“Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores and X-rated shops”
“They’re on the dole — and watching the pole.”
“Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.”
A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank’s Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx.
It’s a different type of Welfare. Some people get money to use as they see fit, similar to EITC
Yeah, now tell me why it’s a good idea to just give people a ‘living wage’ with no strings attached.
Ah, so that’s why they’re angry!
I still see Freepers who deliberately confuse food assistance with welfare cash programs.
They are both funded on EBT cards but you cannot withdraw cash when getting food assistance.
Are there abuses by people who get cash assistance? Sure but that’s human nature.
Poor people aren’t saints they are as human as the rest of us.
On Friday I was behind a woman at a gas station. She was wearing Nikes and an NFL Manning jersey. She bought $23.89 of pure junk food and paid with EBT.
SNAP is food and EBT is pretty much anything they want.
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A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank’s Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx.
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Yet, again, govt KNOWS, yet chooses not to do a *DAMN* thing.
Just goes to show, SHOULD the Constitution be adhered\followed, these ‘issue\problem(s)’ go “buh-bye”. Few, if any, would care how property, VOLUNTARILY given, is utilized.