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Welfare is a huge issue, but only a piece of the illegal issues puzzle. Welfare will never just be ended. The only way to do anything about welfare is to cut the budget and keep cutting the budget while going after fraud and waste.
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Correct. It’s not like we have inalienable Rights or anything anyway. Federalism & the Constitution? F* ‘em.
What ‘fraud & waste’? Pelosi and the gang say there’s no such thing. Does the IRS go after the known fraudsters? Only MediXYZ fraud that’s BLATANT ever gets an arrest. $6B lost @ State? 80+ programs of overlap? What waste?
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The liberals are crying that social service funding was cut in the short budget that was passed and cut even further in the proposed upcoming budget so when they holler we are making some progress. I haven’t looked at it so I don’t know details.
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Progress? I don’t recall any budget passed in some time....only CRs and X-bus’. Plus, a reduction in the % of increase isn’t a ‘CUT’; I damn sure don’t recall the deficit =< $0%. The (D) will cry about ANY drop in funds/growth of govt/control, and the Federal Reg. hasn’t slowed down printing more tomes for the masses.
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Yes I know Obama handed out social services like candy but we still can’t just end it.
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Yes. Yes we can. Legally, it MUST. Except, too many keep re-electing their ‘abusive spouse’, hoping they’ll change....THIS time. The false dichotomy is quite powerful to the sheeple.
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The will of the people is not there yet. Many are wanting to cut it though so that is a start.
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Will of the People? You mean the minority, whose Rights for which the Constitution, via the govt, was to protect vs. the majority\govt?? Unless I missed an Amendment/two in Civics (back when they actually semi-TAUGHT civics).
We have had some sort of assistance to the poor since the colonies, that is never going away.
We do need to cut back to help only those that are unable to work and provide for themselves. I think we need to have something like the work programs during the Depression to employ people who are able to work and not working. There were many improvements made by those working in those programs. My uncle was in the CCC as a teen and said it was great for teaching him work ethic. He said the work was hard manual labor and the pay was nearly nothing so there was a big incentive to find actual work ASAP.
“The history of welfare in the U.S. started long before the government welfare programs we know were created. In the early days of the United States, the colonies imported the British Poor Laws. These laws made a distinction between those who were unable to work due to their age or physical health and those who were able-bodied but unemployed. The former group was assisted with cash or alternative forms of help from the government. The latter group was given public service employment in workhouses.”
http://www.welfareinfo.org/history/