraft was remedied immediately by drawing $300 billion to cover within hours of the ceiling being raised.
I'm not holding my breath. Not falling for another politician saying he's going to stand up for what's right and two weeks later swears he never said such. And as someone else said, Louisianna can take back their Katrina trash that blew into Texas. I passed by some on the way to the store earlier and it just chaps my hide.
“It appears that these people will be made an example of.”
Calling these animals “people” is being far too generous.