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Originally Posted by jambo101
You think the answer to Americas problems is to eliminate all social programs? every one for themselves?.heres a few we can eliminate as we wouldnt want to be seen helping out those suckling pigs..
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From your list....
Head Start: Worthless.....by the time "students" are in the 4th/5th Grade it's as though they never went to the useless program in the first place. Your money would be better spent on Obamaphones.
Social Security Disability: Worthy program operated by all 50 States and Commonwealths....seized, collectivized and nationalized by Eisenhower during a power grab and destroyed in 1958. Converted into the stupid one-size-fits-all, eliminating temporary partial disability, total partial disability and temporary permanent disability, which allowed disabled to work, and which protected those disabled for only a short period of time.
Social Security Retirement and Survivors Benefits: Another worthy program operated by 35 States and Commonwealths....seized, collectivized and nationalized by FDR during a power grab in 1935. The "federal" government's one-size-fits-all mentality leaves many Americans in poverty. Worse than that, the "federal" government forces a minimum wage earner to pay $96/month in FICA taxes for $763 in benefits when that minimum wage worker could be paying $21/month to get a benefit of $1,660/month.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Another useless program that creates more "poverty than it cures.
Medicaid: Another idiotic one-size-fits-all program the "federal" government uses to violate the Constitution and oppress States. A perfect example of "federal" government band-approaches to problems it creates.
Medicare: A band-aid approach written by the American Hospital Association designed to "help" the Millions of Americans who were disenfranchised by stupid "federal" government policies influenced by a Special Interest Group: the American Hospital Association.
Welfare (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or T.A.N.F.): Another band-aid fix to problems created by the "federal" government.
G.I. Bill: a contractual obligation provided to those who surrender their rights and freedoms under the first 8 Amendments to the Constitution to work in a job that often pays less than minimum wage, does not pay over-time and gives one the opportunity to leave blood samples and body parts in various foreign States, plus you get shot at and rocketed, which is better than Disneyland.
Veterans' benefits: additional contractual obligations.
Pell Grants: an unnecessary program that is poorly executed. To the extent that it might be necessary and executed correctly, it should be available to only those students who score 2100 or higher on the SAT, have financial need, and are attending an out-of-State university.
Unemployment Insurance: Another poorly executed program. Employees would benefit more and pay less seeking and paying for their own insurance coverage.
Food Stamps: a poorly executed unnecessary "federal" program that creates more "poverty" than it cures. Can be operated more effectively and efficiently at the State or Commonwealth level.
Government Subsidized Housing: an horrid program that is unnecessary at the "federal" level. Results in some single Americans with no dependents being denied subsidized housing with an income of $9,101 while other single Americans with no dependents earning $26.75/hour and an annual income of $53,490 get subsidized housing.
Home Mortgage Interest Deduction: a stupid regulation cleverly designed to offset the fact that the "federal" artificially inflates housing prices through its poor policies.
Hope and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits: If it's anything like Hope & Change it's useless.
Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit: a regulation cleverly designed to cover up the fact that the "federal" government creates more problems than it solves.
529 accounts (qualified tuition programs) or Coverdell education savings account (Education I.R.A.'s): another program cleverly designed to hide the fact that "federal" government policies artificially inflate the cost of education.
Earned-income tax credit: a bribe to get votes from the stupid poor.
Employer subsidized health insurance: a contractual obligation as agreed between employer and employee
Employer subsidized retirement benefits: another contractual obligation as agreed between employer and employee
Federal student loans: an incredibly bad "federal" government policy that creates Interest Inflation driving up the cost of education
Maybe one day you'll discover the 8th, 9th and 10th Amendments, and then learn how to discern contracts.
Eliminating...
Mircea