This appears to be made up out of whole cloth. The average monthly food stamp benefit for a single person is less than $150. And where does she supposedly get $800 a month for rent? They don’t mention the source. I do not know of any program like that. That is not how Section 8 works. The truth of our welfare state and those who abuse it is bad enough — it is horrible, rife with fraud, encourages sloth and in all but four or five states, families with illegal aliens get a bigger a food stamp benefit than families of the same size made up of U.S. citizens. People don’t have to tell lies about it. The only part of this that rings true is the phone thing, which we are all paying for when we pay the Universal Service Tax on our own phone bills.
Give me a break!
I am a single working mother, USAF veteran, scraping to get by.
I see people every day in my community gaming the system to get government handout “freebies”.
It took over fifteen years to get any assistance for a military veteran friend of mine, both severely physically and mildly mentally disabled due to service related injuries. He was homeless for many years.
His sister had to pay lawyers to make the feds cough up what he was owed.
OTOH, a former friend of mine scooped up massive amounts of my tax dollars for merely taking care of her own mildly autistic twin sons.
Who also now get “free tuition” at their local university, but their mama is still collecting more money from the government to “care” for them, than I make working 40 hours a week.
But I am labeled a heartless conservative bitch, demanding more attention be paid to those who are truly disabled, and zero funds be spent on the merely corrupt and lazy criminal elements of our society.