Posted on 01/13/2014 8:22:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
You just got on welfare, what do you want to do now? Go to Disney World. It’s cold out in Maine, but it’s really warm in Florida, just like back home in Somalia. Leave the polar vortex behind and catch some rays, withdraw some cash and enjoy the good life.
Working people are paying for it.
According to Department of Health and Human Service records, cash welfare users from Maine have spent $2.8 million outside of the state over the last three years – and not just in neighboring New Hampshire.
According to HHS records, the top recipients of Maine’s welfare cash are: New Hampshire: $1.4 million; Massachusetts: $360,000; Florida: $206,000; and New York: $100,000.
New York’s tourism board really needs to do more outreach to Maine welfare recipients. We’ve got to pay for all the people Bill de Blasio is going to put on welfare. Maybe he can innovate welfare tourism.
On Aug. 1, 2011, one or more EBT cards were used within a three-minute time frame to access nearly $500 in welfare cash at an ATM in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. That particular ATM happens to be located almost on top of the campus of Disney World Resorts.
On March 1, 2011, at 3:20AM, a Maine EBT cardholder accessed an ATM in Cape Canaveral, Florida, twice, withdrawing $400. The address of the ATM corresponds with Ron Jon Cape Caribe Resort.
Additional Sunshine State transactions occur at the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, the Family Fun Center of Lakeland, and at North Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Vero Beach, Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach – all hotspots for Mainers on vacation.
The list goes on to include Las Vegas, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Four Seasons Resort Aviara in California.
The Four Seasons Resort Aviara is a five star hotel. I couldn’t afford it, but I’m not a welfare recipient in Maine.
But don’t worry Governor Moonbeam, California is still number one.
Californians have, of course, been the undisputed 50-state champions of transitional-living-fund spending across state lines. At a stratospheric $69 million from 2007 to 2010: well, can’t touch that, transitional-living-fund-wise. The top out-of-state venue for poverty-stricken, transitional-living-fund-wielding Californians? Las Vegas. $11.8 million spent by starving California children, much of it at casinos and co-located ATMs.
Remind me, wasn’t Obama lecturing CEOs about spending money in Vegas? I guess that doesn’t apply to his voting base.
I listened to NPR for some reason today. Self-abuse, I guess.
Anyway, the “economist” they had was opining that “poverty” does not mean not having enough money for food, shelter, clothes, but not having enough money to meet social expectations of vacations, cell phones, etc.
In short, he opined welfare leeches should go to Disney.
I almost wrecked my car.
“Meanwhile, there are real needs being taken care of like air conditioning, multiple flat screens and Xbox...”
How are hardworking taxpayers supposed to deal with the reality of what the welfare SYSTEM has become and still remain sane?
100% of her clients had multiple flat screens
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It would be interesting to know what the average screen size is in those homes. I would bet that most TV’s are a lot bigger than 32”. And I would surmise that many Section 8 homes probably have Blue Ray players as well.
Many years ago, back in the days of telephone landlines, a friend who worked for the local telephone company used to say that all the “poor” folks had multiple phones in their home, usually of the Princess variety. Nothing has changed except that now they have multiple TV’s and cell phones.
At one point, only people who had skin in the game were thought by our founders to be deserving to vote. An interpretation of this was at the time the ownership of property.
Is someone did not own property, they had no right to be able to vote to increase property taxes, for instance.
Today’s interpretation should be whether someone receives any welfare or other federal assistance.
No one should be allowed to vote themselves money.
It is the reason the colonies revolted: Britain was terrorizing the productive colonies with onerous taxes when they had little or no skin in the game.
We are evolving into a nation of haves and have nots, with the have nots by-and-large comprised of welfare recipients dependent upon taxpayer largesse.
The solution is really pretty simple: revert all welfare back to the states.
Those states which choose to continue the existing spiralling-out-of-control welfare will see a flock of new citizens arriving in their state eager for the goodies, and an exit to other states of those who are productive. With this in the hands of the feds, there is little alternatives available for the common man other than the difficult choice to leave the country.
