Thursday, June 24, 2010

Life in "Progress" State - California edition

They called it Paradise
The place to be
They watched the hazy sun
Sinking in the sea............

You know you live in Paradise when you can take your welfare card to your local casino and get free money out to place a wad on black.......................

California welfare recipients are able to use state-issued debit cards to withdraw cash on gaming floors in more than half of the casinos in the state, a Los Angeles Times review of records found.

The cards, provided by the Department of Social Services to help recipients feed and clothe their families, work in automated teller machines at 32 of 58 tribal casinos and 47 of 90 state-licensed poker rooms, the review found.

State officials said Wednesday they were working to determine how much money had been withdrawn from casino ATMs by people using the welfare debit cards.

But hey, shouldn't poor people be allowed to throw a few dimes into a slot machine? Isn't it a little discriminatory to think that only rich people should be allowed to blow their money on a craps table?

Subsidizing Native Americans by letting poor people lose their money in Indian casinos?

Now that's "progressive"!


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