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Feb. 25, 2013 10:16am Becket Adams

“Should there be a limit on how much tax payers dollars can be given to someone on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?” Texas’ KGBT 4TV asks in an investigative report on possible food stamp abuse in the Rio Grande Valley.

“One valley man was outraged after finding out how much money some people on government assistance are getting,” reads the report. “Action 4 News uncovers just how many people are on SNAP in the Valley and how much money they are getting.”

The report was helped along by a gas station clerk who had grown tired of seeing customers make enormous purchases with their Lone Star cards. In some cases, he says, people would show up and have a balance of at least $7,000 on their cards.

“There are times I see customers come in and they’ve got thousands,” “Bob,” who spoke on condition of anonymity, told KGBT 4TV.

“[O]n an average day he sees about 10 different people all with over $2,000 in food stamps, who report to the government they cannot make ends meet,” the report notes.

“But they’re driving Mercedes,” he adds.

“Bob” says he tried calling a few government offices to notify them of the amount of money being distributed to food stamp recipients but was told nothing could be done about it.

So the local news team looked into it.

“I had never heard of this issue until you brought it to light,” State Representative Terry Canales told KGBT 4TV.

He added that a $7,000 surplus is “extremely concerning. Reaching these balances is obviously not in the best interest of the state and the people that have these balances its questionable as to whether they need the assistance.”

“According to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, there are more than 238,000 people on SNAP in Hidalgo County, costing tax payers more than $28,000,000 dollars this month alone,” the report notes.

“For Cameron County, 119,000 people are receiving assistance, at a $13,000,000 cost for February,” it adds.

“Where’s this going? What’s wrong with this picture?” Canales asked.

After the above investigation aired, Canales said he is “considering an audit on those accounts.”

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fastgen1
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:13am
Well now that you have printed it on the Blaze, obammy will surely hear about it and stop any enquirys about it. After all, these is his peoples, and they are entitled to their 40 acres and a mule. Get moozeahelle on it, she will put a stop to the enquirys….Hollywoods making a movie on the shame of trying to take their hard earned free money away. speilberg will direct….

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- RR1
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:32am
  Yeah difference between helping out people that are struggling and this
  No wonder everything is out of wack
  
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- Stoic one
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:35am
  moozeahelle will have to disconnect from hollywood first..
  
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- atechgeek
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:00pm
  That’s it .. I am not paying federal taxes anymore.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:19pm
  The really sad part about this whole thing is that “Bob” feels the need to hide his identity. He should be praised for bringing this up to the attention of lawmakers. But he has to hide his face like a criminal. Our system is truly twisted…
  
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- SLAPTHELEFT
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:51pm
  Your Sensei- give back that 7k you little weasel!
  
  What a slap in the face to all the working people of this country who don’t have 7k in the bank. Whats more is that these type of freeloaders are celebrating their riches and laughing at the producers.
  
  But we need to raise taxes….
  
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- KevINtampa
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 1:01pm
  They will argue these are reparations.
  
  Sorry, but reparations came in the form of blood when brother fought brother.
  
  We need to end all government assistance, then take stock and re-design how we determine some one is worthy of charity.
  
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- Derek01
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 1:06pm
  Giving money to morons is a dumb idea. Morons being the politicians
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 1:23pm
  Kevin — there are like 6 Back Americans down here for the whole valley. It’s 96 percent Hispanic here. There are no reparations to be sought.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 1:26pm
  Time to go back to the government cheese days. Where food assistance was not a lifestyle that many would a want to be stuck.
  Work the program like WIK does it give food assistance people vouchers for milk,basic cereals,cheese,bulk staples like rice and beans, sugar,and bulk low ends meats chicken,pork .fish.
  No one will starve under that program and no one WILL WANT TO STAY ON THAT PROGRAM.
  SO THEY MIGHT TRY AND FIND WORK AND ACTUALLY STICK WITH IT.
  As far as housing goes we need to re-establish the projects but under army barrack like supervision month random drug testing,zer tolerenbce for crime or unauthorized house guest. Also require 20 hours a week in community services and project maintanance. No one will be homeless but at the same time no one will want to live that life style and might think hard about getting a job and get outr of the program.
  Keep it simple
  
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- USAMama
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 1:40pm
  @NaughtyCal you’re absolutely right!
  @Elana unfortunately in some areas the liberals think we owe the Mexicans too. Don’t ask me why but they do :/
  
  It’s sad what’s happening in our culture. I try to do my part as a Christian to be a light in the world but its so overwhelming sometimes. I wonder if we’re past the point of no return :(
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 1:56pm
  @RR1
  
  NO, SIR. There’s NO difference between “helping people out” and “this”. It is the same. It yields the same results. It always yields the same results.
  
  You want to help people out? Then get off your lazy butt and do so. Do not take my money and tell me how important it is to “help people out”.
  
  Fool.
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 1:58pm
  @naughtycal
  
  No, it’s time to stop the flow of money from people who work to those who don’t. Your utopian ideal system will always result in corruption like this. It always does.
  
  If you want to help, then get involved with a local shelter, or start one on your own. Do not put a gun to my head and make me “help you help them”. That’s bull.
  
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- Papadoc
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 2:02pm
  Actually now that it had to go public to get something done, count on the fact that these people with thousands on their cards will quickly load up the pantry and closets, buy up product they can sell off, and completely get rid of exorbitant balances. If you are going to warn people that you’ll look into their abuse, expect them to hide the evidence of that abuse.
  
