Lottery winner still on welfare: "I'm still struggling"

[Agnostic007]

dont blame her, blame the system that takes a year to get someone in need help, and a year to turn off the faucet after the person gets rich.

Remember ol dirty bastard (PIP ODB) from the wu tang?  rode a limo to pick up his food stamps.

Why is it one or the other? I blame both. I believe in personal responsibility and this sack of crap has no integrity, pride or honor and she is taking OUR money while having half a million.

I blame the government for giving OUR money away to frauds like this, and 100,000 of thousands more who don't need it and for freely giving it to the corporations for bail outs and studies on why hamsters like to run in wheels and ... well the list is endless. But sorry, she doesn't get a pass... 

[Agnostic007]

I see nothing wrong with this, if she qualifies for the entitlements then she has earned them.  If she doesn't have a job, this is not income from a job, it is one time winnings.  You conservatives can't seem to grasp this.

Don't really equate entitlements to earning much these days. She did nothing but breath air to get the money, she didn't earn it.

If you state your position is one time winnings shouldn't count, then your principle would apply if she won $50 million. It's a ludicrous position at best...

[tu_holmes]

Bitch made more in 1 day than most people make in 10 years... If anyone is of the position that she should be allowed to continue to collect welfare, then they are morons and should no longer be regarded as serious posters on this board.

[A Professional]

Bitch made more in 1 day than most people make in 10 years... If anyone is of the position that she should be allowed to continue to collect welfare, then they are morons and should no longer be regarded as serious posters on this board.

As long as they can tax the winnings at such exorbitant rates, then I absolutely support what she's doing.

[Agnostic007]

As long as they can tax the winnings at such exorbitant rates, then I absolutely support what she's doing.

that's sad... she used my money to buy that ticket.. Where's my cut?

[tu_holmes]

As long as they can tax the winnings at such exorbitant rates, then I absolutely support what she's doing.

They tax her like they tax anyone who makes a big salary... She ain't special.

[A Professional]

The point is, the taxes are exorbitant.

And the government has some nerve to offer 'million' dollar lottos when they leave you with half that.
It's misleading. I don't blame her one bit. The rich use off shore bank accounts and all sorts of tricks to avoid taxes that aren't available to the average idiot.
I think taxes should be eliminated period at the federal level.

But as long as they exist, she's just playing the same game as everyone else. Cutting corners any way she can.

BTW, everyone pays taxes. Even a bum pays taxes when he buys something from the store.
She didn't buy the ticket with your money; get off.

[A Professional]

LOL the government offers 1 million dollars, then takes half of it back.
Taxing your own offer. Crazy.

Then you have super rich people that don't actually do any work, that can pay for accountants that know all the tricks to hide taxable income.

The rich and poor have a lot in common.

[clownbaby]

the government took 500k from her!! the money she is getting from welfare ($200) is just a very small sum of her own money back.  How ridiculous is it that that the government of the United States can tax gambling winnings just disgusting.

[Radical Plato]

The rich and poor have a lot in common.

the obvious exception and the only thing that matters being money

[phreak]

she's just playing the same game as everyone else. Cutting corners any way she can.

Some people actually have integrity, so no.

[Tre]

A better question is why is my money paying for lotto tickets.

Yup.  Always hated this.

[A Professional]

Some people actually have integrity, so no.

Who, Kenneth Lay and ENRON? The businessman with integrity that sold out his shareholders? Shady business and white collar crime happens all the time.

[20inch calves]

she could have bought several houses for rentals and invested and been set..i wish i got the chance to do something with this kind of money

[Bad Boy Dazza]

What a piece of shit. 

[Bad Boy Dazza]

She didn't buy the ticket with your money; get off.

No, but where do you think her WELFARE money comes from?  The Sky?

[suckmymuscle]

moochers will mooch.

A drug addict that wins the lottery just becomes a rich drug addict, then back to being a drug addict.

  True. There was an opiate addict a few blocks down from where I lived in Florida. The population discovered that he was stealing car stereos to buy dope, and they tortured him to death. As they were ripping off his nails and poking his eye out, he screamed:

"I am in pain! Give me Oxy(oxycontin)! Give me oxy!"

  Even as he was being torn apart, all he could think about was drugs. Truly sick stuff.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

[#1 Klaus fan]

  True. There was an opiate addict a few blocks down from where I lived in Florida. The population discovered that he was stealing car stereos to buy dope, and they tortured him to death. As they were ripping off his nails and poking his eye out, he screamed:

"I am in pain! Give me Oxy(oxycontin)! Give me oxy!"

  Even as he was being torn apart, all he could think about was drugs. Truly sick stuff.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

Maybe he needed something else than his eyes poked out, like real help?

[MORTALCOIL]

10k a day CEO detected

I only wish. More like 10k a month.

[MikMaq]

  True. There was an opiate addict a few blocks down from where I lived in Florida. The population discovered that he was stealing car stereos to buy dope, and they tortured him to death. As they were ripping off his nails and poking his eye out, he screamed:

"I am in pain! Give me Oxy(oxycontin)! Give me oxy!"

  Even as he was being torn apart, all he could think about was drugs. Truly sick stuff.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

If this is true, this is why I treat drug addicts like animals, they dont deserve to live.

[Radical Plato]

 True. There was an opiate addict a few blocks down from where I lived in Florida. The population discovered that he was stealing car stereos to buy dope, and they tortured him to death. As they were ripping off his nails and poking his eye out, he screamed:

"I am in pain! Give me Oxy(oxycontin)! Give me oxy!"

  Even as he was being torn apart, all he could think about was drugs. Truly sick stuff.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

Maybe he needed something else than his eyes poked out, like real help?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure being beaten to death isn't helpful to anyone, even junkies!
 but the americans have made a fine art of dehumanising other human beings and then giving themselves permission to violate every human right known to man,  Americans are the nastiest, coldest and twisted human beings on the planet - this can be confirmed by asking any non-american.

[aesthetics]

what she got is less than even 500k

when lottery says 1 million, they mean that much paid over 20 years or so, or u can get cash lump some which befor taxes is less than 1 million, after taxes lucky to break 250k

i don't think it's that low.

[gym**rat]

Michigan? dis hoe could buy a mansion in michigan for 1/4 her winnings

You are 100% correct. Especially in the Detroit suburbs. Pretty sad situation there.

[tu_holmes]

i don't think it's that low.

It's not... the taxes are generally 50%

So you get a little more than 500K

[Stark]

GUESS THE RACE GUESS THE RACE.... oh wait...