Posted on 03/16/2013 10:03:04 AM PDT by Moseley
Even better would be limiting EBT purchases to meat, milk, eggs, bread and vegetables.
It is patently egregious that this wasn’t prevented in the first place. Who the hell was the fricking governor down there? Didn’t do their job, probably wouldn’t be a good president, either.
Oh noes noes noes....you can’t dictate the diet of what an Obama voter eats! /sarc.....(The Wookie’s School and Fast Food Dictates, Bloomberg, et al....)
The Dems will fight this mean-spirited attempt to deny the poor a few of life’s humble pleasures.
Even better....let them have to go to a food bank every week. That should get rid of a few million leaches.
But... this is bad for business.
Just imagine all the strip clubs and casinos that will see a decrease in their business. Not to mention the individual strippers who are benefiting from these purchases.
Definitely an anti-business bill.
/sarc
Another evil racist Republican is trying to make life miserable for the downtrodden.
Either give them the money or don’t. Monitoring the peeps use of money is expensive and totalitarian.
This will be unpopular, but I want to know how much is this gonna cost the state? Because the folks who want to gamble their money away will still do it. They’ll just buy food and sell it on the street, 10 cents to the dollar. So if this costs the taxpayer more money, then forget it.
Yet another ‘story’ that deep in your heart you know we have reached this point
BUT
“We” keep looking for the Satire label— for, just as deep in your heart, you never really believed you would live long enough to see such a ridiculous story.
Wasn’t it Ronald Reagan who said one of his first acts as Governor was to have people ‘pick up their checks in person’, which enabled them to purge the rolls and save billions.
So, in retaliation, ‘they’ have now done away with the stigma of food stamps, stopped sending checks and now ‘the USERS’ get their money placed in a bank account and given a card to use.
So, when the state grants drivers licenses to illegals and the Fed/States give ‘bank accounts’ to the illegals, it is kind of hard for ‘Us’ Mortals to pick them out of a crowd and YET be able to blame ‘US’ for hiring the same people ‘they’ are ‘making legal’ when they decide to do a little soul searching..... and want to ‘fine’ us for hiring them, then ‘fine’ us when we try to check the people out, and -heaven forbid you make a mistake - ‘They’ assist in suing you for whatever charges come to mind.
Ain’t life grand???
It is a tragedy, IMO, that any state legislature has to waste time with special legislation to ban the use of public funds for this garbage.
These cards should be limited to meat, milk and veggies. No beer, soda, junk food, cake, pies, candy, etc., etc.
I don’t mind feeding people in need, but I want them to want enough other things that they will be inspired to get off of public assistance so they can buy whatever they choose.
If it passes the legislature? I would like to see the legislator supporting the use of food stamps at strip clubs.
That is a lie. The money comes from the pockets of hard-working taxpayers. And I, for one, am tired of paying for these kinds of abuses.
“Poor and Blacks dis-proportionately affected”....the ol’ rhetoric that covers everything from background checks, Voter ID, welfare benefits, to PELL Grants and cash handouts from FEMA......
I can’t figure out why someone put this on the Virginia page.... ?
Well, (a) I am in the Northern Virginia Tea Party, and
(b) let’s get the Virginia legislature on this.
Other than that, mea culpa. Sorry.
Take the King’s Coin, Do the King’s bidding.
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