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Originally Posted by ratbastid
My girlfriend works in foodstamps. Literally. She's a lead case worker for our county, personally administering over 500 food aid cases and leading a team of case workers who serve over 8000 households. I can promise you, from the many things she's told me, that your grocery store thug-caricature welfare cheat is a VAST outlier.
Forgive me, but I'll go with her anecdotal evidence over yours.
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This is like the Cadillac welfare mama stories back in the 70's. A few people get caught collecting welfare under several names and the press picks up on it and it becomes mainstream that everyone living on welfare drives a caddy. I'm not saying DK's story's not true, hell probably is and the guy should be charged with everything possible. But after working with the gov'mint I'm with you they're VAST outliers.
Not sure about your wife's experience but in mine the people turning these cheats in are other program "customers." Partly I suspect due to jealously but largely due to, as one lady told me- "They're going to fuck it up for the rest of us! I'm doing job training from 6am til 3pm and then pumping gas until midnight just to keep my kids health ins. going. And that SOB is going to get this program shut down. Fuck that noise."