See that picture? No, it's not cheesy clip art of an African-American household for a banking ad. It's actually Oklahoma Speaker of the House T.W. Shannon and his family. If he looks happy in that picture, well, he should be. He has a hot wife, cute kids and nice sweaters. He also gets to prance around while wearing shoes with no socks. What a joy that must be. I'm conscious and self-aware, so I'd feel like a disgusting tool doing something unsanitary like that, but it would be fun to do it for a day and not worry about people judging and mocking you.
Anyway, T.W. thinks all people should be happy and married like he at least pretends to be. He's introduced legislation that would take money away from welfare entitlement programs and fund a pro-marriage public service campaign instead.
Via News 9:
If you are married, you probably won't have to live in poverty. That's the message of a Public Service Announcement the Speaker of the House wants to make.
His proposal would take TANF or Temporarily Assistance of Needy Family to make the PSA. Legislative action is necessary because the money is being designated for a specific purpose.
The speaker's ad would target those like Melissa Barlow, a single mom of two kids living at the City Rescue Mission.
"When I first came here I was a wreck," said Melissa. "Broken family, my choices what I was doing in my life wasn't as positive as I needed them to be no matter how hard I tried."
The Public service campaign would spread the message that getting married and staying married can keep you out of poverty...
"We want to redirect people off government subsidies, we want to get people out of poverty," said Joe Griffin, the Director of Communications for Speaker of the House T.W. Shannon. "Every dollar that's spent on a child who is no longer in poverty and on the road to prosperity that's money well spent."...
The measure passed through the house last week and will be voted on in the Senate.
Dear God, that may be the stupidest thing I've ever read. It's dumber than wearing shoes with no socks.