welfare = bail $
 

http://bostonherald.com/news/regiona...buse_runs_deep

Pols: Welfare abuse runs deep
By John Zaremba and Chris Cassidy
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - Updated 3 hours ago



A convicted drug dealer — who cops said wanted to use cash from his taxpayer-funded EBT card to post bail — is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing the reform-resistant Patrick administration for a crackdown.

Kimball Clark, 45, was locked up Friday on drug-dealing charges — again — when he was overheard using his one phone call to ask the person on the other end of the line to “get my EBT card and go to the ATM and get the money to bail me out, get me outa here tonight,” according to a Boston police report.

“It’s another outrage,” said state Rep. Shaunna O’Connell (R-Taunton), a member of the EBT Task Force who criticized the group for failing to push tough restrictions on the use of the controversial cards. “When we were on the EBT Card Commission, I fought to get bail bondsmen on that list of places where people could not use their EBT cards. They fought me on it and told me people can’t use their EBT cards in that way.”

Beacon Hill was forced to mull reforms after the Herald reported people were spending welfare cash on booze, cigarettes and scratch cards.

“Obviously the Department of Transitional Assistance has no idea how people use these cards and how the cards

If my parents named me Shaunna, I be fucking outraged too.

JC

Shocking.

:shrug:

BREAKING NEWS!

Drug dealers do illegal shit!

JC

I know, right? :lol:

SHHHHH! If you tell that to voters, you'll kill the election platforms of 90% of the politicians out there!!

Nothing new. Welfare people trade money off their welfare cards all the time.

I am sitting in a Community Corrections Center in MA where I work as I type this. This is not the exception or the extreme as some would have you think. These parasites are sucking the life out of MA (Grew Up here but Moved to NH) The Entitlement Mandate that is here MA i why the rest of New England call the MA the State of Despair.

Why work when the gov OWES YOU!