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Fraudster
Posts: 4173
Incept: 2011-05-10
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Theft is theft.
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"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Circulation ceases first at the outer edges [Europe and Japan]. It will take a while yet for the decay to reach the heart [America]." - Foundation & Empire by Isaac Asimov
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Lowbeyond
Posts: 16882
Incept: 2008-02-11
CO aka West NJ/East CA
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Why shouldn't she keep using the card. It is, after all, part of the social contract safety net that a modern society has.
Good for her!
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Maybe it was a birdy bread-bomber from the future?!
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Steph4liberty
Posts: 1679
Incept: 2010-10-22
Raleigh, NC
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Quote:I'm sure she deserves "it", but I'm not at all sure what "it" might be. 
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"Man will never be free until the last Banker is strangled with the entrails of the last Politician" - unknown
"This isn't a market anymore, it's a computer game." - Drench
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Duc888
Posts: 7368
Incept: 2008-11-06
CT, the UNconstitution State
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I'm about ready to sign up for some free cheese too. LOL. Why not?
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...burp
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Mari
Posts: 1012
Incept: 2010-03-05
Central MD
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If she could afford $10 for lottery tickets, she can afford to feed herself. The article pictures her with a dog; who is paying for its food? Apparently, the $200 is for just herself, no children or other family members.
Duc and Low, I hope you are kidding.
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I bleed purple and orange!
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Jonesapple10
Posts: 379
Incept: 2010-11-09
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let me guess, $450,000 on the house, and $50,000 on the car, lol. She probably IS broke. I see a tax lien foreclosure in her future.
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Mari
Posts: 1012
Incept: 2010-03-05
Central MD
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Jones, you're right. It's like those people who get the house on that old ABC show but can't afford the gift taxes, RE taxes, upkeep, etc.
BTW, the article has a picture of the house. It's definitely not 450K, especially in Michigan. It's nice, but she didn't overbuy, I don't think.
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I bleed purple and orange!
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Steph4liberty
Posts: 1679
Incept: 2010-10-22
Raleigh, NC
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Ok, now having pulled up the article and seeing the picture of her new house, she could NOT have spent the entire $500 large on that little bungalow and a new car. Where's the rest of the $$$??
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"Man will never be free until the last Banker is strangled with the entrails of the last Politician" - unknown
"This isn't a market anymore, it's a computer game." - Drench
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Mannfm11
Posts: 3538
Incept: 2009-02-28
DFW, Tx
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I buy a lottery ticket or 2 when the pot gets big (when the odds actually favor the bet), only because I believe in the chance of getting hit by lightening. This idiot won $500,000, which means she believes in giving her money back to the state. I guess this means if they need a person to engage in research about the effects of getting hit by lightening to work cheap, she might go sit in a field for her benefits.
All kidding aside, this bitch should be put on a list where even if she is starving, her kids are starving, she should never get another dime. That is how section 8 works here. Just the idea she had money to buy lotto tickets while getting money from the state, should burn most people's asses. The fact she was playing a cheap lotto indicates she plays all the time and probably won't stop.
If I was in her position, I might buy a house, a cheap one. Sounds like she already had one. I would buy an annuity for 10 years to be sure I had money to pay the taxes and insurance. The rest I would save and likely go get some education and a job.
As far as birth control? Here is a case for it being free, as you never want a person like this to reproduce. The same goes for the law school *****, who might have a kid that takes after her. A free tubal litigation might be in order for both. I have thought for a long time the long term benefit of just paying some of these people and another country an amount around that lotto pay out to leave the country and not come back. $500 billion per million. It will be money well spent.
As Greece is finding out, the free **** is going to run out. The capacity to pay for the US is going to last as long as the dollar. Bernanke and company better get serious or they will find out too late they have screwed up badly. It might not happen until Bennie finds out his check won't buy a tank of gas.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.---John Kenneth Galbraith
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Asimov
Posts: 103922
Incept: 2007-08-26
East Tennessee Eastern Time
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So bring on eugenics, that's the solution?
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It's justifiably immoral to deal morally with an immoral entity.
If you trade based on what other people say, you will lose money. Especially what I say. I won't be held responsible. Festina lente.