  And why do they need this kind of publicity to get an audit? This should be standard operating procedure. It’s a quick fix to put red flags into the system for irregular purchasing and high balances. Someone needs to be fired.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 2:18pm
  Jaycen,
  People fall on hard times things happen beyond their control. I’m not souless or heartless I don’t think we should as a christian nation turn our backs. However we shouldn’t provider an alternative entitlement life style either time limits and community services will help with that. And we should place strengent rules that must be followed to make sure that its is not a disirable alternative to earning your own way. If those who are on assistance violate the rules they should not be allowed to apply again for 5 years. If they have children and they can’t afford them or have violated the regulation require they send to relatives that can,find a charity that will help themn back on their feet or send them to adoption agencies. Children should not be made to suffer for the irresponsibility of the parent or parents.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 2:31pm
  Can anyone say “Cloward and Piven?”
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 2:33pm
  In other words, help people, but don’t let them get comfortable in their poverty. That Franklin guy was a smart one.
  
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- Cemoto78
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 2:43pm
  Sequester food stamps. This alone would save billions. There are so many people receiving government assistance who really don’t deserve or need it that it has become the new way to live. And to think, we all get to pay for it, well not all of us, those sucking it up don’t pay they take.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 2:45pm
  Welfare recipients should be limited to a very small and select group of food products. Beans, rice, or potatoes; the cheapest ground meat; milk; and a few vegetables. Nothing more. They should not have the comforts of a working man or woman.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 3:03pm
  @ RRI Not everyone is out of work! Anyone that works for a company that make guns or ammo can work 7 days a week or all the overtime you want. I have a friend that works at the ammo plant at McAlester, Oklahoma and he almost made $90,000 last year. He and his wife have paid off their modest home. These company’s must be shut down and sent to our bank of China. When Obama does this our downfall will be set in stone.
  
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- TxFishrMike
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 3:26pm
  Apparently you have never been to the “Valley” as we call in here in Texas. I agree wth your point, but the vast majority are illegal aliens from south of the border. I’m sure that IF investigated the Admin will push the usual “move along , nothing to see here” rhetoric……
  
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- keeps informed
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 3:40pm
  why does all monies have to go to government first? why can’t leaders in the town just collect the taxes, and then as a town, we see fit as to who deserves the help? giving money to the government is like giving bunches to teenagers…
  
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- gizmo01
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 3:58pm
  Well, I don’t think my wife and I spend that much a year. I would ask how many illegal aliens are involved in this. I don’t like to see people hungry but this is over and beyond reasonable. My God, they can eat stake every meal. I can’t even eat it once a month. This is a perfect example of government waste and abuse of the tax money we pay. Those worthless jerks in government need to be cleaned out and replaced with some people that really care about about this country. Obama needs to resign and get a real job. He is without a doubt the worst president we have ever had. God Help Us!!!
  
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- BayuzhiZERO
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 4:02pm
  @Naughtycal and others:
  
  Not everyone using SNAP and other associated benefits is a welfare recipient or a freeloader.
  
  Are you expecting the disabled to starve? They can’t exactly work to support themselves, because… *gasp* THEY’RE DISABLED!
  
  I became disabled in 2002. From 2003 to 2006, I was homeless and penniless. Now? $700 a month plus medicaid and EBT.
  
  Do you really think I WANT to live like this? I would rather work and live a decent life. Instead, I’m reduced to this, with no options or opportunities otherwise.
  
  While I was still waiting on Social Security to pull their heads out, I looked for work. As soon as they discovered I was disabled due to a past TBI, they suddenly did not ‘have anything available for my skill set’. So it’s not like I didn’t try to get back to work.
  
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- smv803
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 4:50pm
  Off topic but: I normally don’t watch the Oscars but last night was the exception…..I wanted to see Daniel Day Lewis win for Lincoln. Towards the end, while some Americansin in this country are suffering financially, what do I see but moochelle osama on the big screen, dressed for a party. That vision ruined a tolerable experience for me! Could we all use a little levity in an otherwise crooked world? Sure, But hooliwood will never change; The rich left will never get it.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 5:29pm
  Not sure about Texas, but I can tell you as a fact, based on seeing it first hand, that when I worked at a hospital in NYC there were two groups who seemed to manipulate various government programs for their own advantage. The Russians who were coming in large numbers during the 1990′s and the orthodox jews who reported no income or assets as the synagogue “owned” everything. Families with 10+ kids were living in $500,000 brownstones again “owned” by the synagogue, were on Medicaid and somehow were able to send all their kids to private school, had nice cars and seemed to have cash when they needed it. Not sure how much of it was the black market, but it was very obvious that there was a great deal of manipulation of the government programs.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 5:31pm
  @fastgen1 On the off chance you might actually research something or garner some facts before you comment, whey don’t you check who lobbies for food stamps and who administers the program at the local level.
  
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- MissWilliams411
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 5:36pm
  So you people believe that the only Black people get SNAP benefits? This is not a fact. There are just as many or more White people who receive SNAP benefits. Furthermore, the Hispanic population and other immigrants get more benefits than Black and White people combined.
  
  It is an outrage that these people qualify for 2K-7K in SNAP benefits and the system needs to be modified. Another important point is that these programs were not initially created for minorities but for white women.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 5:45pm
  Off hand, whose dumb idea was it to list soda as a food product? I’m sorry but in my opinion if you can’t live off it then it isn’t food. If your stranded on an island with nothing but soda, you’ll actually live longer if you don’t drink it.
  
