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Who were America's first 48 welfare queens?
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Posted on 05/29/2017 12:30:23 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica

Initiate a discussion about welfare, and inevitably the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt pops up. Often times FDR comes up in the first sentence.

Problem is, this simply is not historically accurate. It is true to say that FDR supercharged welfare, but anything else is fake history. Not only did welfare in America exist prior to FDR, but the first welfare program for citizens was repealed in 1929.

The interesting story, however, is that it was not people who were first at being put on welfare by the federal government. That's what makes the issue of the first 48 welfare queens so interesting. Here are their names:

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Long before Ida May Fuller, the states themselves were being manipulated by the progressives using national money. So what I blogged about earlier about the first welfare program being put in place in 1921 (repealed in 1929), this is not actually true in the fullest sense. (Normally, welfare is only thought of in connection with individual citizens and in that sense, it is true. This is a grave mistake however. The states have consistently been on welfare now for 103 years and it is time to use that terminology - its accurate.)

The first welfare program had its foundation laid in 1914 and expanded in 1917. The 1917 initiative is especially caustic, stating that:

in order to secure the benefits of the appropriation for any purpose specified In this act, the State board shall prepare plans showing the kinds of vocational education for which it Is proposed that the appropriation shall be used; the kinds of schools and equipment; courses of study; methods of instruction; qualifications of teachers; and, in the case of agricultural subjects, the qualifications of supervisors or directors; plans for the training of teachers; and, In the case of agricultural subjects, plans for the supervision of agricultural education as provided for in section 10. Such plans shall be submitted by the State board to the Federal Board for Vocational Education, and If the Federal board finds the same to be In conformity with the provisions and purposes of this act the same shall be approved. The State board shall make an annual report to the Federal Board of Vocational Education on or before September 1 of each year, on the work done in the State and the receipts and expenditures of money under the provisions of this act.

In other words, big daddy government will gladly give you money, but you have to accept these strings attached and do as you're told. The marionette has met its puppetmaster.

This is the real reason why state-level DOTs, and DOEs, and every other department you can name exist. They are not there first and foremost to deal with state-wide policy, they are there to distribute funds from big daddy. I'm sure they do have state-policy input, but that is secondary.

Each Department of X is there to ensure that your state remains a proxy, a purchased agent. An empty suit.

As long as your state continues to receive its welfare dole, it is a slave.

It's time to set the states free from their bondage.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: progressingamerica; progressivism; tyranny; welfare

1 posted on 05/29/2017 12:30:23 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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To: ProgressingAmerica

From the other PGA - who's not a blog pimp...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4552628/Tiger-Woods-arrested-DUI.html

 

2 posted on 05/29/2017 12:33:11 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Kalam; IYAS9YAS; laplata; mvonfr; Southside_Chicago_Republican; celmak; SvenMagnussen; ...
If anybody wants on/off the revolutionary progressivism ping list, send me a message

Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history.

Summary: The states are held in bondage, courtesy of your tax dollars.

3 posted on 05/29/2017 12:33:56 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot leave history to "the historians" anymore.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
>>I want to discuss their history.

Ok.

"We're conservative { uhh } but progressive"

--A. MarxBankster I.T. Hiring Manager, circa January 2010

"I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits....
Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king
of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters?
If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell,
it is this society of Loyola’s.
Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration
to offer them an asylum."

--John Adams to Thomas Jefferson; May, 1816

 

And guess who taught Karl how to be a Marxist?

https://www.google.com/#q=reductions+jesuits+paraguay+beautiful

B.I.N.G.O!

 

4 posted on 05/29/2017 12:39:17 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

The courts have determined that the Federal government has the power to tax states. The Feds then say, “If you want some of it back, obey.” The Feds can siphon billions, which becomes quite the incentive.


5 posted on 05/29/2017 12:41:53 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: HLPhat

Crouching Tiger, Puking Golfer


6 posted on 05/29/2017 12:43:34 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: aimhigh

>>power to tax states

Yeah but that’s so old school.

Why bother with that when the owners of the system can just print 1’s and 0’s of “wealth” into the cyberian utopia?


7 posted on 05/29/2017 12:44:29 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Interesting how the Federal Reserve was established immediately before the start of all major nanny-state, Fed.gov initiatives - welfare, the income tax, even war in Europe....

It makes perfect sense. If a country has a currency that is out of the control of the social-engineers, nanny-staters and financiers - then they are unable to finance the nanny state with massive debt and inflation.


8 posted on 05/29/2017 12:48:35 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Federal Board for Vocational Education, established in 1917

100 years of federal manipulation to create: A snowflake


9 posted on 05/29/2017 12:54:13 PM PDT by donna (There are now roughly 3,200 mosques in America, nearly three times as many as there were in 2000.)
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To: PGR88

Some interesting, almost informational, clever disinformation from the BBC....

[HyperNormalisation (2016) | FULL VIDEO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aLQPNPlK5M

What’s missing?


10 posted on 05/29/2017 12:55:28 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: donna

[The Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and How America Fell Victim to Europe’s Progressive Ideas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KwdtCmvWg


11 posted on 05/29/2017 1:04:06 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: HLPhat

Who is that guy??? He’s got “Dead eyes”


12 posted on 05/29/2017 1:22:46 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: Cowboy Bob

Tiger Woods DUI pic.


13 posted on 05/29/2017 1:41:48 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Seems to be putting on some weight. Didn’t recognize him.


14 posted on 05/29/2017 1:47:10 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: HLPhat
[The Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and How America Fell Victim to Europe’s Progressive Ideas]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KwdtCmvWg

I like this clip. This could be very useful. Thx

15 posted on 05/29/2017 1:49:46 PM PDT by donna (There are now roughly 3,200 mosques in America, nearly three times as many as there were in 2000.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

He’s in a bad place it seems.


16 posted on 05/29/2017 1:50:29 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: donna

Welcome FRiend.

This one’s a little longer and more detailed:

[The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmNWY0ZPfM


17 posted on 05/29/2017 2:07:12 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: DiogenesLamp

There are times when I think the 17th amendment is the most important thing to reverse as far as the damage that progressives have done.

But the progressives also put the states on welfare. In many instances I think this exerts a huge amount of unseen influence that if we were to repeal this welfare and get the states off of the dole that would do a huge amount of good and may do the most good of anything else. Not only would this allow the states to fight back more, but it would also be going toward reducing the debt.

And no, I’ve not seen many(or really, any) historians track down the story of how progressives made the states into welfare dependents. And yes, welfare is the correct word to use. They are dependents and the feds use this money in manipulative ways to advance progressivism.

And knowing that it was Woodrow Wilson who put the states on welfare, how does that change what we know about his legacy?


18 posted on 11/13/2021 9:16:35 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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