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Mayorquimby
Posts: 13909
Incept: 2008-09-18
The Archaic Past
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Frederic Bastiat: 'The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.'
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They who wish to hurt you, work within the law.
- Morrissey
Gold is theft.
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Bertdilbert
Posts: 2656
Incept: 2008-12-22
CA
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From the article..
"Laws: Local politicians are pushing for a change in the law that prevents lottery winners from still being able to claim state benefits but until then, what Clayton is doing is legal".
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Dear Euroland: Relax, Germany has a plan for your money!
Political Capital Defined: We are out of money but will tax our citizens for whatever it takes to "SAVE" the Euro.
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Smacktle
Posts: 1359
Incept: 2009-01-20
Texas
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I've had the same thoughts about getting the government cheese, but probably would find it is easier for me to make the money than to jump through all the hoops and get the money.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Mari
Posts: 1012
Incept: 2010-03-05
Central MD
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Bert,
As we all know from other stories, legal and moral aren't always the same thing.
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I bleed purple and orange!
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Uwe
Posts: 6439
Incept: 2009-01-03
19446
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Quote:Why not? Because you have some modicum of self respect? -Uwe-
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“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” - John Locke
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Mannfm11
Posts: 3538
Incept: 2009-02-28
DFW, Tx
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It would clearly be voluntary Asinov. My point is to not stand in the way of these people not wanting to reproduce.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.---John Kenneth Galbraith
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Bertdilbert
Posts: 2656
Incept: 2008-12-22
CA
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Mari, I don't have the law in front of me but if it was put in the story by the reporter that it was legal, and assuming the reporter reasonably checked it out before printing such, it is not stealing or immoral.
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Dear Euroland: Relax, Germany has a plan for your money!
Political Capital Defined: We are out of money but will tax our citizens for whatever it takes to "SAVE" the Euro.
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Fredocal
Posts: 68
Incept: 2008-08-14
New York, NY
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While I agree that this person is wrong, my problem with these pieces is that it often leads to painting everyone on public assistance as having the same mindset. There are criminals in every segment of society, as we're all well aware of here, and that they exist in the poorest segments should come as no surprise. Painting them all as "welfare queens," however, is downright disingenuous and I hope that doesn't happen as a result of this story.
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Captainkidd
Posts: 594
Incept: 2010-05-25
Pasadena, Texas
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Quote:Hint: Whether you steal $1m or $0.01 it is still theft and is still wrong. My father used to joke that he never understood an idiot robbing a gas station for $100 instead of a bank $10,000. His Reason? The Bible says ""Thou shall not steal." It don't say "Thou Shall Not Steal ALOT "" Although I am not as religious as my father, there is a point in there. **************************************************
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A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. --Mario Puzo
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. -- Henry Ford
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Mpilar
Posts: 5585
Incept: 2009-01-05
Nashville, TN
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Quote:While I agree that this person is wrong, my problem with these pieces is that it often leads to painting everyone on public assistance as having the same mindset. Eating stolen food, is eating stolen food...whether you 'deserve' it or not.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. H. L. Mencken
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Genesis
Posts: 130701
Incept: 2007-06-26
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Yeah, so exactly how much do I have to steal before it becomes a problem?
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I don't care if it makes sense -- only if it makes money. -- Me
Bank (n): See scam, fraud and theft. Eat a bankster -- they're low-carb.
What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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Tsherry
Posts: 193
Incept: 2008-12-09
Spokane WA
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>>Ok, now having pulled up the article and seeing the picture of her new house, she could NOT have spent the entire $500 large on that little bungalow and a new car. Where's the rest of the $$$??>>
Hookers and blow?
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Lowbeyond
Posts: 16882
Incept: 2008-02-11
CO aka West NJ/East CA
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Quote:The Bible says ""Thou shall not steal." It don't say "Thou Shall Not Steal ALOT "" Most people's personal bibles say: That shall not steal from me, but i get to steal from you! haha lulz sukkas
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Maybe it was a birdy bread-bomber from the future?!
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Jstanley01
Posts: 8176
Incept: 2008-07-30
San Antonio, Texas
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My favorite verse from my personal Bible is, "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies." Sorry... I know... OT... 
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You can't cheat an honest man. ~P.T. Barnum
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