“...Well...?”
Posted on 03/18/2009 6:35:08 AM PDT by staytrue
LEBANON, Ohio (AP) - A southwest Ohio county is threatening to ignore new food stamp rules because officials say relatively well off people are getting benefits.
Commissioners in Warren County near Cincinnati said Tuesday they want to go back to the old eligibility standards. They were angry after learning that a woman with $80,000 in the bank, a paid-off $311,000 home and a Mercedes qualified for $500 a month in food stamps after she lost her job.
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services says a change made in October bases eligibility on income. Savings, stocks, cars or other assets are no longer taken into account.
Commissioner Dave Young calls the new rules "really offensive."
Happens all the time here. Women drive up to HRS in Lexus, BMW and Navigators...............................
Welfare is theft.
Handouts for everyone!
Some of the "OLD" rules were, too. An elderly lady we know lost her job and they would not give her food assistance because she had a checking account with $10 in it just to keep it open...............
These people are no different than the AIG executives. They are not breaking the law. The law is what is broken. To blame and get angry at the people who are doing what the law allows is playing the Obama game. Instead, we should blame the perverse and wasteful government that allows such things to occur.
My mother - who receives her SSI check and drives a Ford Focus - can’t qualify for food stamps. But the lady next door who gets section 8 and drives an Escalade can.
My sister in law is a pharmacist, and has one particular customer that has a Mercedes, several diamonds, etc, and yet is on Medicaid.
I worked as a food stamp/AFDC adjudicator for the state of Florida for about a year. I remember people parking their expensive cars way down the street and walking up to the food stamp office. But this is really only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ways people come up with ways t work the system.
...parallels to AIG outrage.
He who will not work will not eat.
If we took this as it is - God’s Word, our society would be a LOT better off.
Handouts to the slothful is damaging to the receiver, the taxpayer, and society in general.
Cut out all gov’t assistance altogether, put charity back where it belongs under religious institutions, and let people voluntarily give to the truly needy through these private institutions.
The first time I saw a woman use food stamps, she took her groceries out to her Mercedes where her chauffeur was waiting for her.
Ah but Bronco Bomber's policies are designed to accomplish the opposite of this
.. limit deductions for charitable contributrions
.. tax health benefits, thus making it less appealing for private enterprise to offer them
Shall I continue?
All designed to make Fedzilla the Santa Claus of the masses and increase its power.
I’ve thought about going to the HRS parking lot and video taping the people as the come and go talking on their crackberries and driving their huge SUV’s..........................
how bout when they go thru the checkout line with their foodstamps and then whip out 100.00 bills to pay for their beer, wine and smokes. makes my blood boil......
well, yeah, he’s working to undermine everything that would be in line with God’s will,
and if you’re working against God, you’re working FOR Satan.
Easy to show that the left is, willingly or unwittingly, working for Satan with every policy.
“...Well...?”
Trivia Challenge
which politician claimed giving food stamp & welfare would stimulate the economy?
It wouldn’t do any good going to the govt about it, but it sounds like a good idea for a website....
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