SNAP Fraud: A $50,000 EBT Card, One Person Getting Benefits from 6 Different States

[StatesRightsForever]

Yes and I see Trump and Republicans want to say if you are in a state that legalizes pot you can't smoke pot and own a gun too. Which is insane. I smoke pot and I hunt. Sometimes at the same time.

Trump didn't do that. That is from the 1968 Gun Control Act.

 

[sealybobo]

Maybe we could reduce taxes and corporate taxes so the dollar goes further and companies will pay more.

want people to make more? Have the federal government give corporate tax breaks for increasing employees wages.

Also, what happened to the "$15/hr minimum wage"? That was supposed to solve everything, right? Pretty much everyone is paying $15/hr and guess what, its not working. What happens when you inject more money into the economy? Inflation happens, except now, people were thrust into a higher tax bracket because their wages doubled, but inflation means they have to pay more for things with not much more money.

Minimum wage should go up with inflation. That would stop the cycle of inflation happening every time we raise the wage. Companies won't bother raising wages because they'll know it'll just raise wages next year.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Why should single moms be incentivized to have kids they can't afford? Here is an example of what I have a problem with.

Alexis has been receiving food stamps since her first child was born. She has two children, ages 12 and six. “The government is the reason we’ve been able to eat most of the month, and the other half, I’m counting each cent to survive, what with food prices and rent,” she says. She is concerned that SNAP will be suspended, despite the judges’ ruling. With the high cost of food and no coupons, her children “will have nothing to eat.”

‘I’m angry with my president:’ Trump voters in Florida confront the fallout of his policies a year before the midterms

Reeling from aid cuts, the immigration agenda and a government shutdown with no end in sight, those who supported the Republican in the 2024 elections feel a mixture of guilt, anger and bewilderment

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This woman went on SNAP because she had a child she couldn't afford. Then, instead of learning from that experience, six years later she goes and has another kid while she still can't afford the first one and she's been on SNAP for 12 years now. This is not how these programs should work. If we're going to have them they should be for temporary assistance, maybe a year at most, not a lifestyle.

Why marry a man when you can marry BIG DADDY GOVERNMENT.
As planned, of course.

 

[sealybobo]

Why marry a man when you can marry BIG DADDY GOVERNMENT.
As planned, of course.

Is that what you did?

 

[StatesRightsForever]

All govt handout programs are drowning in fraud. It's always like that. Govt can't do anything right.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Minimum wage should go up with inflation. That would stop the cycle of inflation happening every time we raise the wage. Companies won't bother raising wages because they'll know it'll just raise wages next year.

Inflation goes up when there is more money in the economy.

The key is finding way to cut costs and make things less expensive for producers to make. You can keep raising minimum wage but things will just keep costing more. Just like what happened when everyone started paying $15/hr

 

[StatesRightsForever]

Inflation goes up when there is more money in the economy.

And that is due to fiat money. We must bring back the gold standard. BTW - bitcoin is obviously fiat too - hell it doesn't even exist.

 

[sealybobo]

Inflation goes up when there is more money in the economy.

The key is finding way to cut costs and make things less expensive for producers to make. You can keep raising minimum wage but things will just keep costing more. Just like what happened when everyone started paying $15/hr

Sorry to bring Correll into this but last week he asked me why I'm being such a dick when all he's trying to do is fix blue collar America. He is supporting Trump policies he thinks are going to fix America. Kicking illegals out and bringing manufacturing home.

Correll, it's the same as when Democrats support unions and increasing the minimum wage. Why attack me when all I'm trying to do is help blue collar workers? You don't think my policies are going to work? Yea, exactly. Just like I don't believe Trump's policies are goign to fix blue collar America.

The real fix would be after we kick illegals out and bring jobs back home, those workers are going to have to organize. Trump/Republicans won't support them.

I don't have an answer to minimum wage causing inflation. Maybe we need to have minimum wage go up and down with inflation. If inflation goes up, so does the minimum wage. Figure out what percentage is appropriate and have it fluctuate with the economy.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Sorry to bring Correll into this but last week he asked me why I'm being such a dick when all he's trying to do is fix blue collar America. He is supporting Trump policies he thinks are going to fix America. Kicking illegals out and bringing manufacturing home.

