Ohio gives food stamps to rich

Ohio seemed to be near the forefront of the "soak the poor" wave of the Contract With America era. The state's Republican lawmakers were always eager to cut off welfare to poor Ohioans who truly needed aid.

But what a minute! What's this?!

Now Ohio has become mighty generous with food stamps - not for the poor, but for the very rich.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has now declared that the wealthy can get food stamps - if they don't have a job. My Buckeye friends must be thrilled to know their tax dollars are going to welfare for the rich.

If a poor person doesn't have a job, the media calls them lazy bums. But if a rich person doesn't have a job, that's considered important government research, I guess.

This fleecing was unearthed by the discovery that a woman from suburban Cincinnati was getting food stamps even though she has $80,000 in the bank, a $300,000 mansion (which is paid off), and a Mercedes.

Hell, I make hardly anything from my work, and I'm sure I don't qualify for food stamps. So why does a Mercedes-driving mansion-dweller qualify?

When Warren County commissioners learned of this scam, they threatened to pull the county out of the food stamp program altogether and aid the poor through its own general fund.

What's the reaction from the local chattering class about efforts to rein in this abuse? "WAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!"

Funny. The first people to advocate cutting off welfare for the poor are now upset because folks want to cut off welfare for the rich? What a bunch of CRYBABIES!!!

Talk about having a sense of entitlement!

(Source: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090317/NEWS01/903170375)