No Job. No Lotto.

Maybe Republicans really are stupid.
After the disastrous results of the 2012 elections, which virtually left them without a friend in the world, they’ve found a way to blow the one victory that they could be using as a foundation to rebuild their brand.

Down yonder in North Carolina, where Republicans hold an unbreachable and significant majority in the statehouse the first piece of legislation that they drummed up turned out to be a mean spirited, bullying piece of crap that will earn them nothing but scorn.

I have not seen the full text of the bill, and don’t know if it has reached their governor’s desk for signing, but early reports are that they have decided to blunt the rights of the unemployed, and especially those on welfare to engage in state supported games of chance – the lottery.

I’m not even going to try and understand the logic of the bill. Enforcement would likely be impossible, since the perp would probably hand the winning ticket over to his mama, or his baby mama. Nothing to gain there, but a little more ill-will for the GOP. If these novice imaginers could see beyond their own self serving egos, and spend their time pulling wings off flies instead of trying to inflict pain on their favorite target – the indigents they might have noticed that lottery winners, by default become taxpaying citizens. Before they can collect a single dime of their lucky day, the state has an opportunity to scrub their lives, and extract from their winnings, a bonanza  for their creditors, child support receivables, back welfare payments, taxes, bar tabs – who knows what sins could be adjudicated.

But.
Instead of turning this into a win-win, these knuckle-heads would rather prove themselves to be small minded little joy killers, that would just as soon be interfering in wet dreams everywhere.

I rest my case.

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