{"id":2621,"date":"2012-03-08T07:55:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T13:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2012-03-08T11:48:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:48:54","slug":"lottery-winner-sucking-public-teet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mdmproofing.com\/iym\/weblog\/2012\/03\/lottery-winner-sucking-public-teet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lottery Winner Keeps Suckling at Public Teet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d say it’s a shocking story, but sadly, it isn’t. Not to me, anyhow. Rather, it’s just a very stark picture of what we’ve become:<\/p>\n

ClickOnDetroit: $1m Lottery Winner Still Collecting Welfare<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I can think of plenty of descriptive terms for this woman, but as I try to run a mostly-family-friendly blog, I can’t really print them here.<\/p>\n

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Local 4 tracked Clayton down to her Lincoln Park home where cameras spotted her and a U-Haul truck, getting ready to move into a new house\u2014that she paid for in cash\u2014now that she has struck it rich. She also bought a new car.<\/p>\n

These purchases are nothing out of the ordinary for someone who just won the lottery, however hidden cameras followed Clayton grocery shopping, where she admitted she uses a Bridge card to pay for her items. She said she gets $200 each month, from taxpayers, to foot her food bill.<\/p>\n

When confronted, Clayton said she didn’t think she was doing anything wrong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I hope the state of Michigan feels good knowing that, beyond a shadow of a doubt, their tax dollars were subsidizing this young woman’s lottery habit. (“The more, the better,” right, Michigan politicians?)<\/p>\n

And that Ms. Clayton has no problem whatsoever feeding at the public trough as long as it’s allowed … regardless of her own circumstances. Maybe she was a TBTF banker, or automaker CEO<\/a>, in her previous life?<\/p>\n

UPDATE 03\/08:<\/b> But wait! It appears that Ms. Clayton just got her Bridge card yanked<\/a> once news of all this got out …<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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