{"id":17665,"date":"2013-02-25T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17665"},"modified":"2013-02-25T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:39:03","slug":"where-the-money-goes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17665","title":{"rendered":"Where The Money Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/02\/25\/7k-worth-of-food-stamps-per-person-the-state-where-this-is-happening-might-surprise-you\/\">The Blaze<\/a> reported a story today about food stamp use in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Texas\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=31.0,-100.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=31.0,-100.0 (Texas)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Texas<\/a>. Here is the video (also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MrTEy_uQRRY&amp;feature=player_embedded\">YouTube<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MrTEy_uQRRY\" height=\"287\" width=\"493\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The story is rather simple. A <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Gas jockey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gas_jockey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">gas station attendant<\/a> took a payment from someone who used food stamps. The attendant stated that he sees people with large balances on their food stamp accounts (thousands of dollars) who are making large purchases with their food stamps while driving <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Luxury vehicle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luxury_vehicle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">luxury cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-key=\"ovmag\" data-num=\"2\"><strong>\u201cOne valley man was outraged after finding out how much money some people on government assistance are getting,\u201d reads the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleycentral.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=863400#.UStx-jfmDk2\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>. \u201cAction 4 News uncovers just how many people are on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">SNAP<\/a> in the Valley and how much money they are getting.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-key=\"trwtc\" data-num=\"3\"><strong>The report was helped along by a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Filling station\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Filling_station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">gas station<\/a> clerk who had grown tired of seeing customers make enormous purchases with their Lone Star cards. In some cases, he says, people would show up and have a balance of at least <em>$7,000<\/em> on their cards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-key=\"trwtc\" data-num=\"3\">Our tax dollars at work!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=4d005344-321d-4c0d-a8c0-6021ef8abb4e\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blaze reported a story today about food stamp use in Texas. Here is the video (also posted at YouTube): The story is rather simple. A gas station attendant took a payment from someone who used food stamps. The attendant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17665\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1132,5047,5045,4413,5046,127,163,999],"class_list":["post-17665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blaze","tag-collecting","tag-filling-station","tag-recreation","tag-stamps","tag-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program","tag-texas","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17667,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions\/17667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}