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Food-stamp fraud: Detroit-area stores swipe millions from aid program
Associated Press ^
| March 1, 2010
Posted on 03/01/2010 11:19:34 AM PST by Zakeet
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People wouldn't abuse their entitlement if you lazy taxpayers would give them more money in the first place.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:19:35 AM PST
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
Yours truly can't because the card is locked to buy only food. If it dispensed cash benefits, well you can buy anything.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:21:17 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Zakeet
Cities will get livable again when the money is cut off and the current residents eat each other.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:22:51 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(We're all heading toward red revolution - we just disagree on which type of Red we want.)
To: Zakeet
Lets reduce the deficit by giving food stamps to people who make 20% less than is required now. Then cut the benefits by at least 10%.
Of course in a year or two we may have no choice but to make some drastic cuts.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:23:17 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Political Philosophy: I Own Me (yep, boiled down to 6 letters))
To: Zakeet
Liquor, prOn, Viagra. Terrific. :-/
Food stamps paying for more welfare babies.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:24:35 AM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
To: Zakeet
Fraud in the government program that helps the poor has added up to nearly $100 million since 2007 Nation wide? If so, that is an hellacious under statement.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:24:47 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
("0bama's not just stupid; He’s Jimmy Carter stupid”. - Don Imus)
To: goldstategop
But, with a corrupt store owner ... he can ring you up as buying food - while simply letting you pick up anything you like.
Like this article, the person really got booze, porn, Viagra and the store owner rang up $50 worth of merchanidice for $200+ in ‘food stamp’ money.
Remember the good ol’days when Food stamps really were stamps. The person paying for their food had the stigma of paying with coupons for food, instead of simply swiping a card. That went away because it made the recipients of the Food Stamps ‘feel bad’.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:26:39 AM PST
by
Hodar
(Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
To: Zakeet
$50 in cash, two bottles of liquor, two porn DVDs and two Viagra pillsGood times.
To: Zakeet
More Michigan muslim fraud like another muslim fraud we know.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:28:59 AM PST
by
Frantzie
(TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
To: Zakeet
$50 in cash, two bottles of liquor, two porn DVDs and two Viagra pills...
That's how grandpa spends his friday nights...
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:29:28 AM PST
by
apillar
To: Zakeet
How is a liquor store able to debit an electronic welfare card?
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:29:36 AM PST
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I was behind a couple at the dollar store. They put two Sprites on the welfare card, then bought $15 in dollar crap and got $50 in cash from a Debit card. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Debit card wasn’t their card as well.
Whoever gets that bill will be surprised “$65 from the dollar store????”.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:29:53 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: pnh102
It probably sells soda as well.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:30:53 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Zakeet
Detroit - Nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
To: ClearCase_guy
Cities will get livable again when the money is cut off and the current residents eat each other. Yep -
1. Stop feeding the raccoons.
2. Starve the monkeys
Rebuild the Republic with the survivors.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:31:54 AM PST
by
Noumenon
("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
To: Hodar
And you had to buy them, at least pay some up front for what you got in food stamps.
To: Zakeet
Fraud and abuse? In a government program?
Shocked, I say. I'm shocked.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:32:48 AM PST
by
wbill
To: Disambiguator
Laissez le bon temps roulliez! Cue the zydeco music...
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:33:13 AM PST
by
Noumenon
("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
To: Zakeet
Cut the food stamp program. Period. Other option, force the business that take food stamps to keep a copy listing purchases and must be attached to the receipt of purchase. Inform business that audits will be made on a random plan. Most cash registers provide a receipt.
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posted on
03/01/2010 11:34:00 AM PST
by
Logical me
(Oh, well!!!)
To: LeonardFMason
Exactly what I was planning to post. LOL.
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