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Your EBT Card Has Been Denied... At The Spearmint Rhino
America's welfare state is about to suffer a double whammy of epic proportions. On one hand, extended unemployment benefits are now running out at a pace of 100,000+ per week, as more and more American's lose eligibility for Komrade Samov's 99-week sponsored vacation, meaning millions of Americans heretofore sitting comfortably on their couch playing Call of Duty and collecting $400 a week will now start having to think for a change - never a good thing for any regime that relies on its electorate to be docile as drunk and fat Hindu cows. And now this: "New York would prohibit welfare recipients from spending their tax-funded benefits on cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, and strip clubs under a bill passed overwhelmingly by the state Senate on Tuesday. "I understand that people need food stamps," said Republican Sen. Thomas Libous, a Broome County Republican. "What I don't understand is why they need to go to strip clubs, buy lottery tickets, go to a 'racino' or buy alcohol." Wait, you mean you can't spend other people's money to pay for a lap dance? What crazy form of inhumane austerity is this. And isn't spending taxpayer dollars at the Spearmint Rhino one of the amendments to the post-Obama constitution? But perhaps the scariest implication is that New Yorkers actually do spend their EBT money at the Spearmint Rhino right off the card, being ripped off with the traditional 15% plastic surcharge instead of just paying cash. Now that is really stupid.
More on the "Public Assistance Integrity Act"
Libous said New York must restrict the spending by recipients whose benefits are linked to debit cards to conform to federal law. President Barack Obama signed a law in February that will require states to restrict how the cash portion of social services is spent, or lose 5 percent of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funding. New York risks losing $125 million next year.
Others questioned the need for the restrictions, saying they were a slap at the poor.
And though this Act is far from being voted through, already the civil rights brigades are screaming bloody strip club murder:
"It's a prejudice, I think, about poor people that we are seeing represented more than any statistical or study of behavior," said Sen. Bill Perkins, a Harlem Democat and one of the few senators to vote against the measure. "If they have evidence that there's a rash of that, I'd like to see it."
Then there is the GOP response:
New York's Republican senators who led the bipartisan 56-3 vote Tuesday said New Yorkers are amazed the law allows such spending now. The law prohibits the use of food stamps to buy alcohol or tobacco products, but it's allowed under the "cash allowance" contained in the EBT cards.
"'They can do that? Are you kidding me?'" said Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican, in recounting constituents' reaction. "That outrage is well placed," he said.
"Right now, under the law, you can use the cash assigned for gambling, alcohol and lottery tickets," Libous said. "We get quite a few complaints on an annual basis."
Some state officials are concerned the federal measure, and its 5-percent penalty for failure to enact restrictions, infringes on states' rights to distribute federal welfare benefits under their own rules.
Of course, since most strippers, despite their name, are not equipped with magnetic strip readers, and since most EBT cards will still dispense cash, we can't help but wonder just what is the whole logic behind the idiocy of on one hand generously handing out welfare benefits to anyone with a pulse, and in some zombified cases. without, and on the other coyly posturing for political reasons.
Either way, this sadly may mean that the time to officially short RICK has come.
It, of course, also means that soon enough the #OccupyScores crowd will be firmly in place on the main dancing area, beating their bongos in sync to Pour Some Sugar On Me.
In conclusion, what else but... My EBT.
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The Bible says give to the poor. The U.S. is, hands down, the most charitable country on the planet, trying its best to cover the needy both inside and out. Few if any people actually starve to death in the U.S..
But it also states the following:
2 Thes 3:10 - "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat."
Yeah, your cities full of homeless people attest to that. You will have to explain that when you meet your maker. Good luck!
How about giving them Depleted Uramium Bombs too for free?
The problem in quoting the bible are two fold, the 66 books often contradict each other.
"Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you." Jesus Christ.
So which part of the bible should a person follow, the words Jesus was reported as having said or what someone else was reported as having said?
Jesus is telling us to be charitable with our blessings, to give freely. That does not mean for the state to give for us.. There is a big difference.
First bearish news that I have heard all year. Will have to re-examine my positions and move to net short.
They'll riot of course. All the wound up pressures. Only reason the cities haven't burned is cigarettes, booze, whores and crack. What will happen when they take away those release points.
A note to all New York state represenatives:"Damnit, once your bought, your suppose to stay bought!"-From your "supporters" at Diago & R.J. Reynolds {ps: WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK!}
The writer of this article and most of the commenters want to live in a fascist state. They will.
