Welfare Money Spent At DisneyWorld ? I guess it's a FREE country.

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According to Department of Health and Human Service records, cash welfare users from Maine have spent $2.8 million outside of the state over the last three years – and not just in neighboring New Hampshire.
According to HHS records, the top recipients of Maine’s welfare cash are: New Hampshire: $1.4 million; Massachusetts: $360,000; Florida: $206,000; and New York: $100,000.

Measured by transactions, Maine Electronic Benefits Transfer cards have been used 11,328 times in New Hampshire over the past three years. EBT cards have been used 2,918 times in Massachusetts and 1,252 times in Florida during the same period.

Maine Welfare Cash Being Spent in Disney World and Hawaii - Sarah Jean Seman

This isn’t an isolated case. More than $69 million in California welfare cash was spent or withdrawn outside of the state between 2007 and 2010. Las Vegas drew the largest sum of $11.8 million.

Just this year, welfare cash withdrawals were traced to casinos and strip clubs in Kansas and Washington. Some states have moved to make electronic benefit transfer transactions illegal in liquor stores, casinos and questionable locations.

Same source.....

Well, there you have it....but they can't afford health care.

 

[B. Kidd]

Don't worry. The dwindling middle class is eager to pick up the tab.

 

[norwegen]

That's just Goofy.

 

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Bump.

 

[Noomi]

Yeah, I don't think welfare should be used for Disney Land and strip clubs. Buy food and pay your bills instead!
If you can afford to go to a strip club while on welfare, then I assume you have enough money to pay your bills and don't need welfare at all.

 

[jasonnfree]

Republicans/conservatives always got their microscope on the poor. The working class in this country so worried about the poor gaming the system a little but never post anything about the great shift of wealth to the very wealthy in the last 30 or so years. This is the purpose of the bought and paid for conservative media (there is no liberal media) - keep the lower classes at war with each other so much that they won't pay attention to where most of the wealth is being accumulated as they get poorer and poorer. Kind of like the slave owners that pitted the house negroes against the field negroes.