The Midwestern states sure do seem to be having a contest right now, over who can fuck the poors the baddest and the longest! Missouri gave it a shot, what with that dickhead rep who just wanted to make sure people receiving public assistance couldn't waste it on seafood. But then Kansas totally took the lead, by
I feel that the reelection of Brownback alone casts doubt it would ever work in that direction. Though I doubt it will ever work in my stated direction, either.
The privately-run government-designated food pantries idea smells like money--that is, a potential windfall for Kremer's donors/buddies. And it's very, very convenient that this man has an anecdote ready-to-hand about steak for dogs--smells like internet-borne bullshit, an absurd extension of the steak-and-lobster "controversy" spread among wingnuts & bigots online.
Note this, also: Kremer's pulled-out-of-his-ass "Blueprint for Education Reform in Wisconsin" would require high school students to pass tests re "different types of government and world-wide religions" in order to graduate. And somehow I think he's concerned less with the governments and MUCH more with the religions. These damned bigots are a plague on America...
New law in Oregon that we must present birth cert to RENEW drivers licenses. I was born 1000 miles away...can't go stand in line to get copy, so I called. Besides the $40 to renew my license, it's nearly $30 for the birth cert, but if you are not local to get the license, you are referred to a company who charges another $52 to get the license for you! BUT they need a notarized application with current picture ID from govt (my license expired 1 day later--THAT's why I was there. DUH). I don't have a printer or a scanner--- really never need either. The printers just dried up when I'd used then twice...I have 3 that don't work in the closet, and one in a box I never opened in 6 years so it's dry by now too LOL)
Do you see the charges just to renew your drivers license--or register to vote!? You'd need a computer with printer and scanner, a valid government-issued photo ID, access to a notary (rarer in the country than in large cities, at banks--that many people just don't use, seriously) and $80 to pay on line--with a credit card, debit card or a Pay Pal account (all things that lower income persons or seniors who are not online just don't have)! That removes the chance lower income people and seniors (and that includes people in their 60s who have all their faculties and are far too young to begin their dependent years) will be driving or voting....a definite move into strictly divided class lines. And the topper was when the Oregon DMV office told me if I couldn't afford to buy the printer, scanner, pay the $80 plus the $40 to renew (on top of $500 a year for insurance to drive once a week) to CANCEL MY DRIVERS LICENSE AND TAKE CABS! Let them take cabs and eat cake! THAT'S how stupid Oregon govt emmployees are! I don't want to spend a few hundred dollars just to get a birth cert that I showed to get the license in the first place! Have any terrorists been 62 yr old women who can show their degrees, so you know they've lived here at least 40 yrs....and don't have a passport, so you know they haven't gone anywhere....and who have had licenses for 15 years here and another 30 years in California? Shouldn't laws bear some relationship to a valid governmental purpose? They did when I was in law school--seems like another planet far away.....
I feel terrible for the many people I've met through the years who won't be able to afford to comply with this insanity. My neighbor is in her 90s but has a car and is a very vital person--but does not use computers. Lower income people here use computers at the library, or just use a cell phone for everything: their TV, computer, internet access, streaming movies, etc. They don't afford the cable bills, internet connection, routers...it's too much, and forget a printer, much less a scanner! They buy a decent phone and use it for everything. Many people I know here live very frugally and will be shocked to discover this new level of bureaucracy and profit for those who have to in to get the documents for you--when we used to write a letter and enclose a check......now we essentially do that but must do it online and pay $52 to an intermediary.
These birth certificate requirements have been quietly enacted while ballot measures to directly accomplish their goals hit roadblocks....challenges, losing in the polls. It's all part of the Oregon Repungnant Party's campaigns to restrict lower income voting and to get illegal aliens off the roads here. Return rural roads to the inbred white teens with 3 six-packs in their tummies when they go out racing each other late at night, proving their manhood and putting Darwin's Law into practice (it's the biggest shocker when you move here--the number of traffic fatalities of drunk teens on weekends...they just report on it, families mourn and a week or two later--another collision.... I moved here from suburban L.A., and there were accidents every year...but millions of people. Here there aren't more than 50,000 and many many times the accidents.).
Who owns the company that is going to make the cards, take the photos etc? Who's making the money off this? Somebody has their fist in every one of these Repugnant Party proposals, trying to make anywhere from $300,000 to billions. We have seen it in the prison system, in the War On Terror, the War On Drugs, the military everywhere, education (anyone in the market for new textbooks that don't mention evolution...er, the religion of evolution? Repugnants are just out to use govt to make a buck. They could not care less if it really accomplishes anything, what long term consequences are, what short term effects are, or who cleans up the mess. Just so long as they can gin up emotional support and an excuse on paper for requiring it, and they can steer the contracts toward their friends, then get out.
