Kansas bans cruises for welfare recipients

[Osomir]

Demand small non-intrusive government

Demand that same government enlarge itself and become more intrusive.


Makes sense.

 

[daws101]

Not many deep water ports in Kansas.
They only got indoor plumbing last year.

 

[daws101]

In welfare crackdown Kansas bans cruises for the poor

Here’s a partial list of what is now off limits for TANF spending in Kansas:
-- Casinos
--Jewelry stores
-- Massage parlors
-- Body piercing parlors
-- Lingerie shops
-- Vapor cigarette stores
-- Fortune-telling businesses
-- Video arcades
-- Swimming pools
-- Cruise ships
-- Theme parks
-- Strip clubs
-- Concert tickets
-- Lottery tickets
I hope to find many wise people here who support this law like me.
Welfare recipients should be banned from buying jet airplanes and super-cars as well. What the hell are people thinking? Is this the best they can do with their time?
If you don't work properly you must not relax with ease.

Wait..isn't Kansas landlocked?

There's that lightnin' fast wit!

 

[charwin95]

In welfare crackdown Kansas bans cruises for the poor

Here’s a partial list of what is now off limits for TANF spending in Kansas:
-- Casinos
--Jewelry stores
-- Massage parlors
-- Body piercing parlors
-- Lingerie shops
-- Vapor cigarette stores
-- Fortune-telling businesses
-- Video arcades
-- Swimming pools
-- Cruise ships
-- Theme parks
-- Strip clubs
-- Concert tickets
-- Lottery tickets
I hope to find many wise people here who support this law like me.
Welfare recipients should be banned from buying jet airplanes and super-cars as well. What the hell are people thinking? Is this the best they can do with their time?
If you don't work properly you must not relax with ease.

I support this law but it's very hard for me to believe a welfare recipients can afford any kind of luxury or recreation. Maybe a very low percentage of abusers?

 

[Brain357]

In welfare crackdown Kansas bans cruises for the poor

Here’s a partial list of what is now off limits for TANF spending in Kansas:
-- Casinos
--Jewelry stores
-- Massage parlors
-- Body piercing parlors
-- Lingerie shops
-- Vapor cigarette stores
-- Fortune-telling businesses
-- Video arcades
-- Swimming pools
-- Cruise ships
-- Theme parks
-- Strip clubs
-- Concert tickets
-- Lottery tickets
I hope to find many wise people here who support this law like me.
Welfare recipients should be banned from buying jet airplanes and super-cars as well. What the hell are people thinking? Is this the best they can do with their time?
If you don't work properly you must not relax with ease.

I support this law but it's very hard for me to believe a welfare recipients can afford any kind of luxury or recreation. Maybe a very low percentage of abusers?

Why support this? Just politicians wasting time. I agree people on welfare shouldn't be doing those things, but I don't agree with big government laws about it.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

I wasn't aware there were cruises leaving from Kansas

There are two leaving each day to Mt. Sunflower until skiing season opens on the mountain.

 

[aaronleland]

I support not allowing many of the luxuries on that list, but I have always been divided on the food restrictions issue. A kid shouldn't be restricted eating potato chips every now and again because their parents are poor. There was a period where my mother was on food stamps and I got to eat steak every once in a while. It was always the cheapest steak you could get, but it was steak.

 

[dblack]

I support not allowing many of the luxuries on that list, but I have always been divided on the food restrictions issue. A kid shouldn't be restricted eating potato chips every now and again because their parents are poor. There was a period where my mother was on food stamps and I got to eat steak every once in a while. It was always the cheapest steak you could get, but it was steak.

I dunno. I could maybe see letting them have the cheaper cuts of steak. But only from discount bin, after upstanding taxpayers have had their pick.

 

[buddhallah_the_christ]

Just another way to bash the poor over a non-issue, while corporate welfare wastes billions more. A nice distraction from the Tea Party politics that are ruining the state, which has much bigger problems to address.Pathetic.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

In welfare crackdown Kansas bans cruises for the poor

Here’s a partial list of what is now off limits for TANF spending in Kansas:
-- Casinos
--Jewelry stores
-- Massage parlors
-- Body piercing parlors
-- Lingerie shops
-- Vapor cigarette stores
-- Fortune-telling businesses
-- Video arcades
-- Swimming pools
-- Cruise ships
-- Theme parks
-- Strip clubs
-- Concert tickets
-- Lottery tickets
I hope to find many wise people here who support this law like me.
Welfare recipients should be banned from buying jet airplanes and super-cars as well. What the hell are people thinking? Is this the best they can do with their time?
If you don't work properly you must not relax with ease.

