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Dead People Doled Out $2.6 Billion Worth of Food Stamps
Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 13, 2017 1:30 pm | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 01/14/2017 9:48:03 PM PST by Olog-hai

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To: Olog-hai

Potential $2 billion hit to the gov’t economic figures.


41 posted on 01/15/2017 6:31:24 AM PST by deport
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To: Gritty; All

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Get rid of the SNAP and EBT cards and instead hand out powdered milk, bags of beans, cans of Spam and TVP, and surplus cheese to the needy at the welfare offices.

We would save hundreds of billions of dollars and the genuinely poor would still get fed.
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Please define ‘needy’ and ‘poor’. There’s the rub, no?

Do the ‘needy’ pop-out need brood every 9-mo? Do they buy the latest\greatest electronics\vehicles\etc.? Do they still have A/C, cable, internet, WiFi, phone, etc.?

How ‘bout the ‘poor’? How ‘bout those whom live off savings\under-the-table (never get a ‘pay check’)...along with the points above?

Sorry, but we either HAVE a Constitution, and (some of) the Rights it affirms (5th and 13th specifically), or we are discussing a moot point (being serfs\chattel).

Govt has to ability, no authority, to define ‘charity’, let alone ‘gift’ to those it deems worthy; never a $$ it has that wasn’t taken from another.

Fraud BY and OF govt gets rectified....BY (more) govt? P-L-E-A-S-E.


42 posted on 01/15/2017 7:18:57 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Olog-hai

“Stealing is a SNAP!”


43 posted on 01/15/2017 7:20:16 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Olog-hai

This is awesome!


44 posted on 01/15/2017 7:20:55 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: dp0622

But not only is it wrong, it’s a slippery slope to NO scruples or morals.
Might have acted differently 20 years ago.


so, what happened in the last 20 years............


45 posted on 01/15/2017 7:23:33 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Bullish

This IS exactly the program for ‘food benefits’ in Calif.


so, has it eliminated the fraud?


46 posted on 01/15/2017 7:25:18 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Olog-hai
Wait a minute! Zombies have to eat. Why shouldn't the dead get food stamps?

47 posted on 01/15/2017 8:35:50 AM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: PA-RIVER

ok. thanx for painting the picture.

I can see how that would put the drug dealers in the retailers slot.

complete with bogus IDs.

thanx


48 posted on 01/15/2017 9:00:40 AM PST by thinden
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To: JustaTech
Metabolically-challenged?

Yes, that works better!

49 posted on 01/15/2017 9:22:54 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: PeterPrinciple

Life.


50 posted on 01/15/2017 11:01:59 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Olog-hai

The obvious question is, why would retailers need to use bogus SS#s?

One possible answer: illegal aliens are buying American property and starting businesses because they’ve become so comfortably assured that they won’t be deported.

Another possible answer: some “retailers” don’t actually own brick-and-mortar stores with physical addresses, and they aren’t really selling groceries. They’re conducting back room fraud operations, using card swiping / barcode scanning technology to produce bogus receipts, which are then submitted to collect the cash.
The cash is electronically deposited into a corporate bank account tied to a bogus identity, and eventually laundered to an offshore account.

Wouldn’t it be funny if a few Congresscritters were involved.

The auditors are finally catching on, to what the folks in da hood have known, like, for evah.


51 posted on 01/15/2017 12:14:35 PM PST by mumblypeg (Chicago called. They want their village idiot back.)
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