$1 million lottery winner is still using food stamps

  Every once in awhile I read a story which just makes me shake my head in amazement, and causes me to wonder what the hell is going on in the United States of America and in the minds of a growing percentage of the people of this great nation. This is one of those stories.

  Amanda Clayton hit the Michigan state lottery for $1 million yet is still using $200 worth of food stamps a month because she doesn’t have a job. This is how she justified her abuse of the food stamp system:

I feel that it’s okay because I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay,” she said. “I have two houses”

  She has two houses and bills to pay so she needs this extra cash to help her make ends meet even though she hit the lottery. She also purchased a new car and hell, somebody has to help her pay for it, so why not let the American people help her make ends meet?

  This is the epitome of the entitlement mindset which is gripping many people in the United States who feel the government owes them something. This woman has more than most Americans and yet it isn’t enough; she feels it is okay for taxpayers to help her buy food even though she had an unbelievable stroke of luck and hit the lottery. And this is the mindset we are battling as we try to bring entitlement spending under control in this country; this is the mindset that Barack Obama is promulgating with his class warfare rhetoric pinning the 1% against the 99%.

    But it might not be all her fault; if the government is still willing to provide her with this money then that says as much about the system as it says about her. Perhaps the government is unaware that Amanda Clayton won the lottery; if this is the case then it seems as if she is committing fraud, but her statement about the government not cutting her off makes me wonder if she did indeed inform the government about her winnings and they refused to acknowledge this new income. The story is not clear on this, but nonetheless this is the mindset that is being bred within the United States.

  This is the fight we are up against in the upcoming election and with so many people so callously willing to accept government handouts–even when they are clearly not justified–it is going to be extremely hard to beat Barack Obama with a platform that states the government must cut back on entitlements. This argument flies in the face of so many people, who will be voting to keep the government money flowing in, that I fear we have lost not only the next election, but all elections in the future until we finally reach the point where the United States economy totally collapses and there will be no more money left for anybody to collect–even those who really need it.