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- rconder
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 6:01pm
  These people have no shame. They spend that money like they earned it and put it in their own checking account. They are spending taxpayer money like they are entiled to it. I am so tired of the abuse from these freeloaders.
  
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- Quester55
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 6:29pm
  There have been times that Due to lack of work, I used Food stamps to feed my Small Family. & It Matters not if Your Black or White, We’re Both SCREWED by the SYSTEM!For 2 Children & 2 Adults, White & Living in Low Income Housing, Their Entire Months Food Stamps came to a Total of a Whopping $ 125.00! Thats for 4 Weeks The Same for My Family, Of ( I HATE this term) A/Americans, Don’t be Fooled by the SOCIALIST FALSE CLAIM, Poor BLACKS & WHITES EAT BEANS While those RICH, Slumlords Somehow get those 5 to 7 Thousand Dollar Food Stamp Cards. And while I’m at it, Why not include those ILLEGALS That FALSELY LIST 8 KIDS in their Homes, When in truth they only have one child, What a Rip off to the rest of us, But those S.O.B.’s in Welfare in Texas don’t want too be bothered with these facts!
  I Mean, How Many ” HOSE Lopez ” With the SAME S.S.N. Can live in this country? Before they Moved away, I Had several SAME NAME & S.S.N. Numbered Men living in & as My Neighbors, They Asked us to do their Taxes for them! Your Damn Right I Turned them in , They got off Scott Free & I Was given an, ” Audit,” For my Honesty!
  This Report Has been Copied for well over 30 years, & As Long as The Socialist Have their Hands in the TEXAN MONEY POT, IT’LL Never Change. What’s Worse, WE had an old FEMALE DEMOCRAT in charge at one time & Things were just as Bad if not Worse. By Her Orders, MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN WERE MURDERED AT , ” WACO TX.” Where are we free?
  
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- Quester55
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 6:36pm
  What’s really bad about this SO Called Factual Report, Is this FACT, SOME VERY RICH PEOPLE ABUSE the System, DOESN’T Mean that ALL of the People on Welfare Are GUILTY! SO QUIT BLAMING EVERYONE For the Crime of a FEW!
  Those DEMOCRATS That are SLUMLORDS are the MOST GUILTY, !!
  
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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 8:31pm
  Just wait until the Dollar collapses. Then nobody will be getting anything. Well, that isn’t completely true, they’ll be getting plenty of Dollars to use as toilet paper because they won’t be worth a pile of spit. History will remember us…
  
  Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, United States of America
  
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- AMERICA4EVER
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 8:53pm
  After reading this, I’m wondering, is there anything animate that I can shoot, beat, use vulgar language on, or otherwise take out my frustrations on? We’re toast.
  
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- mtcountrygrl
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 9:43pm
  $700 for a family of 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This family of 4 feeds ourselves on a budget of $435 per month. Of course we pay our own bills.
  
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- Uranium Wedge
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:50pm
  @MYCOUNTRYGRL
  435.00 a month feeds this family of seven…
  But I hear ya
  
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- highhard1
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:14am
  I live in rural South Georgia. I just love standing in line to pay for groceries and seeing the person ahead of me pulling out a half dozen or more EBT cards with a list of PIN#s and trying to match the card to the right pin#s. I’m not sure how many EBT accounts an individual can have but I know the cashiers will wait patiently while these folks hold up the line zeroing out the balances on multiple cards. I do know that here and in Tennessee the going rate for a card is fifty cents on the dollar. As that is the standard offer from people trying to sell them to me at various stores. Tell them you want to take their picture to show to the cops and they take off pretty quickly. Then there is the fact that much of what is purchased with these cards is junk food, steaks, seafood, etc. I often hear people remark that it is nobody else’s business what they buy. It’s my tax money so it’s my business. Especially when you see those items stacked on half a cart of wine and beer. Yeah I know they can’t buy alcohol with the card. They just subsidize the alcohol with the money they save using EBT funds which means the tax payer is buying their alcohol. I’m disgusted with the system and the low life gutter slugs that milk it.. The country of origin, the color of their skin, is of no consequence. Being an oxygen thief is equal opportunity for all races and nationalities. The EBT system was created with good intentions but being in need and being on the program are two very different th
  
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- nitnop
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 1:00am
  http://www.amazon.com/Enjoy-Decline-Aaron-Clarey/dp/1480284769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361856630&sr=1-1&keywords=enjoy+the+decline
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 7:40am
  @BayuzhiZERO Disability (if truly neede) is different. I have an adult son who lives with me and is permantly disabled. He will live with me the rest of my life (assuming he outlives me). I accept SSDI because he helps me keep him clothed and fed. But the government keeps trying to get me to get food stamps….but his SSDI is supposed to cover that…a free cell phone (he’s MENTALLY disabled and I wouldn’t trust him with a phone), and even to be paid to watch him so I could get free cash. Ummm, I’m his mom, why do they need to pay me to watch him? That’s the abuse of the system. These people who rack up $7,000 on their Snap cards are going to be in a world of hurt when the economy collapses and you can’t run a card, credit or Snap. They will have nothing. If you have extra money, put it in shelf stable foods for an emergency.
  
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- dcatkin
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 9:01am
  Of course Obammy wants this to happen, what do you think socialism is. The more he dishes out to each bum that better he feels. The closer this country to it’s end the better. Obammy is the great destroyer of the united states.
  
