Ferrari drivers on food stamps — how
states help scammers game welfare
California Post,
by
Hayden Dublois
&
Andrew Mcclenahan
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
4/22/2026 5:37:34 PM
What do a university professor, a celebrity barber and a professional football player have in common?
All three bought new, six-figure luxury sports cars and lived lavish lifestyles — while collecting food stamps.
How on earth can these “welfare recipients” purchase high-end vehicles while remaining on the dole?
Thanks to a federal loophole known as Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility.
The Clinton administration manufactured this loophole, and the Obama administration supercharged it.
Currently, 43 states and Washington, DC, use BBCE to bypass federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program eligibility limits on income, assets or both.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/22/2026 6:11:19 PM (No. 2096002)
This nightmare will never end, unless this country is reduced to rubble, or somehow rats and RINOs are out of every federal, state and local government job, and take the cowards and fellow parasites from the GOP with you.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 4/22/2026 6:39:19 PM (No. 2096019)
And, of course, no one will be even fired for this INTENTIONAL fraud, and no one will god to prison.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JimBob 4/22/2026 7:27:49 PM (No. 2096032)
Part of the Cloward-Piven strategy to bring down the government by overloading it with myriad cumbersome rules, regulations, and EXCESSIVE SPENDING.
Predicted back around 1835 in the following quote:
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/22/2026 10:13:35 PM (No. 2096048)
There is a check cashing store in a strip mall near me. I'm always amazed that the people using it have cars newer and more expensive than mine. I don't know how.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
konocti95 4/23/2026 12:43:28 AM (No. 2096063)
With that kind of savings, his excellency, Congressman Eric Swallowed could afford some taxpayer funded non-disclosure settlements and keep his job and become the next governor of California.
5 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 4/23/2026 5:08:22 AM (No. 2096079)
I am 100% disabled. I take in $1,300 per month from Disability, from which I pay my bills and necessities. I tried to apply for SNAP to help with my grocery bill. They offered me $28 per month. Yet Maserati Millionaires and fraudsters can pull in hundreds and thousands without anyone checking to see if they actually need it???
What is wrong with this picture????
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/23/2026 7:37:26 AM (No. 2096105)
As an insult to the taxpayers of America, many of these welfare and SNAP recipients complain that they don't get enough and hate it when certain luxury or useless foods and services are not covered. Gotta have those chips, snacks and soft drinks.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 4/23/2026 8:15:09 AM (No. 2096119)
Re #4
Their is also the fact that we suckers that pay our taxes, wrestle with the forms or pay an accountant then send any extra due by April 15th or suffer the consequences while millions pay nothing yet draw government benefits. Manuel who cuts your grass, Darrell who roofs your house and countless others who work for cash. Considering how our government wastes billions, I can empathize with them as long as they aren't sucking up welfare at the same time. If even half the fraud in this country could be stopped, the United States would have a balanced budget by the end of the year. The Dems don't mind the fraud and even enable it. They consider themselves champions of the 'oppressed and poor' and want the votes, illegal or otherwise. What they don't realize or deliberately ignore is that if we could stop this theft of billions, we could probably increase all genuine benefits to those who actually need it...increased SS checks, shelters for the homeless, real treatment for the addicts and mentally ill and, yes, more prisons for the violent criminals now freely walking among us.
Apologies for the long rant but April 15 just passed, I don't mind paying my "fair share" but I do mind supporting the millions of thieves living the good life here on my dime. A lot of 'migrants' come here for a reason. Escaping from the ****holes that they were born in and the easier, safer lives that we give them and free healthcare. It's our own citizens and particularly our worthless politicians at fault. Cheap labor to pick our crops, dangerous, incompetent illegals driving 88,000 lb trucks and a million others working under the table for companies who only give a damn about their bottom line and to hell with honest citizens.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
privateer 4/23/2026 9:14:23 AM (No. 2096166)
I wince whenever I read the term 'do-nothing Congress' It's not that the do nothing---it's that so much of what they do is WRONG! And rarely, if ever, do they correct a mistake. In fact, they generally compound it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/23/2026 1:04:41 PM (No. 2096279)
I'd love to see a list of all the "freebies" this Federal government hands out, and States too.
Some seventy years ago, my grandfather's generation would NEVER take a dime from the government, as a dime given means a dime expected (potentially). They were far too independent to accept such terms, also, they had their integrity, self-respect, and personal pride to ever do such a thing. If it took 3 jobs to put food on the table then that's what an able-bodied man would do, and wives would take in laundry, sewing, clean houses, etc. to help out. In a short 70 years we now have a lot of FREE stuff going to a lot of people who will NEVER repay the favor, much less achieve any self-reliance to get off the Federal "teat." It's very much like the poor swimmer in the middle of the lake, who, in the process of being rescued, continuously drags down the fully competent swimmer, putting them both in peril.
The "plug" must be pulled on this Federal "FREEBIE" Vending Machine, before this nation becomes a hell-scape of losers defrauding welfare en masse.
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