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yea, someone on welfare was pulling down 60,000 a year, HA HA HA.
sorry, but no one is going to believe you on that one.
Maybe you thought someone who retired early or who got workers come, but not someone strictly on welfare, that wouldnt even be considered income, so why would they show you that documentation in the first place ?
Woman collects 300,000 in fake welfare claims.....
Here is a link to Welfare Fraud cases....
Yikes it is a GOV site too! Oh the truth of it all!
Just one story from the site...
May 2007 – Los Angeles County
While exact figures are difficult to tally, experts estimate as much as $300 billion a year is lost to health care fraud in the United States - more than half of it to organized crime.
Medi-Cal spends about $34 billion annually to provide care for about 7 million indigent Californians - with about $3 billion of that lost to fraud, experts say.
The state Attorney General's Office has a bureau that deals specifically with Medi-Cal fraud. It's prosecuted about 1,000 such cases over the past eight years - double the number for the previous eight years. Most, officials say, are related to organized crime.
You just argued 2 cases out of what, 30 million and this guy claims he was seeing it on a regular basis. you smacking your own head isnt going to make you comprehend why your argument is just as flawed as his.
you are arguing the exception to the rule rather than the rule itself.
I'm working 80+ hours a week, and have nothing to show for it,except a car.
No savings,no home,nothing.
My main gripe with some people getting food stamp,public housing,welfare,SSI,etc is when they ask me why I don't have anything.
They think because someone is working they can pay for a Bentley,have a home,have 120,000 saved up,and spend money like it is water.
They don't realize there are hidden costs to working like paying taxes,health insurance,gas,food,and rent that they all get for free.
They seem to love throwing me under the bus.
Some guy I know collecting food stamps,in public housing,and on SSi asked me why I don't have anything to show for working so hard. he actually thought everyone that works gets this big lump sum around tax time(where did that idea come from?). This all from a guy who was on the system most of his life. He is also a criminal.
I'm working 80+ hours a week, and have nothing to show for it,except a car.
No savings,no home,nothing.
My main gripe with some people getting food stamp,public housing,welfare,SSI,etc is when they ask me why I don't have anything.
They think because someone is working they can pay for a Bentley,have a home,have 120,000 saved up,and spend money like it is water.
They don't realize there are hidden costs to working like paying taxes,health insurance,gas,food,and rent that they all get for free.
They seem to love throwing me under the bus.
Some guy I know collecting food stamps,in public housing,and on SSi asked me why I don't have anything to show for working so hard. he actually thought everyone that works gets this big lump sum around tax time(where did that idea come from?). This all from a guy who was on the system most of his life. He is also a criminal.
Many homeowners do get a "big lump sum around tax time" especially if they have large and "young" mortgages and have a large dollar amount of itemized deductions. (In the early years of a mortgage, interest - which is deductible - makes up nearly all of the P & I payment.) This guy might have had relatives or known people who got large tax refunds, or he might have heard about other people getting large tax refunds.
You won't believe some things some "pooper" people have said to me.
Everone gets back a huge refund come tax time,and everyone with kids is eligible for the Earned Income Credit regardless of income.
I have had some people suggest to me I should get on welfare so I could stay home with my kids. Wth?
It was my mother in law,and she was saying she took care of her kids when they were younger. She did it on welfare....yeah that's really taking care of your kids by yourself alright. Smdh
Some people have told me they didn't know Medicaid had income limits. I have even met middle class people who thought that too,so many people are uninformed.
Same with food stamps. These people thought you could just walk in the welfare offices and sign up.
On this very site,someone thought just because someone was black they could get free housing,just for being black. Smh.
Many homeowners do get a "big lump sum around tax time" especially if they have large and "young" mortgages and have a large dollar amount of itemized deductions. (In the early years of a mortgage, interest - which is deductible - makes up nearly all of the P & I payment.) This guy might have had relatives or known people who got large tax refunds, or he might have heard about other people getting large tax refunds.
Homeowners who claim the property tax rebate get back very little.
My sister this year got nothing.
this guy was talking about the Earned income credit. Some people I know get 2500 per child.
Some guy I know collecting food stamps,in public housing,and on SSi asked me why I don't have anything to show for working so hard. he actually thought everyone that works gets this big lump sum around tax time(where did that idea come from?). This all from a guy who was on the system most of his life. He is also a criminal.
I used to work for American Airlines in Tulsa which most people thought of as a great job. We lived in a one bedroom apartment with our son on the sofa and our infant daughter in our bedroom, drove an old Chevy with a caved in rear quarter panel, ate white label chili and rice, couldn't afford cable, bought groceries at Sam's on credit card and hoped to get some overtime before the bill came. We had friends on welfare that offered us their extra government processed cheese. They received more in food stamps than we could afford for food on our weekly budget. They were living significantly better than us and I had a "good" job. I finaly left American and took a job in Saudi Arabia to break out of the trap.
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