Lottery Winner still on Food Stamps (Update: she's no longer alive)

[jdhaines]

Lottery winner on food stamps:

Please please please, do yourself a favor and read this short article. Who else busts a gut on the last line? If this doesn't exactly explain what is wrong with this country, I don't know what does. I've still got tears in my eyes. You flat out couldn't write stupidity like this.

 

[Baditude]

And yet they need more tax money for more entitlements

 

[joekoug]

That makes me so angry.

 

[Dave Doehrman]

Lottery winner on food stamps:

Hey, read her comments. She doesn't have a job so she's entitled to keep receiving assistance. Just because she owns two homes and a couple vehicles doesn't mean she shouldn't get some of that free money the gobberment hands out. You should feel grateful that the tax money you earned and paid is going to help someone from the entitlement generation.

I know I sure feel better when I read heart warming stories like this.

 

[Archaic_Entity]

Bahahahahahahahaha...hahahaha...hahaha...

Ah... Gotta love entitlements.

Personal Side-note: My own luck sucks so bad, I used to have a friend who worked at a gas station and I would hang out with him and buy the scratch-off lotto tickets. I have never won a dime. Not even a "get another card" thing.

 

[Westside]

Just one more example of what is wrong with this country.

 

[ATOMonkey]

Hey, it looks like she paid her fair share "into the system" why shouldn't she be able to get it back?

She just dished out about $500k to various governments.

 

[melensdad]

With that type of attitude my bet is she voted for Obama in 08 and plans to vote for him again in 12.

 

[sadclownwp]

I really hope this person dies in a fire, she would be less of a tax burden then.

 

[Arm America]

On public assistance and she's buying lottery tickets?

Her priorities are in the right places.

 

[Dave Doehrman]

That makes me so angry.

If this makes you angry, then don't even start thinking about the fact that she probably used her unemployment money to buy the lottery tickets in the first place. I mean somebody has to help these folks out with their gambling money, liquor bills and party supplies.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases. Thomas Jefferson

 

[Diesel Dan]

For every one that gets caught......there are a dozen that haven't.

 

[Pocketman]

Hey, it looks like she paid her fair share "into the system" why shouldn't she be able to get it back?

She just dished out about $500k to various governments.

Certainly more than I contributed the past couple of years. From a percentage, also more than our presidential candidates. At $200 per month, it will take a while to break even.

 

[deanald2pt0]

She'll be broke in about year, and be back on government assistance anyway...

 

[jedi]

She'll be broke in about year, and be back on government assistance anyway...

Probably.

To put a face to the name.

-Jedi

 

[wrigleycub]

Sounds about right.

 

[Mike H]

It will not be long before she is on the TV program "How the Lottery Changed My Life".
The Govt. oversight committee is looking into food stamp fraud as we speak. I'm sure they will fix the problem. [purple]

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I think this is the same case:
Blog: Public assistance ended for millionaire lottery winner

...the state's Department of Human Services announced that she is no longer getting the benefits

...they may face criminal investigation and be required to pay back those benefits,"

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We'll see, I guess.​

 

[thebishopp]

Hey, it looks like she paid her fair share "into the system" why shouldn't she be able to get it back?

She just dished out about $500k to various governments.

Actually I think I agree with you. I didn't think about it til you posted it but I'd say the odds she has paid more in taxes from her winnings then she has ever or will ever get from her government assistance.

 

[Dave Doehrman]

she has paid more in taxes from her winnings then she has ever or will ever get from her government assistance.

She didn't pay anything in taxes - you and I probably paid for her lottery ticket with our tax dollars. When someone hands her $500,000 in cash without doing anything for that money, she hasn't paid anything. She just opted to take the early pay out at a reduced rate of return.