Welfare

In case you haven't noticed I have no real theme or reason for my blog, just a place for me to rant, put up cool things I find, and generally just sorta blah.

Today I shall rant a bit.

Food stamps, Cash assistance, welfare.  I have to say all these programs are helpfull, usefull, more then likely save some lives.  But not everyone who has these benifits needs them, and you and I are the ones paying for it.  I am really sick of seeing people walk into a 7-11 and buy stuff with food stamps, frozen pizzas, sandwiches (as long as they aren't cooked there!) candy.  Or how bout at the grocery store, I get my ground hamburger and rice and pray it lasts me till I can get more, they get lobster, steak, name brand everything.  How the hell does that work?  They have no money for food so the state pays to feed em surf and turf and ben and jerrys ice cream?  Simple idea here, make them cook the food they get, have a list of what they can get (seafood, can get a catfish fillet or tuna fish for almost nothing.  Candy, soda, ice cream, sandwiches, all those items, any food product that is not healthy, should not be purchasable with food stamps.  Name brands should not be purchasable.  There should be a price cap on what you can buy.
People seem to forget, they are on food stamps because they claim to not be able to afford food, if they are buying T-bones and $8 a pound lunch meat from the deli, well that might be why.
What food stamps have allowed is people to live beyond their means.  How does this help anyone, take away food stamps and all of a sudden they can't afford food again.
Then you get to the food stamp fraud.  I don't get out much, but I know 2 seperate individuals who are currently commiting fraud.  One is getting food stamps and cash assistance for 3 kids, she only has 2, she pawned her 3rd one off on her mom and then on one of her kids friends, kid doesnt even live in the same city as her mom yet we are paying for food stamps for her as well as cash assistance.  I note about this one, 4 people in the household, 2 kids, 1 guy who doesn't work, and her, she calls in sick 2-3 times a week to go to seattle and smoke weed, when she runs out of weed she gets sick and has to call in sick and get more weed.  We are paying for this ladies food as well as giving her pot money.  I don't know about you but I have to pay for all my vices and I can't even call out sick when I am actually sick because I can't afford it.
The second lady (wow is this a theme here with ladies) I won't go into, don't know enough and none of my buisness, suffice it to say she is getting assistance from the state while planning an island wedding.
Here's what I'm going to do, call me a dick, call me an asshole but the fact is, if you know someone commiting fraud, turn them in, WE, the taxpayers, are the ones paying for this, this is the type of behaviour that will destroy our welfare system, and all of these people commiting fraud are taking resources from those who truely need it, they are literally taking the food out of the mouths of babes because of thier own selfish lazy desires.
I have reported the fraud I know about, if your in WA state and know of someone doing this call 1-800-562-6906, other states look for your welfare fraud hotline, guessing they have one.
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