Woman Denied Public Assistance Because of Her New Car

KTRE-TV ^ | 7/27/06 | Ramonica R. Jones

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Stephanie Drinkard is a single stay-at-home mom with two little girls. She moved back to Nacogdoches a month ago from Louisiana. There, she was on Section 8 housing, food stamps, and Medicaid, but she can't get that help in Texas because of a contest she won back in October.

"I went online and entered," said Drinkard. "I didn't know I was gonna win it. Only like two people won - it was me and somebody else - but it's a 2006 Limited Edition Toyota Avalon and it's like a $40,000 car."

And $40,000 exceeds the limit the

[MichiganConservative]

Did I mention the house was full of computers and servers?

What were they doing with the computers and servers? Did they run an ISP or write software to sell to people? Let me guess. They had unreal video game parties, right?

[GoldwaterChick]

Anyone with heart problems really should be avoiding ramen noodles. Just check the sodium content on the box--it's a killer. As are canned soups. Guaranteed to send blood pressure sky high.

Just buy your own dry noodles, some salt-free bouillion powder and add herbs to jazz up the broth.

[Muzzle_em]

You can bet your A$$ she will have some rims on that car and soon! Maybe one of her BabbyDaddies will buy some rims for her if she will "throw it on him" a few times a week.

I noticed a boob tattoo, a neck tattoo and an arm tattoo I think. I was watching the video for the overflowing ashtray or a pack of cigarettes. I'm sure it was carefully edited before the video made the news.

[wita]

There's a video? Guess I'll have to go back to the beginning and see what all the fuss is about.

[Wuli]

How dare you be so sensible and logical, have you no "compasion"?

[scott7278]

At the pharmacy where I work, people on Medicaid will have a $0.00 copay on their medicine -- courtesy of the taxpayer -- and yet buy two king-sized Hershey bars for $3.15. What a country!

My anger burns when I have to waste my time filling an over-the-counter medicine that you and I have to pay for that's free for them (like Tums), or when I hear people complain about a $5.00 copay on $850.00 worth of medicine.

Don't even get me started about the ER regulars -- they go to the ER for things like a rash. It's not surprising when someone goes twice a week, some weekly. They'll bring in multiple prescriptions, have us fill them, and then only take the free ones.

I about lost it the other day when someone started complaining about a $2.00 copay. I told her that the same thing costs me $45.00 -- and I work for the dang pharmacy!!!

I'm not completely heartless; I'm talking about those who can work and who have beat the system. The woman in this story is the type I'm talking about.

[dalereed]

20 years ago the same thing was going on at Sin City Cslifornia.

A friend of mine whose psrents were there said it was really a hoot, they were riding off into the desert on their 3 wheel bicycles, getting it on in the trash bins, and the place was like a swap party.

[dalereed]

Wrong thread, sorry!

[scott7278]

"What I don't understand is why there is NO job required someplace even if it is sweeping floors at the local school to teach these people the value of what it is to earn money, even if it is a government hand out."

I believe it may have been right here in St. Louis where it was proposed that those receiving public housing should have to work so many hours a week cleaning up their own property.

It was called "racist" and akin to slavery.

[dalereed]

Years ago i'd heard that they taught how to get the most out of social programs in schools in Cslif.

25 years ago I went into the locsl market near my office to buy beer for the guys and the good looking blond in front of me paid for her stuff with food stamps and left in a new Corvette with a USC sticker in the rear window.

The system is being scammed more than anyone realizes.

[mylife]

It was along the lines of the later

[mc5cents]

funny how welfare discourages self-sufficiency. Its a good way to stay poor permanently.

This is an excellent read and explains just what has gone wrong in our current welfare system.

[Polybius]

If she sells that car won't that be considered "income" and she will be required to pay "income" taxes.

Yep.

$1,365 to be exact.

1040 Tax Estimator for 2006

[US admirer]

A look at the video at the listed URL reveals the following:

1) statements from the perp and bias of the black female reporter: "Her kitchen cabinets are bare and her kids are now behind on their immunizations. That leaves her with two options.

'I either have to sell the car and not have any transportation or just live off what we're living off of, which is like rice, basically, we have rice.'"

2) the priorities of the perp based on prima facia evidence: color tv, computer with internet access (? broadband) and a $40K car

3) lesser priorities of the perp: food in cupboard, immunizations of children

4) other observations: another absent black father (of both of her kids) which I would argue is as much a consequence of public assistance as of a need for it

[ImaGraftedBranch]

She should have sold it sight unseen, and straightened her life out.

[mountn man]

Now the middle class is supposed to pay her to not work, and the tax load prevents them from being able to hire somebody to help around the house, so the middle class is too stressed out to have as many kids as are needed to keep civilization going

I'm considered middle class, but I know one thing (but only one thing), the top 1% pay 33.9% of all the taxes and the top 5% pay 53.3%. The top 50% pay over 96% of all taxes.

So this isn't an issue that the middle class pays for everything, while the rich AND poor get away free.

[tob2]

Rice noodles are good. Thanks for the info.

[tob2]

Nothing wrong with rice at all. I have lots of it.

[Lancey Howard]

Sanity BUMP!

[tob2]

Don't have high blood pressure. Others in family have it so salt was never on the table. Hardly ever add it to my food. Thanks for the suggestions about noodles.