Feds: Food stamps swapped for booze, Viagra

[Roon]

DETROIT - Viagra and pornography are not staples on the government's food stamp list. But authorities say a Detroit liquor store supplied them during a series of illegal deals.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33251925/ns/us_news-weird_news/

[RB TexLa]

1. they are swapped for everything under the sun

Used to be they were sold for cash, usually 35 to 50 cents on the dollar. Now with the cards the purchaser has to go with the seller to the store buy the food together and then pay the seller for it.

[handmade34]

2. when I was a kid

they gave us dried eggs instead of food stamps... who would want dried eggs?

[Toucano]

3. They're great with a tall glass of powdered milk and a thick slice of gummint cheese! n-t

[handmade34]

6. you forgot the awesome canned meat

[Toucano]

7. Canned meat? You must have been a rich kid! n-t

[handmade34]

10. my mother must have been flirting with one of the social workers???

[jmm]

12. I don't want to know what my mom did for our peanut butter

:hide:

[handmade34]

15. somehow I think sex always had to be involved...

but far be it from me to smear either one of our mother's names... I merely know that anyone who has ever been poor keeps this stuff in perspective

[Toucano]

16. It's nice to laugh a little.

So you stuff a tube sock in your bra before you head down to Dept. of Social Services.

Sweaty tits are a small price to pay for a little canned meat and peanut butter!

[kentuck]

23. That was hilarious?

I was laughing so hard I couldn't read it to my wife.

:rofl:

[Toucano]

30. Thanks, kentuck. I'm here all week. n-t

:)

[jwirr]

20. Commodities - and people traded the cheese in our area. The EBT

cards have helped some but it still happens.

[shraby]

26. The dried eggs were used to bake stuff like cookies

and cakes providing there was flour, sugar and dried milk to go with them.

[virgogal]

4. Nothing new.

[etherealtruth]

5. I have no doubt abuses do occur

I would rather "some guy" buy porn or liquor (scam the system) than exclude people that would otherwise go hungry. I am of the opinion that the vast majority of food stamp recipients are at risk of going hungry and genuinely do the best they can to feed their families with their allotment.

[Enrique]

8. ok, so they nailed Jefferson's Liquor Palace in Detroit

$130,000 over 2 1/2 years. That's great.

Now, on to Wall Street, right?

[Canuckistanian]

9. Investigating the missing Pentagon $9 billion would be an idea, too

But why do that when you can demonize the poor as well?

[noiretextatique]

13. thank you

:grr: this is chump change

[walldude]

14. Bingo...

Wonder how much they spent on the sting operation to save us $100,000

Was watching AKA Tommy Chong the other day, they spent 12 million dollars to bust him. !2 million bucks to bust a guy selling bongs. Talk about fucked up priorities.

[handmade34]

17. bingo 2nded

[Hannah Bell]

21. really. just more "welfare queen" porn.

[madrchsod]

28. it took the state of michigan 2 1/2 years?

dam... someone was watching the computer read-outs

[gratuitous]

11. Republican Senators get food stamps?

Who knew? :shrug:

[Incitatus]

18. poor people use that stuff too?

I'm shocked

[BlooInBloo]

19. Ah. They've left ACORN behind, and are now going after food stamps.

[handmade34]

22. they don't even understand the

money cycle and transfer payments... (Oh, oh, I think Acorn might help people get foodstamps)

[busybl]

24. this has been happening for years.

for everything in life, there will be someone to scam it.

[Odin2005]

25. Looks like a anti-food stamp hit piece.

Typical "welfare queen" bigotry.

[madrchsod]

27. food stamps? no cards.

cards are usually "traded" or "sold" for cash.it`s unusual that a store would let a card be used. the owner of the store was none to bright

[Lex]

29. Yeah, and big corporations stash assets in offshore accounts. Which is the bigger problem?

Let's try to guess.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. I promise to get outraged about this once the find the 9 Billion they LOST in Iraq.

until then, if poor people want to get drunk and/or laid, it's really not going to get me all that worked up.