You want anger, go to one of your govt buildings where food stamps and welfare are handed out, looks like a damn auto show in the parking lot. I was there for someone else but I had to ask how someone driving a 40,000 car can get welfare and he said they claim a $300 car with little or no income, they don’t have the manpower to check it all out. I had a customer who lived in a $500,00+ house, collected probably 100,000 in retirement and still collected welfare because “Why not, it’s free” First time I almost punched a customer.
we have to expose this to the people who vote in order to change this nonsense
OMG. HOW do they get away with this crap??
For food stamps, you need to supply 3 years worth of tax returns and they have a database that can follow all your bank accounts. You need to have less than $2000 in cash assets and no Universal/Whole Life that can be borrowed against.
For property tax relief, you need to be over 65 and have less than $25,000 in cash assets. However, it is a pool and the amount of relief varies from applicant to applicant and from year to year. You need to apply yearly.
We still have cash. I have been advised to hide it. I doubt I can do that and besides, I really don't even know how nor would I be able to face my tax-paying friends, knowing I was mooching on them. But the day looms when we will *qualify* unless things improve.
Is California so lax that they don't check or do they just not check illegals? BTW, I see the same sorts with full carts, many kids and expensive to own and drive SUVs in LaCrosse, WI. While I grimly pick up my small list of groceries and cleaning supplies, they are happily having a party in the aisles with several women and overflowing carts and kids blocking the way while they chat, laugh and talk on cells. This must be their main social activity, as my husband has pointed out the bored and morose husbands standing off to the side, enduring the shopping. He has even commiserated with a few and the Mexican guys always respond affirmatively.
WITH THE MONEY WE ARE SPENDING???
THE "DONT HAVE THE MANPOWER"????
THEY SHOULD DAM WELL BE MAKING THAT THEIR PRIMARY OBJECTIVE- STOPING WASTE AND FRAUD
Many who are now on the welfare system are third or more generations on the dole. Trust me they have playing the system down pat. A friend of mine worked in the welfare office and got very angry over all the nice cars the “clients” would arrive in. She tried to get them investigated and had police run plate numbers in the parking lot- the nice vehicles were always registered to a family member- even though the welfare “client” was the only one that ever drove them, in a small town you can figure this out pretty easy.