Whoever has the balls to run on a strong platform of doing each, and survive the death threats that will follow, would win the vote of the people in 2016. Whether that would win the Presidency is another subject.
Dear Republicans, If I'm poor and I'm willing to eat less so that I can afford to buy a can of tuna for my cat, why is that any of your fn business? In addition to the household members who are allowed to share a card, what about the little old ladies like my mom who have trouble getting out of the house and have their daughters do their shopping for them? I can't tell you how many times I've been glared at when I pulled out an EBT card to pay for groceries. It was my mother's card and I was buying the food for her but that was none of their business either.
One time a guy criticized me for buying a half gallon of ice cream with EBT, I turned on him and screamed not that it's any of your F-N business, but these groceries are for my mother and she's 74 years old and she has cancer and she weighs 98 pounds and if she wants ice cream I am going to F-N buy it for her! I'm pretty sure his huevos were drawn up clear into his belly by the time I was done yelling at him. I'd love to get my hands on some of these Repugs.
Representative Jesse Kremer – Wisconsin's 59th Assembly District Biographyhttp://legis.wisconsin.gov/...
"Jesse was employed as a pilot for eight years with Midwest Connect. In 2008, Midwest Airlines closed their wholly owned subsidiary. Jesse did utilize unemployment benefits for several weeks, but was willing to work any job available to stay afloat and be certain that his family was taken care of..."
Legislative benefits always pay better than unemployment benefits (and Kremer's biography doesn't really state what quantity of time is meant by "several weeks").
Ok, this bothered me on SOOOOO many levels, but it took a few minutes to figure out why my forehead vein was thrombosed. Much/many/all items in church food pantries are donated by parishioners. Now this cumrag wants the state to pay the churches retail price for items that have been donated.
But his plan to make the ebt card a state issued photo ID will bite him in the ass. All those poors will no longer have to shell out the extra 50 bucks to go to an MVD Express (or take a day off work to stand in line at a state MVD) to get a $10 ID.
I ain't loost none o mah speeling and grammer shills sence them things came out.
I feel that the reelection of Brownback alone casts doubt it would ever work in that direction. Though I doubt it will ever work in my stated direction, either.
I may not read Wonkette for awhile. This is really depressing and I feel so hopeless.
The privately-run government-designated food pantries idea smells like money--that is, a potential windfall for Kremer's donors/buddies. And it's very, very convenient that this man has an anecdote ready-to-hand about steak for dogs--smells like internet-borne bullshit, an absurd extension of the steak-and-lobster "controversy" spread among wingnuts & bigots online.
Note this, also: Kremer's pulled-out-of-his-ass "Blueprint for Education Reform in Wisconsin" would require high school students to pass tests re "different types of government and world-wide religions" in order to graduate. And somehow I think he's concerned less with the governments and MUCH more with the religions. These damned bigots are a plague on America...
New law in Oregon that we must present birth cert to RENEW drivers licenses. I was born 1000 miles away...can't go stand in line to get copy, so I called. Besides the $40 to renew my license, it's nearly $30 for the birth cert, but if you are not local to get the license, you are referred to a company who charges another $52 to get the license for you! BUT they need a notarized application with current picture ID from govt (my license expired 1 day later--THAT's why I was there. DUH). I don't have a printer or a scanner--- really never need either. The printers just dried up when I'd used then twice...I have 3 that don't work in the closet, and one in a box I never opened in 6 years so it's dry by now too LOL)
Do you see the charges just to renew your drivers license--or register to vote!? You'd need a computer with printer and scanner, a valid government-issued photo ID, access to a notary (rarer in the country than in large cities, at banks--that many people just don't use, seriously) and $80 to pay on line--with a credit card, debit card or a Pay Pal account (all things that lower income persons or seniors who are not online just don't have)! That removes the chance lower income people and seniors (and that includes people in their 60s who have all their faculties and are far too young to begin their dependent years) will be driving or voting....a definite move into strictly divided class lines. And the topper was when the Oregon DMV office told me if I couldn't afford to buy the printer, scanner, pay the $80 plus the $40 to renew (on top of $500 a year for insurance to drive once a week) to CANCEL MY DRIVERS LICENSE AND TAKE CABS! Let them take cabs and eat cake! THAT'S how stupid Oregon govt emmployees are! I don't want to spend a few hundred dollars just to get a birth cert that I showed to get the license in the first place! Have any terrorists been 62 yr old women who can show their degrees, so you know they've lived here at least 40 yrs....and don't have a passport, so you know they haven't gone anywhere....and who have had licenses for 15 years here and another 30 years in California? Shouldn't laws bear some relationship to a valid governmental purpose? They did when I was in law school--seems like another planet far away.....
