and of course you have reported these friends of yours to the proper US authorities? Alerted the Social Security Administration? The local county assiatence programs? etc? as to al this illegal activity your friends and their friends are up to, right?
What they and, apparently, thousands of others are doing is so obvious to even the most casual observer that I find it impossible to believe that the requisite authorities are unaware of it. It is going on in such and obvious and open way that every person involved would have to be either complicit or a total idiot. I don’t believe for a moment that they are idiots. As for reporting this individual case, to whom would I report it? I live in Florida and have no clue which programs he’s involved in.
Further, I was taken in to his home and treated as an honored guest. Is this how I would repay gracious generosity? No.
Does what I witnessed bother me? You betcha. But, it is something the Californians have brought upon themselves and they’re obviously willing to live with it. Like alcoholism, they will not see the light and change until they have hit rock bottom and find themselves figuratively in the gutter. Then, they will either make up their minds to change, or they will go bankrupt and die as a state.
I only hope that the rest of the taxpayers don’t end up bailing them out because they are too big to fail.