Correll, it's the same as when Democrats support unions and increasing the minimum wage. Why attack me when all I'm trying to do is help blue collar workers? You don't think my policies are going to work? Yea, exactly. Just like I don't believe Trump's policies are goign to fix blue collar America.

The real fix would be after we kick illegals out and bring jobs back home, those workers are going to have to organize. Trump/Republicans won't support them.

I don't have an answer to minimum wage causing inflation. Maybe we need to have minimum wage go up and down with inflation. If inflation goes up, so does the minimum wage. Figure out what percentage is appropriate and have it fluctuate with the economy.

But when you increase wages, everything else will go up. We are at the point where everyone is making $15/hr minimum. Has it helped? Increasing everyone's wage will cause people to raise prices to cover the cost of the doubling of their payroll.

I mean, if we could find a way to increase everyone's pay and it would actually help people all around and not hurt businesses, then yeah, let's work on that.

 

[Correll]

...

Correll, it's the same as when Democrats support unions and increasing the minimum wage. Why attack me when all I'm trying to do is help blue collar workers? You don't think my policies are going to work? Yea, exactly. Just like I don't believe Trump's policies are goign to fix blue collar America.

I don't attack you over polilcy disagreements, I express the disagreement and explain why.

I attack you when you attack me. Which is very often.


As to unions I have often said, sure, support unions. And that the best way to do that would be to encourage them to actually do their role, ie represent the workers instead of the dem party.


The min wage? I rarely mention it. I don't agree with the idea that is translates one to one to inflation.

The real fix would be after we kick illegals out and bring jobs back home, those workers are going to have to organize. Trump/Republicans won't support them.

I don't have an answer to minimum wage causing inflation. Maybe we need to have minimum wage go up and down with inflation. If inflation goes up, so does the minimum wage. Figure out what percentage is appropriate and have it fluctuate with the economy.

Unions need to purge the leftard infiltrators. Till then, they are bad actors.

 

[sealybobo]

But when you increase wages, everything else will go up. We are at the point where everyone is making $15/hr minimum. Has it helped? Increasing everyone's wage will cause people to raise prices to cover the cost of the doubling of their payroll.

I mean, if we could find a way to increase everyone's pay and it would actually help people all around and not hurt businesses, then yeah, let's work on that.

There is a way. Like I've said a million times, how did my brothers VP of HR job go from $500K a year to $1 million a year? Seems like the leaders in that corporation gave all the raises to the guys and gals at the top.

And want to hear something that will piss you off? Women and blacks are taking over his department. Companies need to diversify so they need to find females and blacks. What better department to give to a woman or black than the HR department, right? What harm can they do? Well, it turns out they are even harder on employees than the white men they replaced. They want to prove themselves so they are cheap with the raises too.

AND, get this. If my brother a white man was making $1 million, a DEI hire makes double or quadruple what a white man makes. Because they are so rare. Hard to find. One company will steal a black VP away from another company. They are in high demand. Point is, isn't that ridiculous they make this kind of money? But they decide what they are worth and they decide what you are worth. Guess what? You aren't worth shit.

Unions are the answer. Labor needs a seat at the table.

 

[Correll]

There is a way. Like I've said a million times, how did my brothers VP of HR job go from $500K a year to $1 million a year? Seems like the leaders in that corporation gave all the raises to the guys and gals at the top.

There does seem to be something broken with our system. IMO, the first place to look is the big mutual funds. I don't think they are doing proper due dilgence and are instead more likely to be pushing...lefty nonsense.

And want to hear something that will piss you off? Women and blacks are taking over his department. Companies need to diversify so they need to find females and blacks. What better department to give to a woman or black than the HR department, right? What harm can they do? Well, it turns out they are even harder on employees than the white men they replaced. They want to prove themselves so they are cheap with the raises too.

1. Companies do NOT need to diversify.
2. They can do a ton of harm to people and to the company from hr.
3. I'm sure they are harder on SOME of the employees.

