See how they like it.

They'll have to beg out on the street to get a dime, if they don't get hit first with pennies by angry welfare recipients.

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cruises or swimming pools. The fact that the state is so flat broke from giving away the farm to the rich, they have now gotten this desperate or delirious.

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Next meal will come from or if they can make rent

I love how republicans fix problems that don't exist

be one of those small children's pools. What a bunch of idiots.

that don't exist than things like religious freedom laws and restrictions on abortion. If we can't get rid of Republicans in state legislature, we can just give them a shiny ball to play with so can't do any damage.

Hello you brave republicans. Something important has come up in your district you need to take time to deal with. Turns out, unicorns are real. And they are pooping glitter all over state highways. Please take the necessary time to sit down and hash out a good deal to combat this menace.

dime. Why work for slave wages when you can get rich on welfare?

That idiot Rep. Michael O'Donnell, needs to try to live on welfare for a month or four just to see what it is like. I somehow doubt he would make it very far.

Waiting in line at the cruise buffet while the person up front is using an EBT card. That was me. Sorry I took so long, the pin didn't go through.

EBT Don't leave home without it. Purchase cruises, cars, prostitutes, and homes all with one swoop. Maybe one day we will be able to buy politicians, but that is blocked right now.

Cruise ships in all directions as far as the eye can see.

More likely to find that than someone getting on a cruise ship in Kansas for $400!

$400 would buy a shitload of Alaskan king crab, so I guess it is all about choices.

Sounds more and more like a fallback to the old Reagan fiction of the 'welfare queen.' And the masses will buy it if they say it over and over and over...

Or is this just a straw-man talking point to get people to salivate?

at the local pool and try to keep a little fit?

How myopic and cruel can these self-righteous cretins get?

The insane restrictions on holiday cruises, I won't even deign to mention.

seriously, wtf. $25/day max?

I live in Erie County, NY, and here the max cash benefit is $320 a month for a single person (that is supposed to pay your rent and utilities which it doesn't), so I don't know what the hell they are even talking about. I imagine one gets more with children, but I doubt unless there are many children, the 25 bucks a day only is a goal already reached.

This is just a bullshit law with the sole intent of implying people get more help than is actually available. I bet people are believing it too.

Knocking off legislative creeps and such...

Something is horribly wrong with Kansas.

Besides, it's a really rotten thing to say.

Especially poor people from Kansas. While they're at it, why not ban them from using the debit card to make a down payment on a Bentley or chartering a Gulfstream jet to the Superbowl?

This is just a dehumanizing move to publicly shame people who are down on their luck. Denying them seafood or the loosely defined "steak" with food cards is further humiliation.

Start voting Kansas!

I thoroughly expect a red state to write a law that says welfare money can't be spent in any establishment that offers any form of gambling, including the lottery. And then they'll work their ass off to make damn good and sure every grocery store, convenience store, Walmart and Target sells lottery tickets.

Gov Cuomo in NY:
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/01/8539168/cuomo-seeks-ban-welfare-cash-strip-clubs
Colorado:
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_20058326
Florida:
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/ban-would-prohibit-ebt-card-use-strip-clubs-casino/nXBtn/

Plenty of articles out there showing audits of the system revealing that these benefits are sometimes being used in these places.

Somehow I think this faux responsibility bill is really about feathering the nests of ATM owners.

Including but not limited to anyone who claims the mortgage credit when filing income tax, anyone who holds a federally-subsidized student loan, and anyone who drives on state- or federally-funded roads or who purchases goods transported on state- or federally-funded roads.

Let's be consistent, Brownie.

Fair is fair afterall.

That's even LESS likely than a gay couple wanting to cater their wedding with pizza.

this extends to Farm Welfare subsidies ?

at a local park?

well instead of keeping out the blacks they just updated it to read poor

$25/day and you are worried about cruise ships?? Eat maybe but sleep in the park. No shoes, no laundry, and not able to vote which may be the main focus. Kansas gov is nasty. Betcha Gov. Sam gets to have his cruises.

I wish they'd be this interested in finding real solutions to real problems.

Now I have to cancel my Royal Caribbean trip, guess I will have to settle for my second choice trip on the Virgin Galactic to space.

"We're trying to make sure those benefits are used the way they were intended," state Rep. Michael O'Donnell (R) said, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal. "This is about prosperity. This is about having a great life."

Who knew that welfare recipients got enough money to pay for cruises... swimming pools, booze, fortune tellers... and "certain types of businesses"? Unless they're willing to go without electricity, rent, heat, gas, food... and pretty much all of the necessities?

Fucking asshole republicans.

"This is about prosperity. This is about having a great life." Sure, fuckhead there can say that because he earns a very nice living through tax payer dollars... paid for by a lot of these same welfare recipients, as well. He can spend his money on whatever the fuck he wants. Does he deserve it? do any of these assholes?

Let's multiply the amount of every welfare recipient's check by ten. Then let's take vomit-induciding-holier-than-thou-ugly-stupid-fucksticks like O'Donnell and pay them minimum wage - which they will NOT be able to use for swimming pools, fortune tellers, cruise ships, or liquor stores.

Holy fuck I hate politicians.... almost all of them.

asshole repukes NEVER want accounting for their senseless wars

This is intended to keep people from even using welfare and to benefit 'for profit' middlemen.

The Federal gov. (we the taxpayers) pay in the end when there are more homeless and unfed children.

All this tells us is that the owners of liquor stores, swimming pool stores and cruise ship operators and fortune tellers don't donate to republicans.

Oh, ffs!

for the last two months , for reasons far too many to go into here and they are still asking for various documents to justify me receiving any assistance. If I do get approval my best estimate would be $ 30 a month. Let me say it is NOT easy and certainly not enough for steak and lobster. The $25 limit is just a way to give the banks a way to skim some money off the poor again with fees. Another reason not to elect a wall street / banister friendly president.

I know it's a longshot since Kansas is nowhere near an ocean, but I know people can come from all over the place to work a on a cruise liner, even though the pay may not be great... would this law prevent them from say, buying food in the employee commissary?

So many states as well as many politicians at the federal level waste so much time that I don't even want to think about tackling problems that don't even exist.

This is just more Republican paranoia and mean-spiritedness.

P.S. I didn't think Kansas was anywhere near the sea, anyway.