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Posted on 02/14/2023 4:42:45 PM PST by Libloather
Addicts in Portland are reportedly turning to their food stamps to fuel their drug addiction, recycling bottles to garner cash to buy more fentanyl, all at the expense of the city's taxpayers.
Portland resident Angela Todd released shocking footage showing people on the streets appearing to dump out water bottles shortly before cashing in on the plastic to raise money to buy more drugs.
"People are not using their food debit cards to help for survival skills or diapers or to make ends meet," Todd said during "Fox & Friends First" Tuesday. "They're cashing them in for drugs. It's really it's very sad... The taxpayer dollars are being wasted, and you understand that we're in a situation where we have record overdoses and the state is turning a blind eye to this. This is really awful to allow this to go on."
Todd noted millions have seen the footage showing the crisis, which she blamed on either "incompetence or corruption," just two years after voters in Oregon decriminalized the possession of all drugs.
"I'd like the politicians to answer us why they are allowing these people to suffer on our streets," Todd said. "And this fentanyl is unbelievably addictive. It's causing psychosis. There's places in Portland that look like a Third World country."
"We have people acting like zombies on our streets," she continued. "I can't underscore that enough. There's no exaggeration in what I'm saying."
Oregon became the first state in the country to decriminalize possession of small amounts of hard drugs back in 2020, including heroin, fentanyl, and meth.
The new law made possession of those substances no more than a Class E violation, the equivalent of a traffic ticket punishable by a maximum $100 fine.
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Welfare deadbeats have been doing this for decades. This is nothing new.
The clueless are always surprised by reality.
I have struggled and generally lost the struggle to nave sympathy for most addicts. You have to be an idiot to use recreational pharmaceutical substances.
If they can afford a tattoo cut off the food stamps.
What’s wrong with that? 🤡
Portland voters didn’t just vote for crime, they went out and protested for it.
Measure 110, which legalized drugs, is a documented disaster. There is a move in the legislature to re-criminalize the drugs.
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I saw stories where people would buy soda and sell it back to the crooked store owner for half price. cash. The store owner would then sell the soda again.
Drug addicts work hard.
Wait, they still have to eat eventually. How does that even work? On the other hand, better they use food stamps than attacking and robbing people.
Let them reap the consequences of their poor choices.
Let them OD and die.
Damn. Cold.
A variation on just handing them .50 on the dollar for their food stamps. EBT was supposed to stop some of those abuses.
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