Ex-Gov. Deval Patrick at all times knew find out how to summarily dismiss any welfare scandal, irrespective of how unhealthy.
“Anecdotes.”
That’s all a welfare rip-off was for Small Deval, simply an anecdote. Identical as drunk-driving unlawful aliens killing US residents – mere anecdotes.
So it is a column about what occurred at a storefront on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan. However bear in mind, it’s solely an anecdote, or ought to I say, anecdotes, plural.
In all, that is about 6,916,380 anecdotes.
All of which have George Washington’s portrait on them.
That’s how a lot meals stamp cash the feds say was taken out of this tiny little storefront, Jesula Selection Retailer. The feds name it JVS of their indictment of two newcomers to western civilization, Antonio Bonheur, age 74, a naturalized US citizen from Haiti, and his obvious protégé, Saul Alisme, age 21, a “lawful everlasting resident.”
They have been each charged this week, to start with of a long-overdue crackdown on the billion-dollar unlawful alien welfare industrial complicated within the “Gateway Cities,” previously working-class communities now overrun by the non-working lessons from elements unknown.
First, a quick overview of JVS, in keeping with a 50-page affidavit by the feds.
As an American who works for a dwelling, you’re in all probability accustomed to a sure type of grocery store. Suppose Market Basket. Spacious, clear, lots of money registers.
Then there’s the brand new, Democrat sort of grocery store within the Gateway Cities. Like JVS on Blue Hill Ave.
Listed here are a few of the options on this quaint Haitian bodega, in keeping with the feds.
No freezers, no refrigerated sections, no meats, no seafood, no eggs, no dairy merchandise, no buying carts or hand baskets, a single money register with no barcode readers.
But the place was thronged by locals, lots of them brand-new arrivals to civilization. Enterprise was completely booming!
Bonheur opened his retailer in September 2021, because the Democrats started flooding the nation with hundreds of thousands of shiftless, prison aliens. Bonheur seen his alternatives and he took ‘em. That first month, his retailer processed $872 in meals stamps.
In January 2023, when Maura Healey grew to become governor, he nonetheless solely grabbed $7,207. However then got here the international freeloader flophouses, the Healey inns. He was off to the races.
Three years later, in August of final 12 months, Bonheur grabbed $540,870 in welfare payoffs.
It was superb, the throngs of consumers coming into that little storefront, spending a lot extra in each transaction than at bigger supermarkets.
As an example, the feds say, lower than 2 % of all food-stamp transactions are over $95. But at JVS, roughly 90 % of the “purchases” have been for greater than $95. Greater than 70 % have been for greater than $150.
The feds put up a digicam exterior the Third World reparations redemption heart to see what the unlawful aliens, er the patrons, have been getting for his or her pesos.
“No prospects,” the G-men wrote, “emerged from that storefront carrying groceries or baggage in keeping with these large-dollar worth transactions.”
This isn’t to say that no merchandise have been on the market. Liquor, as an illustration. However not bonded distilled spirits. No, they have been promoting bootleg rum from the Third World bleepholes all of the prison grifters had fled in 2021, in quest of a lifelong trip in America.
And JVS additionally had one thing known as “MannaPacks,” that are alleged to ever be offered in the US. They’re manufactured by a charitable group known as Feed My Ravenous Youngsters, to go to as charity to failed international locations, like Haiti, the house nation of the defendants right here.
The one approach MannaPacks may have been on the market in JVS, the feds say, is that if they have been “illicitly obtained.”
To repeat, as Deval Patrick informed us so typically, these are simply anecdotes.
There have at all times been locations like this, particularly in city areas. Again earlier than the Lottery, within the cities, there could be comparable storefronts, with a number of dusty cans of tomato sauce within the fly-specked entrance window, alongside withmaybe a number of different canned merchandise.
After all no prospects went to these locations to buy, they went there to play the day by day quantity. They have been drops. Within the night, Jerry Angiulo’s runners would come round and picked up the slips.
However there have been a whole lot of variations between these long-ago drops and JVS. For one factor, there was no taxpayer subsidies of the numbers sport. Everybody at Sal’s Nook Retailer was utilizing their very own cash, not welfare. Roughly 100% of these taking part in the quantity had jobs, in comparison with roughly zero % of the JVS patrons.
One other distinction: Sal’s clientele had immigrated to America as a result of they heard there was work. The freeloaders at JVS arrived right here for simply the other motive. They heard there was no work right here. Ever.
Yet one more distinction: no matter his different character shortcomings, Jerry Angiulo was by no means on welfare. Antonio Bonheur, Haitian immigrant, obtained himself an EBT card a number of million {dollars} into the rip-off.
And why not? Because the feds famous, Maura Healey’s Division of Transitional Help “apparently didn’t examine the earnings BONHEUR truly acquired” with what he claimed he was making, which was nothing.
And he cashed his personal meals stamps out as his personal retailer, because the alleged theft topped a half 1,000,000 a month.
Why did the unlawful aliens on welfare go to JVS? As a result of Bonheur gave his fellow international freeloaders a greater reduce than the competitors, the cholos doing enterprise within the grocery store parking tons.
“He would cost you $120 off the cardboard,” US Legal professional Leah Foley informed me this week, “and you’d get again $100.”
That’s not unhealthy. In case you’re a junkie, or a gangbanger trying to purchase a brand new machete to make use of in your “fiancé,” chances are high you received’t do a lot better than 50 cents on a greenback. After all it’s free cash, however then, for unlawful aliens, that’s the one variety there may be.
We began with a cliché about welfare from a Democrat, Deval Patrick. Let’s shut with one from a Republican, George W. Bush. He used to say, the illegals are solely right here to work the roles Individuals don’t need to work anymore.
On Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan, the illegals are solely right here to steal the welfare Individuals don’t need to steal anymore.
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