$2M Michigan lottery winner defends use of food stamps

Reba said:
Some areas are becoming like ghost towns. Lots of empty buildings and closed schools. People can't sell their houses. It's rough.
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Detroit is like that. But the cool thing is that they are making urban gardens out of that space. It's an amazing story.

"http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Gardening/2010/0428/Detroit-leads-the-way-in-urban-farming"

"Decades of population decline left Detroit with an estimated 40 square miles — more than 25,000 acres — of vacant property, and gardens have sprung up on empty lots in many neighborhoods. Often, they are just a few rows of greens and tomatoes. Others are more akin to small farms and include lots next to homes where pigs or goats roam behind fences and honeybees buzz.

The vacant property in Detroit covers nearly the same space as the entire city of San Francisco. New York, which has more than twice as much land as Detroit, has only an estimated 11,000 vacant acres, according to its planning department."

Maybe the $2 million lottery winner could volunteer to work on one of these urban gardens for a while, see what it takes to bring food to market, and then see if he could contribute to the solution and not to the problem.
 
rockin'robin said:
'Course there is!...Some people know "how to work the system"...Inasmuch, I've heard that Black people "know how to make $$....whites don't"....Not sayin' that is true...just what I've heard....
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Yeah, by selling crack at a street corner. :roll:

Yiz
 
At least we should appreciate his honesty for reporting his jackpot.
 
You don't believe me that there is ways around the system, for example re-programming, that.

of course always a way around. That is my motto. Flaws always to be found.

posts from hell said:
Like I have told you guys.... there are ways around the system and people don't believe me. Oh well.
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What's greedy man! :roll:

If it was SSI/SSDI, he will loses it due to resource limit, unlike food stamp does.
 
Glenn said:
Who needs SSI/SSDI if they have $2M?
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You are not understand my post.

When he's on SSI and decide to do lottery then he won the $2 millions and he will loses SSI at no time due to resource limit, unlike food stamp.
 
Foxrac said:
You are not understand my post.

When he's on SSI and decide to do lottery then he won the $2 millions and he will loses SSI at no time due to resource limit, unlike food stamp.
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I understand your post.

Food stamps and SSI/SSDI are both federal programs. They are administered differently.
 
Beach girl said:
Probably has more to do with the decline of the American auto industry. Plenty of reasons for that, but the result is that Detroit is in a tail-spin, and as Detroit goes, so goes the state. There are many, many small businesses that support and/or depend on the auto industry in one way or another, so when Ford, GM, Buick, etc. don't build cars that people want to buy, Michigan gets into a world of hurt.

Used to be a good kid could get a job at one of the auto plants right out of h.s., work there for 30 years, and retire with a good pension, which he could collect for perhaps another 30 years. Those days are over and not coming back.
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Yes, the major loss in Detroit is from the auto industry, pretty much. Most of the growth in Michigan is in West part of the state which is pretty much doing better than in Detroit, except for some of the suburbs are growing pretty nicely. The 2000 census stated that there were 80% black people living in Detroit but dunno about 2010 results yet.
 
Reba said:
Some areas are becoming like ghost towns. Lots of empty buildings and closed schools. People can't sell their houses. It's rough.
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Yes, I noticed that many parts of Detroit are abandoned. Even my childhood home is abandoned and I found out via Google that the fire broke out in my former bedroom. The house is still standing and still is up for sale. The two houses next door are gone.
 
It's nice to read about how many Trolls - "Below the bridge" are on this site. :wave:

I had Yooper "above the bridge" relatives who lived in Newberry.
My dad was born in Pinconning. Mom in Lansing.

A couple of years ago I visited the area and saw many small towns with half of the businesses/homes boarded up.

In Lansing, the Fisher Body, Oldsmobile, Motor Wheel plants are now vast areas of concrete. The buildings are all gone. All the supporting business's moved away. A third of the schools closed.

The home next to my sister's in Lansing: A nice ranch with full liveable basement and 2-car detached garage recently sold for $23,000. Before the crash it was worth over $100,000. :(
 
nobody is disputing the posts from hell or diehardbiker about finding ways around the system. Granted there are always ways to work around system but its up to you if you want to take that route or not. sometime down thee road, you gonna feel ashamed,guilty,karma bitten. If none of these apply, then the said person is a crass SOB that will hit rock bottom HARD when crap hits the fan.
 
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