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is from animal New York I the New York Post
basically published this
exclusive story in their Sunday paper
titled New York food stamp recipients
are shipping welfare fund groceries to relatives in Jamaica
Dominican Republic and Haiti
hmm I mean
bring a 360
bit so
anyway let's get this going into this start here it opens up with this
food stamps are paying for transatlantic takeout
with new yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits
to ship food to relatives in Jamaica Haiti and Dominican Republic
take out that's pretty funny that's pretty fun term to use
let's let's bring people in with the silliness and then we'll wrap it up
welfare recipients are buying groceries with their electronic benefit transfer
he beat e-cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas
the post found welfare recipients I can be broadly use welfare recipients let's
not say
with their saved articles food stamp recipients
let's use welfare recipients to broadly bring everybody into this
because you know also food stamps are not welfare strictly speaking
because they are but it's a different program and people who are working
can be enforced absence as they get Walmart workers
om anyway would ever do a story about how we subsidize Walmart
yeah course of course but let's continue at the post post talks about how this is
very on Herman issue to a *** reaction on purpose through can is it came out
laugh
the the practice is so common
again just so common that hundredths of 45 to 55 gallon cardboard and plastic
barrels
line the walls have supermarkets almost every Caribbean corner in the city
in can be there because maybe
people are using their own money to pay for this stuff and
ship food to families it has to be because
welfare let's continue the United States
spent 522 point seven million dollars
on foreign aid to the Caribbean last fiscal year
government data shows government data
source it and
and as this 520 2.7 million dollars
in foreign aid to could the Caribbean how much
a bit was for food aid let's break down
how many ovett dozens of countries that make up the Caribbean
receive this 520 2.7 million dollars
house its way up and what's it split up
what does the food aid and his food ages subsidies for
pesticide manufacturers the United States yes it's a meaningless that
it's unbelievable 500 22 points a million dollars
our foreign aid to dozens of countries and we're supposed to be shocked about
what was the outraged about this
we're giving how much 2.3 billion dollars to
to to Afghanistan I'll
so yeah I'm just putting things in perspective here
as to what we give to other countries oh yeah very low
yes entire reason yes now
it's a fraction of the overall federal budget now how does the post have proof
that this is going on food I food stamp recipients
are buying food for others overseas and shipping them everybody does it
said a worker and associates a market in prospect Lefferts gardens Brooklyn
they pay for it any way they can
a lot of people pay with BBT vis
is their proof a random a worker at a random supermarkets saying
everybody does it and even this random worker says
they pay for it any way they can meaning
some people may pay for with ABT
some people may not just unbelievable other
now here here's the kicker here
the post interview someone
who ships these food items
of to family and I believe
Jamaica now
this is where the post gets here we go
this is where the post has has the truth right here
they spoke with a woman who is stuffing dozens of boxes of macaroni
and evaporated milk into a barrel headed for her family in Kingston Jamaica
dist all worth more than two thousand dollars
I've been shopping since last december
you can help somebody outs somebody who doesn't live in this country
she also said that she did it receive any welfare benefits and bought the food
with her own money
wat so the one percent to validate this whole BS story
was not on food stamps welfare one woman
at the New York Post could find I ships these food items
her family in Jamaica I with using her own money
which she even says she's been saving up since December
ike
this just on believable is just
unbelievable and the post even says
earlier in their article customers pay cash for the barrels
you see that forty dollars and typically ship them
filled with five hundred to two thousand dollars
with the food now you to remember they're speaking with a sick customers
they're speaking of these welfare recipients
and they're using their their I their high price point
the two thousand dollars because the woman
who uses the mic her own money said she pays two thousand dollars
so let's just say maybe in some world they were able to find
someone who actually use the ABT card as you say
is imagine for a moment there's nothing saying this person's receiving two
thousand dollars
from there from food stamps and said in being able to use that money to buy
stuff for people overseas
this is just ridiculous however they are posted
what they were able to to talk with one expert and that Michael tenure
te Michael Tanner a senior fellow at the cato institute Lahore
libertarian white right-wing think-tank who spoke out
really want a footstep police per se and then went on to talk about how he really
wanted a food stamp police per se
yeah is exactly where we need to be investing money
this just it's just a further harassing and terrorizing people
on a low and to the economic spectrum is just unbelievable
really is may be in your post will put some a
maybe the next cover will get will get something right
if the next target something right that's name both the next story will get
something right
because it'll be on the Royal baby alcee
River Road you row baby it's a girl the robot is the boy
yeah I'll post