Kansas: The National Welfare Queen

[Howey]

Gotta love Jon!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/10/jon-stewart-kansas-welfare-queen_n_7038642.html


Kansas has passed two controversial new laws, one that gives more freedom to gun owners while another that places restrictions on how people who receive government benefits can spend that money.

But as Stewart pointed out, Kansas receives $1.29 from the federal government for every dollar residents pay in federal taxes, yet it's still closing schools, cutting funding to museums and and canceling much-needed highway repairs due to lack of funding.

So on Thursday night's "Daily Show," Stewart offered a solution: Put restrictions on how Kansas can spend its federal money -- the same kinds of "petty, unnecessary and insulting" restrictions Kansas places on its residents who receive government benefits.

"Maybe they'll motivate you to escape your culture of federal dependency," Stewart said. "But until then, let's see how you like being treated like the welfare queens you are."

[PolWatch]

Ya know, that isn't a bad idea. Alabama gets about $1.77 for every $1.00 they send in to the federal government. A lot of that is in federal payroll, military, etc. Some of that is federal funding for pork projects. It would be interesting to know how much of that extra $$$ is being spent for special projects that only benefit a selected few.

[Peter1469]

Let the states keep their own money instead of laundering it though the feds.

[PolWatch]

Let the states keep their own money instead of laundering it though the feds.

That will never catch on...the states that scream the loudest about the waste in DC are also the ones getting the biggest subsidy from DC. That is one reason I laugh when I hear some people talk about the south seceding from the Union again....they don't realize that Washington is what is keeping them afloat.

[Peter1469]

That will never catch on...the states that scream the loudest about the waste in DC are also the ones getting the biggest subsidy from DC. That is one reason I laugh when I hear some people talk about the south seceding from the Union again....they don't realize that Washington is what is keeping them afloat.

There are reasons certain money flows from the feds to those states. We should address those causes and get people off the dole.

[del]

There are reasons certain money flows from the feds to those states. We should address those causes and get people off the dole.

i'd almost forgotten corporations are people too

[PolWatch]

I agree with getting people off the dole...but I don't think we need to ignore the largest beneficiaries of the dole....the state and corporate welfare programs.

[Howey]

Let the states keep their own money instead of laundering it though the feds.

lol...sure! They did such a great job with the pensions of their employees, didn't they?

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1992375

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/florida-pension-agency-head-blurs-line-between-state-personal-business/1106577

T
he man who oversees $134 billion of public money has recommended investing some of it in companies run by friends or business associates, and he doesn't see any conflict in doing that.

Ashbel C. Williams Jr., the executive director of the State Board of Administration, recommended that Florida invest a proposed $100 million of public pension money in a Miami firm run by two fellow investors in a hedge fund where he used to work.

On May 25, Williams approved the investment with Bayview Asset Management, a fund that acknowledges it is "high risk'' and that profits, in part, from foreclosures on homeowners.

The agency Williams leads manages investments for some 1 million retirees and public employees and for hundreds of towns and cities across Florida.

A Wall Street veteran, Williams sometimes applies the secretive and chummy methods of the private investment world to his administration of public money.

[Common]

Let the states keep their own money instead of laundering it though the feds.

Many states get more from the feds than they give, some pay more than they recieve.

[Peter1469]

i'd almost forgotten corporations are people too

Expand on that and demonstrate that it is on topic.

[Peter1469]

lol...sure! They did such a great job with the pensions of their employees, didn't they?

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1992375

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/florida-pension-agency-head-blurs-line-between-state-personal-business/1106577

T

Many haven't. That doesn't amend the Constitution and push those responsibilities off to the federal government.

Public school education.

[del]

Expand on that and demonstrate that it is on topic.

i must have missed the part where i work for you

if you can't figure it out from the context, send me a pm and i'll enlighten you

[Bo-4]

Wonder if Brownback can sing? :D

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Ck7YMhigIKPpjlS_QbWQwFuAqZRm4AFESDjZ43v-_mHgvRsj1kYKxwGo_neKmwOboSH2IFZoHvHVOBjks5U0xYv2dB GctAylyQbHa-9Kg37kSEW7fbicDf1fIFOQoN3KeFHOjITQkOr9d70=w426-h284

[Peter1469]

Is the hard left still shitting the bed over Kansas?