  Free Our Country
  
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- wfgal01
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 9:51am
  We could very well qualify for food stamps….. however we do not even apply. We go out and hunt, and fish, and we have a garden. I love the food we get, I know where it comes from and it is delicious! I taught myself to can so we always have food. I do know there are people out there who need the help and that is fine, however this is absolutley absurd! The majority of the people in the Rio Grand Valley are Mexicans….. many of whom are illegal! 7k, I could feed my family of 5 for a year and maybe more on that! Just sickening.
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 9:57am
  When I was a student 4 years ago, my wife and 3 kids qualified for about 800 clams per month in food stamps. They could only buy “food” with the card, but a lot of the “food” was soda, candy, and chips.
  
  Point being, Romney had no chance as he was offering success after hard work while Obama and his ilk realized the gimmedat vote was the best path to victory. Obama wins, America loses. The level of waste and corruption in our current state is staggering. Many tens of millions of Americans have literally traded their birthright for a bowl of porridge!!
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:19pm
  @BAY…sorry, you get no such sympathy from me…for 1, you just posted on an Internet site. If you have Internet, yet take government ass., you are a freeloader. That 30-40 bucks a month should be going to necessities…second, the VAST majority of people on disability have ZERO reason to be. Just because you allow yourself to get too fat to move is not my problem. Or those like my mother in law that have faked mental issues for so long (just to get pills) that they now provide her disability…from you responce, I already fully believe you are such a fraud. What is your disability?
  
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LukeAppling
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:12am
Where my son lives one of his neighbors proudly brags how he has 3 free telephones given him by Obama. He thinks it is just great living off his wife and not working…Obamaland in action. I warned you before he was elected.

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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 3:58pm
  @Luke
  
  Actually it is worse…usually the neighbor would not be married to the mother of the child, simply living there with her and the 4 or 5 other children, all with different baby-daddies….
  
  it is why the “youth” in the projects and ghettos all can afford to drive tricked out cars with expensive rims and stereos and aftermarket parts that the rest of us can’t buy and then drive around all day with their hommies and then go home to play PS3 and XBox 360 on 60 inch LED TV’s while putting their new Air Jordan’s up on the coffee table and screaming at “mama” that there is no food in the house…
  
  Mama just sits eating bon-bon’s in her bedroom all day watching her 60 in TV set to the Oprah channel and screams back that junior will just have to wait until the 15th or 1st of the month until the food stamps come through or the Section 8 housing assistance or the neighbor gives her the cut from the “free child care” check they lied about or the EBT/Lone Star card gets reloaded…
  
  No reason for junior to get off his butt and get a job when he knows mama is pregnant again from the boyfriend of the month and that will just mean another raise in her assistance levels..also why he doesn’t care if he knocks up the girl next door because he doesn’t have to pay for that either..
  
  losers breed losers…
  
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- SNAKEDOCTOR
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 5:24pm
  I totally agree with you both on this. It will never change until entitlements are strictly regulated. One person working just can’t support 3 or four others on the Government dole.
  
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- dcatkin
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 9:09am
  This can’t sb stopped when we allow our kids to quit school because math is too hard. We are raising a nation of morons who think that government give a ways are the true way to live.
  
  They teach this horse **** in school these, yes it’s true the left has infiltered our schools. Not only is the school system squirting out morons, but they are morons who think that they shouldn’t have to work.
  
  Free Our country
  
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dublinthewagons
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:11am
Cut the entire lone star system. Let local food banks handle the problem. Then if fraud is caught in that system. Jail time for thefood bank worker and the recipiant.
Its very frustrating to pick and choose in a grocery store and watch these people grab and snatch, never looking at the prices. Grocery stores don’t seem to care as they are making profit off the system.

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- BarackInsaneNobama
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:44pm
  Agreed, but keep it to a minimum of what people can get and base it off not only income and there monthly bills BECAUSE THHEY CAN AND WILL LIE ABOUT IT! Only theneediest familys shall recieve these, people can put cars, mortgages, powerbills, and all sorts of things in other peoples names and pay them, they can also get paid under the table or deal drugs, I can’t believe this is in good ole’ Texas! I live in Idaho and we are very conservative and I woldnt even dream of this happening here. The hmost I have seen given here is $650 in Food Stamps and $200 for Cash Card from the H&W office and that was a familyof 2! And both working but refuse to sell there damn BMW’s! Someone needs to listen to Dave Ramsey and start there ‘Baby Steps’! I am disgusted by all of these mooches, I have a 1 month old and I adopted my 10yr old sister-in-law and I get wic for my baby and I only get $200 in SNAP. My wife works I work part time stay with my baby. And I don’t want a dime more, my kids have clothesfoodand a warm house and loving parents, thats all they need!! We own both of our cars and do notplan on getting a carpayment any time soon, I had a $170 car payment for my Subaru and sold it to take care of my kid, I own a 97 t-bird and a 98 Mustang both over 100k and reliable. But I own them!!! So with that said sure, I could use more but I dont want to use the system people got along for aVERY VERY long time with out the govt. helping out, its dispicable.
  
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- gizmo01
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 4:17pm
  Some of these people have never worked a day in their lives and are now the 5th generation of welfare. 5 or 6 kids born just outside of wedlock with 5 or 6 different fathers who don’t ever provide food, housing, medical care etc. We spay and neuter cats and dogs, but these people are out of control. What’s wrong with this picture? They need to get off of their lazy dead butts and go to work. Our system is broken.
  
