On Apr 23, 11:41*pm, "GeorgeWashingtonFan"
> wrote:
> Welfare checks can be used to buy alcohol and cigarettes in California
>
> * * *"Senator Dutton also explained that more
> * * * than half of welfare beneficiaries are
> * * * parents who are no longer eligible for
> * * * state aid, but still receive cash assistance
> * * * on behalf of their anchor baby children."
>
> By Kimberly Dvorak
> San Diego County Political Buzz Examiner
> April 19th, 2011
>
> On a straight party-line vote California lawmakers gave the green light
> for welfare recipients to purchase alcohol and tobacco products using
> taxpayer money. The insanity in the Golden State continues despite the
> state’s $23 billion deficit and double-digit unemployment.
>
> Recently California changed the way it disperses food stamps. In an
> effort to take the stigma away from food stamps the state issues
> welfare beneficiaries with an Electronic Benefits Card which look and
> work like an ATM card.
>
> The Golden State doles out welfare benefits through the CalWORKS
> program. In the past welfare recipients were not allowed to buy beer
> and cigarettes, but compassionate state lawmakers decided it wasn’t
> fair to stop TAXPAYER money from being used to subsidize non-essential
> bad habits.
>
> “You would think a simple common sense reform like trying to make sure
> taxpayer money is not used for the purchase of alcohol and tobacco
> would find bi-partisan support,” said GOP State Senator Bob Dutton.
>
> No such luck in California, Dutton, SB417’s sponsor saw his legislation
> to save taxpayer money fail on a straight party-line vote.
>
> California’s EBT/ATM card caught national attention last year when the
> Los Angeles Times uncovered several documents proving the welfare cards
> were being used for vacations to Hawaii, Las Vegas and strip clubs.
> Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger quickly quashed the
> vacation perks, but failed to stop the alcohol or cigarette buying
> ability.
>
> “These funds are designed help the neediest in California meet their
> basic requirements of providing food, clothing and shelter,” Senator
> Dutton quipped. “I doubt there’s not a taxpayer in this state who
> believes purchasing alcohol or tobacco with welfare money constitutes a
> basic need and should be allowed.”
>
> Senator Dutton also explained that more than half of welfare
> beneficiaries are parents who are no longer eligible for state aid, but
> still receive cash assistance on behalf of their anchor baby children.
>
> Advertisement “With over half of the caseload consisting of
> ‘child-only’ cases, it is unconscionable to allow designated caregivers
> the ability to purchase tobacco and alcohol products on behalf of a
> minor,” Senator Dutton said. “I was quite frankly surprised that
> Democrats believe that this practice should continue. *I remain
> committed to continue working on real reform measures, like SB 417, to
> ensure that all taxpayer money is used as it is intended,” Senator
> Dutton concluded.
>
> In an effort to reform welfare Senator Dutton sought the assistance of
> the California Grocers Association to implement a ban on alcohol and
> tobacco purchases with the state’s EBT/ATM card.
>
> This year California taxpayers will support nearly 600,000 families by
> enrolling them into CalWORKS. The program disperses more than $100
> million to help welfare recipients purchase groceries.
>
> Something else taxpayers should consider is that California Governor
> Jerry Brown is seeking to raise the tobacco tax another dollar in order
> to fund cancer research; while Democrat Senator Alex Padilla already
> introduced a bill to raise the cigarette tax by a whopping $1.61 to be
> used to curb smoking. Neither program will cut the $23 billion deficit.
>
> http://www.examiner.com/county-polit.../welfare-check
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> * * * What Would America's Founders Say?
>
> * The two enemies of the people are criminals
> * and government, so let us tie the second down
> * with the chains of the Constitution so the
> * second will not become the legalized version
> * of the first.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * Those who hammer their guns into plows will
> * plow for those who do not.
> * *--Thomas Jefferson
>
> * It does not take a majority to prevail ... but
> * rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on
> * setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
> * men.
> * --Samuel Adams
>
> * The strongest reason for the people to retain
> * the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last
> * resort, to protect themselves against tyranny
> * in government.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * *A free people ought not only to be armed and
> * *disciplined, but they should have sufficient
> * *arms and ammunition to maintain a status of
> * *independence from any who might attempt to
> * *abuse them, which would include their own
> * *government."
> * *-- George Washington
>
> * No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * If the freedom of speech is taken away then
> * dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to
> * the slaughter.
> * -- George Washington
>
> * When governments fear the people there is liberty.
> * When the people fear the government there is tyranny.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... Disarm only
> * those who are neither inclined nor determined to
> * commit crimes.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a
> * *standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed
> * *populace.
> * * -- James Madison
>
> * If the representatives of the people betray
> * their constituents, there is then no resource
> * left but in the exertion of that original
> * right of self-defense which is paramount to
> * all positive forms of government ... The
> * citizens must rush tumultuously to arms,
> * without concert, without system, without
> * resource; except in their courage and despair
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> * large community, in proportion to the artificial
> * strength of the government, is greater than in a
> * small ... the people, without exaggeration, may
> * be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate.
> * -- Alexander Hamilton
>
> * All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people
> * of good conscience to remain silent.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * Every government degenerates when trusted to the
> * rulers of the people alone. The people themselves
> * are its only safe depositories.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * As our enemies have found we can reason like men,
> * so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
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> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * Merchants have no country. The mere spot they
> * stand on does not constitute so strong an
> * attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy
> * of our monied corporations which dare already to
> * challenge our government to a trial by strength,
> * and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * I believe that banking institutions are more
> * dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * Experience hath shewn, that even under the best
> * forms of government those entrusted with power
> * have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted
> * it into tyranny.
> * -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> * A Founding Father speaks out on what's nowadays
> * called "political correctness":
>
> * Do not suffer yourselves to be wheeled out of
> * your liberty to publish by any pretenses of
> * politeness, delicacy or decency. These, as they
> * are so often used, are but three different names
> * for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
> * --John Adams
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