I support this law but it's very hard for me to believe a welfare recipients can afford any kind of luxury or recreation. Maybe a very low percentage of abusers?

Hey, if they can stop one poor person from getting something they disapprove of, it will be worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement this law and the millions to oversee it.

As usual, all the RWs care about is bigger and more intrusive laws. They don't really care that this is a law in search of a crime and that it punishes the least among us while protecting the 1%.

I mean, after all, those people have no right or reason to won such luxuries as a refrigerator or a cell phone.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I support not allowing many of the luxuries on that list, but I have always been divided on the food restrictions issue. A kid shouldn't be restricted eating potato chips every now and again because their parents are poor. There was a period where my mother was on food stamps and I got to eat steak every once in a while. It was always the cheapest steak you could get, but it was steak.

I dunno. I could maybe see letting them have the cheaper cuts of steak. But only from discount bin, after upstanding taxpayers have had their pick.

And only WAY after the "sell by " date and preferably crawling with maggots.

Most food stamp recipients are the elderly, children, disabled vets, handicapped - IOW, people who have no need or right to decent nutrition.

Let 'em eat cake.

That they dug out of the dumpster.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

In welfare crackdown Kansas bans cruises for the poor

Here’s a partial list of what is now off limits for TANF spending in Kansas:
-- Casinos
--Jewelry stores
-- Massage parlors
-- Body piercing parlors
-- Lingerie shops
-- Vapor cigarette stores
-- Fortune-telling businesses
-- Video arcades
-- Swimming pools
-- Cruise ships
-- Theme parks
-- Strip clubs
-- Concert tickets
-- Lottery tickets
I hope to find many wise people here who support this law like me.
Welfare recipients should be banned from buying jet airplanes and super-cars as well. What the hell are people thinking? Is this the best they can do with their time?
If you don't work properly you must not relax with ease.

I support this law but it's very hard for me to believe a welfare recipients can afford any kind of luxury or recreation. Maybe a very low percentage of abusers?

Hey, if they can stop one poor person from getting something they disapprove of, it will be worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement this law and the millions to oversee it.

As usual, all the RWs care about is bigger and more intrusive laws. They don't really care that this is a law in search of a crime and that it punishes the least among us while protecting the 1%.

I mean, after all, those people have no right or reason to won such luxuries as a refrigerator or a cell phone.

There is no cost to the government to implement this law. Enforcement can be done at the grocery store by not allowing the cash register ring up certain products.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

You think this is what politicians should be spending time on? Do you actually think this is small government?

. Like you hate BIG government? If you insist that the government should be giving out welfare payments, then I consider it Is government saving me money.

How does it save you money? Its government trying to influence behavior. Last I checked that is big government. Amazing republicans can't even recognize that now.

I don't agree. I think the radical RWs do know that they are in favor of BIG GOVERNMENT. They just believe intrusive laws are a good thing - as long as it doesn't apply to them.

 

[hipeter924]

In welfare crackdown Kansas bans cruises for the poor

Here’s a partial list of what is now off limits for TANF spending in Kansas:
-- Casinos
--Jewelry stores
-- Massage parlors
-- Body piercing parlors
-- Lingerie shops
-- Vapor cigarette stores
-- Fortune-telling businesses
-- Video arcades
-- Swimming pools
-- Cruise ships
-- Theme parks
-- Strip clubs
-- Concert tickets
-- Lottery tickets
I hope to find many wise people here who support this law like me.
Welfare recipients should be banned from buying jet airplanes and super-cars as well. What the hell are people thinking? Is this the best they can do with their time?
If you don't work properly you must not relax with ease.

Exclude alcohol, weed, and cigarettes next, so that they run a chance of finding better jobs.

 

[hipeter924]

yet Kanass can't balance their budget...

Yep, take it out on the poor, so they can boost those tax cuts for the wealthy. Just like the good old days in feudal Europe.

