Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden.

I want to welcome you to episode 372 of my podcast, Who's Paying Attention?

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I guess Mississippi, Mississippi just has to Mississippi. Well, what else you're going to do?

It seems Mississippi has given millions of dollars in welfare money, not to poor people,

even though it's the poorest state in the nation, and 18% of the population in Mississippi

lives below the poverty line. But where did the welfare

money go? The welfare money went to rich people, one of whom is Brett Fav, the retired NFL quarterback.

Brett Favre was paid $1.1 million in federal welfare funds in 2017 and 2018 for motivational speeches.

Here's the thing, not only weren't the speeches motivational, they weren't even done. He didn't do the speeches.

Now he's paid the money back, but he still owes $228,000 in interest. Of course, his lawyers say that he did nothing wrong, but if you did nothing

wrong, you wouldn't have paid back $1.1 million. It also seems, and this is from an audit, okay,

this audit was done on these federal welfare money, $70 million in the temporary assistance for needy

families at TANF, that's what it's called, welfare funds, went to FARV, the athlete, a pro wrestler,

a horse farm, and a volleyball complex. How much of it went to getting water to Jackson

Mississippi that would be none not none of this money went to them they've been

warned in the 70s the EPA told them that the city needed to update its

infrastructure they they haven't done a thing,

and now, as we know, they have no water in Jackson, Mississippi. The interesting thing is they

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