I feel terrible for the many people I've met through the years who won't be able to afford to comply with this insanity. My neighbor is in her 90s but has a car and is a very vital person--but does not use computers. Lower income people here use computers at the library, or just use a cell phone for everything: their TV, computer, internet access, streaming movies, etc. They don't afford the cable bills, internet connection, routers...it's too much, and forget a printer, much less a scanner! They buy a decent phone and use it for everything. Many people I know here live very frugally and will be shocked to discover this new level of bureaucracy and profit for those who have to in to get the documents for you--when we used to write a letter and enclose a check......now we essentially do that but must do it online and pay $52 to an intermediary.
These birth certificate requirements have been quietly enacted while ballot measures to directly accomplish their goals hit roadblocks....challenges, losing in the polls. It's all part of the Oregon Repungnant Party's campaigns to restrict lower income voting and to get illegal aliens off the roads here. Return rural roads to the inbred white teens with 3 six-packs in their tummies when they go out racing each other late at night, proving their manhood and putting Darwin's Law into practice (it's the biggest shocker when you move here--the number of traffic fatalities of drunk teens on weekends...they just report on it, families mourn and a week or two later--another collision.... I moved here from suburban L.A., and there were accidents every year...but millions of people. Here there aren't more than 50,000 and many many times the accidents.).
Who owns the company that is going to make the cards, take the photos etc? Who's making the money off this? Somebody has their fist in every one of these Repugnant Party proposals, trying to make anywhere from $300,000 to billions. We have seen it in the prison system, in the War On Terror, the War On Drugs, the military everywhere, education (anyone in the market for new textbooks that don't mention evolution...er, the religion of evolution? Repugnants are just out to use govt to make a buck. They could not care less if it really accomplishes anything, what long term consequences are, what short term effects are, or who cleans up the mess. Just so long as they can gin up emotional support and an excuse on paper for requiring it, and they can steer the contracts toward their friends, then get out.
Whoever has the balls to run on a strong platform of doing each, and survive the death threats that will follow, would win the vote of the people in 2016. Whether that would win the Presidency is another subject.
Dear Republicans, If I'm poor and I'm willing to eat less so that I can afford to buy a can of tuna for my cat, why is that any of your fn business? In addition to the household members who are allowed to share a card, what about the little old ladies like my mom who have trouble getting out of the house and have their daughters do their shopping for them? I can't tell you how many times I've been glared at when I pulled out an EBT card to pay for groceries. It was my mother's card and I was buying the food for her but that was none of their business either.
One time a guy criticized me for buying a half gallon of ice cream with EBT, I turned on him and screamed not that it's any of your F-N business, but these groceries are for my mother and she's 74 years old and she has cancer and she weighs 98 pounds and if she wants ice cream I am going to F-N buy it for her! I'm pretty sure his huevos were drawn up clear into his belly by the time I was done yelling at him. I'd love to get my hands on some of these Repugs.
Representative Jesse Kremer – Wisconsin's 59th Assembly District Biographyhttp://legis.wisconsin.gov/...
"Jesse was employed as a pilot for eight years with Midwest Connect. In 2008, Midwest Airlines closed their wholly owned subsidiary. Jesse did utilize unemployment benefits for several weeks, but was willing to work any job available to stay afloat and be certain that his family was taken care of..."
Legislative benefits always pay better than unemployment benefits (and Kremer's biography doesn't really state what quantity of time is meant by "several weeks").
And if you have any ability to flesh out a Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
I'd like to see him get around that tricky church vs state issue, seeing as how a lot of food pantries are run by churches
Ok, this bothered me on SOOOOO many levels, but it took a few minutes to figure out why my forehead vein was thrombosed. Much/many/all items in church food pantries are donated by parishioners. Now this cumrag wants the state to pay the churches retail price for items that have been donated.
EBT is still funded largely by USDA but administered by the states.
In NM they are indistinguishable from a Wells Fargo card, big balloon graphic and all...
But his plan to make the ebt card a state issued photo ID will bite him in the ass. All those poors will no longer have to shell out the extra 50 bucks to go to an MVD Express (or take a day off work to stand in line at a state MVD) to get a $10 ID.
Well said.