article_snippet.sent: The new restrictions, regarding Kansas applicants, have inspired national criticism and mockery from The Daily Show.
article_snippet.sent: Host Jon Stewart suggested that in accepting federal funds, Kansas should be forced to give up items like roads 'paved with luxurious asphalt.'
article_snippet.sent: The list has attracted attention because The list feels mean-spirited,' said Shannon Cotsoradis, president and CEO of the advocacy group Kansas Action for Children. '
article_snippet.sent: It really seems to make a statement about how Shannon Cotsoradis, president and CEO of the advocacy group Kansas Action for Children feel about the poor.'
article_snippet.sent: Critics question whether such restrictions can be enforced.
article_snippet.sent: Elizabeth Schott, senior fellow with the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said enacting Elizabeth Schott, senior fellow with the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities simply creates an 'aura of abuse.' 'Undermining support for the programs is what the restrictions do,' she said.
article_snippet.sent: Every dollar that is used fraudulently is a dollar that is not going to an American who is struggling,' said state Sen. Michael O'Donnell, a Wichita Republican who supported the bill.
article_snippet.sent: They're just trying to poke fun at this, when it's not what the debate is really about.'