When people have welfare what happens is, they enter the gray market. They take a tile job and pocket $500. Then they mow lawns or shovel snow or do handyman work. I have had renters who made a living off their EBT cards. Wonder why steak is so expensive? A renter ran out on me and left the refrigerator stacked with hundreds of dollars of top grade meat. The power had been off for two weeks so it was stinking to the Heavens. Meat was the only thing in the refrigerator. Somebody told me, “Oh, she was making money by selling the meat at a fraction of the cost for cash.” But because she had none of her own money invested in it, she simply left it where it was. The house had been filled with expensive stuff. She had a shower curtain that cost $150, which she left. I still have it as it’s too good to actually put up someplace.
Welfare may sound good in the press, but it enables people to do things that are not good for them or for society.
When people have welfare what happens is, they enter the gray market. They take a tile job and pocket $500. Then they mow lawns or shovel snow or do handyman work.
I was checking out at a grocery store in Milwaukee about 2 years ago.
A couple who could be oboma’s kids literally had a grocery list from their friends and neighbors and were saying “OK, Laqiana wants A and Tyrone wants B” and were checking things off the list. And these were NOT kids breakfasts and the like.
Then they paid with a govt EBT.
They didn’t even bother to cover they were gray marketing their purchases. They were the local convenience store in their neighborhood, courtesy of OUR tax dollars (mine anyway — I paid WiI taxes).
Another big racket is people on disability. I’ve known quite a few people claiming disability and working on the side.