Unbeliveable...!

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You know, I REALLY don't mind helping someone out thats truly in need if I'm in a position to do so, but THIS kind of crap REALLY tics me off...

I honestly don't understand the mindset of people like this. She didn't see anything wrong with what she did? BS....!!!

State cuts lottery winner's benefits | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com
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  • What do you want to bet she'll be broke and back on the govt dole in 5 years?

    What an idiot - she should be prosecuted...but she won't be.
  • At least they cut her off.
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    Watch, a few years from now she'll be broke, $500k isn't really that much money when your buying houses. Then she won't have any money to pay the property tax on multiple houses. Later the houses will be sold at a tax sale & she'll be right back where she started, no money.

    A fool & their money soon will part.
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    • I find her actions completely despicable!

      Especially since so many families are in dire straits here. When the automotive industries downsized and did massive layoffs, it hurt a lot of families who haven't been able to find new jobs or the jobs they do find are little more than minimum wage! And that's not to mention the trickle effect it caused with smaller auto based companies.

      However, I don't find it unbelievable because the leaders in Detroit are just as dishonest, scratch that, more crooked than that.

      The mismanagement and embezzlement of funds has been so bad, that now the FBI is involved and more and more public officials in the Detroit area are dropping. There is a new scandal and indictments on the news practically every week and sometimes two in a week, like this week!

      A case of monkey see, monkey do? :rolleyes:

      Terra
  • I saw the interview they mention in the article. When questioned, she responded with such a sense of entitlement, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. When she said she owned two houses, I just about threw my coffee mug at the tv. She didn't have any problem holding her head high - those ones scare me!
  • Even more ironic in the most depressed area in the country...Detroit - This is not an isolated case...there are tons of wealthy people in the country receiving this type of assistance and more - but this type is the one the republicants will run with -

    "House Bill 5032 would require the Michigan Lottery to forward names of any resident who wins over $1,000 to DHS to be cross- referenced with public assistance roles, according to Zorn."

    Duh...What...like no one has ever thought of this before?

    That's a shame...maybe she can apply for Disability - :p
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    • Based on the way the Mother was defending her I have to assume this is at least 2nd generation and quite possibly 3rd...
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  • Most people who win big are broke soon.. what goes around, comes around.
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    • You're right, unless they think of investing it on a business or perhaps start their own business then the money would easily go away as fast as it came.
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  • There is an illegal alien that SUPPOSEDLY bought, or caused to be bought, a lottery ticket, We will NEVER know if that is even true. He was afraid to collect the money, as he could be deported. Supposedly, he could NEVER collect the money, because they only let American Citizens do so. SO, HE CLAIMS, he gave the ticket to his BOSS to cash. His boss took the money, all $750 THOUSAND.

    He SUED!!!!!!!! HOW? WHY? OK, did the judge do the right thing, and kick him out of the country with NOTHING? Well, supposedly, he is going to be kicked out of the country. SUPPOSEDLY! YEAH RIGHT! With one MILLION dollars!!!!!!! ONE MILLION! WHY? An extra $250K for lawyers fees!!!!!

    But YEAH, that woman is YOUNG 24! OK, HERE are her claims!

    OH, they kept paying me the benefits, so I figured it was OK! I DON'T HAVE a job!
    OH, I DIDN'T get a million dollars! I took it in a lump sum, so I ONLY got $700K! I DON'T have a job!
    OH, I DIDN'T get $700K, I had to pay tax on it, so it is like HALF of that! FACT CHECK!!!!!!>>>> She got about $500K
    I DON'T have a job!
    I $350K(err.... $500K) isn't much, I have TWO houses to pay for!

    OK, when I was her age, I only made about $35K. That is STILL respectable! $1 million over TWENTY years is $50,000 a YEAR!!!!!!!! THINK OF IT! She could get a RESPECTABLE amount for a GOOD chunk of her life! She could EASILY fund a nice pension AND pay for the 2 homes AND possibly start a business so she would NEVER need a job! $500K, Pays $50K/year for ONLY, *****ONLY***** TEN years!

    BTW I make over $50K, but would give it up for the deal she got. I am over twice her age and only have ONE home! She really has SOME nerve!

    Steve
  • BTW I saw an interview yesterday with this woman that came up with a stupidly simple and obvious idea. HECK, if I had a need, and figured I could shape it right, I might have tried it. I heard about it DECADES ago! Brook shields got in trouble once when she was a little kid, and starred with george burns in "Just you and me kid", and it was revealed SHE wore something simliar, so she only APPEARED to be naked. So it is NOT a new idea!

    Well, Sara Blakely figured SHE could do better. She apparently had little funds(She says it cost $5,000), and never formally advertised. So where is she today? Well, she is now considered to be the YOUNGEST...










    SELF MADE BILLIONARE! SPANX - The Official Site of SPANX - Sara Blakely's Story

    And she had 1/200th of what that 1M winner was offered!!!!!!

    Steve

  • Oops....hey guys, there she is!

    Shhhhhh......

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  • They should prosecute her for fraudulently claiming food stamps, and fine her $1million.

    Am I being unecessarily harsh? probably. But tell that to the people who really are in need and don't get anything...

    Cheers
    Adam
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    • You're RIGHT! And if she can't pay the $500K she gave up, she should have to somehow pay it over 10 years. If she can't pay it back, maybe pay back 30% of whatever she can with a 13% compounded interest. HEY, it's a better deal than I got when I had to pay those jerks because of something that wasn't even my fault!

