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Food Stamps - They're Not Just For Porn Anymore [Steyn]
National Review ^
| 5/12/2013
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 05/13/2013 5:16:49 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
In Massachusetts, where last year the Governor vetoed efforts to prohibit food stamps being used for pornography, piercings, tattoos, guns, manicures, etc, they’re now trying to discover whether the Tsarnaev brothers used them to pay for the Boston Marathon bombing:
A mountain of new welfare records shows numerous EBT card cash withdrawals made by the Tsarnaev family, but so far there is no information about how terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev and others may have spent the money.
The EBT receipts were handed over by the state to the House Post Audit and Oversight Committee as part of its probe into the Russian family’s $100,000-plus taxpayer-financed life in the Bay State. The committee met yesterday behind closed doors to review Medicaid and welfare awards…
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; foodstamps; steyn
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To: Servant of the Cross
The bad news is that we have discovered the Tsarnaevs were state sponsored terrorists...
The worse news is that the state was Massachusetts...
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posted on
05/13/2013 6:40:23 AM PDT
by
Haiku Guy
(Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
To: Servant of the Cross
“Behind Closed Doors”
The cover-up continues.
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posted on
05/13/2013 6:42:36 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Mandatory BB Guns for 10 Year Old Boys would solve most of America's problems.)
To: sickoflibs
There was a time when a Dem POTUS didnt want the stigma of being a food stamp POTUS but we live in new times, Obama wears it as a badge of honor: importing poverty and terrorists to here , giving them US citizenship to vote Dem, and food stamps as soon as they touch US soil... Dems want the whole country to have the charm of Detroit...
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posted on
05/13/2013 6:56:39 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
( A gang rape by Eight isn't 'immigration reform'... Send the millions of illegals home.)
To: Tennessee Nana
Where are you in Tennessee. The WalMart in Greeneville, TN accepts EBT cards. It is plainly visible on the gas pumps. Made me mad when I saw it. That’s why I remember it.
To: sickoflibs
” Their conclusion to fix it: Get more of the poor to vote for more free stuff. “
It’s working well too.
To: animal172
SE TN
It was on the gas pumps that I first saw t6he signs We do not accept EBT
Then I noticed it in the stores..
No it may not be at all WalMarts...
However I often see We accept EBT at 7/11s etc and adult book stores while I am waiting at stop lights etc...
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