At the bottom.

Making Book: 5.7 million book club members are outnumbered by 10.6 million people who belong to a fantasy sports league. (2013 Statistical Abstract of the US)

Darwin award..... he will have to choke on a live lobster claw to get honorable mention.

hope you're right, but planning

and put it in the ocean

As I am.

But those stories never grew 'legs'. They were too big for the low information voter to get their minds around.

The surfing bum is something that they can understand.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Alexis de Tocqueville

He's tireless and highly motivated to succeed. He deserves a daily lobster and beer break to revitalize his spent mind and muscles. Someone should dedicate a statue of his likeness.

he's working on it, but he's tired in the afternoon and he would normally be a morning person, but the chicks show up at the beach at noon, soooo, and the bars close at 3am, so he has to "network" exhausting

every $200/mo surfer dude is not even hitting my radar. I'm back with the black market and illegal blocks of "names" paying a very few. there's the story

I wish I could see that Mike, I'm surrounded by stupidity on a daily basis. People asleep at the wheel. Smart people, successful people, who will argue till the cows come home that we have a duty to others, and that the successful should pony up more and more, sacrifice more and more of their lives. They believe that if you are successful its due to someone else's failure. I'm sorry, but to me the outlook is very bleak.

He's the perfect 'show and tell' on the abuse.

Last month there was a major story about food stamp recipients buying food, and shipping the food to Haiti for sale on their black market. Nobody seemed to care....

This guy is so damn blatant about his refusal to take care of himself, that everyone is 'pissed'!

Add to that, that he gets to party and surf every day...while we get to work for his sustenance...and you have the poster child of liberalism gone amok.

Besides: If a reporter had to follow him for a month to find out what else he gets for 'free', it would be too stressful for him/her to endure. ;-)

Well he does have that stellar rock star gig thing goin'.

This is all nonsense. Some loser milking a gov't program is not our problem.

I'm with you, im. to be honest, it looks bad on the reporting side. I wanted a better story about the abuses

If he is really making his own raw fish sushi, that may happen overnight.

His E.R. bill could be our last obligation to him.

heh!

I'm thinking that in this guy's case, he will win a darwin award soon, problem solved.

I think it said the old law said that you could only claim these benefits for three months out of every three years. Exceptions were made for active job seekers going to career fairs, etc.

Some people will always game the system. I worked a DoD audit project and among the abuses included the widows of veterans still cashing benefit checks. They might seem like nice little old ladies, just misinformed. Give them a California surfer accent and they sound like something else. Jason Greenslate fits a different profile entirely: he is "planfully competent" in his crimes. Even if he had a job he would be the social loafer, the guy in the middle of the tug-of-war not actually tugging.

On the other hand -- "Half of all new SNAP participants received benefits for 10 months or less in the mid 2000s, up from 8 months in the early 2000s. Single parent families and elderly individuals tended to stay in the program longer than did working poor individuals, childless adults without disabilities, and noncitizens. Seventy-four percent of new participants left the program within two years. This is an increase from 71 percent in the early 1990s."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/09/...

The problem is not a matter of who is more deserving but rather who takes care of whom? I see the Goodwill competing with the Salvation Army. Goodwill has a pretty active campaign here in Austin, with billboards, touting their trainees as good hires.

The problem with government welfare is the same as the problem with government steel mills: they have the wrong information source, power not market, so they must make ignorant decisions. Not only do they fail to meet their goals - we all live and learn - but their mode makes success impossible. And in malinvesting resources, they cause secondary failures.

I saw this last week and I have to say I'm confused how he survives.

So he is 110% moocher, as we see here, getting a free $200/Mo for filling out a piece of paper once a year. But he can't survive on that can he?

It says he bums with friends or girlfriends so he slides on housing expenses, but he drives a nice truck so he should be paying gas, maybe a car payment, and insurance. He could be skipping the insurance but he'd still need gas to get around.

The $200 is food only which can't last a whole month could it? If he says he regularly buys lobster and sushi and spends an average of $5 (purely guessing, probably more than this) that would be 40 meals a month. Does he only eat one meal per day?


Aside from all this I have to agree with other commenters that we need to get rid of these handouts and maybe these people will realize they have to take care of themselves. I don't know a single person who isn't angry at a guy like this spending their tax dollars so he could be a surf bum.

I'm going to disagree with you on this one! I think many people believe the food stamp program is a good thing because in their mind it is helping the needy poor. When they see a guy that has obviously made the decision not to work because he wants to be a rock star and will eat taxpayer-funded lobster and surf until it happens, they may change their mind about the nobility of what's going on.

It's coming from those 1040-ESs and 941s I send in every quarter. There's a huge complex of people in the business of punishing supposed evildoers; managing people's healthcare, education, housing, retirement; and providing help to the needy. If everyone had to send in big checks every quarter, we'd all take a closer look at it. They should set it up to hit everyone's bank account the very day politicians vote for a more people in prison, another military base, moving troops to a country, helping people with their healthcare or college costs, etc-- they should hit your account that day.

I understand the problem. Fox news focusing on this loser getting $200 a month or whatever is pure bellyaching IMHO.

Did you catch how he goes surfing every day "to get away from everything"?
What stresses of life is this guy getting away from, exactly? Wow!

"Can this be rectified, or is it time to abandon these idiots to the inevitable demise their actions warrant?"
This isn't an either/or situation. Abandoning them to their demise IS how we rectify this. This is real simple. Take away that $200/month and the situation will rectify itself. Either he starts to work for his food or he starves. The government programs are enabling bad behavior. The current situation is no different than throwing money at drunk bums.

Where do you think the "milk" is coming from?!!