Posted on 08/27/2014 4:03:15 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
Recently, Daniel Payne argued that welfare “stigma” is invaluable and warrants a robust defense. This quixotic understanding of poverty in America will do very little to reform the current welfare system or alleviate poverty. Americans struggling in poverty need hope, not stigma, and the welfare system needs reform, not contempt.
Payne argues that stigmatizing school children who receive a government-funded lunch at their elementary schools will somehow reduce the number of children who need government assistance. He seems particularly concerned that nine-year-olds realize Payne’s tax dollars has paid for their lunch.
Although he does not fully embrace an “aggressive public shaming for anyone who goes on the dole,” his approach to poverty and welfare reform is unhelpful because it utterly fails to address the causes of poverty, reform the current system, or even win the public argument as to why those two issues matter.
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***Poor Americans Need Hope***
If I’m not mistaken the po folks voted for HOPE! CHANGE! TWICE! What did it get them!
Give and it shall be given unto you. Constantly demand that more be given to you and you will never have enough. Produce, create, contribute, no worries. Take and take and take, live in hardship.
The problem is not with the 9 year old, it’s the parents’ or parent’s (more likely) sense of entitlement. Not sure what you do about that, other than workfare.
If you are born in the US and can’t make a living you deserve to be stigmatized.....You are a moron!!!
To put it in the words of the late George Carlin, ‘F-— Hope!”
A majority of Wall Street backed the fascist we now have in office.
“Hope” does not come from:
-Public schools pushing an agenda in place of meaningful education.
-Government handouts undermining personal responsibility.
-Gov’t agencies shutting down the industry and business necessary for a full employment economy.
We need a vibrant economy producing jobs.
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