No more tattoos on welfare money

[Redagger029]

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A new Kansas law tells poor families that they can't use cash assistance from the state to get tattoos, see a psychic or buy lingerie. The list of don'ts runs to several dozen items.


More than 20 other states have such lists. But, the one included by the Republican-dominated Kansas Legislature in a bill that GOP Gov. Sam Brownback planned to sign Thursday appears to be the most exhaustive, according to state Department for Children and Families officials.


It's inspired national criticism and mockery from "The Daily Show." Host Jon Stewart suggested that in accepting federal funds, Kansas should be forced to give up items like roads "paved with luxurious asphalt."



Here's an idea. Feed all your kids that you're getting the money for in the first place.
Many of those kids are not fed until they go to school and the school feeds them.

 

[FairWarning]

It's amazing some of the shit I see out there at work. too bad as it gives the people who need it a bad name.

 

[skoda]

It's amazing some of the shit I see out there at work. too bad as it gives the people who need it a bad name.

Agree with Fairwarning.......

Yesterday I saw the piece on the workers looking for $15 and buried in that article was one of the workers said they were working and receiving $20,000 in entitlements? WTF.......

Everything is talked about changing but it never happens. Except in Maine if you live there you are required to do 20-25 hours community service to receive Publi Assistance. This could be Federal Law as well as Federal Minimum @ $12 an hour with $100 a month in Food Stamps. I predict crime being on your Front page next week or Tax Reform........ Then protests on wages again in by the end of the Summer.

 

[Seymour]

It's amazing that this country can excel with this layer that just does nothing

 

[skoda]

I'm hoping 2 See more :toast:

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“When companies pay too little for workers to provide for their families, workers rely on public assistance programs to meet their basic needs,” said Ken Jacobs, chairman of the university’s Center for Labor Research and Education and one of the report’s authors

The bad part is Just Basic Needs...... If $12 an hour won't work your living above poverty on a below poverty budget??? 5 more years for retirement for me, hope we can all see those living a fantasy come into reality

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

How do you qualify for welfare? Just have a bunch of kids?

 

[TomGshotput]

Every resource a person has will be spent on whatever they value most. If those people had the same values as Sam Brownback they could never qualify for welfare benefits. So for him to try to insist they adhere to his values is only increasing the wastefulness

 

[RenoChazz]

Here in Reno someone cashed their assistance check at the casino, and hit an 8 figure jack pot. Feds confiscated the money, not sure how it ended up.

 

[dtmad]

Hope it ended up just the way you presented it, with the Feds keeping the dough.