Posted on 05/02/2026 5:00:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
From millionaires to overseas foreigners, from NFL players to luxury car owners, our money is going to everyone but us.
ou’d think that the recent find of 34,000 deceased North Carolinians still registered to vote would be bad enough, but Epoch Times reported 5,000 deceased people are also receiving SNAP benefits. This sounds like the plot of a B-rate horror movie: “Night of the Voting/Eating Dead.”
SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program providing benefits to people, like food stamps. USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins stated that SNAP is one of the “most corrupt, dysfunctional programs” in U.S. history, with 80% of the people using the program being able to work. Rollins stated that 5,000 dead people were getting SNAP, while another 500,000 people were double-dipping the SNAP program, getting twice the benefits under the same name. Rollins stated that there is “massive fraud,” which has only been found in the states that have cooperated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—21 states refuse to hand over SNAP data. All but 2 of the 29 states working to rout out the fraud are Republican states. Democrat-states are suing the USDA, saying they do not have to share this data. Well, should these noncooperative states continue to receive this benefit? Not cooperating with solving a crime, isn’t that aiding and abetting criminal activity?
Recent data show that it’s not just 5,000 deceased people receiving SNAP benefits, but in Republican-states alone, that number totals 244,000. In the last year alone, 895 people were arrested for illegal food stamp use.
In addition, recent data show that in one state alone, 14,000 food stamp recipients are driving luxury cars. Rollins stated, “if this is happening in a red state, can you imagine what’s happening in the blue states?”
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We have what used to a historical impossibility - fat poor!
Our poor simultaneously suffer from diseases of obesity and malnutrition (because of their food/snack choices!).
I always mention “the major grocery store chains” in this context. I don’t name them individually because I honestly don’t know their names — except that the grocery stores in my area don’t come from the biggest chains.
I am 70 years old. When I was 23 I started working for the Phone Company. Illinois Bell. Top wage, top vacation time, top benefits. Most of the folks who worked their collected food stamps and other government benefits. You can guess the rest. I worked Downtown Chicago.
At least make them show up in person to collect the SNAP card. Photo ID required or no benefit.
The bigger question: Why should I pay for any of your groceries? I would make anyone who gets ANY gov’t transfer payment (welfare, SNAP, Medicaid, rent subsidies, etc.) show up for a gov’t job at 8AM and work until 5PM. They might clean toilets in federal buildings, wash windows, clean streets, whatever. They show up or no benefits. At least taxpayers would be getting something for their money and I wonder how many would start looking for a better job since they have to work anyway.
A lot of people think socialism is about paying people to do nothing, when in Communist countries it was the opposite. They all had “Anti-Parasite” Laws, that allowed the authorities to arrest people who were not working, and force them to get a job.
I think the obesity has to do with a lot of modern factors, having a car, living in city apartments and on a couch looking at a screen, mass media advertising of junk food and impulse buying, the food products themselves and mastery of chemistry and human behavior and basic taste impulses and the fact that we now see people that few of us would have seen 70 years ago.
Today one has to work at it to eat well and stay fit, today that lends itself more to the intelligent and well off rather than to the poor and the working poor, I think 150 years ago the boss was more likely to have a paunch than the workers who walked to work and ate basic foods and spent their off time on chores and duties around the house and farm.
Do businesses lobby for SNAP to save money on wages?
“Among food preparation and serving workers, 18 percent receive SNAP. For cashiers (across all retail), it’s 23 percent. “
“Walmart and McDonald’s are among top employers of Medicaid and food stamp beneficiaries, report says”
We have Ukranians in our neighborhood. One couple has two new SUVs, and she works at the hospital, rumoured to be a doctor. Other couple has only one new SUV.
We also have a Food Pantry place a block away at a church. My friend Sean walks his dog in that neighborhood, nice fellow, Afghanistan vet. He’s seen our rich Ukranians in the free food line more than once.
“5,000 dead people were getting SNAP, while another 500,000 people were double-dipping”
Deloitte IES Integrated Eligibility System and its EMPI Enterprise Master Person Index are the #1 reason for this.
Deloitte software determines eligibility in most states, in all the big states, both Red & Blue. Deloitte has in its database as eligible for benefits the Dead. Deloitte has in its database the DUPS. Sue Smith, Susan Smith, Susan Jones-Smith have the same DOB, SSN and address and are the same person. But she has 3 ID, 3 benefit plans. In Deloitte IES the ADDRESS of the recipient is often garbage.
Deloitte is the single biggest fraud with both HHS and Sate money.
That Deloitte is also the biggest abuser of H1b may be a separate issue. Many in Deloitte do not understand US (or GA) law and custom. Many also do not understand IT. That is one of the reasons for the garbage database.
Deloitte is #1 in FRAUD in CA.
Deloitte is #1 in FRAUD in TX.
Deloitte is #1 in FRAUD in FL.
Deloitte is #1 in FRAUD in GA.
Deloitte is #1 in FRAUD in IL.
Deloitte is #1 in FRAUD in NY.
and in more than half the states.
Yeah, I think there’s a mindset with the folks that I’ve never even contemplated. When I was a kid, our family went through a really rough time. Dad had to declare personal bankruptcy because of a business obligation that had his name on it, and unfortunately, the other signors had some legal way to get out of their portion of the business. So Dad took on the whole financial responsibility himself. We moved so he could start over. He was 40 with 6 kids, only one in college.
Dad worked 4 jobs to keep all of us fed and clothed. (Mom had a hospitalization with pneumonia at the time, and then recovery at home was months long). Food stamps might’ve been a thing back then, but I don’t know. What I do know is my Dad would rather work 4 jobs than take a government handout.
So this idea of SNAP just has me puzzled why people so willingly take it, and then get used to letting someone else have that kind of control over you. It tells the person that you’re not capable of doing this on your own. So instead of it being a safety net, the handouts become a hammock.
Take a look at the demographics (source: USDA):
White (non‑Hispanic): 9.6%
Black or African American (non‑Hispanic): 26.7%
Hispanic (any race): 16.4%
Asian (non‑Hispanic): 4.5%
Native American / American Indian & Alaska Native (non‑Hispanic): 20.1%
Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander (non‑Hispanic): 11.8%
Two or more races (non‑Hispanic): 12.9%
So, of all SNAP benefits, over a quarter are paid to blacks even though they are only 13% of the population.
Native Americans are 2% of the population, but get 1/5 of the SNAP benefits, too. Interesting.
FWIW, the woman at the store complaining was white, and very overweight. It didn’t surprise me to see the kind of food she was ringing up.
My real interest is why they even need SNAP in the first place. I understand that there are those who truly cannot fend for themselves, but I think they are a very small portion of the total. The US safety net is now too broad in that it spends resources on people who should be working. It’s a double-loss in that we spend tax dollars to support a labor pool that should be working.
You aren't allowed to be a bum.
Go get yourself a job, any job or the government would give you a hard, sweaty job like paving roads.
. the other option, if you don't like that?
Jail.
This is the money quote
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