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Just saying.
If we get in a trade war with China, Americans will need to make a lot of things.
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Goal #1: Stop rewarding people for popping out babies.
Goal #2: Only basic staple food can be bought with food stamps. No cash back. Ever
RANDOM drug testing of ALL welfare recipients!
MAGA!
Wow! Never thought I’d live to see the day that somebody in Gov’t acts like an adult and will hold citizens accountable for their choices in life.
Ban Welfare! Ban Sloth! Ban laziness! All are products of liberal-commies.
Able bodied people who have no reason to not work should receive a reduction in their cheques every month until, within the span of one year, it’s down to zero, or close.
They can build up their work hours as their money dwindles if they need to ease into it slowly. Or they can just get a job like everyone else and go hungry if they don’t.
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I am so happy President Trump has embraced this idea. Us on the right have been saying this for years.
It is truly a win-win for everyone.
Instead of blowing the SNAP Card on Booze and Smokes you would get a monthly supply of:
50 lbs Bag of Red Beans & Rice
50 lbs Bag of Flour
10 lbs Bag of Powdered Milk
10 lbs Block of Cheese
10 lbs Bologna Log
And just because us Americans are super generous, I propose we also include two 10 lbs Bags of Generic Cheerios and/or USDA Corn Flakes.
There, the poor have just been fed by the Taxpayer.
They are stuck eating beans and rice you say? Think of it this way, every cent you give to the Federal Food Program is bread taken from your Child's mouth.
But of course you aren't suppose to take into account the needs of the people who actually pay for all this.
This has been done innumerable times over the past 50 years. No harm in Trump discovering the issue. The question is, what will be propose? Ain’t a battle here that hasn’t been fought many times over.
MOST of the problem would be solved by a very simple thing...
just give notice to all able-bodied welfare recipients that they have 3 months to either get jobs... or at least sign up for a meaningful job training skills program that will give them in-demand skills to get jobs. I am willing to be generous and give those able of working a short-term opportunity and help to get employment. I am sick and tired of giving able people welfare so they can sit on their fat butts and watch the boobtoob all day.
The money that we save cutting the welfare roles (my estimate... this should cut the welfare rolls by about 3/4 in a year or less)
the money we save should be returned to the taxpayers, after checking to make sure we are assisting the GENUINELY DISABLED enough... I want to help the genuinely disabled...I will pay taxes for this... but all the lazy able=bodied people are sucking up most of our tax money and it is NOT fair, not right...
just my 2 cents. don’t bother writing me about how even the genuinely disabled should not be given any tax money. I understand that. I just don’t agree. thanks tho for your thoughts and I do respect that stricter good-government point of view
“The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole our relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers.”
FDR, in his State of the Union address, 1935.
He should just say that we are going to end welfare as we know it. Then stand back to avoid the splatter from exploding liberal heads.
The review should also look for cases of misuse of funds.
I will be curious who they interview.
Ivy League PHD Thesis? Those who used to be on welfare and got off?
Those who previously worked and are now on welfare?
Those who are 2d and 3d generation welfare?
Social workers in the trenches?
Management of social work agencies who are all about empire building?
Data Warehouse people like me who crunch the numbers and can see the data from many perspectives?
Or
IBM Watson Truven Health?
DeLoitte-Touche?
Kaiser Health News?
UHC-Optum?
EPIc? Cerner?
Other IT healthcare firms?
Associations of all those professionals?
The study needs to clarify two(or more) tracks:
Short range. What can be done now with results in 1 to 24 months?
Long range. Many of the problems orginated generations ago. Although some progress can be made in the short run, real progress will take at least a generation. For example, it not unusual for kids starting in Kindergarten to be given psycho drugs, especially boys who act like boys. Millions in one school. Hundreds of millions in a state ... all on the taxpayer’s Medicaid dollar. Even the kids not on Aderall are taught that drugs are the solution to any and all problems. The kids on drugs are zombies who never learn self-discipline, self-control. Then they become teens and adults and we wonder why they are like they are.
What if the billions nationwide were shifted from drugs to drill sergeants (ex Marines?) who teach kids self-control, self-discipline and when to turn it on and when to turn it off? One million shifted from drugs could mean 10 Drill Sergeants at $100,000 each.... or 20 at 50K each.
This is the kind of thing the committee should consider.
Early retirements coming up?
Universal Program for Subsidized Phones for Low Income (ObamaPhones), EBT Food Stamps (SNAP), ObamaCare Subsidies for Immigrants, ObamaCare Subsidies for Low Income, Medicaid, Section 8 Housing, Unemployment, TANF Welfare, Energy Assistance, EITC, Foster Care Title IV, Old Age Assistance, AFDC, General Assistance Cash, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Assets for Independence, School Lunch Assistance, General Assistance to Native Americans, Child Care Development Fund, SCHiP State Supplemental Health Insurance Program, Consolidated Health Centers, Foster Care Grants, Consolidated Community Health, Maternal and Child Health Assistance Fund, Healthy Start, School Lunch Block Grant, Job Assistance, Job Training, Minority Job Assistance, Job Relocation, Woman Infants and Children's Program, Nutrition for the Elderly, Summer Program, Summer Jobs Program, Minority Summer Jobs, Hispanic Jobs Program, African-American Jobs Program, Commodity Supplemental Food Program, Special Milk Program, Needy Families, Farmer's Market Nutrition Program, Public Housing, Low Income Energy Assistance, Migrant Education, Title One Grants to Local Education Authorities, Education for Homeless Children and Youth, Even Start, Job Corps, Social Security Disability, Social Security for Refugees, Social Security for Humanitarian Cases, Social Security for Asylum, Health Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grants, TANF Child Care, Empowerment Zones for Minority Communities, Urban Development Action Grants, and Family Planning (abortion).
Amen!
Way past high time to control/eliminate food stamp abuse. Also 'free' cell phone abuse. I talk to folks frequently that readily admit their family has more than one cell phone.
We pay for that abuse. It's like the abusers are sticking their hand in our pocket. Must be controlled.
What’s to review....s-can all of it!
I am not trying to be flippant here, but has anyone ever considered sending the recipient essentially a W2 of the combined benefits, which is often north of 50k in a state like MA to maybe plant a spark that this is serious stuff? Maybe tax them on it?
FWIW, how many (especially women) have gifts and skills that would springboard them to a salary greater than that? From what I hear, women make better welders. They come in with no preconceived notions on how it is to be done and they have a better touch.
How many could make it to aerospace / nuclheer certs? I don't know, but can you fathom the rags to rices story that is?
As usual VSG PDJT is spot on and is about to do a turn around effort w/ un-common sense to these programs....