Sisters make $540,000 babysitting their own kids from welfare

f you want to know why the U.S. Government is going broke look no further.

A four-month investigation of the $340 million taxpayer-funded "Wisconsin Shares" program of childcare welfare found that the program is riddled with abuses and loopholes.

In one case, the investigation carried out by the news media found that four sisters with 17 children between them racked in $540,000 in taxpayer dollars since 2006, just by staying home and babysitting each other’s children. The most impressive of this all is that it is perfectly legal.

"It's a loophole," said Laurice Lincoln, administrative coordinator for child care in Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services. "We are not worried about that? Yes, it can be a problem. But if allowed, it is permitted. There is really not much we can do."
There's more.

The Wisconsin Shares program also allows parents to work in child care centers where their children attend. In one case, the newspaper found an employer and a team of parents accused of defrauding taxpayers more than $360,000.

Part of the problem is that the care of children in Wisconsin Shares subsidy program has wide parameters of what the state considers "work". For example, the research found that mothers who "claimed to work for a man ironing shirts, drying fruit and selling works of art made during art class," all received checks funded by taxpayers.

The program is so lax that it even pays for parents to sleep. As a report said, "counties have no way of verifying if parents are truly sleeping while their children are in kindergarten."

An estimated 34,000 families in Wisconsin today take advantage of the $340 million program funded by the taxpayers of Wisconsin.

http://www.breakingworldnewstoday.com/2013/01/1201.html

I wondered how some people of Wisconsin always have time to protest the governor on a daily basis. Governor Walker should close this loophole and stop the gravy train. These people know how to beat the system. They way things are going, it's going to collapse one of these days when enough working people have had enough.

This scene is played out all over in every level of government.

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This scene is played out all over in every level of government.

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Quote: steph wrote in post #3

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This scene is played out all over in every level of government.

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Repeat after me, the pilgrims were illegals. Do we not have more important things to talk about, jeb wants to spend a couple trillion on illegals and he thinks the border is secure. Can't we all just get along. Repeat after me, LOL,

You are correct steph, it is time to draw a line in the sand.

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