The little tyrants discuss the plight of your masters

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

You know who your masters are, right?

They're the ones who get to sit on the front porch sipping iced tea watching you as you work in the fields all day.

They get the house, the food, the medicine while you work to support them.

And if you don't like this arrangement and you try to runaway...well, they got them a posse to run you down.

It's the natural order of things. After all, their innate superiority is plain for all to see. They're obviously possessed of superior intellect and an innate moral goodness. Perhaps you don't like having a master just as an animal may bray beneath the weight of the yoke but it is for the best. Were you left to run wild you might fall prey to some predator or cause a calamity amongst your more civilized betters.

You may not like the arragement but that is only because you do not understand what is best for you.

You masters are kind and beneficient. They smile at you and gently pat your children on the head.

And now these masters of yours have it tough, you see. It seems some have complained about how they spend your their money and now the masters are all a-bristlin'.

The Straight Story (38,805 posts)

North Carolina Proposal Would Ban Welfare Recipients From Buying Lottery Tickets

 North Carolina lawmakers have drafted legislation that would ban welfare recipients and people in bankruptcy from buying lottery tickets in the state, according to several news reports.

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Uben (6,729 posts)

1. Do they tell corporations how to spend their welfare?

Hell no, so why do they feel they have the right to tell anyone else to? Hypocritical muther****ing pieces of shit.

Scuba (24,007 posts)

3. Skip Stam has a history of not caring about the poor and not wanting a "nanny state".

Makes me suspicious about his motives.

Kolesar (28,418 posts)

4. punish vendors for selling lottery tickets to someone who they know is on welfare

Ok, more regulations for small business owners to deal with. The store owners will probably roll over and not tell Stam he is being a dick.

Fumesucker (29,915 posts)

5. He seems to be implying that the state run lottery is a bad investment for individuals

How could that be? I hear ads on the TV and radio all the time telling me that buying a lottery ticket is a smart thing to do and I will win a great deal of money by buying such a ticket.
 
Someone here does not have their facts straight.

newfie11 (2,935 posts)

6. These holier than thou folks are unbelievable

I cannot imagine trying to live on the small welfare amount. I can only hope someday the high and mighty idiots making these laws have to live on them.

MrYikes (540 posts)

7. What welfare money?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022267545

[franksolich]

This is why I think that welfare funds should be dispensed in vouchers meant for a particular purpose, rather than than multi-use cash.  Food stamps, housing subsidies, medical care, but not cash.

When one accepts funds from other people--and yes, I've been there, done that, in non-welfare sitautions--one shouldn't have the discretion about the way the money's spent; it should be spent only for the purposes it's given (or in my case, loaned).

[FlippyDoo]

Uben (6,729 posts)

1. Do they tell corporations how to spend their welfare?

Hell no, so why do they feel they have the right to tell anyone else to? Hypocritical muther****ing pieces of shit.

Didn't the government tell the auto manufacturers what to do with the money they were given?

I thought that was one of the reasons that Ford decided not to participate.

[Carl]

Piss on em,they want my money with no return of value then they can be told what to do with it.

If they want to spend on stuff they don`t need then they can provide some service (that means job DUmbasses) to earn it.

[thundley4]

I don't know about other states, but lottery sales always spike during the first week of every month, especially the Pick 3 and Pick 4 daily games.

[BattleHymn]

I'm all for the primitives spending their welfare money on lottery tickets.

It's the only way the state will ever collect any revenue from them.

[Airwolf]

Maybe if they didn't use the money to go to the casinos and to the liquor store  and to by drugs then maybe this wouldn't be needed as their kids sit at home and wonder why they only have fruit loops for dinner or mac and cheese for the 4th day in a row while mom and pop go out and make asses of themselves.

[I_B_Perky]

Kolesar (28,418 posts)

4. punish vendors for selling lottery tickets to someone who they know is on welfare

Ok, more regulations for small business owners to deal with. The store owners will probably roll over and not tell Stam he is being a dick.

Wow! obumbles puts out regs by the boat load and now they are pissed off? 

newfie11 (2,935 posts)

6. These holier than thou folks are unbelievable

I cannot imagine trying to live on the small welfare amount. I can only hope someday the high and mighty idiots making these laws have to live on them.

Red: I got the same opinion of you liberal asswipes. Everytime I turn around you idiots are trying to tell me what I can eat, drink, smoke, and own.
Green: There have been many studies that prove that the average welfare puke with a household of four, making min wage, gets more in money/benefits that are greater than a family of four that has a household income of approx $60,000. 

MrYikes (540 posts)

7. What welfare money?

HUD, TANF, SNAP, heating/cooling assistance, Medicaid... I could go on and on.  Facts ain't on your side dummies.