Food Stamp Fraud

Posted by brazosconservative | Posted in Texas Politics | Posted on 19-10-2009

This post is because a friend of mine asked, more like begged me to post it. They don’t have a blog but have decided from time to time that they want me to vent because they cannot.

With that being said, what I am about to post is the absolute truth. I wish for the sake of our government it does not exist. I wish for those paying tax this was a misunderstanding, but it is not. So let me say that I have gotten information from multiple sources, the amount of fraud is probably sky high. It has to be if little old me knows about it, it has been scuttlebutt for a while.

In Texas you get what they call the LoneStar Card for food stamps. Each month at the first of the month Texas loads it up. The amount of money on these cards is staggering. I had heard $700, then I heard $900, the last amount I heard is $1500. Now remember this is for food alone, this is not for utilities or housing. They get another amount for welfare to include housing and utilities. This is a monthly food budget alone.

The amounts are far more than I ever spent. When I did some more digging I found out a few interesting items. First off, Food Stamp Fraud is rampant and here is why. If they don’t use the full amounts of the card the amount is dropped. And no one wants less money when it is free. Now this is the part I have heard about for months, I had hoped it was only in bigger urban cities. But it is our little rural area as well, the fraud is happening all the time. The way it works is let’s call her Althea. Althea has  $900 on her card, this month she has tried to spend as much as she needed but she has a balance of $500 left over. Althea knows what I have found out, if she doesn’t use it Texas will lower the amount. Next month Althea is going to throw a BBQ for her family and friends, so she will use the money next month.  Althea knows also what I know, people that work and pay taxes have far less money for food. Althea makes a decision to sell her $500 Lone Star Card, now she doesn’t have to sell it for $500. Althea can let it go for $200 and shop somewhere else like for clothes. Althea sells the card, gets the cash, and gives the pin number to the person buying the card.

Problem is Althea has been doing it for a long time, and will continue to do it. See she doesn’t have the need to earn money, or pay for groceries. There is nothing that makes her think twice about it, it is “her LoneStar card”, and it is free.

The LoneStar card is supposed to have anti theft devices on it, but whatever they are they don’t work.

When something is free for the taking, abuse will happen. If you do nothing it will get worse. The lack of fraud prosecution is revealing. I have not read or heard about huge cases of food stamp fraud being stopped.

Texan tax payers need to be aware of this, they need to speak out because if we don’t it will not go away. We are the ones buying the groceries for people unwilling to work, and frauding the state. This is one of the main reasons I would never want National Healthcare, I know what happens when the government tries to fix something. It gets worse, and fraud sky rockets.

Those of us who pay our grocery bills are being used and abused by the system and the food stamp users.

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Don’t Cross Perry

Posted by brazosconservative | Posted in Texas Governor | Posted on 05-09-2009

If I heard that phrase once I have heard a hundred times. Perry is a competitor, he is a dirty campaigner. He has asked his staff to create at least 10-20 twitter accounts that I know of. He is without regard for what he does in order to win.

When it comes to a town, a voter, a university, or a former supporter Perry will not allow people to form their own opinions. Nope no way, if Perry places you, you had better tow the line.

When a regent from Texas Tech University had the gall of introducing Kay Bailey Hutchison, he was asked to resign.

Lo and behold this is not the first university Perry has used undue influence at. Many Aggie Alumni have said that his appointments to A & M have lowered some of the achievements of the engineering department. Details are HERE.

Then you have University of Texas, where he “encouraged” a Regent to resign.Details of that fiasco are HERE.

Now you are going to tell me I have no proof. Perry is smart, he knows people like me will be looking. He has made sure everyone is quiet. That is his history, that is his style and that is his politics. This is what he does, he is a bully. You tow the line or you are gone. He has goons to do the dirty work so his hands are clean. Perry’s twitter account didn’t attack me, but his “hired goons” twitter accounts did. Since I personally spoke to the Republican Party of Texas, I know Perry knew about it, and the goons were doing exactly what Perry hired them for. Intimidation.

Read this article and ask yourself why all of the sudden a few days after Mark Griffin introduces Kay he resigns. One word Perry.

Here is the article. Look HERE.

Finally after thinking about it Griffin comfirmed what I was sure of. Look HERE.

What Perry doesn’t know how to deal with is someone like me, or the Stop Corridor Watch. See money and power mean nothing to us. The only thing we care about is illuminating Perry for who Perry is.

Texas is worth fighting for. My family settled Dallas, I came from two family of immigrants to Texas but I cannot be bought. That idea is foreign to Perry, he doesn’t get the live and let Texas live.

Perry is nothing more than a Bully taking Texas Tax Dollars.

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Perry Toll Highway

Posted by brazosconservative | Posted in Rick Perry, Texas Governor | Posted on 04-09-2009

I refrain my feelings to say where I think that Highway should go, but what I will tell is that Texans know when they are being lied to. It doesn’t matter who endorses Perry, Perry is Hellbent on taking land and tolling Texas. You may think it is over, it is dead or we are stupid. You can call the Rick Perry Highway, Perry is obsessed with robbing land, for money. The more I study the more I know every Dept Perry has “fiddled with”, has plenty to hide. Dierdre Delisi Canadian Born had better hold on to her “I Love Perry” Hat.

If there is nothing to hide, then open the records! Truth is there is plenty to hide plenty Perry doesn’t want Texans to know. So he can  bash Kay all day long, until he opens up TXDot Records and let us all look he is full of hay. This is not the House or the Senate, this is Perry The Governor. The responsibility and blame is on his shoulders his and his alone.

All the Kay bashing and endorsements are attempts to do one thing and one thing only Forget Who Rick Perry Is.

Tollroads on existing highways in Texas? No Never, well under oath see what they say.

The best explanation thus far of TTC or as it is today Innovative Connectivity Texas, still the idea and the plans remain the same.

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Perry Provocatuer

Posted by brazosconservative | Posted in Rick Perry, Texas Governor | Posted on 03-09-2009

This is a detailed report of What Perry and his appointment at a hospital did.  Look HERE.

Here is the video where the reporter tries to get to the truth.

Did Doctor Test Medicine On Unsuspecting Patients?

This is what Perry did to Healthcare in Texas. I am not a supporter of Obamacare, but what this video and investigation show is when you ignore the corruption the patients suffer.

Perry can be endorsed  and it will not change what he does everyday without the cameras around.

I will not give in for a person that doesn’t care about people in Texas. He is a grandstander, a bully and a crone.

The more endorsements he gets the more I wonder what has the endorsement is about. I would be lying if I were to say that endorsing Perry makes me wonder about the morals of people endorsing a man that allows abuse of people and money in Texas, all the while he travels the world.

In 2006 I held my tongue and my nose, I am no longer that loyal to a man that is committed to Innovative Connectivity Texas, TTC and keeping people in place that abuse patients. There is something seriously wrong with keeping the same governor for too long.

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