As a society we’re dead.
We desperately need to cut spending - and that’s never going to happen as long as a majority have their hands in the pot.
Don’t believe me? Tell any Freeper on Social Security on this board that we need to do away with that program.
Politicians have outfoxed us. They have us by the balls and now the only thing we can do is collapse.
Where my free helfcare at?
obozo, or the next marxist president will buy the votes of the young by holding student “loan” debt over their heads. Mayhap he will magically forgive that debt when he needs their support. Taxpayers are already on the hook for these “loans”.
Federal authorities executed a search warrant at a devout Muslim family's sprawling, 5-acre property 40 miles north of Houston, Texas, where the Feds allegedly found cash, diamonds, pearls, weapons and phony passports hidden in attic rafters, in secret compartments throughout a cluster of trailers and outbuildings and even inside the buried drum of a clothes dryer at the Conroe property.
Irsan, his wife Shmou Ali Alrawabdeh, and another daughter, were subsequently arrested on a variety of federal fraud charges and are in federal custody. A federal criminal complaint detailing the discoveries recounts a saga of nearly 20 years in which the 57-year-old naturalized Muslim citizen from Jordan, and his family, allegedly scammed taxpayer ....receiving food stamps, and disability //assistance checks, claiming “fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms,” and “affective disorders”....falsifying US government applications which hid their real estate holdings, vehicles, and cash deposits in US and foreign bank accounts.
The complaint also alleges Irsan was receiving taxpayer funds for a son not living in the US, and that he maintained several addresses on the property to facilitate various fraudulent schemes. He once disabled a safety feature on a saw then purposefully cut himself to receive a $75,000 settlement.
Prosecutors also revealed, in connection with social security fraud and credit card charges against Irsan, that they found more than 200 credit cards with various names and multiple variations of his own name throughout the Irwin Keel home. Arresting officers say they also found more than 40 similar credit cards in his wallet the morning he was arrested.
A federal criminal complaint detailing the discoveries recounts a saga of nearly 20 years in which the 57-year-old naturalized Muslim citizen from Jordan and his family allegedly scammed taxpayers while accumulating real estate holdings, vehicles, and secreting cash in U.S. and foreign bank accounts.
The complaint also alleges Irsan was receiving taxpayer funds for a son not living in the US (EITC refunds), maintained several addresses on the property to facilitate various schemes
He was certainly and industrious and entrepreneurial Muslim (as they like to think of themselves), just not quite in the way amnesty advocates like to claim.
Also found on the property was a makeshift gun range, which witnesses said “five or six Muslim families” frequently visited to fire AK-47s. Also found was information about Irsan’s attempts to get a silencer.
Nothing to do with Islam, of course.
Authorities are also re-examining a 1999 murder case---Irsan was not indicted after claiming self-defense in the shooting death of his son-in-law.
The rest of the scam ......while there have been no allegations of terrorist ties regarding the family’s alleged foreign bank accounts and suspicious wire transfers offshore, Irsan’s strict adherence to radical Islam may have been a motive in the alleged murders.
State DFS sends me a monthly check to raise two foster children. In truth, I could not raise these two without that check. I don’t think this makes me dependent on government.
Why rob a C-store? Democrats steal it and give it to you.