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Poor New Yorkers getting paid for good behavior
Associated Press ^
| April 21, 2009
| Sara Kugler
Posted on 04/24/2009 9:19:22 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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I would be ok with conditioning current welfare benefits on recipients meeting their responsibilities, but I don't want extra money (soon to come from taxpayers) showered on people just for doing what most taxpayers do on their own.
To: reaganaut1
If you pay people to be poor, there will always be poor people
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:21:56 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(TYRANNY SENTINEL. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com LIBERTY FICTION at libertyfic.proboards.com)
To: reaganaut1
no wonder these cities and states have money problems...
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:22:21 AM PDT
by
tatsinfla
To: reaganaut1
Great! Now let’s start paying them for flushing the toilet and washing their hands after they use the restroom.
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:22:37 AM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: reaganaut1
... average of $3,000 per family ... 2,400 participating families
$7,200,000
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:22:38 AM PDT
by
eastsider
To: reaganaut1
"Bloomberg's administration said it is too early to know whether (giving people free money) is a useful tool to fight poverty."
And the definition of insanity is.....
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:22:43 AM PDT
by
ChicagahAl
(Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
To: reaganaut1
The city's experimental anti-poverty program that pays poor New Yorkers for good behavior like seeing the doctor and attending parent-teacher conferences handed out an average of $3,000 per family in its first year.As Chris Rock said, "As a parent, you're SUPPOSED to do that!"
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:22:58 AM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: reaganaut1
We are a single income family - by choice - so I can stay home with the kids. However, things would be a bit easier if I got paid for being a responsible adult & parent. *Sigh*
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:25:16 AM PDT
by
ninergold3
("Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?" -Mark Lowry)
To: reaganaut1
Training people to be sheep, to be dependent on the government, and to be poor always.
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:27:35 AM PDT
by
Leftism is Mentally Deranged
(Liberal Laws Reflect the Advanced State of Decomposition of the Liberal Mind)
To: goodwithagun
“Now lets start paying them for flushing the toilet and washing their hands after they use the restroom.”
I think that’s part of Obama’s reelction strategy.
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:28:02 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
To: reaganaut1
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just deduct money for bad behavior from their benefits? If a conference missed...25 dollar rent the next month from free housing. I guess perks are nice though. Too bad everyone gets them but the working class.
To: Red in Blue PA
Wrong..that will be playing them $3000 to vote the straight dem ticket...
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:29:54 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Obama wants a 900% tax on Aspirin. Why, you ask? It's white, and it works...)
To: reaganaut1
Reminds me of the chapter from Rush’s book about Mayor Dinkins, “Now We Thank People for Obeying the Law.”
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:29:56 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: reaganaut1
While these type things seem instinctive to conservatives, they are alien to people that have only known dysfunctional upbringings.
This is a problem with the conservative message in that it amounts to preaching to the choir. With 40 percent of childbirths now being out of wedlock, the situation for conservatives and the nation at large will only grow bleaker unless conservative messages are changed to better address current realities.
For people that never knew a two parent family or even a nuclear family, conservatives need to develop some "helping hand" quasi-welfare-socialist programs designed to steer people already on the wrong side of the tracks toward a better way of living.
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:32:11 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: reaganaut1
True. This is insanity.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:34:11 AM PDT
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: fso301
For people that never knew a two parent family or even a nuclear family, conservatives need to develop some "helping hand" quasi-welfare-socialist programs designed to steer people already on the wrong side of the tracks toward a better way of living. I could do a lot of work with unwed mothers, I could help them get their start. (With apologies to Steve Martin)
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:35:50 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: CindyDawg
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:36:49 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: reaganaut1
To: fso301
As long as this is privately funded,,I have no complaint, but in reality is the charity receiving money from the Govt to perform charity?
The demographics are killing us. More kids born to single parents..fewer parents with education and skills raising kids. More people with the knowledge and motivation to get money for nothing.
The only cure may be a generation of real poverty...a real depression. Looks like that is coming again in the UK.
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posted on
04/24/2009 9:38:37 AM PDT
by
Oldexpat
To: reaganaut1
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