That New York Post article on is infuriating.
And the food-stamp fraud doesn’t stop there. She said her sister has Bronx grocers ring up bogus $250 transactions with her EBT card.
In exchange, the stores hand her $200 cash and pocket the rest. No goods are exchanged. Instead, Maria-Teresa’s sister sends the money to Santiago — when she’s not spending it on liquor or other nonfood items.
“We do it all the time, and a lot of people do this,” Maria-Teresa said. “It’s a way of laundering money, but it’s easier because it’s free.”
They work cash jobs partly to evade income taxes and partly to not lose their eligibility for these benefits. Parasites.
I haven’t read Atlas Shrugged, but this makes me think of it.
How much of the world would collapse if the White man stopped letting people like this leech off of him?
I haven’t read Atlas Shrugged, but this makes me think of it.
It's a long book, but well worth it. In summary, the government is taking more and more control over private industry (the railroads being the example used) and siphoning off profits to support their pet social programs. As things get worse, the productive class drops out of the system to leave the parasites to fend for themselves.
I would love it if Galt's Gulch existed in the real world, but we play the cards we've been dealt.
The number of illegals and foreign-born on SNAP is disgusting. The system needs to collapse before it can be rebuilt from the ground up.