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Mich. man still on food stamps despite winning $2M
Traverse City Record-Eagle ^
| 17 May 2011
| AP
Posted on 05/17/2011 7:14:00 PM PDT by Hoodat
Edited on 05/17/2011 7:33:43 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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AUBURN A man who won $2 million on a Michigan lottery show has told a TV station that he still uses food stamps.
Leroy Fick of Bay County admitted he still swipes the electronic card at stores, nearly a year after winning a jackpot on "Make Me Rich!" He told WNEM-TV in Saginaw that more than half the prize went to taxes.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: corruption; foodstamps; fraud; welfare
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I think it's time we started going Galt on these leeches.
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:14:03 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
To: Hoodat
Wonder if he’s in section 8 housing, has heating assistance, and a free cell phone too?
To: Hoodat
Imagine if people just stopped paying taxes?
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:15:52 PM PDT
by
PGR88
(I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
To: PGR88
Short of a true revolution, I think that is what we need to do. Starve the beast!!!
This is disgusting and a true testament to the welfare mentality.
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:18:17 PM PDT
by
panthermom
(Pray for my son in Aghanistan and all the troops!)
To: Hoodat
"If you're going to ... try to make me feel bad, you aren't going to do it." That I completely and totally believe.
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:18:28 PM PDT
by
thecabal
(We could be pets, we could be food, but all we really are is livestock.)
To: Hoodat
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:18:31 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: nascarnation
This is not different than the folks living in Section 8 housing with a 15 year-old Chevrolet Carpice with 26” Chrome wheels and tires (at a cost of $4000+), and $1500 worth of mobile audio....
No accountability - yet people who actually are working their butts off to make ends meet cannot get any form of help....
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:18:43 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
To: Hoodat
Michigan: Now America’s punchline because New Jersey actually got their $hit together.
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:18:54 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
(1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
To: Hoodat
What are the chances that he will have to pay back all the government money he has spent since he won the 2 Mil?
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:20:10 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Palin/Bachmann, unbeatable.)
To: Hoodat
He told WNEM-TV in Saginaw that more than half the prize went to taxes. Impossible. The rich don't pay taxes.
Or so we're told day in and day out.
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:21:26 PM PDT
by
Lizavetta
(You get what you tolerate)
To: Hoodat
I love stories like this. Just love ‘em.
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:21:36 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
(Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
To: Hoodat
but but but “more than half the prize went toward taxes”. It’s his “RIGHT” to use food stamps and if you try to make him feel bad, you ain’t gonna!
Simply Outrageous
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:21:49 PM PDT
by
Outlaw Woman
("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
To: TheBattman
I think we should tighten up those qualifications for food stamps.
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:24:48 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Hoodat
Ok here's the deal.
Reagan was a master at using an example like this, to make the point that we have too much government.
Why do we lack orators who can do the same thing today?
Frustrating.
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:25:17 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Those who endured Valley Forge didn't make their sacrifice to give us free health care)
To: Outlaw Woman
more than half the prize went toward taxes.Where did you get that?
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:27:23 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: Hoodat
Food stamps and Lotto. The new American Dream.
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:27:42 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Lizavetta
Well he’s lying about the taxes, they probably only took about 30% unless he has some horrendous city or local income taxes, or maybe he owed back taxes.
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:27:54 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: GeronL
I think we should tighten up those qualifications for food stamps.Rule #1 should be: No Food Stamps for Fat People!
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:29:11 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Doe Eyes
He told WNEM-TV in Saginaw that more than half the prize went to taxes. 2nd para
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posted on
05/17/2011 7:31:21 PM PDT
by
Outlaw Woman
("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
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