The White Ghetto

[gwb-trading]

This article about Appalachia is an interesting read. Re-visting Appalachia 50 years after it was used as the cornerstone of LBJ's Great Society shows not much has changed.

The White Ghetto
http://nationalreview.com/article/367903/white-ghetto-kevin-d-williamson#!

 

[DHOHHI]

Nicholas Kristof, visiting nearby Jackson, Ky., last year, was shocked by parents who were taking their children out of literacy classes because the possibility of improved academic performance would threaten $700-a-month Social Security disability benefits, which increasingly are paid out for nebulous afflictions such as loosely defined learning disorders. “This is painful for a liberal to admit,” Kristof wrote, “but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency.”

“You have people on the draw getting $3,000 a month, and they still can’t live.

The above is a big part of why liberals, who want to give more $$$ to anyone who "needs" it, are so wrong.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Nah, there's no fraud at all in food stamps.

It works like this: Once a month, the debit-card accounts of those receiving what we still call food stamps are credited with a few hundred dollars — about $500 for a family of four, on average — which are immediately converted into a unit of exchange, in this case cases of soda. On the day when accounts are credited, local establishments accepting EBT cards — and all across the Big White Ghetto, “We Accept Food Stamps” is the new E pluribus unum – are swamped with locals using their public benefits to buy cases and cases — reports put the number at 30 to 40 cases for some buyers — of soda. Those cases of soda then either go on to another retailer, who buys them at 50 cents on the dollar, in effect laundering those $500 in monthly benefits into $250 in cash — a considerably worse rate than your typical organized-crime money launderer offers — or else they go into the local black-market economy, where they can be used as currency in such ventures as the dealing of unauthorized prescription painkillers — by “pillbillies,” as they are known at the sympathetic establishments in Florida that do so much business with Kentucky and West Virginia that the relevant interstate bus service is nicknamed the “OxyContin Express.”

 

[Fractals 'R Us]

'ya know, people are just busy. The best computers are still the ones between our ears. They see an opportunity and they jump on it. It leads to all sorts of unintended consequences. If they see a way to turn food stamps into cash they will just do it. For all we know the kids are doing Square Foot Gardening and have plenty of food...

 

[LEAPup]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Nah, there's no fraud at all in food stamps.

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It's mind-bending that you and I are paying for this kind of shit!! This horse shit in nothing more than vote buying by the demothugs, which ultimately hurts you, me, and yes, even the parasites. God bless broken down America.