Aggrevated... Welfare Garbage.

[JennsPeeps]

Shellie - I heard on NPR the other day that there's now a lifetime cap on welfare awards. they'll hit that cap at some point and have no options.

 

[SterlingAcres]

What's that Jenn? I've never heard of it.

 

[2468Chickensrgr8]

For people that worked all there lives and pay into the system and then find themselves without a job because of layoffs or closings or getting hurt on the job etc etc....they should use the system...its hard finding a job that pays the same and exspecially if your over 50....and with all the money they put in it over the years ...its the ones that work as little as possible to Qualify and then dont even try and get a job ....because the system pays more...hm?

I remember when I was a kid and Bingo was really popular and I would go with my mom and most of the people were on welfare...she worked at the bank back then and reconized the people .....HM??

 

[sundance]

know just how you feel, I was working at winn dixie, more than my 40 hr s week because I had a DH who had just had a heart attack, and a 9 year old son at home to feed along with everything else. It used to burn me to the bottoms of my feet to have someone come in and buy t bone steaks,lobster, and crab, shrimp and all the other things like that and I was working paying for it.

marrie

 

[JennsPeeps]

Info on welfare reform attempts and results: http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results.html?artId=23498

Lifetime caps are a state-by-state issue rather than a federally-executed decision.

 

[congdon476]

Oh- and you guys will love this: Have a friend out in California who works as an adjunct prof. at a few different major universities. Because he is contracted from semester to semester and paperwork isn't finalized until the day before he starts teaching, any time off he has for "winter break" and "summers" he can claim welfare. It's a California loop-hole that allows him to be considered "out of work" because he didn't get a winter or summer teaching contract. (he hasn't refused an offer, they just aren't there to non-tenured faculty) So he can collect 1/2 his typical salary during winter and summer for doing nothing. He said a lot of adjunct faculty won't take tenured track positions because they enjoy their "paid holidays". Something else to keep in mind.... especially in a state that's almost bankrupt.

 

[conradpdx]

Honestly, no system is perfect. And I'd much prefer my tax dollars going to help feed people than to giving money to the thieves on wall street that put so many people into the position that they need the food stamps. After all all the food stamp frauds combined cost much less than 1% of the wall street bailouts.

 

[rufus]

The sad fact seems to be that the system does not work for those who need it, while at the same time it is open to abuse by those that exploit it. There is no easy solution.



Rufus

 

[debilorrah]

Quote:
In California that is supplemental unemployement and we all pay into it through payroll taxes.

 

[Oblio13]

Almost half of all Americans pay no taxes. In other words, we've almost reached the tipping point where a minority is supporting a majority.



"A democracy can survive only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse...always followed by a dictatorship."

---Lord Thomas MacCauley