They’re not even half-assing it these days.
Do you remember what those folks who had damn near nothing after Hurricane Katrina and ended up in Houston did with the cash cards handed out by the government?
Yep, liquor and hookers and TV’s.
So when the feds plunk down $140 Million of your tax dollars to give to folks in NYC who have a roof over their heads and food in the fridge an extra $200 to buy school supplies, guess what happened.
A state program that put $200 cash into the hands of low-income parents of school-age children is opening the door for “rampant” fraud and should be suspended, Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks said Thursday.
The program has caused stores and ATMs to run out of cash and the county’s Human Services Department to be overwhelmed with in-person client visits and calls to its phone system.
Members of Gov. David Paterson’s administration defended the program, saying tales of increased sales of video game equipment and televisions are just anecdotes. The program allows families who couldn’t otherwise afford back-to-school supplies to equip their children for a new year.
What’s clear is that the actual amount of fraud will never be documented because state officials said there is no way for them to see how families are spending the $200-per-child benefit.
And that is exactly how they wanted it.
Buy the votes with the money of the productive.
Would it surprise you to know that leftist suggar daddy George Soros was involved? He added $35 Million of his own money to the pot. I wonder if that price of admission got him a say as to how the money was given out?
Back when I was a yute, the ward bosses in DeeCee could buy votes in the colored part of town with quarter-pints of whiskey or gin, and a jitney ride to the polling place.
It seems the price of votes in the ghetto has gone up a bit.
Side note: those quarter-pint bottles were never seen at any other time, and they may have been produced just for that purpose. Is there any way to check that?