Fact Check: Rant on welfare abuse hits home with Internet admirers

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Fact Check: Rant on welfare abuse hits home with Internet admirers
Posted: March 1, 2013 - 1:26am  |  Updated: March 3, 2013 - 6:17am

By Carole Fader

Times-Union readers want to know:

An email I received recounts this letter by a 21-year-old female that was published in the Waco, Texas, newspaper. The email starts off: “Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards. No cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese, and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.” Is this for real?

Yes, the letter was published in the Nov. 18, 2010, edition of the Waco Tribune Herald. But it wasn’t written by a 21-year-old female. Just the opposite.

Alfred W. Evans, a 56-year-old resident of Gatesville, Texas, wrote the letter to the editor hoping to get others incensed about welfare abuse. What he didn’t expect, according to an interview with him in the Tribune Herald in November 2012, was that the letter would be emailed across the country and become an Internet phenomenon.

“I don’t want attention,” Evans told the newspaper. “I just want people to stop and think.”

A bit dated, but…….  

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And another 10 million people have been added to the food stamp rolls since his rant. 

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And another 10 million people have been added to the food stamp rolls since his rant. 

That number will increase ad infinitum, or until the cause of the disease is eliminated. The cause of this tragedy is with obastard and his band of demigods, since they continuously encourage everyone to suck on the hind teat of "their" government.