Posted on 07/29/2006 6:14:17 AM PDT by 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
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Once taxes are payed on it you will have slightly over "$20,000.00
Stick $10,000 away for emergencies, pay your rent for a year (average 2 bedroom 2 bath in Nacogdoches cost $516.00 a month or $6,192.00 a year) take the rest and buy an older less expensive car. If you shop carefully that should cover insurance and plates for a year as well.
So you have taken care of your two biggest expencies for a year. Now honey babe, get a job. Even if you start at minimum (not likely, only 2% of starter jobs offer only minimum wages) you should be fine for the time being.
Show up on time and actually do the work and by the time the year is over and you have to start paying rent again you should be earning enough that you don't need public assistance.
Are you kidding? The prize income places her squarely in the middle of the EITC (Reagan's only mistake), which will get her another transfer of wealth.
With $20,000 net after selling it, she can buy a used van for $5k, equip it, and start a cleaning business, or something to actually pay taxes like the rest of us poor fools, rather than just take our money and bitch!!
Generally speaking, contest winners who win a car are offered the cash equivalent if they don't want the car---and people on welfare are required to sign statements saying that they will notify welfare if they come into an inheritance, win a lottery or come by any other windfall. Welfare tells them that they may be required to pay back some portion of welfare assistance if they come into a windfall.
This exposes the perverse incentive of welfare.
The woman would have been "better off", in terms of getting more welfare payments, if she had not won the car. She has a perverse incentive to stay poor, because the government is paying her to do so.
At this point, she has two choices. She can sell the $40,000 car for $30,000 and make her way as best she can, or she can refuse to accept the car and stay on the dole.
But you and I, Joe and Sally Taxpayer, have no choice. We have to continue to support every moron who is just barely smart enough to figure out how to bilk the welfare system.
My thoughts exactly. I would be surprised if she did not also have cable TV. Maybe I am making too many assumptions, but this trashy culture bugs me. I am a graphic artist at a large company by day and a webmaster from home on the weekends. I am still on dialup and doing fine. No cable. Two kids in a private school. It is a question of priorities.
He was one of the good guys in Wilmington in the 70's, that happended to be black. One of our black visitors was Rev Ben Chavis, who later went to prison, was released by an overturned verdict (polically done) and becam the head of the NAACP, was fired when found paying blackmail money from their funds. (He's problably running some gumt funded ministry now.) Chavis led the Wilmington Ten in an assault on white jewish owned businesses, then holed up in a church.
The window washer became one of Wilmingtons' few black millionaires, with a large cleaning business base! Ain't life grand, when you're willing to fail. I'm not sure how well he was received at the Cape Fear Country club, though!
Yes it does.
So sell the car buy a home(did I mention that in Tx you can delare it a homestead?) in the lower end of town, get a job,eat red beans and rice and sausage for a while. When you get on your feet buy a new home in a better area and sell or rent the old one.Isnt that how its done?
Did I mention that youre off welfare at step one?
.....Yes it does.....
So the end result is that by getting free money, she loses free money. Tragic
BTW, why is this a media story?
Because the media feels sorry for the poor victim of a harsh society.
Because she's in Texas. And you know who else is from Texas...
Gee! She's below the curve. Most of the welfare recipents here in WV know to put their expensive new car or trailor in Mama's name to keep their full welfare benefits (and sadly enough, yes I have seen it happen...)
"It's HER car!!!"
And it is MY welfare money!
My first home had section 8 on either side.
It was annoying to see the neighbors dorking off everyday while myself and the wife were working our butts off.
One of the neighbors actually was bettering herself going to college thanks to uncle sam (wish I was offered that deal) to bad she majored in african studys. Thats bound to land you a real moneymaker job.
(of course, by laughing at that, I am showing my age...)
Immunizations are provided free at any county health service. Or can she not afford car seats?
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
How does one accomplish being a single stay at home mom with 2 kids??
Many moons ago I found myself divorced with a 4 year old, an ex-husband who took off, $450 to my name and a car that broke down daily.
I got my rear out and worked my butt off to make ends meet. I made it without having to get pubic assitance.
If I can do it, she can too. She gets absolutely no simpathy from me if she has to sell the car LOL!
Bingo
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