{"id":23813,"date":"2011-11-17T13:06:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T20:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/this-certainly-seems-indicative-of-something-wrong-in-the-system.html"},"modified":"2011-11-17T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T21:03:14","slug":"this-certainly-seems-indicative-of-something-wrong-in-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/this-certainly-seems-indicative-of-something-wrong-in-the-system.html","title":{"rendered":"This certainly seems indicative of something wrong in the system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I certainly don&#39;t want to encourage welfare fraud &#8230; but the &quot;fraud&quot; in this case is that she was ineligible, not because she wasn&#39;t poor and didn&#39;t have dependents to feed, but because she had a previous drug conviction. She lied about that on her application, qualified for food stamps, when caught paid it all back, and <i>still<\/i> a federal judge threw in in prison for 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>How many folks from Goldman-Sachs have ended up behind bars for even a few months?<\/p>\n<p>#ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fassets.rollingstone.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fblog_entry%2F1000x306%2F9db6a3ab217c0f6e229190527dc84bee5edaba21.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/taibblog\/woman-gets-jail-for-food-stamp-fraud-wall-street-fraudsters-get-bailouts-20111117'>Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailouts | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I certainly don&#39;t want to encourage welfare fraud &#8230; but the &quot;fraud&quot; in this case is that she was ineligible, not because she wasn&#39;t poor and didn&#39;t have dependents to feed, but because she had a previous drug conviction. 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