Posted on 03/15/2018 11:59:47 AM PDT by rktman
The very expensive ($70.9 billion in 2016) federal food stamp program (officially: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is an open invitation to fraud. The latest indicator comes from Jacksonville, Florida.
News4Jax.com (Channel 4 in Jacksonville) reports:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
How many times were we told those stories of fraud are just made up.
I though Obama was paying for Obamacare and other things by eliminating waste and fraud?
I was asking - if they knew there was waste and fraud why wasnt it ALREADY eliminated?
Abolish the food stamp program entirely, setup Soup Kitchens, Deport All the Illegals and the able bodied can all work for their subsistence.
The article stops with 2015 data. Didn’t food stamps usage drop dramatically last year?
The usage did expand after the 2008 financial crisis. Because people were out of work. Duh.
115 individuals illegally trading their food stamps may be fraud but it really doesn’t sound like a lot. How many committed fraud signing up for the program instead of committing fraud by misusing benefits. And it sounds like it took a lot of police power to catch those few.
Trump has the right approach to reducing food stamp usage. Make jobs available. And once jobs are plentiful, then start examining who is left on the program and why.
I vote with you.
“Well, if he can steal from the government, then so can I!”
Good golly, am I surprised or what?
My thinking is that there is easily $500 Billion a year in waste, fraud and abuse. Conservatively.
Refer to Economic and Policy Weekly, December 30, 1995, page A-159. The article is published as follows: Logan, S H and DB DeLoach (1977): The Food Stamp Programme: Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, California Division of Agricultural Sciences, University of California, Davis, Bulletin 860
More stamps being redeemed than were issued. Scamming from the Bay Area used as currency on the North Coast.
There is nothing new under the sun.
It wouldn’t be Food Stamps if it didn’t involve massive fraud. Hell, Obama’s massive expansion of Food Stamps wasn’t technically considered “fraud” but the fact that essentially middle class people were getting Food Stamps was de facto fraud.
$500 billion fraud in a program that according to the article costs "($70.9 billion in 2016)"? That's your thinking huh?
In my former life as a business manager for a Fortune 50 Corporation, I would always take over accounts payable immediately upon assuming control of a new account or subsidiary. I ALWAYS saved at least 10%...went straight to the bottom line... sometimes much more.
Brings to mind how the liberal MSM insists voter fraud, if it exists at all, is minuscule and of no consequence. Which is pure BS ... it does exist, and in numbers that would astonish honest and legitimate voters if they knew the enormity of the problem.
$500B total in federal government spending... which is about $5 Trillion per year.
Jerk.
Down 1.3 million since DJT took office:
An old lady skinny as a rail with a jar of instant coffee, a couple of discount tv dinners and a can of condensed milk paying with cash in check out line.
At checkout, a fat Mexican mama in spandex with five kids with a cart load of meat, milk, box cereals, potatoe chips, candy, cookies etc paying with food stamps.( or credit food card). On top of that La Luz hands out free food to the Mexicans. They get more food than they know what to do with.
I’ve known 5 different people who had at least 3 cards under different names
Its fraud...and it pays well. Our Secretary of State’s office employees REFUSE promotions and pay raises because it will stop their welfare. ????????????????!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!12
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