[Mollypitcher1]

Trump’s answer to poverty is J O B S .

[txnativegop]

Not from Appalachia, but my wife is, and the poverty here, has more to do with very little industry, although there should be massive coal, timber, and stone industries.

government is never the answer to the problems of society, it is the poison that destroys society.

JMO.

[BlackElk]

If Trump does as this posted article suggests, that would be a large factor for me. Thanks for a very informative thread.

[Auntie Dem]

Poverty is caused by Poverty Programs. $20+ trillion and we have more poor people than ever. Somebody needs to get a clue.

[BenLurkin]

how to shore up America's safety net usually means more handouts.

[lewislynn]

He’s really only interested in taking their property under eminent domain. < /sarcasm>

[Eagles6]

BARF!

[WMarshal]

We don’t need anymore stinking “government programs”! You fix the fundamentals of the country there will be an economic boom! Everyone will benefit with more opportunities, more jobs, more weakth, more security, and more freedom.

[fella]

Lower the tax burden on the middle class and eliminate the tax burden of the retired fixed income people. Sit back and watch the economy grow.

just a side question. Do the welfare lifers go into retirement or do they continue to “earn” at the same rate until they die?

[taildragger]

"The result is a percolating conversation among Republicans about how to shore up America's safety net. To Mr. Ryan, now speaker of the House, that means moving federal money out of some welfare programs and into others he says are more effective, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)."

Ryan has lost me here, and possibly Trump, let me explain.

* EITC takes you below 0 tax and essentially rebates your SSI.
* How does anyone have any skin in the game with a EITC when they vote?
* And Trump did not address EITC in his quasi-flat tax proposal.
* One Freeper had a brilliant idea, scrap EITC and give those on it a low cost health care plan ( I propose a HSA + "Direct Primary Care ) as a bridge to health care when they get a job that has it.
* That might require my HSA + Direct Primary Care model being adopted by multiple governmental platforms and the private sector, notice I am not turning blue since I am not holding my breath on that one...

[free_life]

Becoming the Party of Work

How the GOP can help struggling Americans, and itself.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/373230/becoming-party-work-senator-jeff-sessions

unfortunately this very smart piece by Jeff Sessions is in the National Rag GOPee hitmen publishing enterprise.