AND, get this. If my brother a white man was making $1 million, a DEI hire makes double or quadruple what a white man makes. Because they are so rare. Hard to find. One company will steal a black VP away from another company. They are in high demand. Point is, isn't that ridiculous they make this kind of money? But they decide what they are worth and they decide what you are worth. Guess what? You aren't worth shit.

That's a result of government policy driven by lefties, not a real market force.

That's nothing to brag about. It's just a money being directed from the real economy and real people to DEI hires.


And your personal attack was... just you being a dick.

Unions are the answer. Labor needs a seat at the table.

Unions are infiltrated by lefties. THey are supporting this shit, not opposing it.

WORKERS need a seat at the table. LABOR, is part of the modern LEFTARDS.

 

[candycorn]

Remember we don't want to ban guns when one person abuses a gun.

While this is an interesting story and looks to be true, I hope you are not using this story to suggest we do away with SNAP?

Don't forget most people getting SNAP work. So their employers are being subsidized by the US tax payers. If we cut this off then those employers will be forced to pay more. I'm all for that but how about we raise those peoples wages and THEN cut them off of SNAP. Cut them off by having them make so much they don't qualify for SNAP anymore.

Remember we don't want to ban guns when one person abuses a gun.

While this is an interesting story and looks to be true, I hope you are not using this story to suggest we do away with SNAP?

Don't forget most people getting SNAP work. So their employers are being subsidized by the US tax payers. If we cut this off then those employers will be forced to pay more. I'm all for that but how about we raise those peoples wages and THEN cut them off of SNAP. Cut them off by having them make so much they don't qualify for SNAP anymore.

Did they ever say what the guy’s name was?

 

[candycorn]

Why should single moms be incentivized to have kids they can't afford? Here is an example of what I have a problem with.

Alexis has been receiving food stamps since her first child was born. She has two children, ages 12 and six. “The government is the reason we’ve been able to eat most of the month, and the other half, I’m counting each cent to survive, what with food prices and rent,” she says. She is concerned that SNAP will be suspended, despite the judges’ ruling. With the high cost of food and no coupons, her children “will have nothing to eat.”

‘I’m angry with my president:’ Trump voters in Florida confront the fallout of his policies a year before the midterms

Reeling from aid cuts, the immigration agenda and a government shutdown with no end in sight, those who supported the Republican in the 2024 elections feel a mixture of guilt, anger and bewilderment

english.elpais.com

This woman went on SNAP because she had a child she couldn't afford. Then, instead of learning from that experience, six years later she goes and has another kid while she still can't afford the first one and she's been on SNAP for 12 years now. This is not how these programs should work. If we're going to have them they should be for temporary assistance, maybe a year at most, not a lifestyle.

Well...she can’t get an abortion anymore....that is one issue.

I’m not sure what the horror is in having kids not starving.

 

[sealybobo]

Did they ever say what the guy’s name was?

Huh?

 

[candycorn]

Huh?

Supposedly some guy ran up $50K in snap benefits.

I was curious if they ever mentioned his name. Because if they didn’t...I’m calling BS.

 

[sealybobo]

Supposedly some guy ran up $50K in snap benefits.

I was curious if they ever mentioned his name. Because if they didn’t...I’m calling BS.

All I know is I talked to many, many, many poor people who said they were going to vote for Trump. I told them they would be sorry. Republicans told people on welfare "Democrats are giving illegals more welfare that you get" and those dumb asses voted GOP. Now they are seeing the GOP is cutting them off. I LOVE IT!

‘I’m angry with my president:’ Trump voters in Florida confront the fallout of his policies a year before the midterms

Those who supported the Republican in the 2024 elections feel a mixture of guilt, anger and bewilderment. A year after Donald Trump’s election win many Latino Trump voters in Florida who sealed the state’s status as a Republican stronghold are now questioning their decision. Trump’s manifesto of economic prosperity and law and order clashes with reality. As months have passed, frustration and regret have grown among those most affected by the rising cost of living, cuts to social programs and an immigration agenda that has torn the Hispanic community apart. The list of complaints includes the disruption to government aid, the unstoppable rise in the costs and persistent inflation.

Miami-Dade County, where the shift of the Latino vote from Democrat to Republican was key to Trump’s victory last year. Here, about 215,000 households (about 24%) rely on SNAP, one of the highest rates in the country. In other words, more than half a million people.

