Welfare fosters free enterprise.... :-/

[The Annoyed Man]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/isle ... A9o2oS505L
NYC welfare food is shipped in barrels to the Dominican Republic - then sold on the black market
By ISABEL VINCENT and KATE BRIQUELET in NY and JOSE ERNESTO DEVAREZ in Santiago, Dominican Republic
Last Updated: 11:57 AM, July 28, 2013
Posted: 11:49 PM, July 27, 2013

Food-stamp fraud in New York has turned into foreign aid — to black-market profiteers in the Dominican Republic.

Last week, The Post revealed how New Yorkers on welfare are buying food with their benefit cards and shipping it in blue barrels to poor relatives in the Caribbean.

But not everyone is giving the taxpayer-funded fare to starving children abroad. The Post last week found two people hawking barrels of American products for a profit on the streets of Santiago.

“It’s a really easy way to make money, and it doesn’t cost me anything,” a seller named Maria-Teresa said Friday.

Will this improve either during this democrat administration, or during what will most likely be the next democrat administration? The dismantling of American and the robbing of her people continues.....

[brhalltx]

Will this improve either during this democrat administration, or during what will most likely be the next democrat administration? The dismantling of American and the robbing of her people continues.....

It'll improve. If you're a Democrat. In other words, it'll get worse.

[gringo pistolero]

Other than the international aspect, this is really no different than the traditional practice of trading $20 of food stamps for $10 cash (or beer and cigarettes) or whatever the "exchange rate" is locally.

[chuck j]

I had not read about this one , thanks for the topic.