Posted on 01/15/2013 8:09:06 AM PST by shove_it
The push to reform entitlement programs is at the heart of debates about the future of the US budget. Many Republicans want big changes as Medicare and Medicaid, in particular, consume a larger share of federal spending. Most Democrats merely want to ensure the programs' survival.
Entitlement programs include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (welfare). How much do you know about them? [...]
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As far as I’m concerned, people on welfare should be made to feel like the slaves they are.
Its not because I hate them or want to punish them. Its because I want to make them uncomfortable in poverty and drive them to stand on their own two feet.
What a crock! What is the percentage of benefits paid to these people today? If I make 100k now, but got unemployment once when I was young, then I am one of these folks. Hardly scamming the system.They should take back whatever they can, since they are providing 90% of the tax revenue.
The one that got to me was rural folks recieiveng more benefits. That is why we are losing the country. The entitlement mentality is inside the fence...
There are a lot of self styled conservatives whose definition of an “entitlement” is a government benefit that goes to someone other than themselves.
I believe the question was "have tapped..."
I would qualify for that, as many here would, I have twice drawn unemployment benefits (once at 19, again in my late 20's).
I believe the question was "have tapped..."
I would qualify for that, as many here would, I have twice drawn unemployment benefits (once at 19, again in my late 20's).
Bull hockey. I used to work for DHS in my more naive days. In Texas, they can recieve benefits from birth to death generation after generation.
What a crock! What is the percentage of benefits paid to these people today? If I make 100k now, but got unemployment once when I was young, then I am one of these folks. Hardly scamming the system.They should take back whatever they can, since they are providing 90% of the tax revenue.
The one that got to me was rural folks recieiveng more benefits. That is why we are losing the country. The entitlement mentality is inside the fence...
I know a British lady who married a handsome Yank, moved here, and bore a couple of his kids before he took off with a younger woman. Struggling to make it in a strange land she applied for welfare, but quickly got off.
When I knew her she was working 3 different jobs trying to make ends meet. She told me she would NEVER go on welfare again, no matter how many jobs she had to work, because “they make you feel like absolute sh*t down there!”
In retrospect probably a good thing that the hacks running the welfare office put such an “ick” factor into the process to scare her away for life.
Today I think you can apply online, making it relatively painless. Not a good development.
I got 9 right and 11 wrong (45%).
Back in 2003, I was unemployed from November until April 2004 - I used unemployment, food stamps, etc. When I got a job, I stopped (obviously).
It was (for me) exactly what it is supposed to be. A bridge, a temporary measure.
Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm once stated old people have an obligation to die and fertilize the soil. Then there was brilliant Surgeon General Elders that postulated that old people would probably die of something or other anyway.
Elders then moved on to discuss how masturbation and body licking should be moved into primary schools.
*The problem is old people! How long before the rats start urging us old timers to die peacefully?*
Isn’t that part of the reason we have ObummerDoesn’tCare? He wants granny to take the pill instead of getting a heart transplant.
I agree, plus the use of the word “entitlements”.
Take Social Security:
One of the most enduring myths of Social Security is that a worker has a legal right to his Social Security benefits. Many workers assume that, if they pay Social Security taxes into the system, they have some sort of legal guarantee to the system’s benefits. The truth is exactly the opposite. It has long been law that there is no legal right to Social Security. In two important cases, Helvering v. Davis and Flemming v. Nestor, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Social Security taxes are simply taxes and convey no property or contractual rights to Social Security benefits.
As a result, a worker’s retirement security is entirely dependent on the political decisions of the president and Congress. Benefits may be reduced or even eliminated at any time. Given the program’s looming financial crisis, benefit cutbacks are increasingly likely. Therefore, the entirely political nature of Social Security places workers’ retirement security at considerable risk. Indeed, Congress has already arbitrarily reduced Social Security benefits of some groups of workers. Moreover, because Social Security benefits are not a worker’s property, they are not inheritable.
In contrast, a privatized Social Security system, based on individual accounts, would provide workers with the benefits and the safeguards of true ownership.
Social security, like Obamacare, is a tax not an entitlement.
Well...first...the article flunked its own test.
Medicare and Social Security are not “Entitlement Programs” as people are to pay into those in order to collect. Exclude the SSI part from the Soc Sec...and this was supposed to be an “insurance”. And, exclude the special provisions for illegal aliens with Soc Sec that both the Dems and GOP have supported
In New Zealand during the 1950s government handouts were for everyone regardless of income...
When I was a child we all got free doctors visits and hospitals and operations, free dental at school, (every school had a dental nurse who did check ups and fillings twice a year)..at high school we went to a dentist in the city..
my mother got a small stipend for each child, and we got free schools elementry and high school where we actually learned...
Later when I was working I would go to the government employment agency where they would give me 3 cards with possible employers and by the end of the day I had a job offer that I could not turn down...
If i didnt get a job offer after one week I could receive tiny unemployment checks until I did get a job..but that never happened...
We had to take the job offered to us or go without...
nowdays in the US the unemployed person can pick and choose where they want to work...
If you wanted a better paying job you paid a private agency a healthy chunk to find you one...
I did that a couple of times and did get good jobs..
One of the problems with the “entitlement” issue is the fact that unmarriaged girls are encouraged to have babies on their own and are paid for doing so...
when i was a teenager girls went to a home for unmarried pregnant girls and then gave up their babied for adoption because they coulod not afford to raise them...
the accepted and expected home atmosphere and lifestyle was higher than the hovels that the children live in today...
The neglect that children experience today is a direct result of the government laissee faire attitude and support..
If girls were not paid to have out-of-wedlock babies and the event was still an anti-social and immoral occurance there might be a whole lot less neglected children left on their own...
also if you cant afford food you cant afford that big TV and cable bill nor that ipod etc...
I only got a 50% I also call BS to the 60 month life time cap for welfare. I have a cousin-in-law that has been on it her whole life. Only once did she have a job for a short time and it was working at the welfare office showing others how to scam the system. I think she was forced to get the job or lose benefits. Currently she is back on and last time I saw her she was bitching that the voice recognition on her I-phone didn’t work as good as she thought it should. I guess it was an upgrade to the Obama phone.
Was a trick question: How many have USED. As in if you grew up poor and your parents fed you with food stamps, but now you’re a billionaire, you’d still count as part of that 39%
The motive of this poll: Show that we’re all already dependent on government, esp. a majority of those icky Romney voters, so we all need MORE government.
Give it a B- for disguising the push nature of the quiz...
Was a trick question: How many have USED. As in if you grew up poor and your parents fed you with food stamps, but now you’re a billionaire, you’d still count as part of that 39%
The motive of this quiz: Show that we’re all already dependent on government, esp. a majority of those icky Romney voters, so we all need MORE government.
Give it a B- for disguising the push nature of the quiz...
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