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How can you misuse $25 a day to go on a $5,000-$9,000 cruise. $25 a day equals $9,125 a year. So, just default on payments for govt subsidized housing & get thrown out & live outdoors or in a homeless shelter to save up for the cruise? I see absurd things written about welfare, like a poem claiming people could buy a mansion with welfare cash.
I get public assistance of $25 a day. I have about 25 medical conditions some lifelong & some life-threatening. I doubt I will ever feel good. Wanna trade places with me? I also read it takes $2,000 of Federal govt pay to send someone a $700 check. Yep, administrators get 74% of the money.
Corporate welfare (in return for bribes) is the biggest drain on govt & they get rights to make us sick & kill us, too. Best wishes.
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Originally Posted by Delahanty
Instead of referring to this as banning, let's call it what the legislation does: a [long overdue] prohibition on the misuse of public assistance.
The precedent is there, Mrs. Obama has established pretty strict rules about how School Lunch money is to be spent and what foods can be served in that program.
Gov. Brownback and the Kansas legislature are certainly within their rights to impose restrictions in the programs for the needy that they administer.
How about being born with major health problems? How much should these people be blamed for being permanently disabled? They're unproductive people who live off the sweat of the productive, but was being born that way a choice? Best wishes.
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Originally Posted by KazChasey
Poor =/= On Welfare
No one is demonizing the poor. They're demonizing unproductive people who live off the sweat of the productive.
There's no shame in being poor, but being a mooch is another story.
California 2010..read the full article..$387,000 of CA TANF withdrawn in Hawaii hot tourist spots.
$69 million in California welfare money drawn out of state - latimes
Of the $1.5 million accessed in Florida, $13,109 was spent or withdrawn in South Beach, most of that at bars and restaurants along trendy Lincoln Road. More than $7,000 was withdrawn from ATMs a few hours north, at Walt Disney World.
The data also show $16,010 withdrawn from 14 cruise ships sailing from ports around the world — Long Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing. Eight sail primarily from Miami.
With limited resources coming in, which may not be enough to pay bills and incidentals, spending money on bank fees is not a good use of limited resources.
The monthly fee for a checking account is less that what it costs to cash ONE weekly paycheck at MoneyBox. Financially, it makes more sense to have a checking account, even if you have to settle for one with a monthly fee.
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Originally Posted by Emeraldmaiden
Free checking accounts (at least IME), usually require at least one direct deposit per month, or a minimum balance above that which a poor person can manage.
Are you claiming that no government benefits can be direct deposited? Here's an idea: get a job, even a menial part-time job, that offers direct deposit. The "extra" income won't hurt, either.
As far as minimum balances, my credit union requires a minimum balance of $5 in a savings acct, and there is no minimum balance for checking accounts.
This is very true. The young woman was working part time and attending college with 2 children and Section 8 would have paid the whole rent. We did not rent to her in the end because of her spouse. The guy was jobless but had 2 newer cars for them and his phone was constantly ringing with him needing to meet people while we were doing the interview.
I don't believe you they would make the young girl pay a percentage of her income as rent.
If you own a restaurant, there must be food on hand and it is perishable.
Just because he needs to buy groceries doesn't mean that is because the others were used thus he made a profit
He is using welfare benefits to buy food that will be cooked in his restaurant and served to customers.
If he is buying food FOR HIS RESTAURANT using food stamps, then his restaurant is avoiding the expense of purchasing food from a supplier. Thus, the reduction in food cost (at taxpayer expense) translates to increased profit.
Originally Posted by Howest2008 View Post
I don't see a problem with the new law , but someone please tell me are the cruise ships moored at the Port of Kansas City Kansas or Wichita Kansas?
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Originally Posted by HappyTexan
All states are putting cruise ships in their laws because that is the wording of the Fed bill mandating the change to TANF money.
I don't see a problem with the new law , but someone please tell me are the cruise ships moored at the Port of Kansas City Kansas or Wichita Kansas?
There actually is a Port of Kansas City, but it serves freight traffic only. Cruise ships to not make port calls there.
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