A year is plenty of time to stop being poor. Clearly tired of Maine Gov. Paul LePage and Florida Gov. Rick Scott getting all the Koch brothers handjobs for their wars on the Poors, the great state of Arizona now has the nation's strictest limits on cash assistance to poor families with children, hooray! The new law, passed in 2015, sets a one-year lifetime limit on such aid, and went into effect Friday. As everyone knows, the best way to encourage people to not be poor is to take away government assistance, and then they all stop being poor. This is common sense.
North Carolina did sort of the same thing with unemployment benefits. They cut the dollar amount of the benefits by up to a third, cut the period of eligibility to 13 weeks, and now has started requiring people drawing benefits to apply for 5 jobs each week. Of course, most of the counties with high unemployment rates (7% and up) have very small populations (some less than 6,000, meaning a work force at most half that), so you can see the problem with the job applications. No employers to apply to. But it did cut our official unemployment rate since most of the people have just given up looking.
The federal government really needs to establish that either you give the money to poor children through the program it's intended for, or you give it the fuck back.
Im not sure your distinction makes sense here. Are you saying you could be convinced a childless adult should starve to death simply because he or she chose not to reproduce?
"In retrospect, Federalism was not a great idea. In my defense, I spent a lot of the Constitutional Convention completely hammered."-- Ghost of James Madison
I was ready for that back when Jan Brewer stole 2.6 billion dollars earmarked for schools that we voted in a sales tax increase for. And conservatives want to bitch and moan about Hillz' emails... :P
I genuinely ran across some racist shitweasel on Twitter arguing exactly that a few weeks ago. She had some big theory about how "semitic" people didn't exist in the area until much later, so the area was instead populated by white Europeans at the time of Jesus' birth.
Les Mis is a documentary?
If folks can't afford to run air conditioners...
North Carolina did sort of the same thing with unemployment benefits. They cut the dollar amount of the benefits by up to a third, cut the period of eligibility to 13 weeks, and now has started requiring people drawing benefits to apply for 5 jobs each week. Of course, most of the counties with high unemployment rates (7% and up) have very small populations (some less than 6,000, meaning a work force at most half that), so you can see the problem with the job applications. No employers to apply to. But it did cut our official unemployment rate since most of the people have just given up looking.
The federal government really needs to establish that either you give the money to poor children through the program it's intended for, or you give it the fuck back.
"Mustard gas costs money. Money we already gave in tax breaks"
Classy!
Im not sure your distinction makes sense here. Are you saying you could be convinced a childless adult should starve to death simply because he or she chose not to reproduce?
To give without any expectations (even a "thank you") is a practice of the enlightened.
“Where are they going to go?"
To another state, as the fiscal conservative Jesus wills.
just the thing to put some color in your cheeks
"Good luck with that"-- House Republican Majority
"In retrospect, Federalism was not a great idea. In my defense, I spent a lot of the Constitutional Convention completely hammered."-- Ghost of James Madison
I was ready for that back when Jan Brewer stole 2.6 billion dollars earmarked for schools that we voted in a sales tax increase for. And conservatives want to bitch and moan about Hillz' emails... :P
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I genuinely ran across some racist shitweasel on Twitter arguing exactly that a few weeks ago. She had some big theory about how "semitic" people didn't exist in the area until much later, so the area was instead populated by white Europeans at the time of Jesus' birth.
Shaken, not stirred!