Posted on 01/02/2017 8:34:10 AM PST by Cheerio
The state of Missouri took a stand against the generational dependence upon the government, forcing welfare recipients to get a job.
Approximately 41,000 Missouri residents no longer have access to the welfare food stamps program after a new time limit law went into effect in 2015. The new state law was actually a reinstatement of welfare reform enacted during President Bill Clinton’s administration.
The 1996 welfare law, which has now been reinstated, limited food stamps for able-bodies and childless adults to only three months out of every three years, America Now reports. Participants would continue to receive the taxpayer-funded benefits only if they worked 20 hours per week or attended an approved job training program.
“We want people to go to work in Mississippi,” Republican Governor Phil Bryant said when his state, like many others, ended the time limits and work/training restrictions for the food stamp program.
“We want these individuals to get a good job and live the American dream, not just be dependent on the federal government.”
(Excerpt) Read more at angrypatriotmovement.com ...
besides, Øbama says the economy is great!
No thanks, we have enough imports from states like Missouri and all over the U.S. into CA, like Pelosi, Boxer, Charlie Manson etc..Maybe they’d be interested in Oregon.
Are you saying that welfare pays more than $20 an hour?
There is simply no excuse for people to suck off the national teat simply because they aren't finding the job they used to do or one that "pays as much as welfare" or as they used to make, to sit on their asses!
If there were no welfare, Section 8 housing chits, food cards and "healthcare" people would soon enough find work to do.
The facts are that the "joblessness" isn't as bad as one would think and we'd soon see a lot less men hanging out at the mall, home improvement stores and shopping at the tech stores, kids in tow, if there weren't the benefits to support them!
People in my grandparents time lived TWO FAMILIES in a place the size of a two car garage.
Shrink down the areas or combine with others to afford a non-shelter home and all is better.
Many have not even the skill to show up every day on time for work, so we should all pay to help shelve these people with high wages and benefits or pay? Hell no, I bet many deserve less than minimum wage due to a total lack of self development.
The CalPERS cow has mastitis.
A reason to like these work demands a lot is that it will cut down on those leeching off the system. People working under the table, thus not claiming income, often get food stamp benefits. Many are going to choose to forgo food stamps rather than have to replace what they're doing with a job that's taxed. Another source of abuse is people who don't actually reside where they're making claims.
What makes no sense is welfare becoming handouts with no obligation to earn it in some way. Meanwhile, idiot liberals do free charity work while people sitting on their arses could be doing things for their own communities.
JMHO
The CalPERS cow has mastitis.
Good no one should get a free ride....Way to show the way big MO.
The natural way it’s suppose to work - without the ‘benefit’ of government - is each class works for ‘each other’ AND the class above it.
Those of us in the middle class make our money providing services for each other AND for the class above us. Welfare destroys the process where the poor assist each other - and where they assist the middle class. It’s one more way ‘the elites’ screwed over everyone in the country - EXCEPT themselves.
I wish there was a way to STOP all jobs that provide services and comfort to the upper classes - - especially those clustered around Washington DC. They lack empathy for anyone besides themselves - - AND the criminal classes that keep them in power.
You got it. If you’re working 50 hours a week at ‘unofficial’ jobs, it’s hard to find time to squeeze in a W2 job, which probably doesn’t even pay that well.
Even beggars can make $1000 a week if they are good. I’ve seen them on the NYC subway, bagging up rolls of quarters.
Livable wage has krept into the lexicon. Who is going to pay for that? Should the government decide a minimum? Why not a maximum?
I once was in a situation where there was 4 generations in one house all pn some form of welfare, does this go on forever?
Your point is valid, people need to be motivated to improve their lot in life, there are more reasons not to at this time.
Need to show all statistics related to public assistance to assess how effective this was. In other states that have done this, the social workers just farmed the welfare queens/kings out to other programs, many went to disability. There was no net change, and none of them suddenly “got jobs”.
This is a terribly written article. Just awful.
Sounds like one of my crazy road trips when I was a young'un.
“Meanwhile, idiot liberals do free charity work while people sitting on their arses could be doing things for their own communities.”
During the Great Depression many unemployed worked on government projects in the CCCC and WPA instead of receiving free money. We still benefit from the infrastructure projects created as a result of these programs. National Park buildings and roads, Hoover Dam, the Blue Ridge Parkway, post offices and federal building, state park infrastructure, and roads. Not only did these infrastructure projects deliver benefits for decades, the people working on these project learned skills allowing them to eventually transition back into the private sector as the economy improved. Plus young people participating in these programs learned a work ethic (i.e. produce or starve) that cannot be taught on social media or video games.
Traveling around the US one sees roads in disrepair, bridges built 50 years ago that need to be replaced, national park infrastructure decaying, and many other infrastructure needs that would benefit from the labor of those who are living on government assistance. The inner cities would benefit from picking up trash, repairing streets, demolition of burned out buildings, and rehabilitation of public housing. Without compulsory work programs we will continue to produce more generations of families trapped in a never ending cycle of poverty.
NO work to be found at all.
You shouldn't be having children if you can't get a job that pays enough to support them.
There are jobs out there but you won't get them if you're covered with tats and piercings, you have few skills, your pants are hanging down and you don't speak understandable English.
I'm betting 41,000 Missouri residents will 'discover' they're 'disabled' tomorrow morning...
Yes, there are and should be bad consequences for bad decisions.
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