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Michigan lotto winner charged with welfare fraud

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LINCOLN PARK, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan woman who continued to get food stamps after winning a $1 million lottery jackpot has been charged with welfare fraud.

Who does this lady think she is, a bankster? LOL.

But seriously, here is a woman who won a million bucks in the Michigan Lottery, and chose to continue receiving food stamps. This is ridiculous. I hope they lock her up and throw away the key. And while she is in jail, this bitch needs to pay back the money she stole from the taxpayers. Sorry for calling her a bitch, but IMHO, that's exactly what she is.

Article is here.
 
Too bad she wasn't a banker or wall-street investor. They get to keep all their ill gotten gains, even at the expense of the tax payers.
 
She should pay back what she took from the time she won the prize, a fine of about the same amount, and a few hundred hours of community service. Anything more than that is pointless and excessive. It's too easy to use this woman as a public scapegoat in times of trouble. She isn't the real problem.
 
She should pay back what she took from the time she won the prize, a fine of about the same amount, and a few hundred hours of community service. Anything more than that is pointless and excessive. It's too easy to use this woman as a public scapegoat in times of trouble. She isn't the real problem.

You're right. She's the symptom of the disease. And the disease is a poorly-run and managed food stamp program.
 
You're right. She's the symptom of the disease. And the disease is a poorly-run and managed food stamp program.

Exactly. Dont make her pay back anythiing though. Take away her money and that puts her right back on food stamps. Make her work it off. Being from Detroit I can tell you there is plenty of ways communities there could use some "volunteers" for a few hundred hours.
 
Exactly. Dont make her pay back anythiing though. Take away her money and that puts her right back on food stamps. Make her work it off. Being from Detroit I can tell you there is plenty of ways communities there could use some "volunteers" for a few hundred hours.

I disagree about paying it back. She needs to pay it back, AND she needs to spend time in jail to reflect upon what she did. After she gets out, a couple of hundred hours of community service would also be appropriate. She will still have plenty of money left when she completes her sentence, and hopefully, she will have learned a lesson from it.
 
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I disagree about paying it back. She needs to pay it back, AND she needs to spend time in jail to reflect upon what she did. After she gets out, a couple of hundred hours of community service would also be appropriate. She will still have plenty of money left when she completes her sentence, and hopefully, she will have learned a lesson from it.

Taking money from welfare, or any welfare abuse, is a direct crime against you society. Thus the sentence should be equal to that, which is she should be forced to contribute back to the society an equal amount of what she took (plus a little extra). Society as a whole will not benefit by giving a few thousand dollars back to the welfare system. It will have no impact. Her sitting in jail will do nothing to help society. She is not a threat to anyone so jail doesnt seem like it would do any good. However, a person putting in 200 hours or so can have a great impact on a local area. She could actually do some good.

Not to mention putting her in jail on adds to the amount of money tax payers are spending on her.
 
I disagree about paying it back. She needs to pay it back, AND she needs to spend time in jail to reflect upon what she did. After she gets out, a couple of hundred hours of community service would also be appropriate. She will still have plenty of money left when she completes her sentence, and hopefully, she will have learned a lesson from it.

I don't think this is something worthy of jail time. Particularly because we don't really seem to jail people whom do similar things on a larger scale. She should have known better, yes. She should face consequences, yes. But I'd draw the line before actual jail time. Just someone trying to bilk a bit more out of the system and got caught. If we held this standard to everyone, perhaps. But I also think we already throw people in jail for way too many things.
 
Taking money from welfare, or any welfare abuse, is a direct crime against you society. Thus the sentence should be equal to that, which is she should be forced to contribute back to the society an equal amount of what she took (plus a little extra). Society as a whole will not benefit by giving a few thousand dollars back to the welfare system. It will have no impact. Her sitting in jail will do nothing to help society. She is not a threat to anyone so jail doesnt seem like it would do any good. However, a person putting in 200 hours or so can have a great impact on a local area. She could actually do some good.

Not to mention putting her in jail on adds to the amount of money tax payers are spending on her.

Not if the state charges her for room and board. :mrgreen:
 
Not if the state charges her for room and board. :mrgreen:

You cannot (and I know they do, but I am so super against this) charge people for "room and board" when you throw them into jail. They're not volunteering for jail, they are being forcibly placed there by the government.
 
You cannot (and I know they do, but I am so super against this) charge people for "room and board" when you throw them into jail. They're not volunteering for jail, they are being forcibly placed there by the government.

I know. I was just being an ass. LOL.
 
Out of curiosity did anyone go to prison over the 2008 economic collapse?
 
You cannot (and I know they do, but I am so super against this) charge people for "room and board" when you throw them into jail. They're not volunteering for jail, they are being forcibly placed there by the government.

I think people who are in prison should be forced to alleviate some of the burden they place on society. Essentially they are volunteering for jail when they choose to break the law. You cant charge them room and board because most of them cant afford to pay and it's wrong to charge only those with means. But you can alleviate that burden in other ways.
 
I think people who are in prison should be forced to alleviate some of the burden they place on society. Essentially they are volunteering for jail when they choose to break the law. You cant charge them room and board because most of them cant afford to pay and it's wrong to charge only those with means. But you can alleviate that burden in other ways.

No. There is not proper justification to use government force to jail people and then charge them for that jail time. It is a benefit to us in society at large to put certain individuals in jail, it is not for their benefit. We use the force of government here, and properly so through the judicial system, but it's still force we're appling for OUR benefit on the aggregate, not for the benefit of the indivdiual.
 
Who does this lady think she is, a bankster? LOL.

But seriously, here is a woman who won a million bucks in the Michigan Lottery, and chose to continue receiving food stamps. This is ridiculous. I hope they lock her up and throw away the key. And while she is in jail, this bitch needs to pay back the money she stole from the taxpayers. Sorry for calling her a bitch, but IMHO, that's exactly what she is.

Article is here.


I thought food stamp eligibility was based on income, not net wealth. She spent all the lottery winnings right off the bat, and still was making no money because she doesn't have a job.
 
There was a time in the not-so-distant past, that, if someone were receiving entitlements and came into a large sum? Like WON the lottery?They had to pay it all back. I guess that'd be unAmerican today.

Ah! It seems the great state of Florida has brought back the past . . .

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Makes sense to me.
 
Sorry to say but the only reason we heard about this is the recipient was white.
 
I heard of this person on the news a while ago. She was blatant and entitled about it. The fault lies with both the state for not acting quicker and the woman. She pays or does volunteer work at food pantries or soup kitchens for a great while.
 
Sorry to say but the only reason we heard about this is the recipient was white.
Really? You're going to attribute this story entirely to race? You sure?
 
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I heard of this person on the news a while ago. She was blatant and entitled about it. The fault lies with both the state for not acting quicker and the woman. She pays or does volunteer work at food pantries or soup kitchens for a great while.

Isn't that an acceptable solution though? In that I mean, to me it sounds like the punishment that makes the most sense. She doesn't work, so it's not like you'd be destroying her income. But some good ol' community service and maybe a fine seems very appropriate, IMO. We get something out of it (free social work), maybe recoup a bit of the costs, no one goes to jail. To me I think that would be the best solution for this case.
 
Sorry to say but the only reason we heard about this is the recipient was white.

Conservatives really need to stop playing the race card. Damn near every thread they're ranting about racial issues that nobody brought up.
 
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