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We need to build on the results of the 1996 reforms and continue to move welfare recipients into jobs and off the welfare rolls. This is especially important for single women and mothers, who continue to rely on welfare and fear that they cannot find a job or enter a training program because they need to care for their children. We endorse President Bush’s plan to extend the benefits of welfare reform by strengthening work requirements and promoting healthy marriages, and offering training, transportation, and child care services to help people become self-sufficient. Every American deserves a chance to know the pride of earning a paycheck and providing for his or her family.
...Of course today their are more welfare recipients than ever!!
If we follow the libertarian model we can eliminate welfare on less than 10 years.
Many worry that devolution will unravel our society’s safety net. But what is needed is a revitalization of those agencies that have shown time and time again that they truly can help the destitute: Not-for-profit organizations, specifically, private charities.
Non-profits do many of the things we have come to think of as government service activities, but they typically do it far more effectively. For example, Sister Connie’s House of Hope shelter for women in Chicago has a 95% success rate -- a record that towers over that of any of the city’s shelters. This is because Sister Connie can practice a “tough love” approach. She has random drug testing, curfews, and requires her “clients” to find solid employment.
The only welfare receipents I have ever met were coservatives. I am white, but I grew up in a very poor area, where there were lots of other poor whites. Many of them were on welfare. When I first started talking politics with them, I was shocked to learn that .. yep, they're voting Republican. They hate "blacks on welfare" who are only "gaming the system" much more than other non welfare conservatives do. They clearly see how they are hard working folks down on their luck who deserve a little assitance -- but those shiftless liberal welfare types ... aka minorities... why they're something else entirely! Just the other day at the welfare office (where they were to get their benefits) they saw this unwed Mexican woman with five kids do something outrageous!
Perhaps conservative welfare recipients want more wealth in general, which they too would benefit from possibly resulting in them no longer needing welfare? Just a thought...
The only welfare receipents I have ever met were coservatives. I am white, but I grew up in a very poor area, where there were lots of other poor whites. Many of them were on welfare. When I first started talking politics with them, I was shocked to learn that .. yep, they're voting Republican. They hate "blacks on welfare" who are only "gaming the system" much more than other non welfare conservatives do. They clearly see how they are hard working folks down on their luck who deserve a little assitance -- but those shiftless liberal welfare types ... aka minorities... why they're something else entirely! Just the other day at the welfare office (where they were to get their benefits) they saw this unwed Mexican woman with five kids do something outrageous!
I don't personally know anyone on welfare, white, conservative, democrat, black, etc. However, the patient population that I work with is primarily hispanic and the majority of them are medicaid. I don't know if they also receive welfare benefits or not. I would imagine that they probably do though if they qualify for medicaid.
From personal experience, the biggest bunch of people on public assistance I've witnessed - be it welfare, SNAP, or disability - has been staunch "get the government off my back" conservatives. The inner city democrat voting welfare queen stereotype that gets thrown around on CD all the time is far less pervasive than than the able-bodied white guy who is pulling down a disability check.
From personal experience, the biggest bunch of people on public assistance I've witnessed - be it welfare, SNAP, or disability - has been staunch "get the government off my back" conservatives. The inner city democrat voting welfare queen stereotype that gets thrown around on CD all the time is far less pervasive than than the able-bodied white guy who is pulling down a disability check. I've heard these guys talk about getting their check and then start demeaning, "them lazy Mexicans." It's astounding.
You must have lived in the same neighborhoods I lived in. Seriously. Just look at the map. Trailer park conservatives are the biggest welfare queens in the country. They vote Republican, which ... LOL. Just shaking my head. It's a crazy mixed up world we live in.
Anybody using any form of social safety net would be a part of welfare program. Do conservatives belong to an America from a different planet?
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