Posted on 12/05/2011 10:01:30 AM PST by thefoundersrock
Residents of a wealthy lakefront community near Seattle are surprised to learn that one of their neighbors, who has lived in a $1.2 million home for the last 8 years, is the recipient of more that $1,200 a month in public housing vouchers, federal and state disability, and food stamps.
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If you come over from Mercer Island on I-90 just take the Rainier Ave. S. exit and head south. Go all the way down S. Henderson Street and go east until you hit Seward Park Ave. S. Go north from there until you get to S. Cloverdale Street and head east. At the end of it you’ll run into Island Drive South. Turn left and go north. It’s about the ninth house on the right.
His chiropractic business is further north at Wilson Ave. S. and 52nd Ave. S. where that triangle-shaped parking lot is located.
well, state of michigan had no problem letting this guy keep his food stamps...
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/05/18/lottery-winner-on-food-stamps/
“State Department of Human Services spokeswoman Gisgie Gendreau said under federal guidelines, if a person receives a lump-sum payment, the winnings are not counted as income.”
i was intending to question whether you thought it was right.
No actually I hadn’t seen that before. Just wonderful - a glimpse into the entitlement mindset.
that's about it in a nutshell.
My mom (even more converative than me) worked for various social agencies for 10 or 15 years. Her most common complaint was that the people running the show didn't care about fraud because 1) They were too lazy to bother. 2) They didn't care who they gave money to, as long as it expanded their little empires (and it wasn't their money anyway). or 3) They had their hands in someone's pocket, as well.
Or, it was a combination of the three.
“Who spends $30,000,000 to secure a job paying $160,000 per year?”
Dianne Feinstein when she ran against Michael Huffington?
I’ll wager that the IRS looked at the guy’s lottery winnings as income and taxed him accordingly. Michigan state government must be filled with fools and idiots.
This story sounds like those powerball winners that qualify and get food-stamps.
And I gave up long ago trying to talk sense to my libtard brother.
Me: “I think everyone should pay the same percentage in taxes.”
Him: “Are you crazy!??! How can you expect someone who makes minimum wage to pay the same amount as a millionaire?!??!”
Me: “I said same percentage. Not “same amount”.
Him. Pissed off the rest of the day.
The Feinsteins’ recouped their ROI about one hour after the election. Same with Pelosi, Reid, and Boehner, albeit Boehner agreed to barter for tanning booth time and emotional counseling sessions on crying outbursts. The rest was monetary in nature.
“It will only stop when our economy completely collapses - it will.”
So true Gaffer, and so unfortunate. Every single person in this country could come up with a sob story, my husband and I both have ours - but some of us never got the notion in our heads that that is somebody else’s problem. Some of us were raised to think that you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and do the best you can with what you have. That used to be called the American Dream.
And some will never realize that there is a tipping point until it’s too late.
If the stinking govt would quit robbing the producers at gunpoint and handing out the proceeds crap like this would never happen.
Hogwash! His property taxes are at least $1,000 per month. Couldn’t pay that on in the scenario you are describing.
He should have given a donation to the Dems and zero, then, he would have been fine.
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