Welfare cards can no longer be used at massage parlors, gun shops, bingo

[Taylor]

halls, tattoo parlors, cruise ships? etc.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/45250/

it would appear that some collecting government assistance don't need all that much assistance

 

[Liberalism is a disease]

Don't worry, Jerry Brown will reverse that.

 

[Mao]

drug dealers and KFC is now taking poor peoples FOOD STAMPS! (lol). All these useless laws the Government keeps passing DOESNT WORK.

 

[The Economist]

This saddens me!

I want all of the liberals that keep electing Democrats in California to keep being able to go on vacations and frequent strip joints with their welfare cards.

 

[Predizzle my nizzle]

VAST majority doesn't.

 

[LauraWrites]

I've never heard of that. But, I'm not surprised.

You know, my county's median income is right around $24K per year and I don't know anyone who has qualified for welfare payment. A friend of mine was left penniless with a kid by a deadbeat dad a few years ago, she attempted to apply for assistance, they wouldn't even give her food stamps and they had no income, her husband took the transportation. She didn't own anything, either.

It's astounding. How do people get on this stuff? A girl I went to school with, her husband works unbelievable hours just to pay rent, they have 3 kids, they barely get food stamps. Two neighbors that live down the apartment building from her have no kids, get hundreds of dollars in food stamps, welfare money, utilities paid, etc. Both are healthy and neither of them work. They're addicts.

It's just amazing that people can get that kind of money. I know there are people who defraud Social Security, but a state-level agency shouldn't be snowed so easily. At least, you would hope.

 

[Observer]

Wtf? It is their god given constitutional right to spend their money where ever they see fit....

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this is why we should cut-off all welfare to anyone not ...seriously...disabled.

 

[Fractured Fairy Tales]

I read this a couple of days ago and was amazed that the cards could be used at those places to begin with. Obviously there was and always have been those that abuse the system and this is where it falls short. However I wouldn't want one innocent family starving and living in a car because of it.

The application and acceptance process should be more stringent in detecting fraudulent claims and when found, be dealt with harshly.

 

[RitchWilliams]

As if welfare recipients aren't smart enough to use the ATM at the gas station on the corner and THEN go get their massage. This was just political BS because the California government, yet again, got a black eye.

 

[Moth on the wall.]

Now you know why I have never supported welfare, period.

 

[Annou Nimmis]

Sounds like a reasonable reform. Is there any evidence that this was actually a problem? When is the last time you heard about an unemployed American taking a cruise?