Trump needs to kill this plan. Ryan is out of line.....Murray is acting like the Communist she is.
Close. But actually, government bureaucrats belong in THEIR home WITHOUT A JOB.
There is no need to measure anything. ALL the federal programs they are talking about should be ended on purely objective constitutional PRINCIPLE. Not based on whether an entirely subjective analysis of data determines something one way or the other.
The central/general govt was designed to be objective and light. The states are the place for subjective and heavy-handed BS. Closer to home. Where you can still use your pitch forks and torches against these socialists if your state leans Right.
For crying out loud, the R's own every branch and level of government right now - the only correct answer for Freedom-lovers/ Constitutionalists / originalists/ etc. is for Ryan to be woke. Nobody remembers this, but he came to DC originally as the Donald Trump of entitlement reform. He wanted to do the right thing and roll fed programs back to the states. He failed miserably to gain traction and now he goes the other way.
If this idiotic notion of his is allowed to stand, then data will in the future show that taking your guns away is beneficial to the family, etc.
I'm a data guy by trade. I know how easy it is to coerce data into lying.
As a former headstart program manager, let me tell you why social service initiative like this always fail.
Because the target population is uncooperative, generally asleep during bureaucrat working hours and lives in very scary, crime-ridden neighborhoods.
So the staff tasked with implementation are going to find ways to meet the stated goals, generally via creative report writing and manipulation of data in order to get paid for doing the job only on paper. Actual in home contact will be few and far between.
Same shit goes on in the mental health profession. All the money is spent on counseling for the chronically anxious and a few bi-polars. But just try to find funding for a treatment bed for the the violently psychotic or delusional schizophrenic.
All this funding is sucked up into salaries and benefits for one of the most reliable democratic voting blocks of government workers, the social work - entitlement manager complex.
6 years ago my daughter had her first baby.
Sometime in the hospital she was asked either if she was ok with a home visit or did she want a home visit, and being the overwhelmed first-time Mom she was, she politely said “ok”.
I was there and stayed for a few weeks. Just days after my daughter came home, around 9 in the morning came a knock on the front door.
Momma and baby were sleeping, I looked like morning hell after the night shift, but I answered the door to find 2 very well dressed, very intimidating, very mature women.
I thought they were Jehovah Witnesses, but they pushed in and said something like “We’re here for the home inspection visit”
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I was incredulous and outraged and let them know it. My daughter had gotten up, hearing my raised voice, and stumbled into the living room looking like crap ..... and made nice despite being grilled while feeling and looking awful, while I stood behind her and all but bared my teeth at these effing nosybodies.
How disgustingly unfair of these 2 broads in Roanoke County Virginia, to arrive unannounced, and do everything in their power to make the new mom feel embarrassed, ashamed and in need of help. And they KNEW *I* knew what they were doing. After stating it would take about 45 minutes for them to ask questions and look around, they hauled their behinds out after about 10 minutes or so, without so much as a peek into the kitchen.
Part of me wondered if it wasn’t a ploy to get a beautiful, healthy, white baby girl out of her home and into foster care - or worse. THAT could have easily happened with one bad answer from my daughter during her interrogation.
I believe she was aware that I could embarrass her any minute, and that cleared her head enough to wake up and respond correctly.
I’m getting older and caring less, I’d have no problem taking a b!+ch out for overstepping.
The Feds need to get out of the business entirely.
All welfare should be at the local or state level.
Fifty (or more) laboratories of freedom. Not “one Federal size” fits all.
Yes, more taxes to help the federal government dig in to directly guiding families - (and if we had “single payer” you know such “guidance” would be legally more than mere “guidance) - taxing more money OUT of the private economy that is the real engine of jobs and incomes for improving families.
They only need to be allowed to be examining The House.
Most government bureaucrats deserve to be fired this afternoon. They “belong” nowhere. They are malignancies and parasites on civil society.