He's terrible. In my opinion, his biggest moment of idiocy was fucking with the welfare system. I admit that it definitely needed some work... WAY too much money was being spent on it, and WAY too many people were using it fraudulently. But he made it to where you have to basically be unemployed and homeless in order to qualify for anything. Case in point? I'm a 25 year old single mom... I go to school full time and work TWO part time jobs just to keep clothes on my child and gas in the car. (My dad buys food and has given us a place to live.) But neither my son nor myself qualify for state insurance because I apparently make too much money. In the state of Missouri, a family of two cannot make more than $280/month in order to qualify for medical benefits. How insane is that? I have had an ongoing health problem for three years now that I can't get worked on because I've never been able to afford insurance. My son is healthy, thank God, but he still needs to be able to get in to see a doctor when necessary, and all I can do at this point is take him to the emergency room. I could go on for days about what a fuckhead Matt Blunt is, but his decision to completely destroy the welfare system upset me more than anything.
And now maybe Missouri will get it's heart back. Blunt was, to be blunt, a MAJOR screw up for Missouri politics. Completely out of touch with what most Missourians needed. He behaved like the entire state was populated by Hallbrook Farms residents. If you were just getting by or scraping to make ends meet, you got screwed due to his mucking with welfare.
True, Missouri has a long history of abuse of that system, but Blunt didn't stop the abuses, he punished those who genuinely needed the assistance like you. Too bad we can't have a Kit Bond or Ken Rothman back in the driver seat. The state would be a much nicer place.
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