Anyway, this story is actually several months old. Welfare recipients get ATM cards now, and they'd go to casinos where they could get cash, and gamble all their welfare money away. And it's taken California a long time to figure out how to put a stop to it.
Just goes to show....doesn't matter what strata of society you are, if you can find a way to game the system, you will.
Story #6: California Cuts Off Welfare Card Use at Casinos
RUSH: Here's the LA Times story I mentioned earlier: "California officials are cutting off use of state-issued welfare debit cards at casinos across the country and on cruise ships, in the wake of Times reports that the aid cards have been used to spend or withdraw millions of dollars in benefits at popular vacation spots including the Las Vegas strip and on ships sailing from ports around the world. ... The department instructed the vendor that administers the debit card program to make the changes Monday afternoon, in response to a report in The Times' Monday edition." Now, the LA Times, folks, let's be honest, they're to be commended for their great work on this as well as their dogged investigation of corruption in the city of Bell and other locales. This is what it must be like to have a real watchdog media. How long has it been since we've had stories like this where they examine corruption in government? You know, when the Democrats run the show there's never any corruption. Still, to me it is appalling that such obvious malfeasance was ever allowed to happen in the first place, and who knows for how many years this has been going on: welfare debit cards, Vegas casinos and on cruise ships. Fascinating.
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