I live in MA, it is true. Do you understand why RedState is my favorite website and I love the daily emails?

I have the state document if anyone wants me to post it, let me know. I found it on radio station website.

If you flee MA to escape this madness please, when you arrive in your new home STOP VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS!

My God, will they ever learn?

I vote for myself rather than vote for a dem. I don’t know what’s wrong with the rest of the state. It’s scary, we have less than 10% republicans in our state legislature. I always get dems. I have never voted for one of them. I write my own name in instead.

2008 Kerry & Markey had opponents, they were RINOs but I voted for them anyway, they had no chance.

Did you read about Kennedy family fighting over his seat? As if they can inherit it, it’s an elected position.

It is like being back in Romper Room and never having to grow up.

When I heard about this, I just thought they were going to get government cars. They can use them while on welfare, but the state owns the car. This was bad enough. I did not realize they were a GIFT. I want a fully paid for car. Even if I have to pay for insurance, it’s still a good deal.

What’s the over/under on when the first person sells their “free” car and demands another one?

My co worker complained today because her transmission went out. It’s gonna cost $ 2300!!! She ought to just move to Taxachussetts.

This makes me wonder what the fine print is that comes with the stimulus money. Perhaps part of it is to purchase Chrysler or GM vehicles in order to make a quota. This would certainly help them ‘look’ like they are keeping afloat. It would also help the dems keep the UAW in business and since they are going to be the primary owners with UAW in both these companies.

My other question would be how quickly will these cars depreciate in value? Even if someone were to get a free car and try to turn around and sell it they won’t get much for it. So the lost revenue only goes to Chrysler/Government Motors.

I wrote about this before when you were praising all the welfare cuts and I was saying why is that better than what we have now where they buy a car, provide subsidized daycare for children, have tons more caseworkers and offices, and the recipeints are still on public assistance. It’s even more and bigger government and now mom and baby/kids are seperated too. Sure maybe AFDC/TANF payments are lowered but look how much the state is spending on other stuff and I’m sure more especially with daycare. They still recieve AFDC payments too if they are in school. If they don’t recieve a car they will provide bus passes or even taxi service. They provide weekly gas cards too. After I had a car wreck seven years ago I called a taxi to get to school twice. The second day he told me to go apply for TANF they would pay for it, that he takes TANF recipients to work all day long. Sure enough they did. This isnt’ just MA any of the welfare reform type of states do this program. Look at workfare or welfare to work.

Now I will say as single parent transportation has been one of my biggest struggles. It’s sooo hard without a car. I don’t think the gov should give out cars but if they are going to help with something I think a car will improve a family’s earning ability and life a lot better than free preschool or many other gov programs.

there are so many other problems it’d take 36,000 miles to list them all. First, who’s paying for the gas? These people are on welfare, so they’re presumably not earning a substantial (any) income, so I doubt they will be… Is the state of MA going to be on the hook for when one of the giftees has a lapse in judgment and mows down a pedestrian while driving drunk? What if the giftee has a history of DUI? You can darn well bet that if it happens, any potential plaintiff is going to know that the state is the party with deep pockets!

Besides, doesn’t this program only encourage the destruction of the environment? Shouldn’t we be encouraging these people to take public transportation instead?

they are helping the mothers get an education and work and get off welfare. I think it’s just a way of providing more caseworkers and daycare workers with jobs.
It’s just backwards because it costs the state thousands of dollars maybe per month to supposedly get someone off welfare (TANF) in the future and there is no obligation for it to be long term. Someone can quit, not stay in school, etc and the worse penality is their TANF will stop. TANF isn’t very much to begin with so it’s not that big of penalty. There aren’t penalties like that for food stamps or medicaid. If there is a medical condition (read pregnant with dr’s note..) they do not have to work or be in school either. It seems like there are lots of out of wedlock births too from what I saw. I think subsidized daycare is so backwards too. Someone is not “independent” if the state is paying their daycare.