Hmmm... I thought we were living in a fascist state already when I am being extorted through taxation to support everybody else's life style. Rich and poor alike. Not to mention the wars that I never had any say in, but I'm paying for them.
You don't understand what a fascist state is. But you will.
I'll give you a hint: First rule of a fascist state is: Everyone for himself, everyone against the other.
If you don't understand that, you deserve to be slaves.
Good luck.
That has to be one of the most ridiculous posts I've read. On one hand you say "every man for himself" on the other hand you say " you deserve to be slaves" well I have news for you..... You are a slave. A debt slave, and a slave to givernment. You are property of the state. Good grief you have eyes but you can't see
You are in the pre-fascist state. When the shit hits the fan and your living standards fall by 50% in a matter of days, unemployment explodes and people start getting rounded up in FEMA camps, we'll have that discussion again.
And funny how my post is ridiculous, but you, the badass who has figured out already that both parties serve the plutocracy still manages to somehow believe that what the senate is doing here is going in the right direction to save some of your tax dollars! Yeah, because that's what they care about, your interests and tax dollars being spent wisely. Gee, get a clue man. It doesn't even cross your badass mind that this is a classic misdirection scam, pitting you against the bad apples first in order to indirectly imply that people on unemployment are gaming the system and deserve no sympathy, preparing you for what is coming, described above. Which only serves the plutocracy, having people like you against other American victims of the plutocracy, while the bastards laugh all the way to the bank.
You think you are smart but you are a useful idiot. You deserve to be a slave. And you ain't seen nothing yet.
...and the bailouts around the world for fraud cotinue.
Meanwhile the gov't continue to tell millions of people who didn't cause this crisis..."die motherfucker die".
People cheer, like seeing a gladiator stab someone to death, and forget that Rome is still burning, and Nero is still in charge.
Make the people who got screwed the worst suffer, and somehow the rest of us will be better off? Nope. Somehow they'll rise up and change the already decided candidates for the oligarchical unitary executive imperial presidency diebold elections in Nov?
It's funny that so many people somehow think there really are a significant amount of welfare queens and spearmint rhino EBT users. For every 1 of those, I bet 100 to 10,000 are being made to suffer. Yet what really drives deficits, misallocation, so on and so forth, is really the fraud. Besides, when the Federal reserve is monetizing half the debt, you in reality are only paying 1/2, and actually since that debt will never be paid off, you probably aren't even paying anything for it. You're just paying off the debt accrued in the 80's or so.
Nothing about kicking people off changes anything that matters.
Glass-Steagall (NOT ENACTED BY KICKING PEOPLE OFF UNEMPLOYMENT)
Shit. The whore house doesn't take my EBT card anymore.
My how far our country has drifted from being a nation that championed the idea of personal responsibility. What's so wrong with - I take care of myself and you take care of yourself? We have become a nation of free loaders. Makes me sick. Get off the tit parasites (pardon the pun).
More of Tyler's typically salacious red herring inyouendoh.
I'LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I HAVE AN ADDRESS for this so-called, alleged "Spearmint Rhino".
...or a phone number...
Take a ride down I-10 before the 605 Freeway and you will see Spearment Rhino billboards. Phone number and address are on them.
Make no mistake, evil is very powerful, organized and extremely well funded. LBJ was one of the most evil men to ever sit in the Oval Office. He knew what would happen in the welfare state he was creating with the Great Society. His handlers knew too, all too well!
3 generations later, you have millions of people with no work ethic, no sense of right or wrong and a hgue sense of entitlement and victimhood. This too has been instilled in them in the media and the race card pimps who make millions being mouthpieces for victimhood.
The next phase is when the race/welfare riots start and the police all over the USA are militarized and organized into an occupation force. Those FEMA Camps that are in mothballs are opened and lots of those "gimme" cannon fodder are killed or locked up for a very long time to work for practically nothing. It has been mapped out and it is coming!
with NDAA, patriot act, warrentless searches, recording everything communicated over the internet, 450 million hollow tip bullets, foreign troops 'practicing' in the US --- it sure seems obvious to anyone paying attention. Since the US uses 25% of the world's resources, TPTB want a take down here more than anywhere. The transition is coming, buckle up.
Sigh no more Electronic Transfer Blowjobs in the VIP lounge.... I am waiting for the arguement that is not good for the recipients self esteme On another note can you use those things to make campaign contributions.... I wouldnt know I thought they still got that monopoly money looking stuff from the Dept of Ag.
