Friday, February 15, 2013
"EXCLUSIVE: Welfare recipients using EBT cards to get cash at strip clubs, X-rated video stores and bars"
And our elected officials are raising taxes!!!...
In the New York Post, Kate Briquelet blows the whistle on how welfare type benefits are being used:
"A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank’s Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx.
The state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), which oversees the “cash assistance program,” even lists some of these welfare-ready ATMs on its Web site."
