Talk about a reality check. Two stories making headlines over the past couple of days made me realize that nothing could be further from the truth.
I mean, could it be? Do other people actually commit welfare fraud in A-merry-ca? Do other people actually get food stamps? Of course they do. Those questions were rhetorical. I suspect that folks who are always pointing fingers at my cousins know that they do as well, but pointing fingers is so much better than having to look at their own miserable life.
Of course, the gal up above is always watching, and she likes to f&^% with the A-merry-can psyche now and then by making us look at things that we don't want to see.
"SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas woman who for months was unable to qualify for food stamps pulled a gun in a state welfare office and staged a seven-hour standoff with police that ended with her shooting her two children before killing herself, officials said Tuesday.
The children, a 10-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, remained in critical condition Tuesday. The shooting took place at a Texas Department of Health and Human Services building in Laredo, where police said about 25 people were inside at the time.
Authorities identified the mother as Rachelle Grimmer, 38, and children Ramie and Timothy. Laredo police investigator Joe Baeza said Grimmer had recently moved to the border city from Zanesville, Ohio, about 30 miles east of Columbus.
Grimmer first applied for food stamps in July but was denied because she didn't turn in enough information, Texas Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Stephanie Goodman said.
Goodman didn't know what Grimmer specifically failed to provide. In addition to completing an 18-page application, families seeking state benefits also must provide documents proving their information, such as proof of employment and residency.
"We were still waiting, and if we had that, I don't know if she would still qualify or not," Goodman said.
Goodman said Grimmer's last contact with the agency appeared to be a phone call in mid-November. When the family entered the Laredo office on Monday shortly before 5 p.m., Goodman said Grimmer asked to speak to a new caseworker, and not the one whom she worked with previously." [Source] & [Source]
Poor Ms. Grimmer. She just wanted to feed her family. There is no love for poor people in A-merry-ca. Still, I bet that she wasn't on blogs demonizing other groups of people because of how they looked. She just wanted to be able to eat.
And then there is that wonderful couple out in my sister's hometown of Seattle, Washington:
"Federal agents have raided a Seattle couple’s $1.2 million lakefront home looking for evidence that they’ve bilked the government for more than a decade.
Filing a civil lawsuit Friday, federal prosecutors in Seattle claim Lyudmila Shimonova and her partner, chiropractor David Silverstein, sucked money out of state and federal assistance programs while living well in a Lake Washington mansion.
Both have been accused of welfare fraud, allegedly making false claims for government assistance. Neither has been charged criminally.
All told, authorities claim the couple received $135,000 in federal housing assistance benefits, as well as additional support through a federal program for destitute disabled Americans and state programs meant to feed families.
“All of these programs are need-based programs, meaning that a person can qualify for the programs only if he or she demonstrates that his or her income or resources fall below a certain level,” a Department of Housing and Urban Development special agent told the court. “The investigation has developed substantial evidence that the subjects defrauded theses programs by misrepresenting and concealing material information.”
HUD investigators and other law officers on Tuesday searched the couple's Island Drive South home, located on the shore of Lake Washington in Seattle’s Dunlap neighborhood. According to court documents, agents seized financial documents, Nordstrom receipts and framed photos of the couple." [Source]
You Negroes in the hood allowing your baby daddies to live in your Section 8 house and selling your food stamps to your neighbors are small time. You could learn a thing or two from the good doctor and his wife.
Finally, as most of you may or may not know; I think Mumia shot that po po in Center City, Philadelphia back in the day. But I never thought that he should fry for it, because I am opposed to the death penalty.
So I was glad when DA Seth Williams decided not to pursue the death penalty in his case. And I think that I can honestly speak for all Philadelphians when I say, enough!It's time to move on.
That means you, too, Mrs. Faulkner. I feel for you and your loss, but......let's just move on. It's time to end the Michael Smerconish tour and to get on with your life.
Filing a civil lawsuit Friday, federal prosecutors in Seattle claim Lyudmila Shimonova and her partner, chiropractor David Silverstein, sucked money out of state and federal assistance programs while living well in a Lake Washington mansion.
Both have been accused of welfare fraud, allegedly making false claims for government assistance. Neither has been charged criminally.
All told, authorities claim the couple received $135,000 in federal housing assistance benefits, as well as additional support through a federal program for destitute disabled Americans and state programs meant to feed families.
“All of these programs are need-based programs, meaning that a person can qualify for the programs only if he or she demonstrates that his or her income or resources fall below a certain level,” a Department of Housing and Urban Development special agent told the court. “The investigation has developed substantial evidence that the subjects defrauded theses programs by misrepresenting and concealing material information.”
HUD investigators and other law officers on Tuesday searched the couple's Island Drive South home, located on the shore of Lake Washington in Seattle’s Dunlap neighborhood. According to court documents, agents seized financial documents, Nordstrom receipts and framed photos of the couple." [Source]
You Negroes in the hood allowing your baby daddies to live in your Section 8 house and selling your food stamps to your neighbors are small time. You could learn a thing or two from the good doctor and his wife.
Finally, as most of you may or may not know; I think Mumia shot that po po in Center City, Philadelphia back in the day. But I never thought that he should fry for it, because I am opposed to the death penalty.
So I was glad when DA Seth Williams decided not to pursue the death penalty in his case. And I think that I can honestly speak for all Philadelphians when I say, enough!It's time to move on.
That means you, too, Mrs. Faulkner. I feel for you and your loss, but......let's just move on. It's time to end the Michael Smerconish tour and to get on with your life.
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