{"id":30753,"date":"2015-05-19T12:36:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=30753"},"modified":"2015-05-19T12:36:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:36:39","slug":"its-not-the-heat-its-the-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=30753","title":{"rendered":"It’s not the Heat, it’s the Stupidity."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oops. Arizona is all out of money. What to do? Republicans who control the sate have it all figured it out. In their fiscally conservative, bootstrappy wisdom, the Rethugs have decided to close the $1 billion budget gap by\u00a0cutting welfare<\/a>. that could go wrong?<\/p>\n

Low-income families on welfare will now have their benefits cut off after just 12 months.<\/p>\n

As a result, the Arizona Department of Economic Security will drop at least 1,600 families \u2013 including more than 2,700 children \u2013 from the state\u2019s federally funded welfare program on July 1, 2016.<\/p>\n

The cuts of at least $4 million reflect a prevailing mood among the lawmakers in control in Arizona that welfare, Medicaid and other public assistance programs are crutches that keep the poor from getting back on their feet and achieving their potential.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gov. Doug Ducey (R-fuckface), when he’s not stuffing his face with ice cream, says\u00a0these cuts are necessary to “protect the taxpayers.” Arizona is\u00a0one of those red welfare states<\/a> that mooches off taxpayers, in other states.\u00a0The thing is, the welfare money\u00a0is entirely federally funded through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.<\/em> It comes from\u00a0the federal government. <\/em>Thanks, but no thanks, Obama! We don’t want your free federal money, for we need to teach Arizona Poors a thing or two about bootstraps. Arizona isn\u2019t really screwing people on government assistance to save money;<\/em> it\u2019s about teaching those poors a lesson about not being poor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell my kids all the time that the decisions we make have rewards or consequences, and if I don\u2019t ever let them face those consequences, they can\u2019t get back on the path to rewards,\u201d Republican Sen. Kelli Ward, R-Lake Havasu City, said during debate on the budget. \u201cAs a society, we are encouraging people at times to make poor decisions and then we reward them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is class cleansing, fellow sleuth. They want poor people to move out of Arizona. Forget the sanctimonious moralizing bullshit. They can’t legally kick people out of the state so they’re going to give them an incentive to self-deport. I say it’s because the fucking moochers (yes, Republicans, that’s you, motherfuckerss) don’t want any of our money to go to the poor in Arizona.<\/p>\n

If all of the poor leave Arizona, who will the Teabaggers in the state house vent their hate on next?<\/p>\n

(Mexicans).<\/p>\n

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ps: recall this fuckface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oops. Arizona is all out of money. What to do? Republicans who control the sate have it all figured it out. In their fiscally conservative, bootstrappy wisdom, the Rethugs have decided to close the $1 billion budget gap by\u00a0cutting welfare. that could go wrong? Low-income families on welfare will now have their benefits cut off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30753"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30765,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30753\/revisions\/30765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}