“I feel it’s okay because I have no income and I have bills to pay. I have two houses.”
– Lincoln Park, MI resident Amanda Clayton explaining the $200 a month in food stamps she continued to collect after winning a $1 million state lottery jackpot.
Fortunately, officials ended up her benefits after this bit of news became public. Regardless, this just feeds the myth of the “welfare queen” Ronald Reagan created nearly 30 years ago, as both a reference to the need for smaller government and as code word for lazy Negroes and Indians. But still, two houses?!
Chief Writing Wolf 