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The Washington Post reports:
A dollar bill is a special kind of thing. You can keep it as long as you like. You can pay for things with it. No one will ever charge you a fee. No one will ask any questions about your credit history. And other people won't try to tell you that they know how to spend that dollar better than you do.
For these reasons, cash is one of the most valuable resources a poor person in the United States can possess. Yet legislators in Kansas, not trusting the poor to use their money wisely, have voted to limit how much cash that welfare beneficiaries can receive, effectively reducing their overall benefits, as well.
The legislature placed a daily cap of $25 on cash withdrawals beginning July 1, which will force beneficiaries to make more frequent trips to the ATM to withdraw money from the debit cards used to pay public assistance benefits.
Since there's a fee for every withdrawal, the limit means that some families will get substantially less money.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @02:06PM
I've seen welfare recipients driving MBZs buy lobster, steak, and other fancy foods with food stamps. Then others who sell their stamps to buy drugs or booze.
(Score: 5, Touché) by lil'wombat on Friday May 22 2015, @02:37PM
Was the MBZ used or new?
Was the lobster on sale?
Should we require anyone on public assistance to sell all of their possession, wear sack cloth, subsisting only on gruel? Maybe we can require that they never have anything nice ever until they've paid back their debt to society?
Perhaps we could beat them on a daily basis until the demons of poorness have been driven from their bodies?
Fuck Kansas, fuck the republicans, and fuck these so-called Christian conservatives.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @03:01PM
Fuck Kansas, fuck the republicans, and fuck these so-called Christian conservatives.
And being a bigot towards them really gets them to change their minds? Am I right? If you could just be a bigger jerk maybe they would listen to you.
(Score: 4, Informative) by AndyTheAbsurd on Friday May 22 2015, @04:17PM
I might be able to take you seriously if the government of Kansas wasn't bankrupt do to Republicans' inability to accept that they are wrong and that their policies actually have the opposite of the intended effect.
Please note my username before responding. You may have been trolled.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @07:48PM
Condemning them for the things they actually do is not bigotry. Try learning what words actually mean, otherwise you just look like a moron.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @03:06PM
Are you and the other troll voters idiots? These slugs are mostly non-white, pumping out kids for bigger welfare benefits, and splurging at taxpayers expense.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @03:25PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @05:04PM
> The amount they gave us was ridiculously large but not the max possible.
maximum monthly allotment for 1-person household: $194 [usda.gov]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @05:42PM
Depending on when he did that and where he lived that would be very doable if you skipped other meals.
In my area a 1lb ribeye is 10-15 each and can be split into 2 meals. Where my parents live? Its about 5-10 each. Better if you catch it on sale.
Not a very balanced diet. But doable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @07:58PM
The point is that it is not a valid criticism of food assistance programs, not that it is technically possible to choose to spend more on red meat when on food stamps than when soluble.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @07:51PM
They're buying food with food stamps?!?!!! HOLY SHIT, CALL THE POLICE, THIS IS FRAUD OF THE HIGHEST CALIBER!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @08:38PM
People I knew used their govt disability money to buy pot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @09:37PM
People I knew used their govt disability money to buy pot.
Heck, that's nothing! I knew people who used to sell pot to get government disability! Ever hear of "Air America"?
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday May 23 2015, @09:25AM
Perfectly legal where I live. Hell, the local pot store has better prices than the street dealers, clean store, nice selection, tested THC levels, and bitchin' sales.
Bet you'd be okay it they bought alcohol with it wouldn't you?
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