Alabama Republican wants to stop people on food stamps from owning cars — but expects them to get jo

[LiberalArkie]

Alabama Republican wants to stop people on food stamps from owning cars — but expects them to get jobs

Alabama Republicans say they want a new bill to drastically limit state welfare programs so that recipients will get jobs — but the bill eliminates the most common means of transportation to and from work.

The bill, created by Republican Sen. Arthur Orr, cuts the time frame for assistance from five years to three. It also creates a new layer of bureaucracy for poor people seeking help, including the requirement that they sign a contract vowing to adhere to the program’s rules. It also disqualifies people from getting food stamps or financial assistance for families with children if the recipients own cars, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.


“We want to get people working back in the workforce and not hanging out for public benefits because they can,” Orr told the paper.

The bill will go to the state Senate after clearing committee 10-3, according to the Advertiser. It limits the programs SNAP, or food stamps, and TANF, or Temporary Aid for Needy Families.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/alabama-republican-wants-to-stop-people-on-food-stamps-from-owning-cars-but-expects-them-to-get-jobs/

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

1. Yanno...Drumpf has made it "cool" to just come out and say what one means...

So why doesn't the GOP just come out and say they want all the poor people in the US to die?

[LiberalArkie]

2. They could, because the poor whites do not consider themselves as poor.

Only Native Americans and Blacks and Latinos and Asians are poor. I think that is the correct order.

[Baobab]

10. Poor is the new "black"

n/t

[gratuitous]

3. "Hanging out for public benefits"

I wonder if Arthur Orr knows anyone on public assistance? But I'll bet he's a regular down to the Baptist Church, singing about Jesus and listening to Bible stories all the live-long day. None of it, though, ever penetrating that thick-skulled hatrack sitting on top of his shoulders. If you called him cruel, he'd blink with disbelief and say, "Cruel? Me?"

[world wide wally]

4. As he lives off the state of Alabama

[beachbumbob]

5. Crazy land of conservatives and why real America must stand up

Enough is enough...

[Jerry442]

6. Why should they have cars?

They can just make use of Alabama's extensive public transportation system.

[Baobab]

9. Not any more

https://www.google.com/search?q=national+city+lines&ie=utf-8

[Gormy Cuss]

7. What a genius!

They shouldn't have phones either, Or more than one pair of pants or shoes.

[Baobab]

8. Wasn't the whole point of getting rid of the streetcars forcing people to buy cars?

National City Lines were very successful at buying up and destroying the too-efficient, beloved street cars.

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And replacing them with belchy diesel buses like the ones they had in Montgomery, which Rosa Parks had to ride!

[malaise]

11. But can they buy guns?

That's all that matters to morons like Orr.

[CurtEastPoint]

12. This fucking hypocrite. Look what he sits on:

Orr also sits on the board of several non-profit organizations, including the Community Free Clinic which he helped establish to assist the working poor.

[Avalon Sparks]

13. The majority of welfare benefits go to kids...

And in 2015 average payout was $129 a month per person .....just got that stat from the US government website. Living the high life...

Does this asshole want to overturn child labor laws too? Get them back in the workforce...

These jerkoffs never blink an eye at corporate welfare. Fuk them all!

[Nevernose]

14. Happened to me in NV in 1996

I had no health insurance and was making minimum wage plus tips delivering pizza -- supporting a family of four.

Got a horrid ear infection, went to the doctor, found out that without surgery I would go deaf.

Went to the Medcaid office, because I was poor. Because I was unmarried, I was technically single. I was flat out told that owning a car disqualified me from Medicaid, as did being a single male.

The beauty? The same person who told me that government benefits weren't for single males also told me that if I DID go deaf, that is be partially disabled and get a check for life. Sheer lunacy.

Coda: I did go partially deaf, but there's no pay out for partial deafness.

[Avalon Sparks]

15. Here's his fb site, comments are open

https://www.facebook.com/ArthurOrr?fref=photo

[Stinky The Clown]

16. I wonder what size white hood that joker wears.

[ladjf]

17. The Republicans have no limits as to how mean they are willing to be

to those who are in need. I think their followers applaud abusive behavior with regard to the poor.