The Book - "The Backside of The Helping Hand"

If you are a bleeding heart liberal or expecting tales of empathy for the poor, don’t buy this book - unless you are also very open-minded. It may cause you to reconsider what you think you know about social programs.

During his 13 years as a welfare fraud investigator, and his years as a private investigator, bail bondsman and process server, Dan Johnson met a lot of interesting people, not many of them deserving of sympathy. This book tells just a few of the stories from those years.

Here is an excerpt from the Forward:

“If you’re looking for a group boo-hoo, you won’t find it here. Let’s be up beat and talk about the advantages of poverty. Now, I’m not talking about the “working poor,” those people who work their butts off and still come up short at the end of the week, who pay their own utilities, rent, drive crap cars that need work all the time, and eat Mac & Cheese three nights a week and are grateful to have it. I’m talking about the professionally poor. There is definitely an up side to being professionally poor in Modern America.”

From the chapter “In the Beginning”:

“So without any attempt to save face or be politically correct, I intend to give you a hands on feel for the welfare systems, the workers, the recipients, and in particular the different forms of welfare fraud. The following are stories of my experiences and thoughts as a state welfare investigator. The cases are all real, and all the events actually happened.”

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