 

[dblack]

In welfare crackdown Kansas bans cruises for the poor

Here’s a partial list of what is now off limits for TANF spending in Kansas:
-- Casinos
--Jewelry stores
-- Massage parlors
-- Body piercing parlors
-- Lingerie shops
-- Vapor cigarette stores
-- Fortune-telling businesses
-- Video arcades
-- Swimming pools
-- Cruise ships
-- Theme parks
-- Strip clubs
-- Concert tickets
-- Lottery tickets
I hope to find many wise people here who support this law like me.
Welfare recipients should be banned from buying jet airplanes and super-cars as well. What the hell are people thinking? Is this the best they can do with their time?
If you don't work properly you must not relax with ease.

Exclude alcohol, weed, and cigarettes next, so that they run a chance of finding better jobs.

Also, pool halls and loose women.

 

[dblack]

You think this is what politicians should be spending time on? Do you actually think this is small government?

. Like you hate BIG government? If you insist that the government should be giving out welfare payments, then I consider it Is government saving me money.

How does it save you money? Its government trying to influence behavior. Last I checked that is big government. Amazing republicans can't even recognize that now.

I don't agree. I think the radical RWs do know that they are in favor of BIG GOVERNMENT. They just believe intrusive laws are a good thing - as long as it doesn't apply to them.

Everyone can benefit from looking in the mirror occasionally.

 

[rightwinger]

In welfare crackdown Kansas bans cruises for the poor

Here’s a partial list of what is now off limits for TANF spending in Kansas:
-- Casinos
--Jewelry stores
-- Massage parlors
-- Body piercing parlors
-- Lingerie shops
-- Vapor cigarette stores
-- Fortune-telling businesses
-- Video arcades
-- Swimming pools
-- Cruise ships
-- Theme parks
-- Strip clubs
-- Concert tickets
-- Lottery tickets
I hope to find many wise people here who support this law like me.
Welfare recipients should be banned from buying jet airplanes and super-cars as well. What the hell are people thinking? Is this the best they can do with their time?
If you don't work properly you must not relax with ease.

I support this law but it's very hard for me to believe a welfare recipients can afford any kind of luxury or recreation. Maybe a very low percentage of abusers?

Hey, if they can stop one poor person from getting something they disapprove of, it will be worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement this law and the millions to oversee it.

As usual, all the RWs care about is bigger and more intrusive laws. They don't really care that this is a law in search of a crime and that it punishes the least among us while protecting the 1%.

I mean, after all, those people have no right or reason to won such luxuries as a refrigerator or a cell phone.

They feel the need to humiliate the poor

 

[Brain357]

You think this is what politicians should be spending time on? Do you actually think this is small government?

. Like you hate BIG government? If you insist that the government should be giving out welfare payments, then I consider it Is government saving me money.

How does it save you money? Its government trying to influence behavior. Last I checked that is big government. Amazing republicans can't even recognize that now.

I don't agree. I think the radical RWs do know that they are in favor of BIG GOVERNMENT. They just believe intrusive laws are a good thing - as long as it doesn't apply to them.

I think I may agree with you.

 

[Brain357]

In welfare crackdown Kansas bans cruises for the poor

Here’s a partial list of what is now off limits for TANF spending in Kansas:
-- Casinos
--Jewelry stores
-- Massage parlors
-- Body piercing parlors
-- Lingerie shops
-- Vapor cigarette stores
-- Fortune-telling businesses
-- Video arcades
-- Swimming pools
-- Cruise ships
-- Theme parks
-- Strip clubs
-- Concert tickets
-- Lottery tickets
I hope to find many wise people here who support this law like me.
Welfare recipients should be banned from buying jet airplanes and super-cars as well. What the hell are people thinking? Is this the best they can do with their time?
If you don't work properly you must not relax with ease.

I support this law but it's very hard for me to believe a welfare recipients can afford any kind of luxury or recreation. Maybe a very low percentage of abusers?

Hey, if they can stop one poor person from getting something they disapprove of, it will be worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement this law and the millions to oversee it.

As usual, all the RWs care about is bigger and more intrusive laws. They don't really care that this is a law in search of a crime and that it punishes the least among us while protecting the 1%.

I mean, after all, those people have no right or reason to won such luxuries as a refrigerator or a cell phone.

There is no cost to the government to implement this law. Enforcement can be done at the grocery store by not allowing the cash register ring up certain products.

Are you a conservative and actually think this law is ok? When did conservatives become so big government?