Welfare recipients get $12,000 from strip club ATMs

[bijou]

Reporting from Sacramento —
California welfare recipients have been able to get taxpayer cash — meant to feed and clothe their children — from ATMs at strip clubs across the state, including some well-known gentlemen's cabarets in Los Angeles.

More than $12,000 from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was dispensed between the start of 2007 and the end of 2009 at clubs, including Sam's Hofbrau, Star Strip and Seventh Veil, according to officials at the state Department of Social Services.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered the department to remove the clubs from the official list of businesses where welfare recipients can withdraw benefits using state-issued ATM cards.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-welfare-20100701,0,6705176.story

[Peter3_1]

Ah, remember the good old days of food stamps when someone bought a home in Las Vegas with them.......so m uch more original than going to a strip club....

[DumbAss Tanker]

I'm sure it's not just the clientele, as no doubt some of the 'mothers' work at the clubs.  Probably off the books.

[Peter3_1]

Mothers getting or giving lap dances? As from the movie "Riders of the Purple Sage" the longer I live, the stranger life gets.

Tell me, do welfare mothers still "share" children? You know, each of three moms has two kids,  once a month, the 6 kids are at the home being checked by the welfare dept..So , to make it work, you have one family  in NY, another in CT and the third in NJ.  Do people who are disabled but were denied disability or who work under the radar still rent their ID and SS to illegals? So the illegal has a vaild ID, the citizen gets his SS "fund" contributed to, and gets the witholding tax back.

Remember, the Afgani Government is too curupt and must reform within the year!

[DumbAss Tanker]

Karzai's got nuthin' on Daley or Rendel.

[Chris_]

C'mon you guys.  Even the "less fortunate" need some entertainment from naked or topless girls some times.

[bkg]

Amatuers... MN has racked up millions in shit like this. Trips to Hawaii, trips to alaska, millions spent in the other lower 47...

No one wants to change our rules, though, as it would be descrimination...

[DumbAss Tanker]

C'mon you guys.  Even the "less fortunate" need some entertainment from naked or topless girls some times.

Honestly some entertainment from naked topless girls sounds great right now, however I don't want to pay for someone else's entertainment from naked topless girls!