Your Government at Work

In effort to help those affected by the hurricane it was recently announced that anyone in the federal disaster area (that's us) could collect food stamps. A friend from work decided that he was going to apply just to see what he would get. Mind you his household income is well over $70,000 a year. He's not rich but he's not hurting either. The storm left him without power but he had a generator so about the only inconvenience he endured was cold showers - he could not figure out how to power up his water heater. Oh yeah his cable is still out but that's what he gets for have Comcast.

So my buddy goes down to get food stamps and the social worker gives him $720 worth of food stamps - no questions asked! The only condition being that he has to use the food stamps within 90 days. The man has gone on a red meat buying binge. He can fire up the bbq every Sunday between now and the Super Bowl (we can do this down here) and still have a cow or two to spare. I'm sure that people really need this aid and they should recieve it but openning up the doors to anyone with a picture id and a social security card makes no sense.