entitlement
Posted By: sm on 2009-01-12
In Reply to: The operative phrase "due to no fault of their own" - Emily Ayn
The Clinton administration made some pretty important changes in the Welfare system. In order to receive a welfare check - you have to work a 40-hour week per month and you earn $112 per person. As far as covering children with medical coverage - you have to be in a certain income bracket and I have no problem with making sure kids get medical care. I have no problem providing families who have hit hard times, the elderly or disabled with food stamps, so they don't starve. There is way too much misinformation spread about regarding welfare and entitlement programs. There are bums who get subsidized rent, etc., and cook meth to live like kings - but, in reality, the truly needy far outnumber the scum. Of course, those drug addicts usually procreate and the children suffer because the parents have no need for food and abhor medical care out of fear of being found out......My husband's father was a judge and he had to put an elderly couple in jail for stealing food.....I think it would have been cheaper to give them food stamps rather than tie up the legal system and house and feed them.
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