Wow, this is a topic that really makes my stomach churn!
We see this all the time here in Floriduh. Quite simply, They are liars.
They lie about their marital status, the old man works a job under the table. Typically construction, farm hand, that type of job, So there's no way to trace an income.
The woman claims that she's all alone with a house full of kids, and the mister has abandoned her. So they wind up with a lot more than just food stamps.
They are also getting welfare checks, WIC (free milk, juice, eggs, cheese, etc)
and Medicaid, OMG, Here comes the rant...... scroll if you want to read it. I'll space it down in case you don't.
When my baby was in the hospital the entire NICU was crawling with them, They come over here to have their babies because our hospitals CAN'T turn them away, and once the baby is born they are entitled to WIC, Medicaid, welfare, etc. (The baby is a U.S. citizen because it was born on U.S. soil. Doesn't matter if the parents are illegals.)
Now,, think about this. I got the bills from All Children's hospital. ONE day in the NICU (that's the neonatal intensive care unit) cost $17,000.00 that's just the hospital stay alone. Not including any surgeries or special medicines that are needed, and with a preemie there's always special needs!
I was one of the few parents with a child in the NICU who was, 1.) an American citizen and 2.) had medical insurance.
What that means to you?
The average stay for a preemie in the NICU is a week. That's for a baby who isn't all that premature, maybe a couple weeks.
So for the sake of averages, multiply 17K X 7 days that's $119,000.00 dollars.
Now imagine a NICU with 4 bays and each bay has 60 beds, or isolettes, that's $28,586,000.00. Granted, some of those will be insured so that cost doesn't count. However, I was there for 7 months since my son was so extremely premature and I can tell you this as a first hand witness. More than 80% of the hospitals patients were illegals, or at least 'undocumented' as the term goes.
I know this because several of the nurses vented to me about the subject because they feel completely overwhelmed! They even have to try to translate complicated medical information to them too because most of them wont even attempt to learn some english. Then the people demand a free car seat from the hospital too, because some how the word got out that if you can't afford a car seat when your baby leaves the hospital one will be provided for you free, because the hospital can't discharge a baby without confirming that the baby will be going home safely. So now they all of the sudden know enough English to say "Where's my car seat?"
Where am I going with all this?! Well Guess who is paying that 28 million+ a week bill?
WE ARE! Medicaid and WIC are taken right from the taxes that we all work hard and pay by law. And this is just one hospital in one city. Now think about all the children's hospitals in the United States. There are TONS of them, thank god!
And each and every day in each and every city in America there are people who are literally fleecing the hard earned tax dollars through their lies and illegal status!
I probably sound like a racist. But this really isn't about race. It's about a group of people who are intentionally and purposely abusing the social programs that this country has in place to be humane to it's citizens.
The thing that pisses me off the most about all this is I witnessed young, really young parents be DENIED assistance because they made too much money because one of them had a minimum wage job?!!! (These were kids who had a baby way too young, now what's going to happen to them and that baby? In debt for the rest of their lives trying to pay a hospital bill? )
When the "new deal" came about and the assistance programs were developed no one ever thought that this could happen.
You're darn tootin' I am out raged! Every single hard working person in this country should be. We are being robbed. Each and every day.
