$1 mil Michigan lotto winner still collecting food stamps

[CandyMandy]

Sad ending and no I don't think it was karma. What she did was wrong, but screwing your state out of a few thousand dollars does not deserve death.

Maybe it would have worked out better for her if she had gotten jail time instead of probation.

And now for an alternative viewpoint, one in defense of the concept of personal responsibility.

As I and some others here have observed, Amanda had flaws that went beyond welfare fraud. And as for her "deserving" death, the events that led to her demise were not the result of actions by the state or any judge.

She died simply as a result of her own poor decisions.

 

[NotUrsula]

As to welfare/food subsidy fraud, yes, it it fairly common and sometimes it is egregious, but the vast majority of people who depend on these programs to live at subsistence level are legitimate. I don't think it is necessary to throw the baby out with the bathwater to reduce this problem. Technology can make it a LOT harder for the average person to pull off those sorts of scams, and make it a lot easier for the authorities to catch professional fraud operations.

What I would LOVE to see is for a major IT company to donate expertise to the federal government to put technology in place to curb the opportunities for fraud. THAT would be a good way to give back, because the federal purchasing system that is designed to try to stop graft cannot be properly used to for IT purchasing because the purchase cycle is longer than the useful lifetime of the products being purchased.

 

[Disney Doll]

I can only assume that you don't realize that lottery tickets only cost one dollar. I'll not get fired up because someone on assistance spends one unnecessary dollar.

If I was on government assistance I wouldnot be spending one unnecessary dollar. If you don't have enough money to buy food, you don't have enough money to buy lottery tickets.

Take the dollar and but a muffin for your kid to eat for breakfast.

 

[ccgirl]

If I was on government assistance I wouldnot be spending one unnecessary dollar. If you don't have enough money to buy food, you don't have enough money to buy lottery tickets.

Take the dollar and but a muffin for your kid to eat for breakfast.

Exactly. Unfortuanately, not everyone sees it that way.