new coup for you

true. I just wanted to blunt the inevitable criticisms to come.

also, in all honesty, you can still cook the system through various psychological impairments. you'd be amazed what bull**** you can get SSI for.

you can also get SSI for drug addiction.

yes, the government will pay you to be a smack addict.

if you're a disabled women with children you're pretty much set- there's literally thousands of programs for them across the national, state and local spectrum.

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And why does your tone suggest that you do not care about children?

danarhea

Yes, and there were quite a few of them.....

1) The CEO of Countrywide Mortgage.

2) The CEO of JP Morgan.

3) The CEO of Bear Sterns.

4) The CEO of Freddie Mac.

5) The CEO of Fannie Mae.

6) The CEO of IndyMac.

Just to name a few. They were incompetent, and ran their firms into the ground, but they got their welfare money with no problems, thanx to government bailouts.

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WI Crippler

I remember this guy that came over to my friends place. I didn't really know him, but he was talking about how his wife just got a job. But he quit his, because they would make too much to get whatever assistance they were getting from the government. I don't know if you really consider that abusing the system, but I think its one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

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aquapub

In my first home, I met a neighbor who had been caught defrauding the welfare system and had since been banned from receiving payments, so she registered as having lived with her mother just over the border in a different state and had that state's taxpayers paying her welfare benefits. Last time I talked to her, she was on her 5th child.

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jamesrage

Not if they pop out another child.

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new coup for you

no, that actually becomes a different program. I know the difference may seem academic, but it's really not.

SouthernDemocrat

You do realize that the purpose of the Earned Income Credit is not a taxpayer subsidized boob job?

The EIC is the only tax credit that gives you money back that you did not actually pay in. The purpose of it is to provide income assistance to single parents and very low income working parents. If you go out and get a boob job with the EIC, then your abusing the program. Its not that you took your tax refund and got a boob job, its that you took a taxpayer funded handout that is supposed to help you raise your kids, and got a boob job.

As to directly spending it on a boob job, you get your refund check when you hardly worked at all, the entire check is the EIC, and you take that along with the state version of it, and you get a boob job. Just like people do the same thing on down payments for cars and the like.

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DarkWizard12

All the indians I see that go to casinos. Major abuse of welfare.

DarkWizard12

shhh, Women's right to a boob job, haven't you heard of it?

UtahBill

Neighbors with adequate assets, paid for, new Toyota Avalon and big motor home, paid for, but low income on paper, and going down to the free commodities hand out and getting groceries. Their networth was easily half a million at the time....
One of my sisters scamming local churches for money and food assistance.
My younger brother who has never worked since he got "disabled" out of the service for bad hearing, which limits his job prospects, but only a little. If he hadn't inherited the dump my parents had, he would be on the street. He gets money to sit on his butt.
Idaho neighbor in an FHA subsidized home, paying very little, and still trying to deduct interest he wasn't paying on his income tax. His house didn't even qualify for the program.
I know a lot more.....

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