[Kylon]

I was thinking, what if conservative christian families got legally "divorced" but still did all the stuff that married people do, so that the women could draw welfare, while still being stay at home moms with the kids, then the dad could provide resources for the family, and so they'd get welfare money + daddies income.

They could also get free medical and all that Jazz.

If dead beats and hoes can get government handouts, why not hard working honest people?

Would it be legal?


P.S I don't support Bush.

[NEOPO]

What makes you believe that CC's are hard working and honest?
What makes you think that only dead beats and ho's take government handouts?
The oil companies are still collecting millions of .gov handouts.

Same with most agribusiness A.K.A "poor farmers" yeah right!

Add it all up - the elite have taken much more then the poor.

[gego]

Aside from the legality, you are a little late in thinking up that one.

One of my buddies owned a 100 unit subsidized apartment complex occupied by low income residents. He told me that all the renters were unmarried women, on welfare with children, but that most of them had boyfriends who often spent the night (which officially went unnoticed) , and who often were the fathers of the children.

He said that they managed to get most of their rent paid by the government, got food stamps, plus some spending cash and then the boyfriend made what he could at a job. Everyone lived happily ever after, and the welfare people never knew the difference or did not care since they were also happily living off their own government paycheck. The government was never smart enough to question how these women on welfare could drive around in a car, buy clothes, tv's and the like, go out to Kentucky Fried for lunch and pay for all the extras.

I think this is a common scam.

[Bas]

you'd need to live apart for that (at least in this country) and then the benefits would be close to zero, plus it wouldn't be much fun. + if you're cought you get to pay a whole lot more than those marginal benefits you might have enjoyed from the scam...and they do have a fraud squad for stuff like this, again, at least in this country.

[Schneider]

gego..are you trying to tell us that your friend is indirectly making a living out of the welfare state !?

Sorry man,couldn't resist ..

Schneider
French-Canadian

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat do you think about this idea?

[gg3]

Same as it ever was.

But let's not forget it's the same across the spectrum.

The ex-CEO of Home Despot, just recently let-go-of, turned in a mediocre performance for the company and left with a golden parachute worth $221 million. Almost a quarter of a billion dollars for a not-quite-failing grade. The fact that he was "merely" ripping off the shareholders rather than the taxpayers shouldn't diminish the gravity of his situation, and many similar situations.

[gego]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schneider', 'g')ego..are you trying to tell us that your friend is indirectly making a living out of the welfare state !?

Sorry man,couldn't resist ..

Schneider
French-Canadian

[Pretorian]

waisted, not spent. However its hard to blame people for wanting a free ride.

[Denny]

I don't see how one could be a good Christian and participate in a welfare scam at the same time.

(Please, I know some of you will point out that a whole heap of televangelists are among the biggest of scammers, but I think many of them aren't real followers of Christ in the first place.)

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'I') don't see how one could be a good Christian and participate in a welfare scam at the same time.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'I') don't see how one could be a good Christian and participate in a welfare scam at the same time.

(Please, I know some of you will point out that a whole heap of televangelists are among the biggest of scammers, but I think many of them aren't real followers of Christ in the first place.)