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Trump says he's looking 'very, very strongly' at welfare reform
CNN Politics ^ | October 16, 2017 | Dan Merica

Posted on 10/16/2017 5:17:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

President Donald Trump said Monday his administration will start to consider reforming the welfare system in the United States, saying that some people are "taking advantage of the system."

The comment comes as the Trump administration struggles to get any sweeping legislation through Congress, despite Republicans controlling both the House and Senate. Trump failed to pass health care reform earlier this year and is currently working -- without much success so far -- to pass tax reform.

"People are taking advantage of the system and then other people aren't receiving what they really need to live and we think it is very unfair to them," said Trump, flanked by Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a Cabinet meeting. "Because some people are really taking advantage of our system from that standpoint."(continued)

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: trump; trumpwelfarereform; welfare; welfarereform
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To: Sarah Barracuda

There needs to be a system to report individuals like this.


21 posted on 10/16/2017 6:14:27 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Wow. That’s crazy. I used to see people buying expensive meat and cheese with food stamps.


22 posted on 10/16/2017 6:20:29 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Mr. Mojo

“Many millions, and they need to be cut off completely, “social unrest” be damned”

I agree. Either make it on their own or else into a “camp”. No welfare.


23 posted on 10/16/2017 6:23:53 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: MSF BU

Just to let you know, it is not unusual to see guardians, caregivers, foster parents (in some states), and others (like a friend when the card client is ill) pick up groceries. I did this myself for a family after the mother died. So things aren’t always what they appear.


24 posted on 10/16/2017 6:29:56 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ssdi is worse than welfare


25 posted on 10/16/2017 6:49:37 PM PDT by rb22982
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Back in the Reagan days it was just welfare queens riding the system.

Things have gotten so bad after 8 years of Obama that the much of the system is predicated on systemic fraud and the people who were the original groups the welfare was intended to help are being frozen out. .

26 posted on 10/16/2017 6:50:56 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: MomwithHope

“Isn’t that really a state issue?”

Not when the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is paying $71 Billion per year. The states are more than welcome to be left alone to run Food Stamps...they just have to pay for it themselves.


27 posted on 10/16/2017 6:51:32 PM PDT by BobL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First, we need to force timely recertification. You go on SS disability using a well paid lawyer, you can stay on the rest of your life. You move in with a boyfriend/girlfriend, but your welfare status won’t change. Have another kid, Bingo.

Auditing costs money, but with huge potential savings.


28 posted on 10/16/2017 6:57:24 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: PapaBear3625
First, consolidate them all into one agency

Nope.

All of it should be turned over to the states. I'll even support a one-time block grant so states can handle the transition and pay for things like homelessness and mental illness. But once that money is gone, that's it. States would take full responsibility.

Also the stupid EITC should be abolished as well. Friggin' lowlifes getting a refund when they don't even pay taxes.

29 posted on 10/16/2017 7:02:34 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No ... those who CANNOT work do need help ... those who WILL NOT work need a good swift kick in the backside and off welfare.

THAT is where the difference is for me.

Oh ... and no welfare for immigrants, illegal or otherwise.


30 posted on 10/16/2017 7:05:58 PM PDT by kschockeynut87 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my GOD, my family and my country.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


31 posted on 10/16/2017 7:08:30 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: MSF BU

Unfortunately it happens all the time, they flaunt what they do..no embarrassment at all cheating the system


32 posted on 10/16/2017 7:17:43 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: EXCH54FE

I agree with 2ndDivisionVet..
I can no longer work (after 43
years in the workforce). I have
a home, a car, a TV...
All earned before I was injured...


33 posted on 10/16/2017 9:59:11 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: The Cuban
yeah all those crazy people living up their $100 a week payday!!!

This isn't about that and that isn't what will make the liberals mad.

It is about the massive government bureaucracy which has grown to "manage" the welfare and other grants to people. They make big money and do not want to see the spigot turned off.
34 posted on 10/17/2017 2:47:46 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Nope. All of it should be turned over to the states. I'll even support a one-time block grant so states can handle the transition and pay for things like homelessness and mental illness. But once that money is gone, that's it. States would take full responsibility.

And then the Democrats will scream that Trump is "planning genocide against black and brown people!!". I was proposing things that COULD be done WITHOUT giving them an excuse to use that argument.

35 posted on 10/17/2017 2:57:51 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Who cares if it brings social unrest?

At this point they’ve been stealing for generations to fund their entire families and lives and breed even more people to Hate America.

I pray he cuts it off completely.


36 posted on 10/17/2017 4:46:59 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You can't cut off welfare while the country is de industrializing and offshoring. That would be suicide.

Welfare is a corporate subsidy funded by the taxpayer to keep the idled workforce in check(with a check) while they close factories and reap huge profits by importing duty(tariff) free. It's all interconnected.

37 posted on 10/17/2017 4:53:00 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those that TRULY cannot work deserve assistance. That is what the program was started for in the first place.

Most are padding the system and could work if pressed hard, the system was never intended to last forever and a day as some think.


38 posted on 10/17/2017 5:50:31 AM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet (Stand for the flag, kneel for the cross))
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To: steve86

Well that would be the answer when the matter is investigated.


39 posted on 10/17/2017 12:27:58 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Go back to what we had under Clinton, who could say no to that?


40 posted on 10/17/2017 12:52:23 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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