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Or for cripes' sake, she was driving her employers' BMW. Gassing up employers' cars is something that all sorts of employees, from housekeepers, to personal assistants, to nannies who use the vehicles to transport the children, do.
People who work in garages test-drive cars all the time, too. People who work for dealerships test-drive the trade-ins. There are services where someone who is moving can hire a person to drive their car to the new location. She did a neighbor a favor, and took the car in for new tires, or an alignment. Maybe the neighbor was elderly and disabled, and it is hard for her to wait around, or she doesn't like dealing with the counter-people. I can think of way, way too many reasons for someone to be driving another person's car to blithely assume that the woman with the EBT card and the BMW was driving her own car. |
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Personal example: while house-sitting for my parents this past week, I was given permission to use their Cadillac if my car developed engine problems.
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Or did you mean "game the system?" If that is what you meant, then you do not have enough information to know if that is what is going on. But if you think you do, every state has a fraud hotline for people to contact if they suspect people are receiving benefits to which they are not entitled. |
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Same goes for the car, by the way. I don't know about the US car market, but here, selling a used car (even an expensive one like a mercedes or BMW) doesn't net you so much money. You'd be able to buy another (cheaper) used car, and pay for gas for a few months. Would it be worth it to sell your reliable Mercedes to trade in a Hyundai that may need expensive maintenance a few months down the road? |
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Also, in many areas of the US, public transportation is either unavailable or rudimentary, and not a reliable way to get to, say, a job interview, or the grocery store, or a medical appointment.
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and for selling their bling. While you pay a lot for 'bling' it does not have much of a resell value. Even a Tiffany's diamond loses a lot of value in resale. Go to ebay and you will see what I mean. Now I do get annoyed when the car still has the sticker on it and they are using food stamps. I also get annoyed when they buy garbage with their food stamp money. It shows a pattern of bad decisions that led them to the point of asking the government for money. |
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Really, if you have a car that is paid for, unless it is so broken down it is dangerous, you are always better off financially, keeping it. I had a paid-for car need a wheel cylinder, all four brake sets, alignment, and catalytic converter in one year, and that was unusual; typically, it wouldn't need that much. Total bill (over several months) was about $745. When I had been making payments on the car, they were more than $200/month (this was a while ago). We once had a paid-for car need a $900 clutch, and $200 tires in a year, but that car had been almost $300/month. Both those cars were bought used, but nearly new, and still under partial warranty, so the repair bills were minimal when we were making payments; but even if we had had no repairs at all when we were making payments, we still would have had bigger outputs in the not-paid-for years. Just another note: you don't know under what circumstances the car was bought. I once was rear-ended, by someone who was completely at fault, and I got a settlement from the insurance company for more than the car was worth, because I probably could have gotten even more if I had sued, since the other driver was unbelievably careless (turned onto the highway at night, and had forgotten to put her headlights on, then ran into me when I was stopped at an intersection on red, because she couldn't see that I wasn't in the turn lane, which had a green arrow, plowed my car way into the intersection, which could have been horrific if there had been cross-traffic), but I took a quick settlement, rather than pay lawyers, and wait to get a check. The car that was totaled was paid for (I have bought lots of slightly used cars on short-term loans, and also paid off one car with insurance money when my father died), and I needed a new car right away. So I bought something with the insurance money that was more car than I needed, and much bigger than the last car, but it was what was on the lot that had the stuff I wanted. It was also the first non-American car I ever bought. If there had been a Lexus, or something, on the lot, and I could have bought it with what I had from the settlement, and it had all the things I needed, I might have gone home with that. I wouldn't have bought a Jaguar, or Bentley, because I couldn't afford the insurance, but I needed a car that day-- since I already had the check, the rental car was on my tab. So, there are just too many scenarios I can imagine where selling the car is either not in the person's best financial interest, in either the short or long run, and then, even more where it just isn't her car. If she'd been wearing a Rolex, there'd be a better case for "sell it, and get a cheaper one." The bit about not hitting rock bottom is well-taken, too. I don't have a cite, but I am pretty sure that it is easier to get back up from a stumble, than from the bottom of a well, and probably saves the government money in the long run to help people treading water to get ahead (you can tread water in a well-- that isn't really a mixed metaphor, is it?) than to pull people out from under, resuscitate them, and leave them treading (did I pull that metaphor off?) Makes for a happier constituency, too. |
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Again why do people dress up their hatred with righteous indignation? Just be honest and admit you hate the poor. The truth shall set you free.
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