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SterilizeAllRepublicansAdam Weinstein
5/21/15 3:40pm
If you’re trying to limit the “frivolous spending” of those who need public assistance, and you want to limit them and subject to them to such excessive fees (which oddly enough, seems like the banks are once again profiting from all this. Suspiciouuuuuusssss!), you’re fucking evil. End of story.

How about instead of just limiting how much can be taken out, you make things like electronic or easy swipe payments from those cards for approved services and expenses (aka: rent, utilities) mandatory for all businesses? On top of that, how about you making it a law that banks and their ATMs can’t charge more than 1-2% of the amount that people are taking out when the money is coming from those cards? That way people can pay for the things they really need and not have to get fucked by an bank’s ATM fees, and furthermore, the banks can’t take and profit off of the money that VERY POOR PEOPLE need in order to survive?

Oh, wait... I remember why.... because that makes sense, and Republicans are still stuck in the era of Reaganomics. Too busy loading their sinuses with cocaine and fucking their underaged interns and secretaries or hunting for gay hookups on the down low to think about how to do silly things like their JOB. Garsh.... how silly of me.
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  Sara-Slaughter607SterilizeAllRepublicans
  5/21/15 3:56pm
  I think I love you.
  
  Side note: I'm not surprised the fucking snakes didn't figure out some way to line their pockets in this shit..... those fees should absolutely be illegal. EVERY TIME. Not just the first two in a damn month.
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  EatTheCheeseNicholsonSterilizeAllRepublicans
  5/21/15 3:57pm
  Meanwhile, in my home state of Maine, our asshole Tea Bagger governor passed a law limiting what types of foods people can buy on food stamps. It includes things like pre-made meals, because, you know, unemployed people have so much free time on their hands, they can just cook every meal from scratch.
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ThrumbolioAdam Weinstein
5/21/15 3:28pm
I can’t think of any justification for this. Fuck, hit me with some math. Something to make an objective case that this is in any way a good thing.
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  fewfewfewfewThrumbolio
  5/21/15 3:32pm
  Yea I'm confused. If you can only take out 25 a day and your rent is due that day you have to prepare 2 weeks in advance to pay it? Im confused.
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  eats books and leavesThrumbolio
  5/21/15 3:32pm
  All I can think of is the predictable “well, if we let them withdraw more than that, they’ll just buy drugs with it, because if they were responsible they wouldn’t be poor. And if they want more they should get a bank account, which they would have if they were responsible.” Please note that’s just what I thought they would say, not what I would say.
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ArkAdam Weinstein
5/21/15 3:33pm
That state is a goddamn nightmare.

Honestly, it serves them right for voting radical right-wing Republican over and over and over and over. That’s just what you get when you re-elect people like Sam Brownback. Everyone with the means and inclination to get out of Kansas has probably gotten the fuck out of Kansas right now, and the remaining people stubbornly vote to screw themselves again and again.

I’m out of sympathy. Maybe they’ll start voting Democrat when the Republicans pass a bill requiring each and every welfare recipient to show up at the capitol building and personally fellate a member of the state legislature before they can receive their $14 welfare check that can only be withdrawn $1 at a time, every 3rd day, with a $2 ATM fee for each withdrawal.

Y’all made your bed. Lie in it, or vote differently.
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  ultravisitor2000Ark
  5/21/15 3:51pm
  Everyone with the means and inclination to get out of Kansas has probably gotten the fuck out of Kansas
  
  I did so nearly twenty years ago. It’s shit like this that reminds me why I’ll never go back.
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  witty burnerArk
  5/21/15 4:43pm
  Unfortunately predominantly radical left-wing Democrat regions don’t fair much better. Look at urban centers such as Philadelphia, Detroit, and Baltimore that have been bastions for Democrats who do so amazingly little to alleviate the suffering of the poor. Most of these cities haven’t had a Republican in power for decades, yet they are routinely encumbered with an incredibly high amount of corruption and rank among nations highest in poverty rates.
  
  Both parties are fueling the financial machine, the Democrats just give better lip service while they do it. You can point the finger at Republicans for incredibly awful policies (such as this one) but voting them out isn’t necessarily going to answer your problems.
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opiumsmabytchAdam Weinstein
5/21/15 3:36pm
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  WIncredulous is with her!opiumsmabytch
  5/21/15 6:44pm
  I'm unfriending Kansas.
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  PumpkinSpiesWIncredulous is with her!
  5/21/15 10:26pm
  Can’t believe you talked to that weirdo in the first place.
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SauceboyAdam Weinstein
5/21/15 3:52pm
It’s sort of shocking, but not really. I don’t think that they really believe that cruelty to the poor is somehow the road to a better Kansas.

I just think that a) they don’t give a shit, because they don’t believe they will ever be in that position, and b) it’s popular with their constituents, so they’re happy to propose and pass it, even if it makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

And it’s b) that makes it such a craven act - they know it doesn’t do anything, but are happy to hurt people because other people will cheer when they do. There is nothing more morally cowardly than that.
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  weirwoodtreehugger3Sauceboy
  5/21/15 4:31pm
  I bet they consider themselves good Christians too.
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Masshole JamesAdam Weinstein
5/21/15 3:32pm
For those who know me here at Gawker perhaps I sound like a broken record but there is only one solution to our problems in the U.S. Round up the politicians and their bosses among the 1% and...

GIF

It seems to be necessary every 100 years or so.
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  Perry DowningMasshole James
  5/21/15 4:47pm
  Shall we dance, Mdm Guillotine?
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amtAdam Weinstein
5/21/15 3:31pm
So hey Republicans - now that Kansas has so many great “business friendly” policies, how come all of the Fortune 500 companies based in those high taxing, Liberal-commie hellholes like NYC, LA, San Francisco, Boston, Denver, Chicago and Seattle haven’t packed up their bags and moved to Topeka yet?

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TheHoopoeAdam Weinstein
5/21/15 3:42pm
This is about transferring the federal money meant for welfare payments to payment processing companies who are probably large donors to political campaigns. That is all. I don't doubt that they couldn't careless about poor people but this is definitely the sort of freedom citizens United was meant to buy.
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NoButWait Hates Your GoT Fan TheoriesAdam Weinstein
5/21/15 3:37pm
We can’t be letting poor people pay for luxuries like concerts and manicures...when that money could be going toward necessities, like bank fees.
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humanSuitcaseAdam Weinstein
5/21/15 4:22pm
This impacts poor, white Kansans, too, Team Brownback and Tyson. Betcha didn’t think about that, did you?
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  flamingolingohumanSuitcase
  5/21/15 4:37pm
  They don’t care about poor whites either. They’d gladly reestablish feudalism if they could.
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