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Public records requests reveals that Massachusetts welfare recipients are spending their EBT funds i
« on: September 05, 2024, 01:54:11 pm »
September 4, 2024
Public records requests reveals that Massachusetts welfare recipients are spending their EBT funds in tropical locations
By Olivia Murray

For anyone wondering how Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty is going, allow me to provide an update—things are just swell! After 60 years of big-spending, anti-poverty programs, the downtrodden and impoverished huddled masses who just needed a little help to get back on their feet are now so well-off, they’re living like the middle class, able to enjoy the conveniences of modern travel, landing in the tropical paradises of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean, and even heading off to the wilds of Alaska.

I guess I should mention one minor detail though—they’re using their welfare EBT cards to foot the bill. Here are the details, from a report by Joe Dwinell at the Boston Herald:

    Massachusetts welfare dollars spent in Hawaii, Virgin Islands, Alaska: ‘What the hell is someone doing in Hawaii?

    Welfare recipients can’t use ATMs in casinos and pot shops, but that didn’t stop them from firing up EBT cards in Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, California, Florida, and Alaska.

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    Data obtained by the Herald through a public records request shows taxpayer-paid ‘economic assistance’ for Massachusetts residents cropped up from Alabama to Arizona, Pennsylvania to Puerto Rico, Utah to Wyoming and all the New England states.

(For anyone not tracking, EBT stands for Electronic Benefits Transfer which is the welfare system that loads funds onto a recipient’s card.)

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Re: Public records requests reveals that Massachusetts welfare recipients are spending their EBT fun
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2024, 02:38:48 pm »
Just imagine if we cut out all welfare altogether. What a wonderful thing.
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Re: Public records requests reveals that Massachusetts welfare recipients are spending their EBT fun
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2024, 03:31:55 pm »
EBT in North Dakota can be only spent on food. (They can't even use it to buy toilet paper).
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Re: Public records requests reveals that Massachusetts welfare recipients are spending their EBT fun
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2024, 03:53:41 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on September 05, 2024, 01:54:11 pm
(For anyone not tracking, EBT stands for Electronic Benefits Transfer which is the welfare system that loads funds onto a recipient’s card.)

And it makes fraud 10,000 times easier.
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