Issue 59 Did you know!? Welfare April 19, 2013

I first saw this corruption on a Fox News special hosted by Sean Hannity. The show was called Boom Town 2, and it was all about the corruption in the United States welfare system. So now I present to you some of that corruption.

Getting rich off the poor: Did you know that when the U.S. switched over to electronic food stamps that three private companies run the system on our behalf. The special mentioned two of the three and they are JP Morgan and Xerox. These companies save the taxpayers money by running the programs for us, but there is a catch. For each person on food stamps these companies make $2 per month. They are literally getting rich by having people be on food stamps. To make matters worse, these companies lobby the federal government (not just the politicians but the different departments in charge of the rules for welfare qualification) to reduce the qualifications to get food stamps. Thus, with less qualifications needed to be able to apply and receive welfare these companies can obtain more money as the number of people on welfare increase. This is corruption at its finest.

Corrupt businesses: Another little televised fact is that businesses such as super markets take a cut as well. However, their cut is illegal. Some shop keepers are ringing up groceries at twice there value to get more money. To make matters worse the welfare recipient is complicit. They let the shop keeper do this to get some spending money on the side. Investigators only inspect around 1,500 businesses per month, but the number of businesses who accept food stamps exceeds 20,000. Also, as some of you may well know, a food stamp recipient may not buy cigarettes of alcohol with food stamps, but again the corrupt business steps in. They ring up the cigarettes as an entirely different item. It is very disgusting.

Corrupt recipients: Did you know there is a cash back feature on food stamps. You probably didn't, but there is. When I used to work at a super market the food stamp recipients would buy what items they could with the card and then get cash back to buy booze. To add insult to injury, many of these people on welfare were wearing fur coats, diamond rings, expensive shoes and some even drove away in some real nice looking cars. Last I checked food stamp money is not actually a welfare recipient’s money. We gave it to them through our tax dollars to help them buy food, not get intoxicated. Hell some of these recipients use the ATMs in strip clubs, and others use the money they take out to buy drugs. It is a sick and twisted system we are in.

Conclusion: Right now about half the United States is on welfare. It has become part of the U.S.'s death spiral adding to the nation’s debt. Two States in our country, New York (my home) and California have more people on welfare than people paying into the system. This is a bi partisan issue that must be addressed, but isn't. The reason is that most people associate food stamps with black and Hispanic Americans. Yes it is true that a large percentage of each of those communities in America is on some form of welfare, but when you put all the demographics together there are way more white people on food stamps than black and Hispanic combined. Politicians and interest groups use the black and Hispanic communities as scapegoats to expand welfare in their districts to gain more votes. Thus, we have more corruption than we can shake a stick at. America's welfare system is broken. It needs a massive overhaul along with our tax code, and our government bureaucracy a whole. I don't know why countries bother posturing with America as all they have to do is wait for us to collapse from the inside (at least if we continue down this path to insolvency). To my readers from around the globe, be careful you do not end up in the same position we Americans are in now. As to my readers here in the U.S., if you want change, be prepared to be called a racist and a bigot, because no one wants their free stuff taken away. Maybe we should be like Mexico, they don't have a single form of welfare and yet no one has ever starved, because unlike some of western civilization the church and other private organizations aid the sick and needy in place of a corrupt and soulless government.