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KBARRANCH
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:06am
The Meskin is what is going to break the back of this country. I witnessed a black kid about 16 yrs old at a high end specialty grocer (HEB central market) in Fort Worth on Saturday buying high end gourmet items organic high end sodas and bulk candy. I will be damned if the sorry bastard did whip out a Lone Star Card to pay for the entire thing. Oh, BTW he had on the latest fashions and was on an IPhone… This has to stop!!!!

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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:30am
  The HEB store in stephenville TX. Watch the illegal cash their checks and send money to Mexico. Then buy shopping carts full of groceries with a lone star card. Wait 30 minutes and you see the same ones buying beer at Walmart. Yes they are all driving newer cars than I a taxpayer.
  If grocerystores had to take a large discount on lone star purchases this would stop. Guaranteed.
  
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- McPrepper
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:19pm
  And they always have attitude, never a kind word for anybody either. The are lots of people with the Lone Star card that need a good junk punch!
  
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- TheIggies
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:19pm
  I like the part where you’re all lying :) I’m sure Christ is proud of you.
- zorro
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:22pm
  No doubt some of these folks are illegal. But I’m from the valley. Trust me when I tell you, a lot of these lazy thieves are US born citizens. Many have been here for generations. Comments like yours take away from the real issue of abuse of the program. It doesn’t matter who does it. Abuse is abuse and it needs to be addressed.
  
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- FyreFury
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:38pm
  I can back up what Dublin says because i live in Stephenville Tx! I’ve seen ppl, mostly illegals go in there and buy 500 bucks worth of food, pay it all off with a Lone Star card then whip out a 100 dollar bill. Buy a few cases of beer and some ciggs. Then they go and jump in a new 30k dollar truck. This happens almost everytime i go in there. I’ve literally turned around to other customers while waiting in line and openly called them a disgrace to humanity. My wife worked at Walmart for 1 1/2yrs and at one of the local Allsups for 2 1/2yrs. The cashiers don’t like it either, it makes them sick to their stomach as well. Typically the ones i’ve seen that have food stamps don’t speak english. On the other hand and this is sad i’ve seen just regular legal citizens and since they are broke i’ve seen them grab like 20 of those little totinoes pizzas and live off those! It’s sick and completely disgusting on how this country is ran.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:52pm
  This is a serious question – I swear I’m not starting trouble. How do you know they’re illegals? I’m a college grad, have a great job, drive a nice car which I paid for myself. And nothing, absolutely nothing, the government “takes away” is going to affect me directly. As far as I’m concerned, they can take it all away today. But I mow my own lawn, change my own oil, and work on my own house and sometimes I have to go to a store during or afterwards and sometimes, I pick up beer. I wonder how many times you’d see me at AutoZone, Home Depot, or HEB and think I’m an illegal.
  
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- carbonyes
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 2:01pm
  Once again Obama loading up the system with borrowed, taxed and freshly printed money with literally no worth as there is nothing backing it and then spending it like its going out of style at a rate that diminishes the value of everything that is bought as the price is increased on each good or service. Obama and his administration are bigger crooks than the thieves on the street. When will this come to an end? When the true conservative Americans have had enough and oust this no good SOB and his cronies. This is friigging insanity that which is being perpetrated on the American people.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 2:11pm
  THEIGGIES…what exactly do you think is false in what is being said? It isn’t like this is a NEW thing, NOR are they trying to hide it.
  
  The first job I ever had was @ a Gordon’s Food Service just outside Detroit. Even back in the early ’90s, I would have nearly a dozen folks PER DAY (90% black…also not an exaggeration…easily only one out of 10 that did this was white) come in and buy $200 in steak and crab legs, and pay with food stamps. To a person they were wearing nicer clothes than I and many of them (I won’t say MOST, but plenty) had nicer cars than I have owned to this day…
  
  Pretending someone is lying, just to not have to face the truth, is kind of a stupid way to live.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 7:54pm
  Zoro, why would someone think your illegal? Did you pay with an EBT or Lone Star card??????!!!!!!
  
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- DissenterKnight
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 4:18pm
  @ TheIggies
  
  Consider what St. Paul said:
  2nd Thessalonians, Chr 3: 6-12: Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate. For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
  
  Matthew Henry, writing in the 17th Century, summed up the effect of our present error well when he wrote, “Christianity is not to countenance slothfulness, which would consume what is meant to encourage the industrious, and to support the sick and afflicted.” He further wrote, “It is a great error and abuse of religion, to make it a cloak for idleness or any other sin. The servant who waits for the coming of his Lord aright, must be working as his Lord has commanded. If we are idle, the devil and a corrupt heart will soon find us somewhat to do.
  
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LB
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:01am
It should work how the cell phone companies used to do it with minutes. You don’t use, you lose. So many ripping off the system, we will never get out of this mess. Sorry to my children and future grandchildren.

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- Rick1954
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:42pm
  talk about Rip-Offs… Big Oil and the rightwing Military Industrial Complex
  
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AmericanStrega
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:59am
My math may be wrong, but if 238,000 people are receiving food stamps that cost $28,000,000 per month. That would average out to $117.65 per person per month. That doesn’t seem like a lot, but if the person doesn’t need it they shouldn’t be getting it.

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kalayaan
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:58am
Wow…it seems that they have more money than me….how lucky are the illegals are….

