{"id":21330,"date":"2010-11-29T06:52:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T10:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21330"},"modified":"2010-11-29T06:52:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T10:52:23","slug":"oh-ya-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21330","title":{"rendered":"Oh. Ya think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link to an article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/10\/schwarzeneggers-office-cancels-access-to-welfare-benefits-on-cruise-ships-and-at-casinos.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> that tells us that the California government has outlawed using Electronic Benefits Transfer cards (welfare debit cards) in casinos and on cruise ships outside of California;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than $69 million meant to help the needy pay their rent and clothe their children was accessed in all 49 other states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, according to data obtained by The Times from the California Department of Social Services.<\/p>\n<p>The department instructed the vendor that administers the debit card program to make the changes  Monday afternoon, in response to a report in The Times\u2019 Monday edition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In June, California cut off similar card usage inside their state and it just came to them to cut the cards off outside of the state. <\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that they&#8217;d do a better job if they cut off all of those people who used their cards on cruises and casino from their taxpayer-funded benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link to an article from the Los Angeles Times that tells us &hellip; <a title=\"Oh. Ya think?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21330\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh. Ya think?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}