We are not so much a nation of states than a collection of individual states which choose to defend themselves align together on a federal level under the auspices of a Constitution which spells out ONLY those activities for the federal govt to address, not vice versa. States have been giving up their rights to the federal govt for years.
That is why states rights, fought hard by the Confederacy, was so important for the national well-being.
We have been going downward ever since.
Here in New York the foreign invaders use the EBT cards to send food back to their families in foreign countries. Isn’t that great? Wouldn’t you love it if every month someone from say France would do all your grocery shopping for you? Free of charge! All you have to do is sit back and wait for it to be delivered!
cash welfare users from Maine have spent $2.8 million outside of the state over the last three years
EBT cards are not just food. They have 2 separate sections on them. One can be for cash that is TANF. Dang get educated about welfare people!
Hey people, enjoy your vacations. Would you send a postcard, tho? It’d really be considerate, seeing that I’m paying for your good time. Send pictures too, cuz I can’t afford to go on vacation and I’d really like to add those pictures to my albums of places I’d like to see.
Did you eat good food along the way? no stopping at McDonalds, you hear! Eat healthy so I won’t have to pay your hospital bills.
I hope you appreciate what a wonderful country you’re in. A country that is slowly draining everything it can from the people who worked honestly all their lives and worked hard so they wouldn’t become a burden. A country that is so hospitable, that it willingly gives money, food, health insurance and shelter to the people who just got here and haven’t contributed anything to the country.
I moved from Seattle to a small town in central KY. I noticed a very large “poor” apartment complex that is on our very own MLKJR road. Every one of them has heat pump air conditioning.
Now, don’t get me wrong, it seems like a requirement here some times of the year, but if no AC was good enough for the rich a hundred years ago, it’s good enough for those who live off handouts.
Maybe it would motivate them to earn their own living.
I’m still waiting for the flood of Father’s Day cards from all the bastards that I’m supporting.
I agree. I see the "EBT Accepted" signs at gas stations and liquor stores. Be interesting to see what happened if they were changed to only work in grocery stores in the same zipcode as the recipient. The whining would tell us all we need to know about poverty in the US.
Well... exSKKKOOOOOOOZZ us for being so ignorant about how the handouts work...
We’re on the PAYING end, ya know, and don’t know that much about the gettin’ side of the equation.
(tone meant to be a wry grin and a wink)
It is possible that there are no grocery stores in the same zipcode, but you have the start of a good idea.
Wait...what's that? You didn't get to take a vacay this year? Your taxes (er, healthcare) and other cost of living expenses went up so much you couldn't afford one? tsk, tsk.
They should only work at government sanctioned food banks that sell generic food- flour, salt, sugar, eggs, milk, fresh fruits, vegetables, etc.,...
If they are not working, they have time to make bread and other foods from scratch.
No cookies, candy, sugar cereals, soda, lobster. If they want ‘luxury’ items, GET A JOB.
Hackers have been going after the wrong cards.
Is that sarcasm? /s
You make a good point.
I don’t want to see the poor live in misery, but, it also should not be pleasant. Living conditions should be less than ideal, so that they will be motivated to do something productive in their lives.
The message sent should be that, if you want nicer things in life, better living conditions, better cars, etc., then the way people earn such things in life is through working.
There should also be mandatory work or attending classes of some kind, in order to receive benefits. People should not be able to sit on their butts all day. Something should be required of them in order to receive public assistance.
Assistance should be geared towards making these people self supporting and independent of public assistance after a period of time. It should not be an open ended situation, in which nothing is expected of the recipients.
In Massachusetts,the recipients “lose” there ebt cards.
They sell them for less than face value and use the cash.
There should also be mandatory work or attending classes of some kind, in order to receive benefits. People should not be able to sit on their butts all day. Something should be required of them in order to receive public assistance.
And this attitude is one they learned, being on the dole, often for their entire life. They don’t think they can participate, due to their own lack of ability (regardless of who they blame it on publicly). And the welfare state, quite literally, did it to them.
In Massachusetts,the recipients “lose” there ebt cards.
If I lose a hundred dollar bill, can I stop by some government office to get a new one?
The lack of accountability in such a system is criminal. And I am not using that term lightly.
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