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Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Originally Posted by PilgrimsProgress
Women on welfare should have to get Depo Provera birth control shots every three months or be offered the option of free tubal ligation. If they want more kids they can get a job or find a man to pay for them, not the taxpayers. We'd save a bloody fortune.
I'd also like to see job training by having these women take care of other women's kids in a community childcare in exchange for a small allowance and job referrals. They will learn how to show up on time for a job and follow orders. I'd like to see employers earn a tax break for hiring these women later.
"Give a (wo)man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
Why don't we just execute them while we're at it? (Sarcasm)
The bolded isn't true. My fiance is on the tail end of Medicaid until her benefits kick in at her new job, and she's had to pay her own phone bill every month
The people who have it the worst in the U.S are the working class who don't qualify for any government handouts.Often these would be low income workers with no dependents or those who make slightly above the cut off for handouts.
The quality of life the welfare class lives is much higher than the non-welfare class just above them. The welfare class gets free food with food stamps, discount housing with Section 8, free cash with welfare, free medical with Medicaid. Not a worry in the world they are living the good life. As an added bonus the welfare class doesn't have to worry about inflation as all their handouts are adjusted for it.
It is time for the non-welfare working poor to be furious with the welfare poor. They should be coming out with pitchforks. There should be big protests in front of Section 8 communities.
The best thing the non-welfare poor could do is vote for far right wing politicians. Yes they mostly vote for Republicans today but the GOP does nothing to cut welfare programs. We need a replacement party (or a revised Republican party) that will make it priority #1 to end all welfare programs.
You've misidentified your enemy. This is what the republican party does - they divide the lower economic classes amongst themselves by making them fight for the table scraps while transferring the vast majority of the country's wealth to the wealthy. And you bought right into it like a good little peasant, didn't you?
The bolded isn't true. My fiance is on the tail end of Medicaid until her benefits kick in at her new job, and she's had to pay her own phone bill every month
Could depend on the state. I know in Ohio you can get your service paid for or a discounted internet service thru AT&T. You pay something like $10 for $60 internet level.
I'm not sure about where I am in California now because I don't know anyone on Medicaid here. I assume they would have something similar. This state gives everyone a free butt wiping after a bowel movement to anyone making less than $X per year.
So then people should be punished for their lack of earning power? For some households it’s cheaper for one parent to stay home while the other works because they care is so darn expensive.
Capped, not punished, based on how much they contributed in taxes in their lives.
Capped, not punished, based on how much they contributed in taxes in their lives.
Not a NET TAKER, a/k/a moocher.
Sorry, that’s punished. You’re basically saying to a class of people that they didn’t have a good enough job to get more benefits. 10 K in food stamps for a family of say 4 wouldn’t even last you 2 years.
Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Capped, not punished, based on how much they contributed in taxes in their lives.
Not a NET TAKER, a/k/a moocher.
As long as their is capitalism, there will always be "takers"; it's a side effect, as there is a legally determined minimum standard of living in this country (anti-homeless laws and occupancy laws) and that has a minimum dollar figure attached to it
I'm just pointing out a bunch of these "benefits" the right and libertarians point to don't actually exist
I'm not reading through all this but my sister is disabled in Ohio and on Medicaid. I think she has a choice: free phone service or the discounted internet via AT&T (god I'm sure there's some shadiness going on there).
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