Calif. contemplating rewrite of social contract (i.e. they're thinking about cutting welfare)

Associated Press ^ | June 7, 2009 | Judy Lin

[dalereed]

100% of all welfare should be eliminated!

[dalereed]

Change the ruling of the law and declare all anchor babies illegal ailens!

[achilles2000]

She thinks waiting for handouts is her job.

[PapaBear3625]

Yes, there is an enormous amount of fraud

What's needed for SSI, is for the fraud to be rooted out. But that would step on toes and likely be deemed racist.

[Syncro]

You betcha!

Not only that, but it would put a big dent in the democrat voting base.

[maryz]

“It [government] doesn’t even really provide services to the middle class.” He added: “You have to cut where the money is.”

Wasn't Rush saying something a month or two ago about how welfare costs break down to 70% administrative and 30% to the purported beneficaries?

Comports with something I saw in NR in about 1980: In 1976 (the last year for which figures were available at the time), federal poverty aid cost enough to give every poor person (not family -- person) in the country $20,000 for the year. I was in grad school at the time (making $3,000 a year on a teaching stipend, plus whatever I could make on summer jobs), so I don't know what a "normal" salary was then. I'm guessing it wasn't $20,000.

For CA, I'm guessing those welfare workers are unionized and won't be laid off.

[mickie]

I have a rental property which I accept Section-8. What an eye opener!
Looking for a new tenant and this woman applied
She was approved for $1050 per month although she worked, had a daughter 19yrs old, not handicapped and not working. Drove a late model car....better than mine!
She didn't qualify because her voucher was only for a two bedroom and my house had three.
Why in the world was this woman getting any welfare benefits for twenty years?

[dalereed]

I do work on one that is a 3 beedroom,3 bath that they are payinf $1,850 and the tennant only poays $50, it’s criminal!

[antiRepublicrat]

I checked. You can get SCHIP in California even if you make over $100,000 per year. You can actually be filthy stinkin' rich deriving your income from investments and still get SCHIP. Cut some of these programs for "poor" families? Maybe actually restrict them to POOR families.

The 22-year-old single mother said she is looking for a job and does not qualify for benefits herself because she crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally as a teenager.

And yet LEGAL aliens are not allowed means-tested aid.

[Disambiguator]

You want another 109 million peasants under our flag to demand health care and welfare?

They'll all be here sooner or later, anyway.

[MissouriConservative]

“The 22-year-old single mother said she is looking for a job and does not qualify for benefits herself because she crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally as a teenager. She doesn’t know what she will do if core state assistance is eliminated for her daughter.”

Maybe she can be a “wise Latina woman” and haul her unmarried baby making butt back across the border to her true homeland?

[cherry]

I didn't even know we had a "contract" as if we, the offended party, had a say in it.....

OTOH....the underlings of society are easy targets...how about the over paid fat arces that occupy all the govt jobs....

cut the govt jobs, just a little, and reduce their benefits and pensions, even just a little, and the budget would right itself....