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ginger100
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:55am
You got to use communist tactics to fight communists, dry up the well and blame democrats.

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- twistin
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:47am
  You’re right. But….will they listen? And, is there the will?
  
  More & more articles/stories like this……after all, it IS an outrage, and it IS our money!
  
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lizaz
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:54am
I’m disappointed that Gov. Perry lets this go on……is it to get votes???? Has he fallen into the same category as the POTUS who panders to illegal aliens so he can get their votes???? Yes, they do vote with their phony IDs….how do you think they get all the welfare, food stamps, medical, education and unemployment. This is a total rape of the taxpayer….what is wrong with Gov. Perry????????

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- jorskippy
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:02am
  This is caused by corrupt social service workers. They are probably Hispanic giving “extra” to their friends or family.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:08am
  I thought food stamps were federal?
  
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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:20pm
  Food stamps are Federal as most welfare pogams are, but each state has their own huge staff to run the pogam.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:25pm
  Thanks, I had no idea. I’m surprised this Canales guy says he had no idea. This is not news for anyone who lives down there. The only surprise to me is that this family with $7K hasn’t sold their card to someone else. This is pretty common also.
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:46pm
  The problem with Texas is that it is under the voting rights act, so anything they do to try and verify the identity of voters is blocked by the Holder DoJ. Arizona’;s voters took a stand against illegal aliens collecting welfare years ago. Nappy did her level best to keep them on the roles, but it didn’t help. She even went so far as to tell state workers to not ask about citizenship when people applied for benefits. The quickest way to solve both the illegal alien issue and the welfare issue is to require a certified hard copy birth certificate for every person listed. You know the kind that Obamao won’t produce. Then stop everyone from receiving anything without a birth certificate. Don’t raise the limits for children born after being on the dole, require drug tests, and then stop all benefits after a set number of years for anyone who is not physically unable to work. I had a friend who had lost part of his leg and still worked part time. The SS administration tried to cut off his benefits despite him going from $50k a year to $15k. He took off his prosthetic and asked the judge if it looked like his leg had grown back. Likewise, I knew a 23 yr old with 3 kids who flat out stated that she was making more on welfare than she would make working, despite an associates degree in office management. (that had also been paid for with tax dollars). Her mother hadn’t held a job in over 25 years and had taught her well.
  
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RightThinking1
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:53am
I suspect that there is huge SS Disability fraud also.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 4:18pm
  Yep, but WV may have them beat on that one. Crazy checks means free drugs.
  
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- Torimom
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:32pm
  My hubby buys and sells vintage tennis shoes on eBay. He had a guy win one of his auctions late last year — the winning bid was $300. He emailed my hubby and asked if he could wait until he got his SSI check to pay him the $300. Are you freaking kidding me!?! I’ve never paid $300 for a pair of shoes in my entire life.
  
  If you can afford a $300 pair of shoes, then you d@mn sure don’t need to be on SSI.
  
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capecoralM
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:50am
The House passed H.R. 5652, the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act, which had reforms to the food stamp program. Obama proclaimed he would Veto the Bill so Harry Reid shelved it.

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rcbCAL
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:50am
Why are people upset? This is exactly what Obama promised. You voted him in; live with it.

“I wouldn’t call it fascism exactly but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy.”
– Edward Zehr (1936-2001) Columnist

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busterpuddles
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:47am
It actually does not surprise me. The Mexicans that live on the border all the way from El Paso to Brownsville know the system almost better than the Texas employees who issue them their Lone Star card. Not only that, but THE MAJORITY of these State employees in the border cities sympathize with illegals and do their very best to sign them up for every single free program they qualify for without the applicant even asking for it, more often than not, it’s because they themselves have a friend or relative that is an illegal alien living in Texas.

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- txannie
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:04am
  Nope, doesn’t surprise me either. Most of the positions that award these handouts are held by ‘la familia’. Gringo/gringa goes in…nope, too light, not ‘la familia’. Bro goes in…maybe, depends on how dark. And every where la familia is in charge, they give preferential treatment. Being a grocery checker at HEB will open your eyes to some real inequities in the Lone Star food assistance program. La Raza is alive and well in Texas and taking it’s cue from the obaba admin to really try to starve the gringo’s out. Case in point…homeless young white mother goes into food stamp office in Laredo to ask for emergency assistance…she is turned away because she is homeless and needs a permanent address for assistance. She goes out and shoots her children and then herself (something I do not agree with, no matter the reason), yet all day long emergency lone star cards are handed out to homeless illegals like skittles. Truth. Look it up. For those that don’t believe it….tough nuggies….
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:18pm
  You do know most of these you call “Mexicans” are US born citizens, right? Some are third and fourth generation and some have been living in the area since Texas became a state. Don’t be such an idiot. The race, color, nationality, or gender of these people is irrelevant. They’re cheating the system. We need to stop them.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:42pm
  I’m sorry was that comment for me? I grew up in the valley. I don’t need proof. I’ve lived it. You can continue to believe what you want, with no proof either by the way. I’m just saying comments like these where we blame one nationality, color or whatever take away from the real issues of government assistance abuse. I don’t care who does it. It needs to be stopped. If these were white Americans would this be acceptable to you or are you suggesting white Americans don’t abuse the system?
  
