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Originally Posted by sob
I like your thinking for the most part, but they use food stamps as a medium of exchange. Example: Someone pays them for the food stamps, and they buy cigarettes or drugs with the money.
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Your comments seem to me to be unrealistically sterotypical and prejudicial towards the least of us in American society. Would that you find the enthusiasm to launch a post filled with similar contempt at Tom Delay and those who vote "yea" for this "bankruptcy reform" bill, changes in air quality enforcement, and Bush's advocacy for the wealthiest, instead of for the many who are disadvantaged through no fault of their own.........just for starters.
Do you offer similar stereotypes and prejudice toward predatory lenders, or corporate executives who skirt or break securities laws and act above the law to the detriment of their employees, consumers, and small investors?
I offer this information to rebut your comments,
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Welfare Myths: Fact or Fiction?
Exploring the Truth about Welfare
MYTH: Large numbers of families are receiving AFDC benefits they are not entitled to and the government isn't doing anything about it.
FACT: The evidence indicates that only a small percentage of recipients are overpaid and that most of these errors are due to honest mistakes, and there are rigorous programs in place to limit all overpayments and weed out fraud.
The rest of the myths:
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010803150417/http://www.welfarelaw.org/mythtoc.html">http://web.archive.org/web/20010803150417/http://www.welfarelaw.org/mythtoc.html</a>
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