Posted on 12/24/2013 11:45:41 AM PST by raccoonradio
“Drop. Bucket.”
NO kidding! I’d wager that if we could completely stop waste, fraud and abuse, that we would have a budget surplus!
If people only knew how widespread and common this is - especially with Mom and Pop grocery stores around the inner-city and in depressed areas heads would explode.
My personal estimate (educated guess here) would be less than half a cent on the dollar of expenditure for entitlements goes towards fighting fraud and on top of that there is no incentive for any investigator to find fraud because the supervisors are Kool-Aid drinking proponents of the redistribution programs. I would even bet that in many areas of the country you might hit as high as 50% fraud.
Government healthcare is also being looted along with Bush’s prescription program to tens of billions of dollars.
Fraud in government programs administered by liberals is out of control and nobody will do a thing. It’s found in everything - taxpayer funded daycare - migrant work housing and section 8 housing - inner-city youth programs where employees don’t even show up and get paid - etc etc etc.
It’s easy to catch this stuff and prove it, but there are not even consequences for the individuals that abuse the system - only the big guys and that is rare enough.
The food stamp program along with the food banks (and clinics for illegal usurping criminal invading alien colonizers) are just part of the dems and Obama’s push towards socialism/Marxism.
Just like Obamacare.
They are continuing to build a voter base...mostly based on fraud and other illegal traitorous acts.
Has nothing to do with food or health.
Too ad we can’t return to the days of giving the poor a sack of rice, a sack of beans, and a wheel of surplus cheese.
Now we hand out "free" EBT/SNAP cards and let the "indigent" buy whatever they feel like. From the ones I usually see in line ahead of me at the grocery store, it's generally more expensive stuff than I feed my family - and the people are a whole lot fatter than us. Most of them don't look very needy. One Mexican woman ahead of me at the Dollar Store I saw buying over $60 worth of cheap party favors. She didn't look needy at all. But she did look "entitled" at least in her own eyes. The cashier happily took her card.
But what do I know? I just pay for it.
One of Howie’s favorite topics and good for him.
I hate to shock you (snark) but the Democrats want to encourage as much cheating as possible. These are Democrat voters.
What state do you live in?
The judge did a good job and I hope that it sends some fear up and down the spines of other crooked store owners.
What I described is in California.
A first for me was to see a group of women use EBT cards at a nail salon! I was getting a foot massage (I paid hard earned cash because I was having foot cramps) I said what the hell did those women just use to pay to get their nails done?!!! No one answered me and couldn’t wait to get me out of there. I called the welfare office and they couldn’t have cared less.
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