my head just spins (aside from my vertigo)

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Boreas

It's all part of the Republican "Hate the Poor" campaign. It's supposed to implant a subconscious image of welfare recipients taking cruises or going out for a night on the town or just enjoying themselves "on my tax dollar!"

John

Exactly. The more focused they can keep people on the fabled "Welfare Queen" and the "union thug" that allegedly makes $290 an hour to install light bulbs the easier it is to exploit and extort money from the poor and give it to the rich.

Divide and Conquer, don't ya know?

Dave

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

They probably were able to trace one ATM transaction on a ship to a welfare recipient.

Frankly, I don't think it's anything anyone actually did unless it happened to be a notoriously underpaid cruise ship crewman, prtobably on a Missouri River cruise ship. It's all optics.

John

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by noonereal

when I read some of this ignorant, demonizing and hypocritical garbage the GOP does. I can't believe I supported this party for 25 years.

Kansas Bans Poor People From Spending Welfare On Cruise Ships


and of course they have turned this into a windfall for he freakin' banks.

Like the young punk kid in Arkansas,Cotton, another ignorant punk, Rep. Michael O'Donnell of Kansas thinks it wise to walk the country backward.

This is Michael O'Donnel, the Kansas State Senate legislator linked to this wonderfulness:



Read the article. The windfall for the banks is they limit the welfare recipients from drawing more than $25.00 a day from their benefit debit cards, and after one use, each additional withdrawal costs $.85. This on people getting a max of $429 a month.

Of course, they have the option of spending some of their copious benefits on the monthly fee for a checking account.

But you have to keep a tight rein on these people, you know, otherwise they will cheat the system.

Speaking of cheating the system, seems that O'Donnel has benefited from living rent-free in a house owned by his father's church. At one point he said he paid rent, but he either 'misspoke,' or told a total lie, when he said that. The cheating the system part is various tax liabilities, all of which he and the church are trying to dodge....

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendl...h-owned-house/

I hope receipt of the church's free charity housing hasn't destroyed his moral fiber or work ethic or anything, leaving him only fit for lifelong welfare, or a career as a Republican officeholder.

But I'm afraid you can see 'ruined by entitlement' all over his face.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

This is Michael O'Donnel, the Kansas State Senate legislator linked to this wonderfulness:



Speaking of cheating the system, seems that O'Donnel has benefited from living rent-free in a house owned by his father's church.

C'mon Don.

This kid looks like he's about 16.

Can't you cut him some slack and let him live in his dad's house at least until he get's out of High School?

[donquixote99]

As near as I can figure (can't find actual bio details) he's 28 at least. Ran for the Kansas House of Rep in 2004, but you only have to be 18 to do that, near as I can tell....

More likely he was out of college when he ran in 2004, so bump the likely minimum age to 32. Believe it or not.

Come to think of it, preacher and politician are pretty similar jobs, as far as the 'stroking the flock' parts of the rackets go....

[bobabode]

No steak and seafood for Missourans.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...afood/?hpid=z4

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

The windfall for the banks is they limit the welfare recipients from drawing more than $25.00 a day from their benefit debit cards, and after one use, each additional withdrawal costs $.85. This on people getting a max of $429 a month.

Unless I'm mistaken, the $.85 is assessed by the state. On top of that, you have to consider that an "out of network" withdrawal will be hit with an ATM transaction fee. This typically ranges between $2.00 and $3.00 and would be over and above the $.85 fee. That means a $25.00 withdrawal could carry a total charge of $3.85, or a little more than 15%. If the machine dispenses only $20.00 bills, the fee is just over 19%.

John

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Boreas

So did I but I only ever voted for one Republican in my life, Mac Mathias for the US Senate. I don't see myself ever voting for another one.

Ever.

John

Mac was a good man.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Mac was a good man.

Indeed he was. Today's Republicans would hate him.

John

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

As near as I can figure (can't find actual bio details) he's 28 at least. Ran for the Kansas House of Rep in 2004, but you only have to be 18 to do that, near as I can tell....

More likely he was out of college when he ran in 2004, so bump the likely minimum age to 32. Believe it or not.

I don't believe he's 32.

I looked around the net and his age and/or date of birth are conspicuously absent from all the sources I could find. That makes me think he wants to hide it. But then maybe he just looks young.