Posted on 12/05/2017 5:22:21 PM PST by markomalley
Many people with EBT cards refer to it as their pay check. It should be called their thank-you-very-much-taxpayer card.
All welfare should be cut off.
If they cant make it in US they cant make it anywhere.
Into camps like Japanese in WW2 .
Humane treatment in the camps for thek rest of their natural lives.
Off of our streets.
Mom was on it for a year and a half while going to nursing school in the 70s.
Pop had a heart attack and there were five kids.
She used to go shopping for food in the middle of the night because she was embarrassed.
Became a nurse and we lived a decent lower middle class life and 5 of us went on to college and paid a #### load more in taxes than the 18 months welfare.
Yours might be the most ignorant comment i’ve seen on here in a while. And that ain’t easy sometimes :)
You may be right. Lets just keep going the way we are.
Such American values / S
Hit a rough patch in life and off to the camps you go for life...
The Headline instantly brought back memories of this and similar issues during the Reagan Years.
It seems soo far removed now.
I’m afraid our country has long reached the tipping point.
God help US.
YES. Welfare is the business of churches and local civic organizations -— NOT government.
Government welfare is simply a way to buy votes -— always has been, always will be until we shut it down.
END ALL GOVERNMENT WELFARE PROGRAMS!!!
“Such American values / S
Hit a rough patch in life and off to the camps you go for life...”
Ive had a few. I remember losing 50 pounds during despair of lack of job. ...With wife and kids. I remember scouring grocery store parking lots for money. I remember being in the military reserve to serve country and make a few bucks in process. I don’t remember any welfare. I remember never giving up and endlessly trying to succeed. I finally did. There would be ways for people to work their way out of camps.I’m talking about the enormous dragging anchor of useless, forlorn, hopeless, dangerous leeches in our society.
Get government out of the retirement savings business, as well.
Thank you for posting this article. It is spot on and I would love to see more and more articles like this. Welfare by government rots our very souls.
There are far more proactive ways to get people off of welfare than looking out their interment camp gate....
Let’s put a “work will make you free” sign over the entrance.
Gingrich forced Clinton to do welfare reform and cut the welfare rolls in half.
Government should help us get our $500k nest egg and then disappear.
Well, even the best of us screw up sometimes, this was your time.
One of the sayings in the legal profession is that bad cases make bad law.
Your mother could have been helped by her family, friends, or congregation, or just toughed it out. Was it worth while to institute a vast bureaucracy to take take care of a case like yours, when the result is grave harm to a both the whole people and our government?
Look at the whole picture and you can a better make a better comment you did.
Here’s a better comment.
Go ### yourself you ignorant disgrace of a human being.
my mother did what she HAD to to survive.
Nobody had money in the family and what exactly does tough it out mean?!?!
not eat or have a roof.
What a d#### you are and you give conservatives a bad name.
If you were here, i’d knock you the #### out for insulting my mother.
Jim, feel free to cancel my account if you wand and think this post was out of line, just cancel the monthly donation with it.
It’s up to you.
Sandwhicheguy, you’re an ass :) And it’s better to keep one’s mouth shut and make people guess they’re a #### than open it and give solid proof.
Be thankful your mom was never in that position cause lord knows what she might have resorted to.
And read a bible you pompous sanctimonious piece of trash.
BTW, dont see you two on the 300 list.
Just another pair of bigmouth cheapskate ####s who think this board is a free magazine in the dentists’ office.
TOUGH IT OUT and donate SOMETHING.
dp,there are idiots everyplace,even here.
Your mother is to be commended and you should just ignore the “purists”.
Take a deep breath and have a cup of tea. :-)
Mears
“Gingrich forced Clinton to do welfare reform and cut the welfare rolls in half.”
And then Clinton claimed credit for it and claimed that he had personally balanced the budget and created an annual surplus which never existed in the real world.
There is nothing in the Constitution about a Welfare system. (NO. “Promote the General Welfare” does not count.)
ALL welfare should be handled at the local, then the state level. 50 (51?) labs to see what works and what does not, not the Federal government redistributing money to buy votes.
Trump has promised that all welfare recipients will be randomly tested for drugs.
Anyone caught dirty will not get welfare for a minimum of a year, and I think he intends to continue testing them during that ‘time out’.
I would bet that over 70% of welfare recipients are using illegal drugs. Maybe more.
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