Posted on 04/04/2015 9:28:27 AM PDT by Libloather
Banning abuse of public assistance is not heartless and cruel. Au contraire, it is kind and loving.
Would you raise your child to behave irresponsibly and be a deadbeat? Of course not, so why would you encourage this behavior in others. You raise your children to be responsible and productive and earn an honest living for a multitude of reasons. One reason is because you want them to be moral. Another is because you want them to have the genuine self-esteem that comes from being productive. A person who steals from others, whether directly as in a robbery, or indirectly by being a parasite, will never truly feel good about himself.
Exactly what I’ve been saying for years.
There is NOTHING in the Constitution about a right to money or food or housing or any other material thing. We have the right to pursue those things if we choose, but we do not have a right to have them handed to us.
The government was never intended to be a charitable organization and it should get out of the charity “business.” (And while we’re at it, it should get out of the education business, too.)
First of all, that would never work because the reason that a large percentage of welfare recipient are poor is that they have a low IQ and an inability to make sensible decisions, particularly budget decisions.
But more important than letting them learn to budget is letting them learn to earn. I say cut government welfare to ZERO and let charities do charity work. The government should not be a charity.
I'd be interested in knowing how many times Kansas TANF cards have been used on cruise ships.
One of our local tv stations here in Indiana did a story on that, based on a data file from the state.
I agree with you, but if we are going to have welfare let us do it with the least bureaucracy possible. Today most welfare dollars go into bureaucracy
Based on the Indiana data, it was more widespread than I would have imagined. Vegas, Nevada brothels, Disney (Fl and Cal), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, etc.
These “poor” folks (or at least their swipe cards) really do get around. Welfare fraud is quite widespread I believe.
There’s also something called being a jerk o..look it up.
I agree with that, too.
And sadly, a lot of the government bureaucracy is just another form of welfare. But at least those people are off the streets for 8 hours a day.
The problem is that money is fungible. If they have some other source of income, they can always use THAT for the cruise and the Disney trip, and use the EBT card for the necessities. Either way, your money goes to send them on the trip, while you sit at home and have to save for another year while you have triple their revenue stream.
I dislike welfare people on cruises, regardless of race. Whites, blacks, brown, yellow...all of them. I am an equal opportunity person. Those not pushing the wagon are basically thieves, stealing from those who produce and pay taxes.
Raysis
Yeah, I’m a shmuck. They may be able to be all happy about themselves living that way, but I can’t. Principles.
Ignore the article title from Huffpost. That’s a small, trivial part of the bill.
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