      It is people like HER that created the whole 2008 fiasco! 24yo? MOST people that age live in apartments, and make LESS than $50K! Most people probably don't even get out of college until about 23yo! Doctors take LONGER! And ***THEY*** are MIDDLE CLASS!!!!!!

      Steve
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  • Well, MANY have accounts that have NEVER gone over 3 digits! MY accounts have NEVER gone over 5 digits. We are talking about an idiot that had her account go to the HIGH SIX digits, and COULD have had SEVEN, and claims she is POOR! She is on FOOD STAMPS!

    WOW! She has more in her account than I make in a YEAR, and she claims to be POOR!?!?!?

    HECK, she could go to a subway, work there, make a decent minimum wage at the end of the year and, if she didn't like working there, BUY it, and RUN IT! She would STILL have enough to buy 2 nice homes, for CASH , and have a good amount left over! EVEN after giving up half of the full amount.

    INCREDIBLE!

    Steve
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    • Have you taken your medication?
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  • I wonder if she will hire a financial adviser - somehow I highly doubt it. I tend to agree with others here who have stated she'll be back in the system in a few years.

    I agree with the comments that she should be prosecuted, but unfortunately the law is on her side in this case. Until the laws are changed, there's not much that can be done.
  • I can understand people being greedy and taking advantage of an opportune situation. (How many people get too much change back from a cashier and just shrug their shoulders, smile, keep it, then tell their friends something like, "It wasn't MY mistake. Why should I tell the cashier?")

    What I don't understand is people who get greedy with significant amounts of cash or merchandise and think nobody is going to notice or have a problem with it? That's just dumb.

    I agree with other WF members that it probably won't take long for this person to return to her formerly impoverished state.

    GT
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    • She'll probably take a loan out on BOTH homes, have BOTH go to foreclosure, and fight tooth and nail! FAR better people than her have gone broke.

      Steve
  • I'm surprised no one is wondering how someone who can't afford to feed herself can afford to buy lottery tickets.

    ETA I get really aggravated when I am behind someone in the grocery store, with exceptionally nice clothes, professional manicure and hair style, expensive perfume whips out their let's make it look like I have a credit card food stamps.

    A few weeks ago there was a woman in front of me who didn't have enough on her card to pay for everything so she took a few things back from her order all the while muttering that it didn't matter as long as she got her meat. She had bought several bags of meat. Enough for a block party BBQ.

    I eat several meatless meals a week because meat is so dang expensive. At least it is good for my health.

    Then there are the tribes with 5 kids under 5 with their diaper coupons and food assistance. Should kids suffer? Hell no! But if you can't afford to feed them, put your knees together dammit.
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    • It's WELL KNOWN at this point that many of them buy lottery tickets. Many cost only $1! But they should be FORBIDDEN to benefit from lotteries. Lotteries are SUPPOSED to be there to give the government a net GAIN to help pay for schools, etc.... Those that are illegal, felons, or are a net drain on the public funds can NEVER give a net gain with $1. They are, in fact, risking NOTHING! They should have no reward.

      AND many have kids because they get paid MORE money to have them! Just today I saw a talk show, and they were talking about giving the poor money and deals to have pets. GIVE ME A BREAK! If they can't afford the purchase, will they afford anything else? I would LOVE a nice little dog, but I travel too much, and it wouldn't be fair.

      What they SHOULD do is take the kid, and charge the parents some amount like $100 a month to care for the kid. But NOPE, they figure that that kid will be brought up as THEY want and are happy to pay them OTHER peoples money.

      Steve
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  • Why is a 24 year old on benefits? Aren't young people supposed to work!
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    • Young people ARE supposed to work but many, especially some of the POOR, feel all should work for THEM!

      They are ALSO not expected to have homes, but some of the POOR figure all others do so THEY should!

      They are ALSO, BY DEFINITION, NOT expected to make more than maybe $20,000 per household, with maybe another $500 per kid. HECK, a single person would generally make LESS!!!!!!!

      She has her priorities ALL MESSED UP! That means that if we gave her a billion dollars TAX FREE, she would likely spend it within a decade, and possibly in only a few weeks.

      Ever see brewsters millions? He was given $30,000,000 and told to spend it on anything and everything he could! He could not get the FULL inheritance until he spent ALL of that money, and got VALUE, but ended up broke! He EVEN found loopholes, like buying an EXPENSIVE, RARE, PRISTINE, stamp, and using it to mail a letter to the law firm. It was cancelled making it virtually worthless. He STILL had trouble getting rid of it.

      But SHE doesn't care if there is value! SHE isn't working towards a bigger goal. She thinks $50K a YEAR is NOTHING!

      Steve
  • I'm surprised she was even able to get food stamps with 2 houses. Seems they would have made her sell one of them. They have a restriction on how many cars you can own and still get help.

    Not unbelievable at all - just disgusting to the extreme.
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    • Sal - I think the second home was the one she bought with lottery winnings.

      This is the second time this has happened in Michigan - at what point do govts start monitoring the handouts?
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    • Well I still believe that every disgusting she did will have its own equal karma or even double.
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    Unbeliveable...!

    You know, I REALLY don't mind helping someone out thats truly in need if I'm in a position to do so, but THIS kind of crap REALLY tics me off... I honestly don't understand the mindset of people like this. She didn't see anything wrong with what she did? BS....!!!