Posted on 09/18/2019 8:04:39 PM PDT by upchuck
Democrats thought Donald was done – he’s just getting started!
Thanks to President Trump, the U.S. economy is on fire like never before. Jobs are coming back and wages are on the rise.
Companies are competing to keep Americans workers. In fact, there are more open jobs than people looking for work!
But as good as things are, Trump wants them even better. The economy can only thrive when people are jumping in and getting back to work.
But there’s one program that keeps people poor and out of the workforce. A program that also costs the taxpayers billions a year.
And Trump is about to pull the plug on this program—for millions.
From Fox News:
…residents in 43 states who receive help from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, automatically enroll in the food-stamp program… The USDA intends to review these TANF cases to see if participants qualify for the program.
You might have been surprised to know that recipients of TANF automatically were enrolled in the food stamp program. Even if they didn’t need it!
That’s by design. Democrats like to hand out free government goodies like Halloween treats! They want as many people poor and dependent on the government as possible.
We all know government Welfare doesn’t lift people out of poverty. In fact, it keeps them poor, because to keeping earning stuff like food stamps you have to earn less.
The only way to get people off that carousel is to cut benefits.
President Trump wants Americans free to pursue their dreams. That means getting off the government teat and working for a living.
When a person has a good, well-paying job, they get a sense of dignity and accomplishment. Plus, they earn WAY more than what food stamps can provide.
All that Trump wants to do is require the USDA to just make sure participants of TANF actually need food stamps. Instead of just handing them out like lollipops at the doctor’s office.
Why waste tax dollars when we don’t need to? That is what a responsible leader does—he makes sure our government spending is in check.
Already Democrats are angry. But hey, if they got their way, their policies would make us broke, sick, and desperate for more government aid.
Liberals want as many Americans stuck on food stamps so they can raise taxes, expand the size of the government, and get re-elected.
But Trump is putting a stop to all that. And saving you money in the process.
I am not familiar with the website, so I confess I did not click to it; however, the Fox News link is from July 23...
Why is the website publishing it like it is going to happen??
Did it happen or didn’t it??
...The Tuesday referred to was in July
‘I am shocked that none of the top Dem controlled metro areas are in the Top 100.’
It’s percentages and not numbers.
Furthermore, you have to be wealthy to have a decent existence in a big city. Food Stamps would never make ends meet in NYC or LA.
However, in South Dakota, a family could survive on Food Stamps.
If the writer wants to be an editorialist, then the content and his points must be better. If he is a journalist, cut out the hyperbole and editorial slant.
Other than that, it’s OK.
Yep, the targeted areas should all be the big cities with monstrous gibsmedat communities.
“Yep, the targeted areas should all be the big cities with monstrous gibsmedat communities.”
Why should we be less concerned about supporting shiftless, lazy people in small towns that leech off of society than we do supporting shiftless lazy people in big cities that leech off of society?
I didn’t see Chicago either.
Which state in the South are you paying the bills for?
I consider Supplemental Nutrition Assistance to be a seventh beer in a six pack. Do I qualify?
I noticed that.
“I didn’t see Chicago either.”
That’s because of lower percentage of people in Chicago (Cook County) get Food Stamps than any of the counties cited.
A very high percentage of New Mexico, I knew we were bad but it’s worse than I thought.
Numbers, noob. Democrat votes. Those gibsmedats in the major urban areas are why so many otherwise sane states are what is skewing elections. The underclass dominated cities control the state.
Some Navajos and Sioux are not the problem.
Are there really jobs galore everywhere? I keep finding salaries for tech are much lower than I was hoping for. Is this because of H1-B competition?
The underclass cannot afford like in the big city.
The are headed out to the burbs and rural areas.
The areas in the South outside Appalachia are heavily black districts.
Milwaukee and Dane Counties in WI have a HUGE number of freeloaders.
Something isn’t adding up, here.
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Well, perhaps the freeloaders in Dane County and cesspools such as Detroit have all gone to join the workforce. ;-). Or, much more likely, maybe statistics and charts can be designed to mislead.
Welcome to Free Republic. Do you have a link to the site whence came your chart?
Elections are determined by voters (citizens), and if American workers are not better off than all of the charts and figures mean nothing. I believe Trump has good ideas, but until this translates into improvements for regular people I don’t know how much it helps. Some people are better off, and we have to hope it is enough to put Trump over the top next year.
There are jobs but no upward pressure on wages; while figures indicate salaries are rising expenses are as well (the wages aren’t “buying more”). The open borders ensure American workers won’t benefit from the retirements of millions of Americans as the Baby Boomers retire; where automation can’t pick up the slack Asian coolies will. This isn’t just the tech sector anymore; it has been happening in the financial sector as well. When “Occupy Wall Street” was initially protesting outside the firms’ offices in NYC, you could actually see the Asian replacement workers filing into the buildings behind them; they were going up to the offices from which the Americans protesting outside had been fired.
Besides trafficking Asians here to replace American workers, tech is also a field where work can be done abroad. IIRC, Bill Gates threatened to move jobs to Vancouver if Congress didn’t give him his H-1B coolies.
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