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Widespread National Food Stamp Fraud Totals at Least $1 Billion, Could Be as High as $4.7 Billion
Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 17, 2019 | Bethany Blankley

Posted on 02/18/2019 10:49:45 AM PST by detective

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The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 gave the USDA the authority to strengthen penalties for retailers that commit fraud, but as of November 2018, FNS had not done so.
1 posted on 02/18/2019 10:49:45 AM PST by detective
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With that fraud money, Trump can build a wall from sea to shining sea in 6 years.


2 posted on 02/18/2019 10:51:42 AM PST by entropy12 (Legal immigrants under chain migration not any better than illegal immigrants! Merit ONLY!!)
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To: detective

Getting all the muslins off food stamps would probably pay for half the Wall.


3 posted on 02/18/2019 10:52:03 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: detective

So much government waste that would have paid for a dozen walls.


4 posted on 02/18/2019 10:52:17 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: detective

What about the free cell phone fraud? Have you see all the free phone stands set up?


5 posted on 02/18/2019 10:53:14 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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When 50 million illegals start hitting up our welfare and food stamp programs, we will be looking back at this time as the good all days. $5 billion in fraud? That will be a drop in the bucket unless we secure our borders.


6 posted on 02/18/2019 10:54:03 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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They should end food stamps and have the people go to the government warehouses to pick up their food - processed cheese and powdered milk.


7 posted on 02/18/2019 10:55:43 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: detective; All

This story has a long history.

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

Fraud goes with the USDA’s Food Stamp program.


8 posted on 02/18/2019 10:56:23 AM PST by ptsal
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This is just Food Stamps.

Add in the fraud in Medicare/Medicaid, SS Disability, EPA, FDA, USDA, DOD and gov grants, and we’d easily fund an effective, animal-friendly barrier, with active deterence/defense, from shore to shore.


9 posted on 02/18/2019 11:01:32 AM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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Many use their cards to buy food and then once out the door exchange the food for drugs, booze, and cigarettes. No food for the children.


10 posted on 02/18/2019 11:01:50 AM PST by Maudeen (Jesus - our only Hope)
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They don’t want to hunt down Food Stamp Fraud.
Because who really benefits?

The CEO’s of:

Walmart
Kroger
Safeway
Giant Eagle
Kraft-Heinz
Tyson
Campbell’s
Kellogg’s
etc.
etc.
etc.


11 posted on 02/18/2019 11:03:30 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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I consider it fraud if anyone is capable of working but doesn’t and then gets food stamps.


12 posted on 02/18/2019 11:10:11 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Vote your bible.)
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They should end food stamps and have the people go to the government warehouses to pick up their food - processed cheese and powdered milk.

Plus rice and beans. Anyone could eat that and survive off it indefinitely.

13 posted on 02/18/2019 11:10:58 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Do we still have any work requirements, that able bodied people on public assistance are required to seek work? Or is that concept gone? Wasn’t that part of welfare reform back in the ‘90s, which Clinton claimed credit for? Has that unraveled?


14 posted on 02/18/2019 11:12:17 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Bingo!

The corporate welfare receivers don’t care if the average American is defrauded as long as they are getting theirs.


15 posted on 02/18/2019 11:13:45 AM PST by PTBAA
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The Food Stamp program has been full of fraud almost since the inception.


16 posted on 02/18/2019 11:15:45 AM PST by Herman Ball
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The amount of money that could be saved by evicting citizens of other countries who are in our country illegally would pay for a wall on BOTH borders.


17 posted on 02/18/2019 11:18:41 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The Kenyan from Indonesia ended that during his usurpation.


18 posted on 02/18/2019 11:20:38 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PTBAA

They’ve solved the riddle of “How do I sell my product to people who don’t have any money?”


19 posted on 02/18/2019 11:23:53 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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“They should end food stamps and have the people go to the government warehouses to pick up their food - processed cheese and powdered milk.”

I have been saying that for years, though I might be a little better with the choices basic meat, eggs, milk, vegatables, fruits and grains. No snacks and no @&*^# soda only redeemable at a govt maket. Would save 10 billion a year in fraud, and wasted money on krap food not to mention the hundred billion a year wasted on obesity and diabetes treatments.

Democrats would fight it tooth and nail claiming it is inhumane and undignifed (though half the worlds population would kill for free krap like that, though in reality like everything else democrats fight for it would actually be because their cronies and lobbyists, and wealthy donors (mostly all the same thing) would be losing money


20 posted on 02/18/2019 11:37:04 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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