The new career path for the takers of society ... four years of welfare, then apply for SSI.
Posted on 07/18/2011 11:27:49 AM PDT by 92nina
Michigan is currently in a lonely group of two states (with Vermont) that dole out unlimited lifetime welfare. That means welfare recipients can receive welfare their whole life and never go off these payments. Thankfully, this will no longer be the case. The Legislature passed a bill that would limit the ability to receive state welfare to 48-months. Governor Rick Snyder (R) has said he supports this legislation and will sign it as soon as it hits his desk. The bill is expected to save taxpayers $77 million. Michigan has long been one of the biggest welfare states in the country. With over 200,000 welfare recipients, about 2-percent of the total population is on welfare in Michigan. The cost to the state is over $400 million. Almost 13,000 people remain on welfare for long periods of time, maybe the rest of their lives. As the Bill’s sponsor, Rep. Ken Horn (R-Frankenmuth), put it, welfare has become a “lifestyle” in Michigan and it must return to being a safety-net. The problem is that when people are able to stay on the government’s tab for their whole lives, they become dependent and complacent. There is no motivation to look for work or to achieve better lives. As a spokeswoman for the Governor said, the goal is to “ensure public assistance is a bridge to family independence...”
Read more: http://www.atr.org/michigan-doesnt-want-fund-lifestyle-a6341#ixzz1STvNgt5F
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Will they still fund the areas of Dearborn and Detroit?
I see this with the mentality of my own cousins. The whole area in which they live, seems infested with the welfare mentality.
Of course, I'm just saying that because I'm "rich"
Because I have a decent paying JOB.
Because I work 60-70 hours a week.
People move here for those lifetime benefits. We have a reputation.
Good for Muchigan
but in actuality people is all states can and do remain on welfare for years and years. They just have to work the system a little but they can good at that.
Look no further than when Katrina hit and they interviewed many families with 3 generations all on welfare. and a few with 4 generations.
We are supposed to be tougher in Texas but we have families with all generations sucking as well.
Still It is a start for Michigan and maybe it will spur a few to go out and get a job
It clearly states " As a spokeswoman for the Governor said, the goal is to “ensure public assistance is a bridge to family independence...”
The scammers will be sorted out & it will actually help the ones who are in real need.
And in it's purest form in taking care of "those who truly need it", it can be a viable safety net that all could support.
What??? Dammit, now I have to move to Vermont and you know how much I hate the winters in Vermont.
Haven’t seen the specifics of the law. How long do they have to work before they can start another 4-year cycle of freeloading?
Give them a one-way bus ticket to Vermont.
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That chart appears to be W’s fault.
Lake county?
LOL-real close. Mason.
YEP. After Klinton was forced to sign welfare reform, the rats jumped onto disability ship.
I know many able bodied folks on disability.
when Engler took office in ‘91 he got a law passed that all able bodied welfare were taken off the roles. They camped out on the front lawn of the Capitol for a couple of weeks in Feburary, got cold and left.
In 1991, Michigan ended general assistance to 80,000 single adults, cutting $100 million from its annual budget. Michigan Governor John Engler is the leading advocate of state welfare reform and has won such respect for his reform measures that he may well receive the Republican vice-presidential nomination. Engler’s “Social Contract” required that parents on welfare work or perform community service in order to receive benefits, and he claimed both that such measures would save money and reduce poverty by forcing families to work and also that the new workers would benefit the state economy.
The job lasted less than 6 months, as she always had a reason not to go in. Then she had a job at a gas station for 2-3 months.
So now she's 23, and other than "babysitting" has worked less than 1 year.
My cousin last summer told me they were going to get a dr. to claim her as disabled, because she has a "bad knee". Now the latest is, that she (my cousins daughter) has voices in her head, and that CMH (must be something to do with mental health) is working to get her an apartment. She already gets food stamps.
My cousin buys her cigarettes for her, because she has no money. And yesterday on Facebook, she was bragging about her new tatoo.
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