Ex-Gov. Deval Patrick at all times knew easy methods to summarily dismiss any welfare scandal, regardless 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 this can be a column about what occurred at a storefront on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan. However keep 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 had been each charged this week, to start with of a long-overdue crackdown on the billion-dollar unlawful alien welfare industrial advanced within the “Gateway Cities,” previously working-class communities now overrun by the non-working lessons from components unknown.
First, a quick overview of JVS, in response to a 50-page affidavit by the feds.
As an American who works for a residing, you might be most likely aware of a sure sort of grocery store. Assume 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 among the options on this quaint Haitian bodega, in response to the feds.
No freezers, no refrigerated sections, no meats, no seafood, no eggs, no dairy merchandise, no procuring carts or hand baskets, a single money register with no barcode readers.
But the place was thronged by locals, a lot 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 tens of millions of shiftless, felony 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 overseas freeloader flophouses, the Healey lodges. He was off to the races.
Three years later, in August of final yr, Bonheur grabbed $540,870 in welfare payoffs.
It was wonderful, the throngs of consumers coming into that little storefront, spending a lot extra in each transaction than at bigger supermarkets.
As an illustration, the feds say, lower than 2 % of all food-stamp transactions are over $95. But at JVS, roughly 90 % of the “purchases” had been for greater than $95. Greater than 70 % had been for greater than $150.
The feds put up a digicam outdoors the Third World reparations redemption heart to see what the unlawful aliens, er the patrons, had been getting for his or her pesos.
“No clients,” the G-men wrote, “emerged from that storefront carrying groceries or baggage per these large-dollar worth transactions.”
This isn’t to say that no merchandise had been on the market. Liquor, as an example. However not bonded distilled spirits. No, they had been promoting bootleg rum from the Third World bleepholes all of the felony grifters had fled in 2021, in the hunt for a lifelong trip in America.
And JVS additionally had one thing known as “MannaPacks,” that are imagined to ever be offered in the USA. They’re manufactured by a charitable group known as Feed My Ravenous Youngsters, to go to as charity to failed nations, like Haiti, the house nation of the defendants right here.
The one manner MannaPacks might have been on the market in JVS, the feds say, is that if they had been “illicitly obtained.”
To repeat, as Deval Patrick advised 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 can be comparable storefronts, with just a few dusty cans of tomato sauce within the fly-specked entrance window, alongside withmaybe just a few different canned merchandise.
After all no clients went to these locations to buy, they went there to play the each day quantity. They had been drops. Within the night, Jerry Angiulo’s runners would come round and picked up the slips.
However there have been a number 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 alternative purpose. They heard there was no work right here. Ever.
Yet another 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 evaluate the revenue 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 one million a month.
Why did the unlawful aliens on welfare go to JVS? As a result of Bonheur gave his fellow overseas freeloaders a greater lower than the competitors, the cholos doing enterprise within the grocery store parking heaps.
“He would cost you $120 off the cardboard,” US Lawyer Leah Foley advised me this week, “and you’d get again $100.”
That’s not unhealthy. For those who’re a junkie, or a gangbanger trying to purchase a brand new machete to make use of in your “fiancé,” likelihood is you gained’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 form 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 wish to work anymore.
On Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan, the illegals are solely right here to steal the welfare Individuals don’t wish to steal anymore.
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