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Related: About this forumThe Governor is out to destroy this state.
He is out to ruin this state! First the tax cut for businesses he signed first thing getting in, he cuts education spending, now this! I could, with wages going up some, 3 year limit, but 1 and for life? ??? He is is out to cut all our throats, poor or middle class! Unless you are big business, then you are so set!
Facing $1 billion deficit, Arizona sharply limits welfare
By RYAN VAN VELZER
21 hours ag
PHOENIX (AP) Facing a $1 billion budget deficit, Arizona's Republican-led Legislature has reduced the lifetime limit for welfare recipients to the shortest window in the nation.
Low-income families on welfare will now have their benefits cut off after just 12 months.
As a result, the Arizona Department of Economic Security will drop at least 1,600 families including more than 2,700 children from the state's federally funded welfare program on July 1, 2016.
read more at http://news.yahoo.com/facing-1-billion-deficit-arizona-sharply-limits-welfare-202816912.html
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The Governor is out to destroy this state. (Original Post)
Lady Freedom Returns
May 2015
OP
What they really want is to end welfare and hope fellow citizens who are down on their
NoJusticeNoPeace
May 2015
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NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)1. What they really want is to end welfare and hope fellow citizens who are down on their
luck will quietly go into the alley and die.
Now we KNOW this is what they want.
Now what do we do about it?
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)2. Tell it, kick 'em out! LFR FTW!
lapfog_1
(29,191 posts)3. yup that il fix it.
let's say every one of those families got $750 a month in benefits and it is now $0.
That's $14.4 million a year.
Or a whole 1.44 percent of the billion dollar shortfall.
Kali
(55,003 posts)6. and every dime they get goes right back into the economy
such bullshit
stage left
(2,961 posts)4. Hell
if there is a hell, is too good for this governor.
HelenWheels
(2,284 posts)5. If he wants a companion to go to hell with
he can take Gov. Walker from Wisconsin. They sound like birds of a feather.