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Every tax payer should get an education. The welfare system is setup to be exploited by unwed mothers, with every fatherless child representing a check. The goal was to help unwed and widowed mothers, not create generations of baby mommas being paid to breed more deadbeat dads.
The progressives narrative is that conservative believe the poor are worthless moochers. This couldn't be further from the truth. Conservatives believe the poor should be taught to pull themselves out of poverty, and not be perpetually enslaved by total reliance on the government for everything except breathing. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will never starve again.
steven this part is true
Conservatives believe the poor (able) should be taught to pull themselves out of poverty, and not be perpetually enslaved by total reliance on the government for everything except breathing.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will never starve again.
But if they refuse to help themselves and work then this is true.
the poor are worthless moochers
baby mommas being paid to breed more deadbeat dads
Ok so that becomes the norm..working a low paying job and getting government assistance.
We don't cut the programs.
Given that and that is what's been happening over the past 4.5 years, poverty spending by the government has been growing 20% annually. Poverty itself is growing by double digits.
How do we pay for this then if we intend to keep these programs ?
The same way we fund the American war machine, borrow from peter to pay paul.
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The cost of living would consequently be lower in such a community. Living in San Francisco, CA is MUCH more expensive than living in Harlingen, TX.
People should migrate to lower class areas cheaper of the United States where they can make a living? OMG. Double facepalm again!
Half of those making federal minimum wage are under 25.
About 5 percent of White, Black, and Hispanic or Latino hourly paid workers earned the federal minimum wage or less. (This means that 95 percent of white, black and latino workers make above minimum wage.)
This figure drops to 4 percent of those with a high school diploma or GED, and 2 percent of those with a college degree.
Only 2 percent of those who are married make federal minimum wage.
Only TWO PERCENT of full time workers make federal minimum wage.
The proportion of hourly paid workers earning the prevailing federal minimum wage or less declined from 5.2 percent in 2011 to 4.7 percent in 2012. This remains well below the figure of 13.4 percent in 1979, when data were first collected on a regular basis.
Hey man, don't cry to me. I simply asked if being poor & getting handouts is such a fantastic gig, why don't they do it themselves?
No one said it was a "fantastic gig." What people HAVE said though, is that poverty is often caused, and perpetuated, by a lifestyle of consistently poor choices. And some people would rather be poor and shove off the responsibility for that situation on others, than make the often difficult RIGHT choices that would effect positive changes in their lives over time.
Actually, it's more like 5X but that isn't the issue in contention. You are claiming that government programs are causal to birth rate, which has not been proved. Poverty is the key to birth rate. Poor women suffer more from unintended births, have less access to birth control and abortions. This should not be a surprise to anyone.
less access to birth control?
My god, having morals would be a start, no wonder they sing about Ho's in the music industry. The woman don't respect themselves so why would the men. And if there was someone there reminding them to take the FREE pill every day you would still think up some lame excuse.
Liberals and Democrats:
The party of low expectations, the party of excuses, the party of blame everyone else but themselves.
While the conservative narrative is the poor are worthless moochers, the reality is that 66% of SNAP households included a child, an elderly person, or a disabled person and SNAP participation historically follows unemployment with a slight lag.
I think your claim that the poor get free housing, free phones and free utilities are dubious. Everyone gets tax-payer paid education, as they should.
My god, having morals would be a start, no wonder they sing about Ho's in the music industry. The woman don't respect themselves so why would the men. And if there was someone there reminding them to take the FREE pill every day you would still think up some lame excuse.
Yes, the Universal Service Fund not only provides the free cellphone service but helps pay for gas utility bills.
I bet they keep those phones really shiny. kinda like the thugs shining the rims of their cars in the ghetto..
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