...at the Casino's to the tune of multi millions of dollars. The administration said they are going to fix this problem since it has been brought to the forefront.
State issued debit cards.
State issued debit cards.
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doesn't california get a % of casino earnings? if they blow their money on useless shit and have nothing left for real stuff like food..isn't that their own problem?you don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day..Comment
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Just cancel the welfare for anyone who's card has been doing this.
Anyone who can afford to waste it gambling doesn't need it.↑ see post ↑
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No...it is the problem of their children...that is why they recieve welfare in the first place. At one point in time Calironia did not receive taxes from the Casino's but they were trying to pass legislation to tax the Casino's...and the Indians were fighting against it...I do not know if the legislation passed or not.
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California welfare recipients withdrew $1.8 million at casino ATMs over eight months
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issues an executive order requiring recipients to promise they will use cash benefits only to meet basic subsistence needs. GOP legislators call for the cash to be returned.
Casino withdrawals, which represented far less than 1% of total welfare spending during the eight months for which the department released data, averaged just over $227,392 a month.Comment
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That is over an eight month period but I believe a study was done that goes back further than 8 months and it was like four or five million which is still a drop in the bucket...but does still hurt the children whose parents are involved in gambling...and it needs to be fixed where they cannot use their debit cards at a Casino.When you're running down my country hoss...you're walking on the fighting side of me!
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Welfare has little do with "kids" - except for the fact that if your on welfare AND have kids, you get MORE welfare money... to blow at casinos.
Sorry, welfare needs to end. It started off as something to help people get back on their feet, but was never meant to be a full time thing. Now we have entire families raised on welfare who fail to understand the concept of getting a job and earning money. Instead they live in section 8 government housing, receive welfare, and use the school system to babysit their kids.Herschel Savage
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Isn't misappropriation of funds a federal offense? Hell, most of 'em will be in jail anyway. Might as well get them acclimated to the bars at a young age.Comment
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Whats new? They also use them to buy cigs and booze. While in college my fiancee worked in a coner store and would see this shit all the time. People on welfare would come in and buy a box of mac and cheese for their kids for dinner and a six pack and name brand cigs for them. Using food stamp card for the food and their state issued debit card for the beer and booze.
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What really pisses me off about the whole welfare thing is you see these people that have food stamps taniff and wick and they have 4 or 5 kids, they buy their shit and when they get to their car/truck there car/truck is brand fucking new and better then anything I have! Another thing is you see these people go into 7-11 buy their kids slurpees and a ton of junk food then while you wait in line they take out their food stamp card to pay for everything! GRrrr *shrugs*
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Who cares what they spend it on. Jesus, why do people have to micro-manage every aspect of another person's life? What's next? Micro-manage what old people do with their social security?SIG TOO BIGComment
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In my state, general assistance(welfare) can be drawn for one year. After one year, you have to be holding a job or spend 8 hours a day looking for work, to draw benefits. Usually a decent job puts their earnings up high enough that they don't get cash assistance.
Depending on how many children are in the household, they still can draw Aid to Dependent Children. It comes on a debit card, and can only be used at licensed sites that agree that cigs, alcohol or lottery cannot be purchased with the card.
They can still get food stamps and childcare assistance, as long as they don't exceed the income limits.Comment
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This is just the tip of the iceberg. Virtually ALL of welfare is fraudulent. There are so many scams it would make your head spin.Comment
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I've paid Child Support consistently without fail every single month since 1984. (and still am) I pay this 100% myself with no other taxpayer help. I have yet to be able to contribute one word about how that money is spent. So I don't think the general public really gets any say in how welfare families spend their money.. if they're allowed to spend it on cigs and booze and casinos, then that's up to them. Can't sleep at night because of it? Then get the law changed.
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What state?
There is a limit here, you can also go to school, but that is just a crock, most get all this money for school, and never go. They should have to pay it back.
They lose personal benifits after the 1 year, but still get cash and TONS of food stamps for the Children. Most food stamps are sold for Cash, that is used for drugs and cigs and things. .50 Cents on the Dollar!
