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Food stamps are necessary so that America does not look like Acapulco, a one time "resort" that is for the wealty traveler in hotels, and you cannot venture outside.
Is it necessary for the welfare-dependent class to have a birth rate 3 times higher than those who pay to support them?
Are you trying to assert that the welfare-dependent class receives only food stamps? Cite your source for that.
Strawman alert. The welfare-dependent class also receives military protection, why don't we include that in your stats? Nice to see that you consider Society Security and Medicare recipients part of the welfare -dependent class.
Strawman alert. The welfare-dependent class also receives military protection, why don't we include that in your stats?
Everyone in the country receives that. Not everyone receives social welfare benefits. Those who receive public assistance have a birth rate 3 times that of those who pay to support them.
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Nice to see that you consider Society Security and Medicare recipients part of the welfare -dependent class.
I never said that. I merely pointed out that social programs spending is more than TWICE defense and security spending in the federal budget. Social programs spending is the country's BIGGEST expense, by far.
Is it necessary for the welfare-dependent class to have a birth rate 3 times higher than those who pay to support them?
Why do you keep saying "class" like it is a specific group of individuals?
Does Generational Poverty exist? Yes, but they do not make up the majority of welfare receipients. It is a social safety net that anybody can find themselves receiving in dire times. Professionals who have lost their jobs during the recession is one example. You will see that a lot of the FS increases across the country are taking place in suburbia.
But I do agree with Florida in that when you begin receiving welfare benefits and receive them continuously, you do not get an increase for giving birth to another child. You are capped out with what you began receiving and how many children you had when benefits started. Although, this is difficult to implement and regulate. And besides, poor people have always had more children than higher classes. Lack of resources, money, education, sex is free and fun and an escape from surroundings. There have also been studies that poor single mothers often have children as a way of loving someone and having someone love them unconditionally.
Anyways, blaming poor people for our countries problems is so shortsighted. The oldest trick in the book is to deflect blame on those with no power and no voice.
Why not blame those controlling our currency and implementing economic policy? Or maybe those who have engaged us in a number of endless and EXTREMELY expensive wars?
Strawman alert. The welfare-dependent class also receives military protection, why don't we include that in your stats? Nice to see that you consider Society Security and Medicare recipients part of the welfare -dependent class.
lol. SS and medicare- yep he wont touch that. Any candidate toucing something I paid into for 20 years is going to get a referendum vote
InfConsent-Medicare is necessary, as are food stamps. My opinion. My country.
I happen to take issue with Medicare being an "entitlement" My father was a war veteran, worked 40 years and entitled to what medical care he did get at the end of his life. Plus my allegiance is to family, not collections agencies for hospitals with their claws out for cash when an elderly person is dying.
for profit healthcare is wrong, and the chief source of personal bankruptcies in the United States. The only developed nation without decent catastrophic medical care safety net.
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