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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 9 years ago

Conservatives: Does this Michigan woman win the Leona Helmsley greed award?

Michigan woman still collecting food stamps after winning $1 million lottery.

Amanda Clayton, who says she owns two homes and a new car, receives $200 a month in food assistance from the state-issued Michigan Bridge Card, which is meant to benefit lower-income residents in the nation's eighth most economically depressed state.

"I thought that they would cut me off, but since they didn't, I thought maybe it was OK because I'm not working,"

"I feel that it's OK because I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay," she said

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/michigan-woma...

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  • 9 years ago
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    I saw the video of the interview... She actually looked shocked when the reporter asked her if she thought it was right for her to keep taking the food stamp money.

    If it wasn't so disgusting, it would be laughable.. But this woman should be the poster child for today's entitlement mentality.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    This woman doesn't understand the difference between having assets (the million dollars in winnings) with having income. Does a trust-fund baby qualify for foodstamps then too?

  • ?
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    9 years ago

    And the TAXES, that the govt will take on that $1,000,000 windfall, in more ways than one, will more than make up for any amount of money she received, right?

    Lottery winners are lucky to get HALF , after taxes.

    and surely some overlap occured from getting her check......to the welfare checks arriving.

    and now that it's out there...I am sure the checks will stop......so what did the Gov't lose here?

    Nothing.......they will instead GET a nice check from HER in Taxes.

    Where's your rant about that?

  • 4 years ago

    Evolution has no longer something to do with politics, and that i ought to possibly draw phylogenetic wood around you. Yeah, i for my area have confidence that those people who have been given run over by ability of a vehicle because of the fact they have been having intercourse interior the direction of a highway have been complicated-center conservatives. the place is your helping information? Peace

  • 9 years ago

    I saw her "interview" with that reporter on The Five...I thought it was ridiculous when she started talking about how she has TWO houses to pay for.

    Ha. Just goes to show how entitlement happy today's society is. She gets $1 million, but that still isnt enough.

  • 9 years ago

    What's more shocking than her is the system that allows her to keep collecting. Let's face it, there will always be many like her, but as long as the government does nothing about it, we will always have the problem.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    That is the trouble with the government free money store.Churches not taxpayers should help the poor.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    She's almost certainly an 0bama voter. Can't even get off the government teat after hitting it big

  • 9 years ago

    Someone needs to look at her situation and see if she owes the state some money. .

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    She's Rich now so Cons will say she deserves more money.

    (BTW, this same thing happened last year. If Michiganders wanted to change the law, they've had plenty of time. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/18/michigan-man-... )

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