We do not have an regulations on who accepts the cash or food stamp here (Kansas)
I was in Missouri, seen a sign that said
If you want to buy a Pizza, you must order the pizza, pay with your food stamps, hand the pizza back and we will cook it.Comment
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Same here, I pay double what I should, for child support, I do not complain what she spends it on, BUT I also make it known I am not GIVING another dime, don't play the " the child needs this" crap, you should of got that with the child support, not Bingo!I've paid Child Support consistently without fail every single month since 1984. (and still am) I pay this 100% myself with no other taxpayer help. I have yet to be able to contribute one word about how that money is spent. So I don't think the general public really gets any say in how welfare families spend their money.. if they're allowed to spend it on cigs and booze and casinos, then that's up to them. Can't sleep at night because of it? Then get the law changed.
Why did I choose to complain on this board? Because I can, and I think it helps bring this huge problem to light. You can see I also was talking about unemployment as well!Comment
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Exactly,
I have not taken a handout, I could of easily frauded the Gov, when I was let go from my fulltime job, and started websites. Double Dip, but I didn't
I have donated Plasma to be able to shop at Aldis to get food for my kids as a single dad, back in the day.
So yeah, sucks to see the welfare mom with X amount of kids buying Steaks, Lobster, LOTS of Junk food, push the cart out to a NICE car, with a BF who makes bank sitting in it.Comment
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Not at all. Why should it bother me that some person I don't know decides to blow their assistance on gambling or booze? We have assistance (welfare) to help people that need it. At least that's the idea. But you can't pin someone down and force feed them broccoli while handing them job leads.... it's just never going to happen. Some people will blow it on booze or drugs, and that's just the way it is.
I've never collected welfare, but I've been dead broke and homeless before (a very long time ago), and taken home boxes of crap from the Food Bank. And when I had $2.00 bucks left to my name and nothing else, I had to decide if I wanted to get a 12-pack of Kingsbury Brew, or a pack of cheap smokes. I chose the smokes. So I've been there. When you're all the way down as far as you can go, sometimes buying food just isn't important (in the mind).SIG TOO BIGComment
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Just for the record, I'm neither for or against cutting off welfare. If a proposal was introduced to eliminate it, I'd go along with that. But I think the trade off would be an increase in crime and homelessness. If that's an acceptable trade-off, sure... cut that shit off man. On the other hand, if such a proposal was never introduced, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it either.SIG TOO BIGComment
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i think alot of people have an over-exagerated view of what welfare recepients get. Who cares if a few welfare people spend their pittance at a casino.
We give away much much more money to Israel, and they use the money to buy bullets to kill people with.
I also think people confuse what welfare is really for. Welfare is to keep lazy people from being criminals and to keep our society somewhat civilized. Its a very small price to pay.hatisblack at yahoo.comComment
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They are debit cards you can track where every purchase is made, seems like a pretty simple thing to start banning people from public assistance that abuse it. Bring criminal charges against them as well.
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There's also a very real possibility a goodly portion of these withdrawals were from tribal members who are on welfare and work at the casinos. Easier than going to a bank to use the card to get cash.
It gets people pissed off thinking tax dollars are going to gambling, but without facts and figures everyone is jumping to this conclusion. It may not at all be the case.
Think instead of all the retirees using their social security or disability to buy lottery tickets. Perfectly legal. Sure, they paid into the social security fund, but for most their benefits now are WELL OVER what they contributed, and the balance is funded by those of us currently working. Be pissed at this instead, because it's much more common. And there's NO way to stop it.Comment
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Stolen/cloned debit cards could be a factor.
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I don't recall but that sounds like a brilliant fucking idea.
Better yet, they can get welfare or one year and then after that they have to wait a year to get it again. Then they have a cap of five years total.
Sorry, if I lost my job and my house I'd be moving in with family long before I'd be fucking moving into some section 8 housing crap ghetto.Herschel Savage
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