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okaawhatever

(9,462 posts) Wed May 6, 2015, 03:08 AM May 2015

Missouri Senate Overrides Veto Of Welfare Restrictions Bill

The Missouri Senate voted on Monday to override Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of a bill that severely restricts welfare eligibility, potentially cutting benefits to thousands of low-income families.

Nixon, a Democrat, on Thursday vetoed the bill, which calls for reducing the time families may receive aid from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program from five years to three years and nine months. It also would impose strict work requirements.

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State Sen. David Sater (R), one of the bill's sponsors, said welfare encourages "a dependency on government."

"I want to stop that," Sater said. "I want to see families on their own -- self-sufficient."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/04/missouri-welfare-restrict_n_7209458.html?ir=Politics

Sater doesn't understand they aren't dependent on gov't, they're dependent on food.

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Missouri Senate Overrides Veto Of Welfare Restrictions Bill (Original Post) okaawhatever May 2015 OP

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Hmm sounds legit. Katashi_itto May 2015 #2

lol, what was that? nt daredtowork May 2015 #3

It was an ad to buy fake passports,create new Identities Katashi_itto May 2015 #4

We need the Federal government to uphold welfare daredtowork May 2015 #5

So when the jails fill because the only "self sufficient" things they can do are illegal... jmowreader May 2015 #6

" "I want to see families on their own -- self-sufficient." AZ Progressive May 2015 #7

Rich people who spend their entire lives depending on a "gubmint" check maxrandb May 2015 #8

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Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)

2. Hmm sounds legit.

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Wed May 6, 2015, 03:30 AM

May 2015

daredtowork

(3,732 posts)

3. lol, what was that? nt

Reply to Katashi_itto (Reply #2)

Wed May 6, 2015, 03:42 AM

May 2015

Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)

4. It was an ad to buy fake passports,create new Identities

Reply to daredtowork (Reply #3)

Wed May 6, 2015, 03:44 AM

May 2015

daredtowork

(3,732 posts)

5. We need the Federal government to uphold welfare

Reply to okaawhatever (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2015, 03:50 AM

May 2015

If it's a State thing, or worse, a county thing, everyone will just keep trying to undercut each other in a race to the bottom so "all the shiftless beggars" won't be attracted to the "generous handouts". If welfare is always handled as a Federal program, then there is no variation between localities. Moreover, then dickhead politicians won't be able to cut welfare whenever they want to do some personal grandstanding.

jmowreader

(50,561 posts)

6. So when the jails fill because the only "self sufficient" things they can do are illegal...

Reply to okaawhatever (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2015, 04:30 AM

May 2015

...that's okay with David Sater?

AZ Progressive

(3,411 posts)

7. " "I want to see families on their own -- self-sufficient."

Reply to okaawhatever (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2015, 11:46 AM

May 2015

What horseshit.

You think you can get people self sufficient by making their lives so miserable, because you believe that they are somehow just lazy and need to be forced to "pick themselves up by their bootstraps", if you believe that you have the IQ / reasoning of a caveman!

God I hate that we have so many idiots with so much power in this country!!! And so many people suffering as a reason.

maxrandb

(15,338 posts)

8. Rich people who spend their entire lives depending on a "gubmint" check

Reply to okaawhatever (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2015, 12:23 PM

May 2015

railing against poor people's "dependency on 'gubmint'"

My Irony Meter just broke.

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