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- txannie
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 1:00pm
  @zorro…you are right, it doens’t matter what nationality or ethnicity it is when you are working the system (cheating the taxpayers). The thing is, being born in S TX, raised in S TX and working in the civil system for quite a few years before quitting and opening my own place, I have seen and experienced this ‘la familia’ attitude first hand. Now, gringos are catching up quick. It’s like catching wild pigs. You set bucket of feed out in a place for a few days and let them eat. Free Food!! Then you put the catch-pen up around the feed bucket. When they are used to coming into the trap you set the trap so they can come in but not get out. After the hogs get used to being in the trap the other wild hogs see them and come in and get trapped too. This gov set the trap and now all ethnicities are entering the trap after seeing how well it worked for the others. How’s that working for the taxpayers. Right now, this country is at a tipping point where there are more takers than makers. Then what?
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 1:13pm
  Yeah I get it now, txannie. I saw some of your other comments and understand what you’re saying now. As I mentioned, I grew up in the valley also so this is not new to me. I also know these folks are trained by their parents to do this. It’s part of life. Like you or I would encourage our kids to go to college or get better skills for finding a job, parents down there teach their children to cheat the system. To their defense, and I know I’m going to get hammered for this, it’s all ignorance. They really don’t know any better. They don’t think you can “make it” UNLESS you cheat the system. They teach each other and cover for each other. It’s the only system they know. I’d like to think it’s getting better but less government oversight keeps bringing it back down. Let’s not forget our elected officials have a stake on whether these people stay useless to society. They’re a large voting bloc.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 1:35pm
  @zorro…you are right. It’s a lack of knowledge of what our ancestors had to do for freedom and a lack of pride to learn what is right. There is a huge block of voters with no pride in themselves and are not being taught that pride and freedom is a good thing and that losing either or both will only enslave us, no matter what ethnicity we are. I’m sad our country is coming to this, and it’s not just illegals, they coming for a better life! I’ts unfortunate that marxist principles are being espoused as the answer to all our woes.
  
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:35am
With all that free stuff why even try to find work? Well, one reason is because if you don’t have any scruples and you want to live on other taxpayers. However if you could and are able to work doing anything legal and are truly physically and mentally able ..get out there and do something until you can find something better if you are qualified. Don’t make the government any more of nannies then they already are. …… God helps those who help themselves.

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- Caniac Steve
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:42am
  while surprised at the ammount on a card or 2 ..but the way it was brushed off by the government/and the county who didn’t take this seriously..and here we, the people are paying for it in one way or another..go figure
  
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- ADNIL
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:04am
  And…..God help those who GET CAUGHT “helping themselves.” …as Mother used to say.
  
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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:29am
  Ad. lol yes, mothers do have responsibilities for their children and they have to think fast to keep them on the straight and narrow.
  
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woodyee
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:33am
Keep in mind the tens of millions of folks that are receiving taxpayer dollars taken from them on penalty of utter disenfranchisement* by the government, and dispersed like manna from heaven by our corrupt government, from the Feds and the States, to those that have not earned a retirement (excluding SS, which is dispensed like welfare) and to those not worthy of it (illegal aliens). (*for you Leftist/Liberals; it means you lose EVERYTHING)

“According to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, there are more than 238,000 people on SNAP in Hidalgo County, costing tax payers more than $28,000,000 dollars this month alone,” the report notes.

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wilbstal
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:29am
This is a left Wing attempt to get TX blue by buying Commnuist votes from lazy bastards who have never worked a day in their lives

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:39am
  Attempt??? That would mean it was stopped. This is in full swing. Texas is ATE UP with liberals. http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/students-made-to-wear-burqas-in-u-s-state/
  
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- mikem1969
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:52am
  You said it, its for all the transplants from hurricane Katrina and the ILLEGALS.
  
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- Rick1954
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:43pm
  the Blue States have been supporting the red states to keep them from 3rd world status since 1865..
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:57pm
  @Rick
  
  False. I know you’re just parroting what you were told and haven’t investigated anything, since your kind prefers Received Wisdom to actual facts. I would try to explain economies of scale to you, but it would bounce off of your thick skull and frankly I don’t want to waste my time.
  
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ScottG-CO
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:28am
Why in the H3LL am I at work today?

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- NONCENTS
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:52am
  Youre reading my mind. But I guess someone’s got to keep the entitlement class under the thumb of our elected rulers.
  
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- ZAP
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:04am
  I don’t know,but if you want to take the day off,I’ll lend you some money from my snap card….
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:28am
An audit needs to be conducted. Ya think?

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- Xanderson
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:35am
  Exactly! So reassuring that an audit will be “considered”!!
  
  “After the above investigation aired, Canales said he is ‘considering an audit on those accounts.’”
  
  Citizens of Texas, rest assured that this will happen. Not :(
  
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- Southerner01
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:53am
  They’ll “think about an audit” until this article is old news, then they will not do one.
  
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dmforman
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:28am
I’m glad that this man spoke out and hopefully this situation will stopped in every state.

