California welfare recipients have been able to get taxpayer cash -- meant to feed and clothe needy families -- from ATM machines at strip clubs across the state, including some well-known gentlemen’s cabarets in Los Angeles.
More than $12,000 from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was dispensed from the start of 2007 to the end of 2009 at clubs including Sam’s Hofbrau, Seventh Veil and Star Strip, according to officials at the Department of Social Services.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered the department to remove the clubs from the official list of businesses where welfare recipients can withdraw benefits using state-issued ATM cards.
Think about this for a moment. Arnold is barring people from using their ATM's in strip clubs but not barring these people from welfare benefits.
So now if you are getting welfare bennies from Uncle Arnold, you're going to have to go to the trouble of going to the grocery store across the street from the strip club before you actually go into the strip club.
Did it ever occur to Uncle Arnold that maybe some of the strippers (single mom recipients of welfare benefits because they're "allegedly" not working) were getting money out of the ATM's because it's easier than driving to the ATM on the way home?
Making it somewhat inconvenient for welfare recipients to go to strip clubs?
Now that's "Progressive"!
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