In the flesh
Posted on 03/21/2005 9:22:58 AM PST by housewife101
Kensington, MD (PRWEB) March 21, 2005 -- “Free Money Man,” Matthew Lesko, (www.lesko.com) has been trying to get the New York Consumer Protection Board to stop misrepresenting government money programs. In their efforts to rid the nation of fraudulent companies who scam consumers with promises of government grants, the New York CPB has also mislead consumers about the facts concerning programs that are in place to help consumers.
In an NBC News interview on January 28, 2005, CPB Chairman, Teresa Santiago tells consumers “There is no free government money to pay your personal bills. There isn’t. That is a myth.” This statement has been proven to be 100 percent inaccurate.
The facts about government programs show that the CPB is hurting consumers by discouraging them from applying to programs that they are entitled to and statements by Rush Limbaugh on a recent show also attest to this.
On March 2, 2005 Limbaugh discussed with a caller, who works for a consumer credit counseling agency, the various ways that people with high credit debt can get free government help:
“ Besides that, for the people that are coming into your company, we got government programs. We got unemployment insurance, food stamps, aid to dependent children, Medicare, Medicaid, Section 8 housing, general welfare. We've got more government programs than anybody can probably catalog. We've got government programs people probably can't even find. People (in the government) go to work there every day, but nobody knows who they are, where they are, where the office is, but we're giving away money in this country left and right, just gotta know how to get it.” (see www.rushlimbaugh.com Rush 24/7, Wednesday March 2, 2005, How El Rushbo Escaped Debt)
Matthew Lesko, a New York Times Best Selling author, who has also written more than one hundred books on government money programs, is fighting for consumers to be aware that only 12 percent of all government handouts go to the poor and that the government’s, so called, “general welfare programs” can put money in the hands of families making up to $38,000.
Government studies show that 50 million consumers are not taking advantage of even the basic programs:
4 million senior missing out on up to $1,000 from Medicare
* 6 million families are missing out on free health insurance for their kids
* 10 million families missing out on up to $4,000 for groceries
* 800,000 College Students missing out on up to $4,050
* Single mothers leave an average of $673 per year in unclaimed child support payments
* 29 million seniors citizens don’t know that they are eligible for free medical procedures
If the Bush Administration is spending millions of dollars trying to find these 50 million people who deserve this money, why is the Pataki Administration spending government money trying to prevent these consumers from getting back their tax money in programs that are available to help their families.
Rush is just stating the obvious.
It's a real stretch to think he is 'advocating' living off the government.
GREAT POINT!! :-)
Some of what Matthew Lesko advocates is just wrong.. from example, free government grants to start businesses. Those grants go to LEDOs and local government agencies who then LEND the money to private citizens. The other programs, tax abatements, TIFF programs, CReED districts, STIFF programs, and others always require matching funds, or provide credits. Lesko suggests that anyone can simply apply for and get free money. There is no free lunch.
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Seems like a bogus article to me.
Yep, I agree. That's why I find it curious that his commercials run during conservative talk shows. Seems a strange time for him to buy ads, but he is the expert! :-)
In the flesh
That's what I was wondering...thanks so much!
Looks like a man I would trust! ;-O
Any truth he's dating the Boflex grandma?
Well, it's not a bogus article, I didn't mean that you posted a bodus article. It is posted, but it's a press release from that Lesko guy. His commercials drive me nuts.
He always did remind me of a cross between Ben Stein's evil twin and the Riddler.
I hear Planned Parenthood ads during Hannity, so I don't suppose it's THAT much of a stretch.
Now, I'm glad to know that most people don't know how to 'take advantage' of Gov't grants/loans, etc. That's fewer people that know how easy it is to steal from their fellow citizens...money that they would never ask for in person but they will gladly elect a politician to steal for them.
Listening to the archive now (hard to follow and laugh at the same time.)
The discussion is about bankruptcy. Caller is saying that Credit Card Debt is "Survivor Mode Debt." Credit Card Companies make it impossible to pay back debt so it isn't the fault of the people in debt it is the Credit Card Company's fault. They need to put food on the table.
Rush runs off the list of government programs as part of refuting the notion that people "have no other option." It is just the furthest thing from an endorsement of these programs. It also comes at the end of the call as a side point and isn't even the point. I think Lesko was just impressed by how fast Rush was able to rattle off the list of programs.
I remember hearing that show. Me thinks this Lesko guy is simply trying to get some publicity if his "press release" gets picked up somewhere.....
It's a great time to buy ads, I know I'm always tempted to get his books not to apply to the programs but to have some fodder for letters to my congressman. From a fiscal conservative standpoint his books are a laundry list of things we're against.
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