Drug testing is not the only restriction envisioned for people receiving public assistance: a bill in the Tennessee Legislature would cap lottery winnings for recipients at $600.
uh ... Exsqueeze me but if they hit the jackpot wouldn't you want the OFF of WELFARE?
But hey, if you're going to take all their winnings over $600.00 why not just pass a law saying they can't play the lottery at all. Brand a big 'W' on their foreheads so all the merchants know no Lotto tickets for them.
Or better yet just have a gubmint worker stationed in ALL welfare recipients homes and they can order what these folks can spend their money on. Naturally the main concern would be food, so no cookies, cakes, or popcorn. Just gubmint cheese and crackers and for Sunday they get gubmint gruel to feast on.
Or the ultimate control for the gubmint -- just put all people on public assistance into big camps and they can pick cotton from dawn to dusk to 'earn' their keep. Ooops, wait a sec.... that was already tried, it was called Slavery and ..... Communism.
I'm NOT defending the Welfare Queens in Cadillacs whose kids have $300.00 sneakers but come on, they are people with some rights left. And if they want to buy $5.00 worth of Lotto tickets instead of gubmint approved stale bread, so be it.
ya know, maybe if it really SUCKED to be on welfare, more people would be incentivized to get OFF it.....