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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:56am
  I am happy that particualar media outlet actually did their jobs! That in and of itself is amazing. The reporter better watch their backs.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:22am
  @axle…you’ll never hear another thing about this. It will be squashed by La Raza and people like soloman ortiz that was the dem rep for south TX for over 20 years until the last election. La familia is hard at work taking TX back with the help of the obaba admin. The 2 new darlings of the dem party, julian castro and his twin brother have been raised by a mother that openly hates whites and has stated openly and loudly that she so hates the Alamo she wishes they would tear it down. Julian Castro is now mayor of San Antonio and his brother is a dem rep in congress and actively being groomed by the dem party to take over the flagship of the dem party. They actively claim it is now time for the hispanics and latinos to retake the country that was stolen from them. While it sounds biased when put this way, even these guys want to rewrite history and take out the fact that most of the Mexican citizen ranchers and population living here fought with the Texians for freedom from a repressive regime in Mexico. They don’t like to be reminded that many of the hero’s of the Texas revolution are Mexican ranchers. There are monuments to them, but they won’t be spoken of by La Raza, except as traitors. Do some southwest history research and you’ll find out that the only people that had land stolen from them are the native americans and it was the mexicans that came in and enslaved the indians all across the southwest from Texas to California. The whites arrived a long time a
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:48pm
  @txannie…you live in the area, don’t you? I can tell because you’re right on with your comments. :-)
  
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- txannie
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 1:10pm
  @zorro…yep, I’m Texan through and through…hispanic, white and Comanche. I don’t like to cheat anyone and I don’t want anyone cheating me. And looks don’t tell who you are, it’s your actions that give away exactly who you are. Working in the civil service sector can really open your eyes. I had to leave it and do something that would help me get renew my faith in mankind. It’s really hard to witness the inequities happening right now just for some votes.
  
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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 4:27pm
  This situation won’t be stopped in every state or any state for that matter, until we all get off our butts and do something to stop it. Just seeing all the people here having their eyes opened, is a great start.
  Spend a little time reading about welfare fraud and abuse and you will be shocked.
  
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allensmithee789
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:27am
What do you call a man who is forced (taxed) to work for another man’s food, clothes, shelter, healthcare, education…? It is the same as a man who is entirely dependent on another man for his food clothes, shelter, healthcare, education. — A SLAVE. Freedom and Responsibility are Inseparable!!

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voodoolife
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:26am
Gee… I wonder how they vote?!?!

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:32am
  You have to take into account how the federal government is sponsoring ads in Mexico regarding how to collect welfare benefits even as a non citizen. Not to mention how many Katrina refugees refuse to leave Texas to return to Louisiana. The federal government is pushing this in Texas as well as other Red States for good reason. But, KEATON3CCC will come here tonight with his sh/t load of lies and distortions tonight.
  
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- Rick1954
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:40pm
  they voted for bush…and the WMD LIE
  
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- NigelTufnel
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 2:27pm
  Whoa. Rick’s bringing out the WMD argument again. WOW. You do know that Obama has spent more than Bush on war now don’t you. 1.8 trillion for Bush, 2.6 trillion for Obama. In 3 less years I might add. Doesn’t matter though. Sequester kicks in on Friday and it’s acrossed the board cuts. Now get on your knees and thank the gop for cutting defense spending and farm subsidies. Your holy grail!
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 8:06pm
  Little Ricky sounds just as dimba$$ as Keatonc33, Hmmm I wonder?
  
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- Dethklok91
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 4:46am
  Mr. and/or Mrs. Rick1954,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  If it’s a lie, then why does Obama believe it?
  
  It is so.
  
  http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/george-w-obama-threatens-war-over-syrian-wmds/
  
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MrKnowItAll
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:26am
I know people who really need food stamps and get enough to get by for a little over a week.
If you do and they have Children. Please help them. Kids are Kids. Calling Welfare on Cheaters does nothing.

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- NONCENTS
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:04am
  You know, that’s very kind of you to say, however…..
  
  The sort of person who is greedy enough to steal several thousand dollars in benefits from our government isn’t likely using them to maintain their children. Especially when impoverished kids are also being fed breakfast and lunch by their local public school/head start program in addition to their parents EBT dole.
  
  Actions have consequences. And lying/cheating/stealing cannot be tolerated on the basis of who might be hurt if the consequence of those actions comes to pass. That being said, if I knew of a child going hungry, OF COURSE I would do what I could to help them. But I will not enable evil people to abuse the goodwill of hardworking Americans for their own selfishness. Wrong is wrong.
  
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- Rick1954
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:45pm
  and Haliburton is Haliburton….and all the other rightwing Corps on the gov’t teet
  
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- NONCENTS
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 2:03pm
  Ahh, relativism. How nice.
  
  Two big things I can see wrong with your assertion:
  
  1. Halliburton is not completely on the “government dole” as it is a privately owned company that generates a large source of income on it’s own.
  
  2. It provides a good or service (theoretically) for the dollars it receives. Unlike welfare recipients.
  
  That being said, there certainly could be graft with the government funding corporations (AIG anyone?) and guess what, – that’s wrong because DISHONESTY is wrong, not because of who or what might be the recipient.
  
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- dtrent387
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 7:32am
  these people make me sick. i know how you feel my 80 year old grandmother draws about $800 per month from retirement and she went to see if she was eligible for food stamps to help out with a few groceries. they told her she would be able to receive 15.00 per month but i see it everytime I go to the grocery store a woman with 2-3 kids dressed up brand new phone nice shoes nice car using food stamps to buy a big @$$ buggy of groceries and i’ve even seen some draw cash from their snap card IDK what thats about.
  
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chucksue351
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:24am
stop this madness now

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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:32am
  Make’um fish bate
  
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dadsrootbeer
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:23am
Obammy’s plantation.

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- catty
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:16am
  start with the brilliant gov. first.
  
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- Rick1954
  Posted on February 25, 2013 at 12:40pm
  Corporate Socialism???
  
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GetRight
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:23am
Some people have no shame.

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