“I thought that they would cut me off, but since they didn’t, I thought maybe it was okay because I’m not working,” she said. Even still, Clayton said she thinks she still has a right to the $200 a month in state funds. “I feel that it’s okay because I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay,” she said. “I have two houses.”
Amanda Clayton
There’s video from a local news station at this link, but it’s not embeddable. Basically this 24 year old won the lottery for $1 million, bought a new house, a new car and then kept using her food stamps card to shop. The local station confronted her as she was moving in to her new home:
“I thought that they would cut me off, but since they didn’t, I thought maybe it was okay because I’m not working,” she said.
She said she didn’t actually get the full million, because after she took a lump sum, the total dropped down to $700,000. After taxes, it was just more than half a million, Clayton said.
Even still, Clayton said she thinks she still has a right to the $200 a month in state funds.
“I feel that it’s okay because I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay,” she said. “I have two houses.”
Poor girl, she only has half a million dollars to pay her bills. We’re not going to begrudge her food stamps are we?
Do I think the President actually believes this is a good idea? No, I don’t. But I do believe that he and fellow Democrats have fostered a culture of dependence on the government which makes this sort of thing inevitable. They are the defenders of all the big government slush funds from Medicare and Medicaid to Social Security to Food Stamps.
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