arstechnica.com— Recent hearings revealed that the State of Illinois spent $1 million defending unconstitutional video games legislation. The story gets even worse when you learn where the money came from.
May 29, 2007View in Crawl 4
I live in Illinois, and this doesn't surprise me at all!! Our corrupt government at work. We need politicians that don't come from Chicago for a change as that cities political system is pretty f**ked, then they bring it to a statewide level. Pisses me off that our ex-governor George Ryan (a.k.a. Lyin' Ryan) isn't in prison yet. They are going to appeal his sentence until that f**ker dies.
The base simplicity of judging any program or person in caricatura breeds intolerance and does nothing to further the discourse. Why would some rail against unemployment assistance and turn blind to corporate subsidizing, or in turn promote unlimited and benefic freedoms for the individual and call for the constriction of larger economic entities?
Whatever happened to sympathy and empathy?! Some people genuinely need welfare. It's 50x better than having a bunch of poor people living on the streets. Welfare is 100% necessary, but there should be limits to stop people from completely exploiting the system... those exploiters are the problem, not the people that genuinely need it. Don't discriminate.And wow, what a waste of money. We don't ****ing need videogame laws! The government has no business being involved with this crap! They have better things to do, but they'd rather waste their time with things like this to make themselves feel important.
@ Pseudorious: I wish I could Digg you up about 500 times.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I know not a single person on welfare without at least two video game systems. And most of my relatives live on welfare. That's part of the reason I no longer have contact with them, and haven't since 2005, even though some deaths. I'm disgusted that so many able-bodied people decide to live on welfare then cry about being poor. GET A f**kING JOB. For those who work and can't quite make ends meet, if you're not out buying expensive toys, I'm fine with you getting help. Know what? Before getting approved from welfare, unless you are disabled, you should have to show that you are working at least 40 hours per week (30 if a single parent with school-aged children, 20 if children are under school aged), your necessary monthly bills (rent, food, utilities, a modest clothing allowance), and your current pay. Whatever you fall short of you get in aid for a while. But that's not happening.I couldn't care less that money is being taken from welfare (IT'S ALSO COMING FROM OTHER SOURCES). My problem if that they are deciding what adults should be able to play by this bill.
@atomic1fire... welfare /= welfare fraud... If you don't like living in a country with social assistance programmes then go find yourself a nice banana republic to live in.
logicalnoiseMay 29, 2007
Better than Iowa(new state motto)
spideymanMay 29, 2007
I live in Illinois, and this doesn't surprise me at all!! Our corrupt government at work. We need politicians that don't come from Chicago for a change as that cities political system is pretty f**ked, then they bring it to a statewide level. Pisses me off that our ex-governor George Ryan (a.k.a. Lyin' Ryan) isn't in prison yet. They are going to appeal his sentence until that f**ker dies.
pisceanmarsMay 29, 2007
The base simplicity of judging any program or person in caricatura breeds intolerance and does nothing to further the discourse. Why would some rail against unemployment assistance and turn blind to corporate subsidizing, or in turn promote unlimited and benefic freedoms for the individual and call for the constriction of larger economic entities?
grayfox777May 29, 2007
Whatever happened to sympathy and empathy?! Some people genuinely need welfare. It's 50x better than having a bunch of poor people living on the streets. Welfare is 100% necessary, but there should be limits to stop people from completely exploiting the system... those exploiters are the problem, not the people that genuinely need it. Don't discriminate.And wow, what a waste of money. We don't ****ing need videogame laws! The government has no business being involved with this crap! They have better things to do, but they'd rather waste their time with things like this to make themselves feel important.
ariastarMay 29, 2007
@ Pseudorious: I wish I could Digg you up about 500 times.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I know not a single person on welfare without at least two video game systems. And most of my relatives live on welfare. That's part of the reason I no longer have contact with them, and haven't since 2005, even though some deaths. I'm disgusted that so many able-bodied people decide to live on welfare then cry about being poor. GET A f**kING JOB. For those who work and can't quite make ends meet, if you're not out buying expensive toys, I'm fine with you getting help. Know what? Before getting approved from welfare, unless you are disabled, you should have to show that you are working at least 40 hours per week (30 if a single parent with school-aged children, 20 if children are under school aged), your necessary monthly bills (rent, food, utilities, a modest clothing allowance), and your current pay. Whatever you fall short of you get in aid for a while. But that's not happening.I couldn't care less that money is being taken from welfare (IT'S ALSO COMING FROM OTHER SOURCES). My problem if that they are deciding what adults should be able to play by this bill.
striker1211May 30, 2007
Yeah, you should just pick old uneducated guy A instead of B...
papermonkeyMay 31, 2007
@atomic1fire... welfare /= welfare fraud... If you don't like living in a country with social assistance programmes then go find yourself a nice banana republic to live in.