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 Not only did welfare in America exist prior to FDR, but the first welfare program for citizens was repealed in 1929.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 So what I blogged about earlier about the first welfare program being put in place in 1921 (repealed in 1929), this is not actually true in the fullest sense.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.
From the other PGA - who's not a blog pimp...

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

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 Loyolas.
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!
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.
Crouching Tiger, Puking Golfer
>>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?
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.
Federal Board for Vocational Education, established in 1917
100 years of federal manipulation to create: A snowflake
Some interesting, almost informational, clever disinformation from the BBC....
[HyperNormalisation (2016) | FULL VIDEO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aLQPNPlK5M
What’s missing?
[The Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and How America Fell Victim to Europe’s Progressive Ideas]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KwdtCmvWg
Who is that guy??? He’s got “Dead eyes”
Tiger Woods DUI pic.
Seems to be putting on some weight. Didn’t recognize him.
I like this clip. This could be very useful. Thx
He’s in a bad place it seems.
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
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?
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