NO PITY FOR THE LAZY!!!
Posted on 12/21/2015 2:39:19 PM PST by justlittleoleme
Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards intends to remove work requirements that Gov. Bobby Jindal has enacted for more than 60,000 food stamp recipients.
Edwards sent a letter Monday to the U.S. Department of Agriculture saying he will seek a federal waiver of the work requirements. The governor-elect says Louisiana's unemployment rate qualifies it to skip the work mandate.
He's asking the USDA and the state social services department to stop any interruption of benefits until Edwards can reapply for the waiver that Jindal allowed to expire.
The work requirements are supposed to kick in Jan. 1 for adults aged 18 to 49 without children. To receive food stamps, they must work at least 20 hours per week or be enrolled in job training.
A lawsuit has been filed challenging the requirements.
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The Dindoo’s wont do!
Only if they are sick or disabled. The others have to go precinct to precinct till enough votes are cast.
Not only have the states never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to establish a national welfare program, but there's never been anything stopping the individual states from establishing their own 10th Amendment-protected welfare programs, doing so ultimately up to a given states legal majority voters.
So what Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards is actually doing, but probably does not understand what he is doing, is this. By accepting federal welfare funding for his state, Edwards is arguably recovering his states own revenues which corrupt Congress stole from his state though unconstitutional federal taxes.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the folowing limits on Congresss power to appropriate taxes. Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot ustify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The reason that federal welfare programs exist is the following imo. The anti-constitutional republic Progressive Movement spooked low-information citizens to pressure state lawmakers to ratify the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A). And state lawmakers caved in and ratified 17A, foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress.
So now, after voters elect their favorite federal senators, they go home and watch football while corrupt senators rob their wallets. Senators do this by working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional appropriations bills, bills that establish vote-winning welfare programs in this example, which Congress cannot justify under its Section 8-limited powers.
And I would also not be surprised if Edwards is making it easier for recipients to get unconstitutional federal welfare to win votes from low-information voters for the 2016 elections.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who hurt their states by helping the likewise corrupt House to pass unconstitutional appropriations bills, like the ones that established federal welfare programs, along with it.
Idiots in Louisiana wanted a Democrat and got a Democrat. Now enjoy being the only state across the entire South with that problem.
This is what happens when corrupt semi-concervatives, (who are conservative on taxes and nothing else) try to get social conservatives to vote for their guy despite his serious immoral lifestyle.
It wasn’t happening it was predictable that it wouldn’t happen.
Social conservatives aren’t on a reservation. They aren’t going along for the ride. Planning to run Vitter was planning to run without social conservatives, and no amount of name recognition on Vitter’s part was ever going to overcome that.
Only really stupid people ever thought that they would in this case.
NO PITY FOR THE LAZY!!!
This is what the MSM calls a moderate. Equal blame goes to the GOP Establishment for being so quick to support his guy, albeit it not openly, and for David Vitter for being so egotistical that he thought he could waltz into the governorship without being called on his rank hypocrisy.
Who was it that “planned” on running David Vitter anywise?
At any rate, I hope the blessed social conservatives enjoy the welfare without work thing.
They recognize that it is a gift from the liberals, both those who are liberals on every issue, and those who are at least conservative on some issues.
The fiscal only conservatives didn’t want conservative fiscal policies bad enough to support a candidate that was conservative across the board.
Credit where credit is due.
And because the social liberals on this thread brought it up (a really stupid move on their part) it reminds the rest of us just who the Lindsay Graham political alignees are.
We will pass on fiscal only twerps. Religious liberty and our border security is on the line.
I tend to think we should have all three, and shouldn’t be held hostage by the SoCons anymore than we should be by the DefCons or the FisCons.
Well, he wrapped up the LAZY Vote.
I could not care less if the State wishes to remove the requirements; I DO care when the federal taxpayers are the ones shelling out the dough/$$.
I have a BIGGER concern the State AND Fedzilla trample upon the 5th A Rights of We the People rendering the taxpayers slaves (isn’t there another A. that dealt with this in the past??).
So Edwards is throwing out the work requirements for able bodied adults that were enacted by............Bill Clinton.
Dem media attacks on Jindal’s outgoing administration and 2 RINO scumbags who ran in this election to run interference for the rat are the reasons this swine was elected.
“This is what the MSM calls a moderate.”
Yep.
The "how to look busy" government job training programs would be a money pit of bureaucrats and government hirelings that can't be fired. That would cost the taxpayers 100 times the cost of the damn food stamps and accomplish nothing.
Hunger is a great work training program. Food stamps hurt people more than they help.
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