Posted on 05/04/2015 2:26:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
MADISONUnder Republican Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin has seen a nearly 12-fold increase in the number of people suspended annually from the states food stamp program for fraud.
The suspensions for intentionally violating program rules are part of a larger get-tough approach to people receiving federally funded nutrition assistance, called FoodShare in Wisconsin. Walker has also introduced new work rules for some FoodShare recipients, and proposes to seek a federal waiver to begin requiring all adult participants of the program to undergo drug testing.
In 2011, Walkers first year as governor, 102 people were suspended from the FoodShare program for violating program rules, according to DHS. That number has increased each year, to 1,184 in 2014.
Weve shown more intention and intentionality in preventing fraud and abuse, said Alan White, appointed in 2011 to a newly created position of inspector general within DHS (Department of Health Services). He cites more workers, better training, and new strategies for finding fraud using social media. Also, Weve become more aware of the types of fraud that take place.
White thinks Wisconsins efforts to step up enforcement serves as deterrent to potential cheaters: They see that we are serious about preventing and detecting fraud.
But advocates for FoodShare recipients say the state is being overly aggressive, punishing needy people who make innocent mistakes.
Theres a lot of judgment going on by white, middle-class people and a lot of assumptions and disqualifications based on these assumptions, said Pat DeLessio, an attorney with the Milwaukee office of Legal Action of Wisconsin, a federally funded nonprofit agency......
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...White confirmed that his office looks for certain patterns, like large purchases, as flags of potential FoodShare fraud....."
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Theres a lot of judgment going on by white, middle-class people..........” Sure can’t have that now, can we?
I will get a drug test for a job, but it is unfair for someone taking “charity”, paid for by others including me, to be required to take a drug test to be on the dole. Explain that.
>>By the way, I just read this weekend by a black journalist that calling someone a thug is the equivalent of the N word. Also that discussing Food Stamp fraud is racist.
Why do we allow thugs and racists to make these sort of pronouncements? We need to make pronouncements of our own.
Here are some pronouncements, declarations, and word definitions we should start using:
1. Using the word “racist” is an admission that you yourself are a racist.
2. Using the word “racist” is an admission that you see yourself as a victim and that you are completely helpless and unable to take care of yourself and that you consider yourself totally dependent on the mercy of those you call “racist.”
3. Using the word “racist” means that you would rather focus on laying blame on others than fixing problems that you have yourself.
4. If the N word is ok for rap artists to use, it’s ok for everyone to use.
5. Most people, when they hear the N word, do not think of hard-working black Americans. They think of thugs. So, yes, it is no wonder that “thug” and the N word might be considered synonymous.
6. Discussing food stamps is not racist. Discussing food stamps indicates desire to use the program to help the truly needy and those with temporary financial issues.
7. Discussing food stamps show the compassion of taxpayers who are concerned that those who fraudulently take them are jeopardizing the future of charitable efforts designed to help the truly needy.
And, btw, has anyone else noticed that what blacks prefer to be called changes at least once every 10 years? Colored. Negro. Afro-American. Black. People of Color. African-American. .... IMO, the reason for this is that whatever the current term is, it becomes tainted by the sociopathic behavior of a highly visible minority of the group. Once the term becomes tainted, there is a rush to coin a new word in order to escape from that taint. A better plan would be to quash the sociopaths in the group and allow the productive black Americans to thrive. Then whatever description was used for them would have a positive connotation and they wouldn’t need to keep changing it or trying to run away from it.
You will be given the opportunity to help make that happen.
Vote Walker.
Communist, Socialist, Liberal, Progressive comes to mind for the same reason.
Walker is good. Cruz is GREAT.
Starving the cheats?
I was thinking about that, too. Also related, communists used to be associated with the color red, which had a negative connotation, so the media used red for Republicans and it has stuck. It will be interesting to see what happens if the color blue becomes tainted as the democrat (loser) color. My bet is the media will try to switch again and claim it was just a random color assignment.
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