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Originally posted by Tom Earp
LXAAlum, from the sounds of this, some may brand you a Radical!
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Radical? Me? Naaahhhhhh.......
However, I did mean what I said about abuse of tax-underwritten "benefits"....case in point: here in northern Colorado, the four or five counties with high levels of "assistance" programs (yes, necessary for those who need a temporary helping hand, I have no problem with them, and it's always nice to have a safety net)....there are estimated to be HUNDREDS of individuals that get assistance, using false addresses, in multiple counties.
The main reason: none of the county computer systems are designed to share information with each other to prevent this sort of thing from happening. Further, there are some upgrades coming state wide, that are mandated to go on line late this summer. The problem with the new system: no one has tested it yet to see how the different county processes will function, nor how these computers will talk to each other, OR, if the software will work at the county level at all.
What really boils me up is when these kinds of issues are
brought up, guess what the response is from the status-quo government and advocacy groups? That's right: we're being racist (a majority of those abusing the system are hispanic, and many of them are also illegal immigrants - so tax dollars are being sent to people who, by rule of law, shouldn't be entitled to them anyways) when we try to eliminate fraud. They claim it's not fair to deny anyone benefits they might otherwise be entitled to. They conveniently dismiss or ignore the fact that what we want eliminated is those that are getting 2x to 3x what they are entitled to, by fraudently getting benefits from other counties they don't even live in.