A Merry Christmas and hearty 'screw you' from the Illinois Department of Public Aid (UPDATED 3x)

JEHAN GORDON-BOOTH: Will have an opportunity to fix a constituents' problem.

Here's a story from a neighbor of my parents. She lives at Royal Oaks Estates, with her children. One or her daughters is 19-year-old Shannon Forest. Shannon is a single mom, with a 10-month old son.

Well, Shannon qualifies for Food Stamps. No one gets actual food stamps anymore.  You get a debit card, which can use to buy actual food. Seriously. FOOD ONLY. You cannot even use it to buy a 10 cent grocery bag. That's how strict they are.

Well, Shannon used her Food Stamps debit card to buy food for about two or three months. Then, after they deposited some money into her Food Stamps account on December 5, the cashier told her the purchase was denied.

And it happened again, at a different store.

So, Shannon and her mom went down the the Illinois Department of Public aid and stood in line for 25 minutes to an hour to speak to a human being, who told her it was fixed, and she got a new card.

And it happened again . Another wait in line. Another card. Another wait in line. Another card. At the Illinois Department of Public Aid, they tell Shannon and her mom that they don;t know what is causing this and they don't how to fix it. They contacted State Sen. David Leitch, who tells them the Illinois Department of Public Aid is run by idiots, but he can't fix it either.

I recommended she talk to State Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth, and well she if she has more pull than Leitch does.

If this doesn't work, I recommend hanging the people from the nearest lamp post.

Because letting single mom's go hungry while lard-assed bureaucrats and dumb-ass politicians collect their salaries seems kinda stupid.

UPDATED: Gordon-Booth's office called her back TODAY with the name of two grocery stores that will accept her Link card.

UPDATED 2: Sen. Leitch contacted the family, and apparently, they will get the money that's been put on their LINK card that they can't get at.

UPDATE 3: Apparently, Leitch chewed some ass. I always like hearing about politicians chewed bureaucrats' ass.