re: Louisiana bans some welfare use

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USDA says Louisiana has about 900,000 people participating in SNAP.

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Sorry - my math was "decimal" challenged - 20% of 4 million would be 800k. The link I cited may be a couple of years old.

In any event, my 19.3% of Louisiana's population, should have read - 700k to 800k, minimum, not 70k to 80k - so there is no way the low numbers that triggered all this could be counting everything that actually is welfare as "welfare" (again, I would suspect even our TANF numbers are higher than that - after all, like I said, over 20k public housing units, and I do not believe that counts Section 8 recipients).

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You done goofed.

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I predict he won't be back to correct his numbers.

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had to undergo surprise audits every year or two.

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Do you know how expensive and stupid that would be? Talk about being the opposite of small government.

I'm all for some major changes to most welfare, especially getting people off of it after a while. Just not sure your idea would be all that great from a cost effectiveness point of view.

Hater...gotta get your nails did...

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Hater...gotta get your nails did...

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Or your Yacht on.

(Reuters) - A couple who collected food stamps and other public assistance from Minnesota while living on a yacht in Florida were being sought on fraud charges, prosecutors said on Friday.

Colin Chisholm III and his wife, Andrea Chisholm, accepted more than $165,000 in public assistance between 2005 and 2012 before benefits were terminated, according to prosecutor Mike Freeman in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

Charges against Colin Chisholm were filed in February but they were kept sealed while police searched for the couple, Chuck Laszewski, a spokesman for Freeman, said on Friday. "They know by now we are looking for them."

The Chisholms are each charged with a felony count of wrongfully obtaining public assistance in excess of $35,000, the highest threshold under Minnesota law. Andrea Chisholm was charged on Thursday.

They bought a $1.2 million yacht, The Andrea Aras, in 2005 shortly after applying for welfare benefits in Minnesota, according to complaints against them. They have been accused of living on the yacht in the area of Palm Beach, Florida, for 28 months while lying about living in Minnesota.

Colin Chisholm was the chief executive officer of a satellite television and broadband services company, his wife bred and sold championship dogs, and over a seven-year period the couple deposited more than $2.6 million in bank accounts they did not report on applications for welfare benefits, according to the complaint.

They have lived in luxury homes in suburban Minneapolis, driven a $30,000 Lexus and also collected welfare benefits in Florida, the complaint said.

So, while the welfare CADILLAC is a myth, the welfare YACHT is, in fact, real.

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Do you know how expensive and stupid that would be? Talk about being the opposite of small government.

I'm all for some major changes to most welfare,

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True dat - I am all for smaller government and lower cost.

I would say - "let everybody get welfare" - so you don't have any paperwork at all.

All's you got to do is show up once every two weeks at a designated parking lot and wait for a big semi or two to pull in with basic food items;
canned meat,
canned vegetables,
powdered milk,
flour,
rice,
beans,
pork bellies,
ham hocks,
sugar,
etc.

Govt would set up a table and a couple guys would bring out a two week supply of what they got.

You would line up and wait your turn - when you got to the table, you would first have to go thru a skinny door opening to qualify for the free food.

Don't have to be poor, or minority, or disabled, or anything - if you want to spend your time in the line, you get the goods.

problem solved.

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The confusion is because people like you in your haste to villainous the poor don't read the numbers you throw out.

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This isn't bashing the poor it's calling out people who intentionally abuse the system and steal from hard working tax payers. I have no problem with people based on their income. I have a problem when people leach off of others when they are capable of finding a damn job.

Stop thinking with your bleeding heart and use your brain.

I was going by what you said. What you said was:

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An entire 3500 households who receive welfare in Louisiana (according to the article) at $192 per month.

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You said 3,500 households receive welfare in Louisiana. Because of how you worded it, I was under the impression you were talking about welfare as a whole and not a very specific program.

But the overall point is still the same. $3 billion is being spent on welfare in Louisiana. Fraud and waste should be cut wherever applicable.

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Welfare(TANF ) is a small CASH supplement of $192 per household(not individual).

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Welfare isn't limited to TANF. The article (and you) were wrong.