Posted on 02/22/2024 5:06:27 AM PST by MtnClimber
You can almost hear the fraudsters plotting to steal cards with this bad idea.
For a mayor who claims that the migrant influx is going bankrupt his city, he sure has a funny way of responding to it.
According to Nicole Gelinas at the New York Post:
Earlier this month, The Post broke the story that Mayor Eric Adams is giving out pre-paid cash cards to migrants.
Unusually for the mayor, Adams didn’t publicize this story himself, and his administration for nearly a month has failed to correct several public misperceptions about it.
One misperception is that the program allows the city to give out just $50 million to migrants.
No wonder the mayor has been reticent.
This debit card program — if you read the actual contract — has the potential to become an open-ended, multibillion-dollar Bermuda Triangle of disappearing, untraceable cash, used for any purpose.
It will give migrants up to $10,000 each in taxpayer money with no ID check, no restrictions and no fraud control.
What could go wrong?
Just on the surface, the plan stinks, as the $53 million to be spent was doled out by a no-bid contract.
It gets worse when one learns from the Gelinas report that the $53 million is just the set-up fee. The money to be doled out to the migrants is extra.
Worse still, the migrants will be entitled to as much as $10,000 a month at city expense, the pre-loaded debit cards to be doled out on the honor system that migrants will spend that free cash only for food and baby supplies. The idea of handing out cash was based on news that migrants were throwing out their food and the food handed out on a no-bid contract was spoiled and rotten.
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You can almost feel the terrorists rubbing their grubby, bomb-making hands together or the druggies trying to calculate how much fentanyl they can buy.
When ever I see something like this I immediately think “slush funds”. There will be no (or poorly) records kept (which if anyone got curious would go missing).
One reason that NY is SUING ALL THESE PEOPLE FOR HUGE AMOUNTS OF FINES!!
I need to make a trip to the big rotten apple and change my name to Julio.
Terrorists are LAUGHING at us!!
$53 million will only buy 5,300 $10,000 debit cards. There's way more than 5,300 illegals in New York City.
And that doesn't even take into account the outrageous fees that the issuing bank is charging the city to administer the program.
So there must be more to this story than just handing out $10K on a first-come first-served basis.
baill out of NY before it’s too late.
Oh, no! It’s too late. The state legal system, the police, the governor, the mayor of NYC and on and on. The deck is stacked. The state leadership apparatus must be overthrown.
NY is counting on a half billion-dollar windfall arriving soon. Who better to spend it on than the new dem voters joining the ranks.
So when do they give half back in taxes?
Can someone who’s not in New York City get one of those nifty $10,000 cards?
Maybe drive into town, get a card, drive home.
Asking for a friend.
If they do this the Democrats will have royally screwed themselves.
1st of all citizens that don’t get any will be jealous and envious that illegal aliens are getting this and not them.
2nd of all when the payments stop (and they will) the illegal aliens will be mad because you took something away from them.
This will back fire so badly, Democrats will be thrown out of power for a decade if they follow through on this
Fk'N MORONS!!
“...druggies trying to calculate how much fentanyl they can buy...”
THAT’S the ticket right there... kill all the birds with one move
The $53 million fee is just the setup fee. The money put on the cards will have to be added later. A setup cost of $53 million may sound like a lot, but there are lots of kickbacks that have to be paid in addition the the actual costs.
circle back for dist
Yes, and taxes taxes and more taxes.
Agreed. Doesn’t add up.
They should just send the cash to Honduras - save handling costs.
Spending Trump’s money before they get it?
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