Necesidades básicas insatisfechas

Comida, bebida, alquiler, medicinas, escolaridad de los chicos, cable, celular, y ahora también las fichas del casino.

California welfare recipients using state-issued debit cards withdrew more than $1.8 million in taxpayer cash on casino floors between October 2009 and last month, state officials said Thursday.


Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an executive order requiring welfare recipients to promise they will use cash benefits only to "meet the basic subsistence needs" of their families. [...]

Schwarzenegger has already ordered the vendor that runs the state welfare system's ATM network to prohibit the cards from working at casino machines. Republican lawmakers are now calling on the administration to track down the people who withdrew cash at gaming centers and recover the money. [...]

Democrats, who have been fighting to preserve the state's fraying social safety net in the face of a $19-billion budget gap, angrily rejected a Schwarzenegger proposal last month to eliminate the cash portion of welfare.

That was before anyone in Sacramento realized the money could be withdrawn by someone strolling from a poker game to a blackjack table.

Lo de California ya es lastimoso, de un bananerismo 100% puro de alto octanaje. Las compañías que todavía siguen en pie se pondrán muy contentas al ver en que se va el dinero que les exprimen.