Woman who collected welfare benefits despite winning a $735,000 lottery prize dies of overdose

[dixiegrrrrl]

Double irony, I think.

Police say a Detroit-area woman who collected welfare benefits despite winning a $735,000 lottery prize has died of a possible drug overdose.

Ecorse police Sgt. Cornelius Herring confirmed that 25-year-old Amanda Clayton was found dead about 9 a.m. Saturday at a home in the community southwest of Detroit.

Clayton of Lincoln Park pleaded no contest to fraud in June and was sentenced to nine months' probation in July. Her attorney has said Clayton repaid about $5,500 in food aid and medical benefits.

Michigan's Department of Human Services says Clayton didn't inform the state about her pre-tax lottery windfall last year.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57523016/troubled-mich-lottery-winner-found-dead/

[Blecht]

1. What is the point of posting this?

Is there an epidemic of "welfare queens" winning the lottery?

This is a local story at best, and fuel for the austerity lovers, to boot.

[bigwillq]

3. Drugs are bad, m'kay.

That might be a point.

[HiPointDem]

4. we're supposed to say, "see, even when 'those people' get money, they just blow it on drugs

because they're such losers, it's good she's dead." and we're supposed to sign on to the ruling class policy of letting the welfare class and the working poor drown.

because if they weren't such fucking losers they'd be rich.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. There seems to be a lot of ways to look at it, IMHO.

I was curious about people's opinion of the story
not people's efforts to read motives of posting it.

[Octafish]

2. Story is emblematic of 21st Century United States of America.

Drugs taking the life of an ill-educated scofflaw and single mother of two who failed to take advantage of good fortune is a tragedy; the corrupt minions of money and power enrich their masters and gladden Satan while the world lurches toward global genocide through war and environmental collapse. Both are unnecessary, preventable by relatively small investments.

[AtomicKitten]

5. There's an odd symmetry to that outcome.

[Edweird]

7. Hypothetically, if I won the lottery (which is unlikely since I don't play it) I would probably

be high as a kite as well. I would be 'bloated drug addicted Elvis' and I wouldn't care.

[JI7]

8. did she use up her lottery winnings ?