Posted on 07/28/2013 6:43:43 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Food-stamp fraud in New York has turned into foreign aid — to black-market profiteers in the Dominican Republic.
Last week, The Post revealed how New Yorkers on welfare are buying food with their benefit cards and shipping it in blue barrels to poor relatives in the Caribbean.
But not everyone is giving the taxpayer-funded fare to starving children abroad. The Post last week found two people hawking barrels of American products for a profit on the streets of Santiago.
“It’s a really easy way to make money, and it doesn’t cost me anything,” a seller named Maria-Teresa said Friday.The 47-year-old Bronx native told The Post she scalps barrels of Frosted Flakes and baby formula bought with welfare money in the United States.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if the taxpayer was also picking up the tab for the shipping
Food stamps and EBT cards are like cocaine. Once they get a taste of it they are hooked. They will always side with their dealer, that being the government.
If they can make money by being a dealer themselves, even better.
This is how pathetic a country we have become.
Yep - that about sums it up.
Depressing.
New Yorkers should tell their mommy to look into this in stead of running around banning large sodas, into other states promoting gun bans and wanting people to walk stairs instead of elevators.
Oh wait, never mind they voted for this moron and I can’t wait to see what kind of moron they elect next time.
Well they already have to total losers running and I’m sure there will be others.
SNAP: keeping barrel makers and importers’ campaign donations flowing!
my taxes pay to feed Mexicans in Mexico... why not the DR?
oh yea... BECAUSE ITS NOT MY FREAKIN COUNTRY
if you were in a restaurant, ordered food and only 1/2 of it was delivered to your table, the rest going to friends of the owners... would you pay the bill? would you return?
“...if you were in a restaurant, ordered food and only 1/2 of it was delivered to your table, the rest going to friends of the owners... would you pay the bill?”
That’s exactly the way it used to work in the military, it probably still does.
Well, you don’t have much of a choice.
Either you don’t eat at all or you are forced to split your plate with the deadbeat at gunpoint.
Illegal aliens can have many identities, so you are probably right
which would make you a victim, prisoner or slave, not a customer
pretty sure you wouldn’t return to the restaurant or do anything you could to get away
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