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.
So now we see one possible reason that corporate America is pushing amnesty even though unemployment (actual U-6) is stuck in the double digits. Not only do they get cheap labor, but the "displaced" EBT recipients are still able to purchase their products. It's a win/win for everyone but the sucker taxpayer.
If its from France, it would be some pretty cool stuff too.
There is, but as I see it, there are so many loopholes, sorry, exemptions that it doesn’t mean much. If you’re under a certain age, over a certain age, officially disabled, going to school, looking for work, already working at a paid job( I don’t know if a part time job counts) and probably some others, you’re exempt. I think that this was part of welfare reform in the nineties. I’m also guessing that the enforcement and documentation is probably pretty slipshod in a lot of places. Low priority, and it probably is. Enforcing this might be more trouble than its worth, just like drug testing for recipients, which sound really good on paper. The few places that have tried drug testing claim that they net so few violators that it doesn’t pay. So it’s basically a feel good thing that isn’t that practical. I very much favor drug testing for housing assistance though.
People who are abusing housing assistance get really entrenched with their activities and can create a big nuisance. A few years ago on the E. side of King Co., somebody was actually running a brothel out of public housing! The people definitely weren’t Somalian, but they were violating some immigration laws and using some underage girls.
And this will sound mean, but not all of the “stigma” should be removed.
Yes, good point. A lot of people are confused about this.
if you can afford Disney World, you should not be on welfare.
Welfare Recipients Take EBT to Disney World and Vegas:
Reparations for the “War on Poverty” — Thank You, LBJ! (sarc)
“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.”
It is never a requirement. It is a luxury.
I grew up in Texas where it gets a lot hotter and never had a/c until I left home after college.
I still was able to make it and now appreciate a/c so much more than those who never had to do without.
Here in Indiana a local tv station ran the same type of story on where our TANF swipes showed up.
We had both Disneys (Cal and Fl) but the best was the Nevada brothels, LOL.
If it was at food stores, gas stations etc. near the brothels, it could very well be the brothel employees and/or their families who are working off the books or otherwise fudging. I’ve never been to Nevada, and could wrong, if course. But see my earlier post. Prostitution and welfare shennanigans seem to go hand in hand a lot.
According to the book Mustang Ranch, a lot of the girls were married or cohabiting with families who lived close enough to visit.
I am on the paying end too....the deep end. There are sooooo many people who start screaming about the cash end of ebt cards who don’t know how they work.. Just saying...wink and a grin here too.
These were Indiana residents, or at least covered by food stamps and TANF through the state of Indiana.
I’m thinking they were on “holiday”.
That’s exactly Sheriff Arpaio’s philosophy: Stick the inmates in tent city out in the desert and make jail so miserable and uncomfortable that offenders won’t want to come back.
Huh.
Who’d’a thunk it?
I would like to believe so. But if I posted this as a Yahoo! comment, I'm pretty sure I would have people who agree with the post at face value.
Is it an insult if they don't know they've been insulted?
If you’re signed for TANF = cash welfare - you can withdraw the money from any ATM on your EBT card which then doubles as a debit card. The withdrawal charge is 85 cents per transaction.
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