Gary Franks: “we must take cash out of our current welfare system and replace it with a debit card. Welfare dollars are taxpayers'…”

“we must take cash out of our current welfare system and replace it with a debit card. Welfare dollars are taxpayers' dollars, and we need and deserve to have a proper accounting of these funds. A Columbia University study claimed that 25 percent of welfare recipients are drug abusers. If you have high unemployment, high drug trafficking, and high welfare use in our cities, where is the money coming from? It is obvious that we, as taxpayers, are inadvertently fueling our criminal drug industry by welfare. A picture debit card system will help solve this problem, since drug dealers do not take American Express or any other form of plastic. The proper dispensing of welfare funds by electronic transfer will improve our housing stock in our cities, lower our utility bills for our elderly, help make the banking industry more efficient, and, most importantly, allow our children to receive their due assistance. This could be the best form of eradicating welfare fraud.”