Alexis Maria, a 35-year-old single mother born in West Palm Beach who works as a doctor’s assistant, is among them. She voted for Trump because she thought he would be a better leader. “Now everything is out of control. I can’t even afford the air we breathe. Now I see that I made the wrong decision,”

The Trump administration and practically the entire Republican caucus have been falsely accusing them of wanting to give free health care to undocumented immigrants. This message won over public opinion last year.

Lyras studied addiction counseling in college but is currently disabled and receiving food stamps. He voted for Trump “all three times” but says he is upset with the way things are going: “I regret my last vote enormously,”

“It was necessary to make changes, but not in this way, sacrificing our civil rights and liberties that are enshrined in our Constitution,” “Trump is turning this into a police state and he’s acting like an authoritarian. I didn’t vote for any of this”

People agreed with what the Republicans were saying in the campaign, which was: ‘I’m going to get rid of all criminals.’ But what Trump is doing is something else, and it is very cruel and very bad, and they are going to pay dearly.”

 

[sealybobo]

HAHAHAHA. You just made up those numbers. Nobody likes a liar.

HAHAHAH DID I?

And are you serious? Trump said he lowered drug prices 1000%, 700%, 500%, 200%. All those percentages are impossible. So Trump is a liar and you like him right? I thought no one likes a liar?

I think it's funny a dumb ass like you would call me out for making something up. How ******* lazy are you? You have the internet right in front of your fat lazy face and you didn't even bother to check to see if I was making up those number? Because guess what stupid? I wasn't.

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• Contributing factors: Other factors cited for the widening pay gap include high unemployment, globalization, the decline of unions, and outsourcing.

 

[candycorn]

All I know is I talked to many, many, many poor people who said they were going to vote for Trump. I told them they would be sorry. Republicans told people on welfare "Democrats are giving illegals more welfare that you get" and those dumb asses voted GOP. Now they are seeing the GOP is cutting them off. I LOVE IT!

‘I’m angry with my president:’ Trump voters in Florida confront the fallout of his policies a year before the midterms

Those who supported the Republican in the 2024 elections feel a mixture of guilt, anger and bewilderment. A year after Donald Trump’s election win many Latino Trump voters in Florida who sealed the state’s status as a Republican stronghold are now questioning their decision. Trump’s manifesto of economic prosperity and law and order clashes with reality. As months have passed, frustration and regret have grown among those most affected by the rising cost of living, cuts to social programs and an immigration agenda that has torn the Hispanic community apart. The list of complaints includes the disruption to government aid, the unstoppable rise in the costs and persistent inflation.

Miami-Dade County, where the shift of the Latino vote from Democrat to Republican was key to Trump’s victory last year. Here, about 215,000 households (about 24%) rely on SNAP, one of the highest rates in the country. In other words, more than half a million people.

Alexis Maria, a 35-year-old single mother born in West Palm Beach who works as a doctor’s assistant, is among them. She voted for Trump because she thought he would be a better leader. “Now everything is out of control. I can’t even afford the air we breathe. Now I see that I made the wrong decision,”

The Trump administration and practically the entire Republican caucus have been falsely accusing them of wanting to give free health care to undocumented immigrants. This message won over public opinion last year.

Lyras studied addiction counseling in college but is currently disabled and receiving food stamps. He voted for Trump “all three times” but says he is upset with the way things are going: “I regret my last vote enormously,”

“It was necessary to make changes, but not in this way, sacrificing our civil rights and liberties that are enshrined in our Constitution,” “Trump is turning this into a police state and he’s acting like an authoritarian. I didn’t vote for any of this”

People agreed with what the Republicans were saying in the campaign, which was: ‘I’m going to get rid of all criminals.’ But what Trump is doing is something else, and it is very cruel and very bad, and they are going to pay dearly.”

Whatever...I was just trying to find the name of the guy who racked up $50K in SNAP.

 

[candycorn]

Seriously...does anyone know the name of the guy/gal who is referenced in the OP? I mean...he/she has been arrested, right? So the name should be made public since there is no third party/minor injury to be had here.

So does anyone know the name of the alleged creep?