What Octo-Mom Is Spending The Money On
Want to know what Nadya Suleman is doing with the donations she may or may not be getting since giving birth to octuplets?
At least $250-some was apparently spent on a Nintendo Wii this week; Suleman was spotted buying a video game system for her kids, eyeing an additional controller worth $40.
The question is – do you really care?
If you were drawn in by Suleman’s Website requesting donations this week and sent her a chunk of change, do you think you have the right to weigh in on how she spends your money? After all, they’re donations. Once the check is written, it’s out of your hands. You knew she could buy a game system for her kids just as easily as she could buy a few boxes of diapers.
On the other hand, the chief reason Nadya Suleman has drawn significant criticism since the story of her eight babies and an additional six children living at home is because she’s been accepting public assistance – including food stamps and disability payments for at least three of her kids. She’s not just someone spending private donations from a multitude of good-hearted suckers.
Food stamps have some limitations, as does WIC, but just like donations, there’s no limit put on what someone can buy once they get their disability checks. Which is precisely why there are so many problems with the system – because for every person who makes use of the system because of a real need, there are the Nadya Sulemans of the world who go out to buy a Wii when when they have fourteen mouths to feed and no job to pay for them.
My colleague Shannon says the vitriol toward this woman has to stop, and I agree there’s no point in getting yourself worked up over someone you don’t know – nor can we put all the blame for this situation on her. But I can’t help getting angry on behalf of the taxpayers who have to pay for her fourteen children’s medical care, their food, their diapers, while their own kids sit home without a Wii because Mom and Dad just can’t afford it – and they made the hard choice of putting food on the table instead.
And charging my anger is the response – just before the Suleman story details began leaking – to the Georgia family who put the bulk of their belongings up on eBay rather than advertise for donations. The same family who tried again and again to deny the offer of a flat $20,000 donation from a kind-hearted Samaritan. Out of thirty-seven comments left on the post, more than half claimed the family had some ulterior motive. Even more criticized the family’s actions leading up to their decision to sell off their belongings – denying that attempts to be financially responsible in the here and now could negate any financial irresponsibility in the past.
Why do people leap to such conclusions? Why do the families who are truly in need, honestly reaching out, get treated with such utter cruelty and suspicion? Because of the Nadya Sulemans of the world. Because of those who take and take and take some more, the honorable system of providing for our poor and our disabled is tainted by the dishonorable.
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Is anyone keeping track of all the money that is comming from all the enablers? IRS, social services , the government . social services is so stupid to let this keep happening , dont they have councelors that keep track of these welfare lifers.WELL THEN HIRE some ,i am sure someone could use the job!!!She should be made a bad example of to our kids and NOT given houses, money , interviews, and all the free medical, food stamps,face lifts, nose jobs ,and ivf
Send Nadya to the mental hospital, the six at home to Brad and Angie, the eight in the hospital to the Doctor, and send grandma to the Bahamas, she needs a VACATION.
I was a single Mom; evidently I wasn’t as crafty as this one though. Her children are her pawns; and she declined a perfectly great offer because she’s shopping around for the best deal for NADYA, not the children. Everybody wise up; don’t give your money to this scam artist! She’s laughing all the way to the bank!
Nadya talks about her babies being a gift from God. The fact that she was not able to conceive on her own naturally is a sign that maybe she isn’t supposed to be raising children. She’s mental and those kids are going to be fubar.
Those babies are precious! A gift from god. Give from your heart not your head.
The doctor crossed the line, but making him cough up the dough may not be the best approach. I do think this case could bring about change in the medical field… maybe laws… that would prevent more than 3 embryos being implanted at one time.
If you’ve watched any of the interviews, you can clearly see that this woman clearly has issues.
And OctoMom is not the first to leech the system. Case in point are the many immigrants who cross the border every day just in time to give birth to their children, making those children citizens and eligible for public assistance. What about the woman who went to L.A. to “visit” family during her 8th month of pregnancy only to deliver siamese twins. Guess who paid for all of THAT?
So my point is this: the public assistance system needs some refining.
providing for one baby is hard enough, even when you have a good job i know. she should feel thankful that people are willing to help and spend the money on her babies.
Feel sorry for the kids. Sad by the level of malpractice in California. The doctor should be ordered by a court to provide in damages to the kids, part of his income to the upraising of these 14 children until he dies. Child protection services should also supervise these children on a constant basis.
I may be crazy but it seems to me that woman had plastic surgery to look like Angelina Jolie, envies Jolie’s lifestyle and amount of kids she has. Hint here, there is no Brad around!!!!
Every newborn needs mario kart. think of the fun of 8 players!
This is one reason why our economy is in the sh.ts.
I recommend Nadya Suleman go straight to Sheri’s Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada. If she goes to work in the brothel, with her fame, men will line up to have sex with her for money, and she can use her new found fame to earn money to support her children. Consider it a “work-skills” orientation class!
Yes, the Wii is an expensive system, but I don’t think it’s an unreasonable purchase given that she has plenty of children who would use it. My family has one, and although we are not receiving public assistance, we are not exactly well off either. I feel a little uncomfortable dictating how any family, even those that are the beneficiaries of welfare, should spend their money.
There are plenty of other things that I would rather focus my rage on when it comes to how tax money is being used, such as all the money going to save the unscrupulous banks in Wall Street or the amount of taxes that has been spent in an unnecessary war in Iraq.
what i want to know is if my tax dollars went to pay for her lips
i saw the same info as alice, and i saw the pic of her buying a wii AND getting her nails done at a salon. I just finished giving myself the crappiest home french manicure sally hansen could offer from target. I have 3 kids and one income. I would NOT buy a freakin Wii! $250 is groceries for 2 weeks! argh it just makes me so darn annoyed! She couldnt even answer the questions anne curry asked. everything about finances was “its temporary” everything else was “i’ll provide” or “god will provide”. I feel so bad for these poor kids. 14 kids and shes out shopping and enjoying herself alone. amazing. of course people should care. its their money too. this woman is irresponsible. plain and simple.
What got me about the photo of her shopping for video games was that she didn’t have any of her children with her. Not a single one. WTF? I suppose she has so much time to spend with each of them that going shopping alone is no biggie. Kids, schmids…
While I agree with a lot of what Shannon had to say from a feminist perspective, this is no innocent victim we’re talking about here. She is a cunning and experienced con-artist who has been gaming the system for a decade, and now she’s hit the jackpot.
She told a British paper she has a nanny she pays 500 dollars a week. Wow, that is an excellent rate in California. Where does the get the money to pay for her?