by Sean Overpeck
This is the consequence of pushing a $787 billion, 400-page bill through Congress and into law in less than three weeks. Under the economic recovery plan, laid-off workers and welfare recipients (blood suckers) have seen a $25 weekly bump in their unemployment/welfare checks as part of a broad expansion of benefits for the under-achievers. A record 32.5 million people now participate in the food stamp program, and 6.8 million on are on unemployment.
This is where it gets funny. The unforeseen result of giving out this extra money (which is costing our children $165,000 each), is that is goes above the cap for food stamp eligibility, so the extra money has pushed a lot people over the limit, and thus ineligible for hundreds of dollars a month in food stamps.
The perfect example is this guy; Mark Milota, 47, of Marietta, Ga., who was laid off in November from his job at a medical billing company. The Georgia Department of Human Resources explained in a letter to him last month that, because of the stimulus, he was ineligible for food stamps. He now makes an extra $100 each month, to bring his total to $1,538 a month in welfare -- $21 too much for a family of two to qualify.
Milota said he was told that, without the stimulus money, he would have received about $300 a month in food stamps. "I truly believe when it came out, they felt it was to help people, and they never wanted to hurt people," said Milota, who says he leans Republican but voted for Obama.
Lets see. He's been out of work since November. I used to live near Marietta. I was also on a salary a Little higher than what he gets from welfare (except I earn my money).
1). How is this guy having trouble.
2). Why has he not found another job yet? Any job. Burger King, Waffle House, etc.
Seven months. I was looking for a second job, it took me about two months of searching a little time here and their, but I found one. Oh boy and it is near Marietta also, only 10 miles away. Okay, lets give him the benefit of the doubt; No car. Well Marietta has a bus system. Not the best, but they have one. Atlanta ranks among the lowest as far as good transportation, but we have it. Anyone wonders why? It's Government run, and the City refuses to allow it to become privatized. God forbid a company comes in and makes it better.
Stacy Dean, director of food assistance policy at Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, (a liberal think tank group) said "People were aware of this but, as you recall, the stimulus was moving along and then it was passed in about a day, there was not a lot of policy discussion on this."
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