DIP STICK CHECK OF ATTITUDES ON WELFARE
i.e. GOOD WELFARE vs BAD WELFARE POLICIES
Writer Robert Rector points out that 12 years ago, an energized Republican Congress voted to reform a vital part of the nation's fast-growing welfare system. President Clinton signed the bill into law, promising that the measure would end welfare as we know it. For a while it worked, cutting the number of recipients back by sixty percent but what began as a promising era of reform has completely collapsed. Government welfare spending is climbing rapidly, and at an unsustainable rate.
Basil Venitis, (a right wing, conservative, elitist, racist writer who holds forth at http://www.twitter.com/Venitis, ) points out Rahm Emanuel's vow that the Obama Administration (who won't let a serious crisis go to waste ) --is in full swing to spread the cancer of socialism. (NOTE: This should clue you to the fact that the LIBERTERIANS who wrote this article I'm POSTING here... are against poor people especially starving single mothers...surviving, getting help and are probably racist. They allege that "Europe is realizing the folly of the welfare state and taking the first small steps to return to fiscal sanity. (This was written during the 2008 RECESSION and all countries lost money, it isn't that welfare was bad --or killed the planet, no, it's just that the BANKERS killed each other, and themselves with greed, lies and excess and now in the wake of GOV BAILOUTS, there's no more money for social programs and they're the first thing to go.) Alas, Planetarch (see? Making him an oligarch? ) Obama and Congress seem more inclined to repeat Europe's mistakes than to learn from them. (Again, MELTDOWN was not about mistakes, it was about Banksters stealing all the money on the planet and making GOVS pay them back when they hit the skids.)
The Obama administration projects that over the next 10 years the United States, at all levels of government, will spend more than $10 trillion on means-tested welfare programs for the poor. If TRUMP DOESN'T CANCEL THEM ALL. Those kids are the citizens of our future. They will be here when your grandkids are in college. Will they be stealing your grandkids' cars and laptops raping the boys for their wallets, girls for...? or will they be beside them in school?) As we don't want those things to occur,we're off to a galloping start. President Obama's budget for next fiscal year would increase spending on these programs by 42 percent compared with President Bush's last complete budget.The key now is what will TRUMP's budget be? HOW POOR ARE WE?
POVERTY TODAY: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/13/whos-poor-in-america-50-years-into-the-war-on-poverty-a-data-portrait/
Rector notes the severe recession is to blame for some of this increase. But the Obama administration doesn't project a decrease in welfare costs after the recession ends. Rising spending — reaching $944 billion in combined federal and state spending in fiscal 2011 — will soar past $1.3 trillion a year by decade's end. Sums like this don't represent a war on poverty so much as an unconditional surrender "to" poverty.
Venitist Chuck Donovan points out that America's welfare spending is unsustainable because the principles undergirding it are unsustainable as well. Back in 1996, when Congress replaced the failing program called Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the lawmakers installed a completely different model, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF. They designed TANF to promote greater self-reliance.
The old model gave incentives to the states to add more people to the welfare rolls. TANF, however, required recipients to devote 20 to 30 hours a week to work or job preparation in exchange for their cash benefits. Practically overnight, TANF converted welfare agencies into job-placement offices. Rather than receive federal funds for each new enrollee, agencies got their money as part of block grants with a fixed amount per state.
Donovan notes that adding folks to the welfare rolls no longer brought a state more federal dollars. In fact, when its job training and marriage promotion activities shortened the rolls, TANF allowed a state agency to apply the savings to other services for low-income residents.
The results were dramatic: Between 1996 and 2009, the states' welfare caseloads dropped from 4.5 million to 1.7 million, a decrease of 60 percent. The reason: enforced employment, particularly for single mothers. (meaning women had to leave their babies and clean freeways!) It was a win-win-win situation: (Not for the women and kids.) States reduced budgets, women developed work skills involved with picking up trash and children benefitted from their families' improved prospects. (JUST A TOTAL LIE except my note in BLUE).
The major limitation of the reform was that it applied to only one of 70 federal means-tested welfare programs. And within the past two years, the gains under TANF have come to a screeching halt. Last year's stupid stimulus package included a little-noticed provision depositing $5 billion in a TANF Emergency Fund. This fund once again incentivized the states to enlarge their welfare rolls, with little or no emphasis on job acquisition. Less than 16 percent of the emergency spending has gone to support work strategies.
The situation is untenable. With the nation facing massive deficits, spending cuts are unavoidable. But policy reforms must guide the surgeon's hand. Congress should restore the TANF work requirements of 1996. What's more, lawmakers should apply those requirements to food stamps, housing assistance and other welfare programs — which were supposed to help the poor, not make them dependent on government." TRY JUGGLING four babies and holding down a job. DAYCARE would be $1200 a week. 5k a month. Politicians are all greedy, scroogish idiots who just like to grope blondes.
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