#71 Herb, you have exhausted my well of civility.
The column ASKED if providing food stamps to the well-off is a national trend.
In response, commenters have provided several cases indicating that it may very well be:
- #11 — California, person with $180K
- #35 — the entire state of New York
- #53 — Matt Hurley’s contact provided him two similar examples from Warren County that he chose not to blog about. Hurley’s original post did NOT ID the county where the original case was located. Warren County officials themselves did that. Hurley was justifiably reluctant to reveal details that could be tied to a specific county.
- #59 — says it’s been going on for some time, meaning that regs designed to enable more people with significant resources to qualify are expanding what was already a problem.
The column encouraged readers to find out if well-to-do people are receiving food stamps where they live, and if it’s in response to recently loosened eligibility rules. Based on what is in the comments, there is reason to believe the phenomenon exists, and is growing. Hmm — that sounds like a …. possible trend.
Beyond that, commenters have provided several other examples of program abuse (#12, #40, #52).
At this point, if you still refuse to acknowledge the validity of the concern I raised, and the reasonableness of ASKING if it is indeed a growing problem in light of what was learned, I can’t help you.
I’m left to conclude that you have a self-imposed learning disability you enjoy flaunting in front of the rest of the world.
