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Posted on 02/14/2009 6:09:20 AM PST by bamahead
Much of the "stimulus" bill is devoted to a backdoor undoing of one of Washington's greatest achievements of recent years - welfare reform.
One of the most important changes of the Clinton-era reform law was replacing the individual entitlement to welfare with a block grant to the states. In the old system, the more people a state signed up for welfare, the more money it got from Washington. The block grant broke this link, creating an incentive for states to help people become self-supporting.
But, as The Post's Charles Hurt has reported, slipped into the stimulus bill is a provision establishing a new $3 billion emergency fund to help states pay for added welfare recipients, with the federal government footing 80 percent of the cost for the new "clients."
Plus, the bill would reward states for increasing caseloads, even if the growth came because the state had loosened its requirements for recipients to work.
This is radical change. States that succeed in getting people off welfare would lose the opportunity for increased federal funding. And states that make it easier to stay on welfare (by, say, raising the time limit from two years to five) would get rewarded with more taxpayer cash. The bill would even let states with rising welfare rolls still collect their "case-load reduction" bonuses.
In short, the measure will erode all the barriers to long-term welfare dependency that were at the heart of the 1996 reform...
(Excerpt) Read more at cato.org ...
Stolen from Doug Ross at http://directorblue.blogspot.com/
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Atlas Puked...
On the dole again
Just can’t wait to get on the dole again
The life I love is getin’ cash for more chowmein
And I can’t wait to get on the dole again
On the dole again
Getin’ cash so I can shack up all my kin
Playin’ lotto with the cash that I rake in
And I can’t wait to get on the dole again.
On the dole again
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We’re the best of friends
Insisting that the cash be turnin’ our way
And our way
Is on the dole again
Just can’t wait to get on the dole again
The life I love is getin’ cash for more chowmein
And I can’t wait to get on the dole again
On the road again
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We’re the best of friends
Insisting that the cash be turnin’ our way
And our way
Is on the dole again
Just can’t wait to get on the dole again
The life I love is getin’ cash for more chowmein
And I can’t wait to get on the dole again
And I can’t wait to get on the dole again...
Well, Duh. More Welfare = More 0bama Voters in 2010!
Se are so screwed.
Much as O used the Annenberg funds for radicalizing rather than educating, harming the poor children......this is simply another venue for harming the poorest class.
Unbelievable... undoing the only thing I ever agreed with that Clinton did.
(The damage he is doing to the people he is making dependent as well as to the U.S. Treasury are two entirely different matters which I am absolutely sure he could care less about)
He finally had to sign it after the Republican Congress forced it on him.
He then took all the credit for its' success.
And we all laughes at that woman in Florida who said after obama was elected she wouldn’t have to worry about paying her mortage or gas. She obviously knew something the rest of us didn’t.
That reparations are on the way?
That rule said, more or less, that if you received public assistance and moved you had to tell the local welfare folks about it so they could come and see you at your new address (either to verify continued eligibility, or to verify your physical existence). Until you were visted your welfare payments were cut off!
Come 1996 it was suddenly possible for every welfare agency in America to quickly and easily discover that recipients had moved. All they had to do was run their recipient files against "Move Update" software, and in the course of a few minutes they'd be able to cut off payments to everyone for whom a change of address order was on file in the post office.
I was there when the Commonwealth of Virginia disqualified HALF of all recipients ~ took 15 minutes or so.
They didn't come back.
That's how much fraud there was in the system.
The recent legislative changes will not affect this technology in the slightest.
At the same time sending out payments to fraudulent recipients is a different ball game. Outside of New Jersey, and it's equally corrupt West Coast twin, California, I doubt you'll see anything like what was going on prior to 1996.
I think part of the reasoning behind the "incentivization" in this bill is that the Leftwingtards simply can't believe what happened to them in Welfare Reform ~ they lost HALF their clients.
I suppose some of the Leftwingtards would admit that some small amount of fraud was going on, but for HALF of the recipients to be engaging in fraud just had to shock them right down to the bottom of their little toesies.
They reject the idea they were facilitating widespread fraud, so they're going to try another pathway to building up the ranks.
It will fail.
Legislation that disestablishes Welfare Reform's bases should have no effect.
Yep, add that to the Cloward Piven strategy and it looks as if the United States is going to brought down from within, they will bankrupt the Nation with Welfare and unsound banks.
Game over.
Here is a part of an old song I heard way back about 1968.
I will only post part since the rest of the song would get me banned, canned, tombstoned, and I would be forced to take about six weeks of remedial “diversity training.”
They’re lookin’ for a handout
To get somethin’ free
Lookin’ for a handout
From you and me
And with the consent
Of the president
They’re gonna get their way
They’re gonna get their way
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