Folks On Food Stamps Have Good & Expensive Tastes When it Comes to Food.

[dennishoddy]

Personally I don't care what People on public assistance for food buy, but it really bothers me when the two carts contain nothing but processed food like twinky's, frozen pizza, candy, etc, and the person pushing the carts weigh about 400lbs+

Again, Its their decision what to buy, and I certainly don't want to regulate their personal decisions, but I wish they would consider what they are doing to their bodies, and their kids that are overweight as well, are not benefitting from their food decisions.

My basic concern is the kids that have no choice.

 

[Billybob]

You depend on the government just like people on TANF. The only difference is the degree.

Too bad you aren't concerned with bigger instances of fraud.

We should all be concerned about the bigger frauds, consider the $ amounts in the info below.


News Release
February 17, 2011
Contact: HHS Press Office
(202) 690-6343
Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 111 Individuals for more than $225 Million in False Billing and Expands Operations to Two Additional Cities

Doctors, Nurses, Health Care Company Owners and Executives Among the Defendants Charged; Law Enforcement Agents Execute 16 Search Warrants

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/02/20110217a.html


DoJ Recovers $3 Billion in FY 2010 FCA Cases
The Department of Justice has announced that in FY 2010, the U.S. Government recovered $3 billion in False Claims Act settlements and judgments.
Of the $3 billion recovered, health care civil fraud recoveries accounted for $2.5 billion of the total (83 percent).
The $3 billion recovered under the federal False Claims Act is actually an underestimate of the total amount recovered, as DoJ data does not include criminal fines or state portions of Medicaid settlements in its calculations.
DoJ notes that most successful False Claims Act cases are brought to the government by whistleblowers, and that the False Claims Act remains "the federal government’s primary weapon in the battle against fraud."
Nov 22, 2010


Big Iraq Settlement on Horizon?
A $600 million Iraq war fraud settlement may be on the horizon. Kuwait's Public Warehousing Company (also known as Agility) appears to have told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas that the company expects to pay between $500 million and $600 million to settle a food-fraud case, provided the U.S. Government agrees to the terms. Jan 25, 2010


Fighting Healthcare Fraud:
Whistleblower Statute Returns
$15 for Every $1 Invested
A TAF report by economist Jack Meyer, concludes that every dollar invested by the U.S. Government in investigation and prosecution of federal health care fraud returns $15 back to the American people -- a phenomenal rate of direct return that does not factor in the benefits of fraud deterrence. August 2, 2006


Quest to Pay $241 Million
Quest Diagnostics says it has agreed to pay $241 million to resolve a California False Claims Act case alleging the company overbilled the state Medicaid program for diagnostic-testing. The Quest case is one of seven private medical lab cases brought by Chris Riedel, CEO of Hunter Laboratories, whose company refused to price-gouge. The other six defendant companies are: Health Line Clinical Labs; Westcliff Medical Labs; Physicians Immunodiagnostic Laboratory; Whitefield Medical Laboratory; Seacliff Diagnostics Medical Group, and; Laboratory Corporation of America. May 13, 2011


Par Pharmaceuticals to Pay $145 Million
Par Pharmaceutical Companies has said it has reached an agreement in principle to resolve a False Claims Act case filed by Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys on behalf of the United States and 49 states (excluding Illinois) over Medicaid price-gouging. April 28, 2011


Verizon to pay $93 Million
Verizon Communications has agreed to pay the United States over $93 million to settle a False Claims Act case involving taxes and surcharges heaped on to phone bills presented to the U.S. General Services Administration. April 13, 2011


More cases at, http://www.taf.org/

 

[Mr10mm]

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but it really bothers me when the two carts contain nothing but processed food like twinky's, frozen pizza, candy, etc, and the person pushing the carts weigh about 400lbs+ as well,
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Easy now your getting personal.

 

[dennishoddy]

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Easy now your getting personal.

Well, I hope I'm not, but in my honest opinion, I hate to see the kids have to grow up with their parents decisions about food.
I'm fully aware that some parents with medical problems have no choice in body weight,,

My concern for the kids is that they don't have the same medical problems but have to rely on the dicisions of the parents that choose to be that way.

 

[Mr10mm]

It was a joke.

 

[dieseltech09]

Before I got married and was just dating my wife she was on food stamps. She was a single mother of 2 who got nothing from her deadbeat ex. She worked a part time job and went to school half a day. If it wasnt for food stamps her girls wouldnt have had much in the way of food to eat. Do you really expect a 5 and an 8 year old girls to eat beans and corn bread everynight of the week?

 

[Mr10mm]

Before I got married and was just dating my wife she was on food stamps. She was a single mother of 2 who got nothing from her deadbeat ex. She worked a part time job and went to school half a day. If it wasnt for food stamps her girls wouldnt have had much in the way of food to eat. Do you really expect a 5 and an 8 year old girls to eat beans and corn bread everynight of the week?

The program was meant for situations like this, not like the video I posted earlier. I think that is what people have a problem with,abuse of the system. Not cases like that.

 

[poopgiggle]

Well, I hope I'm not, but in my honest opinion, I hate to see the kids have to grow up with their parents decisions about food.
I'm fully aware that some parents with medical problems have no choice in body weight,,

My concern for the kids is that they don't have the same medical problems but have to rely on the dicisions of the parents that choose to be that way.

Werd. I took my mom's cooking for granted. I'm as svelte as I am today because I didn't eat a lot of preprocessed crap when I was growing up.

 

[chubbs]

a pretty obvious clue that something was fishy.

Well he did buy 6 lobsters so it was already "Fishy"

 

[Isha's Pa Pa]

Why do you care? If they spend their money on that and don't have any for the rest of the month, they are in the same boat we are. Why do we feel like if we extend charity or fund a food stamp program they need to eat beans and cornbread every day? I have better things to do than monitor what a food stamp recipient buys and whine about it. And no, I have never had to be on public assistance, but am glad it is out there for those that need it. Who knows, or who cares, it could be a party, and people on assistance have just as much right to splurge as someone that isn't.

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