I agree with this, but highly doubt that many welfare recipients are using it for strip clubs. Let's also ban people from using tax money for their Viagra and b.c. pills. The taxpayers are not responsible for funding YOUR sex life, whether you're a dude who can't get it up without a pill or a dudette who can't get laid without a pill.
Let's also have the politician elite administrators do something about the Welfare for the Rich...Such as the trillions in bailouts to banking frauds, corpo-welfare, Congress benefits, etc. Thanks.
TD- does ZH know the median age of its readers? From the avatars and convs here I'm thinking the majority of your readers perk up when they see that commercial where an over-50 guy throws a football through whatever the F he throws it through. Sorry. Cannot remember WHAT he throws it through. I don't pay pay much attention to the pill ads.
Most of the slot machines in Vegas take EBT cards. Players can also get axtra points for using EBT cards over customers using cash. The Sahara Casino offers TIPPLE DIPPER days on Mondays and Fridays between 9am -5Pm. And, of course, beverages are FREE.
If you believe that, you are easily persuaded muppet and ZH is for you.
I'm going to Vegas this weekend. How do I get a friggin' EBT card?
- MM&I
PS: Before you reply, know that I hate standing in line... with one exception.. when they start offering that chip-in-the-forehead that speeds me through airport security without getting hernia checks by bloated TSA workers.. I'll be first in line for the chip.
Whoever this genius scapegoater of the poor is, he (or she) is not educated enough to understand apostrophes, plurals, or quotation marks. Maybe he needed to spend more time in public school or something.
Tyler Durden don't you realize the knock-on effect of NY's 'austerity' measure here?
Without the spending by EBT at strip clubs the strippers will be deprived of their income.
This will force millions of strippers onto welfare and into the EBT system, thereby exacerbating the problem.
- MM&I
(PS I may be off in my assessment of 'millions' but it's hard to keep track of real numbers when all I do is swim in notional amounts)
I'm trying to think this through a bit.
Do the perps that use EBT cards get hotter strippers or the B-team?
I would guess B-team, only because any business worth their salt would know the exact limit on the EBT and be able to calculate ROI or opportunity cost of right-tracking patrons based upon their ability to pay.
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Oh yeah, the unemployment kings meme.
They live like kings off that unemployment insurance that they earned and drive around in Ferraris because its so lucrative.
Geeezzz.... and just when I almost had enuf food-stamps stashed away for a 30-second "massage" at Suzi Wong's House of Oriental Pleasure (W.34thSt & 12th - you're welcome ;)
I cudda sworn that that quote on the Statue of Liberty was " Give me your Poor, Hungry & Horny...."
Now what? Hang out with the City Hall politicians (on the taxpayers dime) at the Steamy Plums bath-house down in The West Village? HELLOOOO... I DONT THINK SO!!!
Bummer 8(
as i predicted before - we are moving towards a welfare system society when 90% of population have no jobs and get welfare onto plastic card which allows them to spend the money only at certain locations (companies close to the government) and only certain for a types of goods (produced by companies close to the government) and only if they behave well (and vote the right way too)
Its written good, except the fact that the Hindu cows are sacred, never drunk, fat to look cute and the ultimate GIVERs to the people w/o even an expression of acknowledging the giving. All their offerings are proved to have nourishing/medicinal properties. That is why the ancient Hindus worshipped them as mothers.
Love Ohedge.
Yeah, those people getting unemployment compensation are living the life of luxury on $20,000 a year. Perhaps they should use some of their government riches to buy a revolver, give it a nickname like Darwin, then use it on themselves for their retirement plan.
Darwin was a egomaniac eugenics fool...
You are upset over not being able to use food stamp money on beer and cigarettes?
Looks legit...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luo40WjBKWI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhQsRKsU0M&feature=related
To the badass writer of this "article":
Call of Duty my ass.
You are in the pre-fascist state. When the shit hits the fan and your living standards fall by 50% in a matter of days, unemployment explodes and people start getting rounded up in FEMA camps, we'll have that discussion again.
It doesn't even cross your badass mind that this is a classic misdirection scam, pitting you against the bad apples first (check) in order to indirectly imply that people on unemployment are gaming the system and deserve no sympathy (check), preparing you for what is coming (check), described above. Which only serves the plutocracy, having people like you against other American victims of the plutocracy, while the bastards laugh all the way to the bank.
You think you are smart but you are a useful idiot. You deserve to be a slave. And you ain't seen nothing yet.
Taking away a humans right to throw other peoples money at a strippers bush is inhumane. More from the Party of No............... I suppose they are against buying illigal drugs with it too...........