Posted on 08/12/2009 5:51:29 AM PDT by Abathar
A $200 back-to-school giveaway for needy kids sparked a mad rush for money on the streets of New York on Tuesday.
"It's free money!" said Alecia Rumph, 26, who waited in a Morris Park, Bronx, line 300 people deep for the cash to buy uniforms and book bags for her two kids.
"Thank God for Obama. He's looking out for us."
Thousands of people lined up at banks and check-cashing shops to withdraw the cash that magically appeared on their electronic benefit cards.
Some rushed out because of rumors the money would vanish by the end of the day.
"Rumors, there's always rumors," said Teresa Medina, who waited four hours at a Pay-O-Matic in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, to get $600 for her three teenagers - just in case they were true.
The no-strings-attached money went to families receiving food stamps or welfare.
Every child between 3 and 17 was eligible for $200, which worked out to 813,845 kids across the state - including 498,866 in the city.
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First off you are assuming that the money is going for that. I'm quite sure that everyone interviewed crossed their hearts and hoped to die that this money was only going to be used for their children's school needs. And as far as Mr. Robertson's organization that you donated to, it was just that, a donation that you chose to make to a great charity who guaranteed that the money went to where it was suppose to. This is mine and your tax dollars given out to a select group with no checks or balances on what amounts to an honor system. I think it is nothing but a handout for votes especially when it is put on what amounts to a state credit card that can be retrieved as cash.
Nope, and every single one of them is waiting in line for that cash just so they can spend it on school supplies...
I got news for you: the working class is THE base of Chavez, Ahamdenijad, and Hamas's support (although the latter also has the support of the petit bourgeosie as well). The proles are the base of most left-wing movements. While we have many white protestant proles in the South who vote GOP for cultural reasons, the "working class" in my neck of the woods votes Dem.
More like rise up against the bourgeosie. Leave the "working class" to the socialists...
What's the word?: THUNDERBIRD!!!
I have no problem with no strings attached, I just don't want said people to whine when they have a $500 peacoat yet no apartment.
Why not encourage the underclass and the schlub-class to have less children, while also deporting every single illegal in this country? Prevent the fatsos from breeding, and we will have a better nation.
Thunderbird, a classic wine, it rivals the finest of the premier cru classé de Château Margaux.
And don’t forget, Champipple, a fine blend of Ripple and ginger ale and Cripple, Cream Soda and Ripple, courtesy Redd Foxx as Sanford.
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