Need Some Government Cheese?

I was just over on Ed‘s blog Dream Hustle and I noticed he wrote a post about an ad that’s been popping up on a number of urban blogs.

The ad contains a “What’s Poppin” style photo featuring a young brother flashing a fist full of ones.

A reader emailed me soon after that ad disappeared from my blog a couple weeks back. He wanted to know if I still had the information so he could get some of that government cheese like the dude in the photo.

But Ed explains that anyone with time on their hands can go to grants.gov and get that government cheese for themselves:

What I really want to get at is the ad itself and what they trying to sell. They are basically trying to sell something that you can do yourself for free and that is apply for government grants. Anytime you see anything other than the US Government talking about ‘grants’, it should be assumed to be full of ish. The fact this ad is showing a brotha walking around with grant money with that stupid look should give a red flag. Trust me, if this image portraying him showing off federal grant money in this fashion, his ass would be getting a visit from the FBI with a warrant for his arrest and that’s real talk. Read More….