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UE has been low for a long time. Food stamp usage is still 50% higher than 2007 but the population has grown only 8%. The progressives are still in power and America is still losing.
The GOP holds all the cards at the moment, so do tell, how are “the progressives still in power”?
The GOP holds all the cards at the moment, so do tell, how are “the progressives still in power”?
Its a attempt to deny reality. The best they got is "it takes 60 vote in the Senate". Reality is-thats a senate rule, not a law, and anytime they want they can change it with a majority vote.
Nah. They'll be living out of cardboard boxes beneath bridges, foraging for their dinner in dumpsters, and will still be worshiping their God Emperor. That's how cultists think.
You realize your language patterns and usage parallel the brown shirts, i.e. SA if you know who they were (well probably don't, but that is what you are patterning yourself after). Filthy Brown Shirts.
There is huge fraud in the welfare programs. I listen to a Conservative talk show out of Boston and the host is always highlighting the fraud such as when a drug dealer is arrested and the cops find multiple EBT cards on him or worse when an illegal alien is picked up and they find multiple cards with different names on them.
For years the responsible have wanted to require a photo on the recipients card to stop the fraud but the dominant Left in my state has always shot that idea down.
Welfare should be there for the people that need it but there are many that are scamming the system and that is costing us all.
If the GOP wants to clean up welfare fraud then I am all for it.
The reason they don't require a photo on an EBT card is because elderly and disabled recipients frequently have someone shop for them and it's not always the same person. If grandma had her two daughters shop for her, and they went and got card with their photo on it, then what would happen if they weren't available and she had to ask a neighbor to do her shopping?
When EBT cards are found in someone's possession, the local social service agency can give the address and phone number of the person named on the card and they can be contacted to see if they are a victim of theft.
UE has been low for a long time. Food stamp usage is still 50% higher than 2007 but the population has grown only 8%. The progressives are still in power and America is still losing.
I didn't know Trump was a progressive, that's very interesting
Roper Center, Cornell University. It's the last time they made the distinction between "some high school" and "high school graduate" because the results were so embarrassing for the Dems.
It's also true that the low-income overwhelmingly vote Dem, and that Dem voters are at least 2/3, if not more, of those enrolled in public assistance programs.
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Author's credentials:
PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago
MA in Economics from the University of Chicago
MSc from Stockholm School of Economics
Other info from the link:
Share of Recipients of each program that identified as supporters of Republican party:
Gov. Subsidized Housing 12%
Medicaid: 16%
Food Stamps: 20%
Unemployment Compensation: 21%
Welfare or public assistance: 22%
Disability benefits from government 25%
It's in the Dems' best interest to keep a certain percentage of the population poor and on public assistance to maintain their voter base. They wouldn't be able to win elections without them.
And even worse, it's minorities (Blacks, and to a lesser degree, Hispanics) who are very disproportionately kept poor.
Now that Dem voters understand that you're supporting the maintenance and growth of a perpetually poor and welfare-programs dependent underclass that MUST be kept poor in order to keep most of them voting Dem, will you all still go along with that?
Get a clue... Why do you think liberals are SO on board with "open borders" that keep low-end wages depressed?..
Author's credentials:
PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago
MA in Economics from the University of Chicago
MSc from Stockholm School of Economics
Other info from the link:
Share of Recipients of each program that identified as supporters of Republican party:
Gov. Subsidized Housing 12%
Medicaid: 16%
Food Stamps: 20%
Unemployment Compensation: 21%
Welfare or public assistance: 22%
Disability benefits from government 25%
It's in the Dems' best interest to keep a certain percentage of the population poor and on public assistance to maintain their voter base. They wouldn't be able to win elections without them.
And even worse, it's minorities (Blacks, and to a lesser degree, Hispanics) who are very disproportionately kept poor.
Now that Dem voters understand that you're supporting the maintenance and growth of a perpetually poor and welfare-programs dependent underclass that MUST be kept poor in order to keep most of them voting Dem, will you all still go along with that?
Get a clue... Why do you think liberals are SO on board with "open borders" that keep low-end wages depressed?..
keeping blacks poor and disenfranchised has been the Democrats goal since LBJ was President.
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