Posted on 02/23/2009 12:27:56 PM PST by angelcindy
We all know them. People that abuse the system. People that work a few months of the year, just long enough to qualify for unemployment, and then jump on the unemployment bandwagon. Those that get food stamps to support their families despite being able bodied, often educated and capable of work. And, of course, the people that work “under the table” while receiving government aid intended for the truly needy.
One such image sticks in our minds from a visit last year to a local softball game. Across the street was a truck distributing food for the needy. A brand new Mercedes pulled up and out popped a couple that walked over and jumped in line. How someone driving a $60,000.00 car qualifies for free food is beyond our imagination, but somehow these people find any way they can to abuse the system.
During Obama’s campaign to promote his stimulus package, he staged an event with a woman, Henrietta Hughes, who, as it turns out, appears to be anything but truly needy. Henrietta was given an audience with Obama to beg for a home. When aid was provided via the offer of free rent by an opportunistic politician, the liberal press spouted that Henrietta was actually given a free home and implied it came from Obama. The lie has propagated through the liberal media and, quite honestly, it nauseated us because it was so obviously staged and such a distorted lie. Well, as it turns out, the lie didn’t end there.
(Excerpt) Read more at theliepolitic.com ...
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Michelle Malkin got it from me.
**Look how they investigated joe the plummer...**
I’m surprised that I don’t already know Santelli’s shoe size, how much he paid in taxes... or his GGGrandfather worked on WALL STREET so he’s guilty of Insider Trading.
I have to re assert my new tagline
Marked
I could tell she was a fake...pretty sad they have to fake stuff ...but then again they are demorats..lol
Hughes’ words the cry of the world - HenriettaHughes.com
Homeless Florida woman pleads to Obama for help, locals step up
Just keep those checks rollin' in!
Sweetness and light also has this to say.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/more-background-on-henrietta-hughes
There is a lot on her available, unfortunately people just watch the brief TV reports and she and Obama get away with the deception.
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It was working a minute ago. Boy..those Obama brownshirts are fast.
One such image sticks in our minds from a visit last year to a local softball game. Across the street was a truck distributing food for the needy. A brand new Mercedes pulled up and out popped a couple that walked over and jumped in line. How someone driving a $60,000.00 car qualifies for free food is beyond our imagination, but somehow these people find any way they can to abuse the system.
As is often the case with such lies, more information seems to shortly rise up from the darkness to expose the truth. This situation is no different and new information about Henrietta has come to light. It appears that the desperate homeless woman owns real estate she shifted into the name of her son to avoid taxes and acquire government aid. Apparently, Henrietta is the teacher and Tom Daschle is just a student. Henrietta also apparently sold real estate at a significant profit in 2005. Henrietta has now become the poster child the Democrats wish to use to justify the massive expense of helping the chronically unemployed, not-so-needy and not-at-all-homeless.
In the spending package forced through by Democrats and signed into law by Obama, there are extensions of unemployment benefits. We believe that the government is better off extending unemployment only for those that are recently unemployed, not those unemployed annually for years, or decades. We also believe that if the government cannot properly verify actual need, they should stop programs intended for the needy until they can. That would save funds which can be used for programs that actually help America as a whole, not just the unscrupulous. We also believe that if Obama himself cannot discern between this woman and a real homeless person, he shouldn’t be expecting government will actually give our tax dollars to the truly needy when the not-so-needy will grab it first. So much for the myth of Robin Hood.
You are AWESOME TRC!!
TXROADKILL saved it here maggie!
Oh i’m sure they are investigating him as we speak....
The 2004 article was about Henrietta and her son when they were sponging off of welfare in Rochester, New York. They appear to own property in several states, actually, but were living in Rochester on SSI and other government payments and complaining that Medicare didn’t cover every last dime of any medical item or treatment she wanted.
Henrietta’s son, Corey, is a college grad (2 yr college, at least) and theoretically could work in computers, but has never found a job and basically floats around with Mom, collecting handouts here and there. I think at one point she transferred some of her property to his name so she could collect more benefits, IIRC.
In other words, they’re grifters.
This free home she got..will she pay taxes on it??? nope!
**grifters.**
nice old fashioned term for Scum sucking CROOKS!!
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