Sheila Jackson Lee proposes new term for 'welfare' (a "transitional living fund")

The Houston Chronicle ^ | January 9, 2014 | Carol Christian

[2ndDivisionVet]

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who has decried the failure of Congress to extend unemployment benefits before its December recess, is talking about changing the vocabulary of assistance.

In a speech Jan. 8 on the House of Representatives floor, Jackson Lee suggested renaming government welfare.

"Maybe the word 'welfare' should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund,'" Jackson Lee said, according to a post on The Minority Report blog. "For that is what it is - for people to be able to live," she said....

[2ndDivisionVet]

It's not "transitional" congresswoman, when you're on it your whole life, just like your mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and on back.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

By "transitional" she means "permanent."

Progressives always say the exact opposite of what they actually mean. They think we're too stupid to notice.

[2ndDivisionVet]

If that woman has an IQ over 60, I’ll eat my hat.

[Farmer Dean]

Right.Her idea of transitional must mean from this life into the next.It’s always fun to watch people with room temperature IQ messing with the language.

[Paladin2]

Looters.

[Bryanw92]

>>”Maybe the word ‘welfare’ should be changed to something of, ‘a transitional living fund,’”

People get it for their entire lives, and pass it on to their children. Transition from what to what? Birth to death? Human to Ascended Being?

Let’s just get the Marxism out in the open and call it a Basic Living Stipend (BLS).

But, then, you’d have to give it everyone, wouldn’t you? And you can’t buy votes by giving everyone the same thing.

So, then we’d have to add on Supplements to the BLS and give those supplements to the usual purchased vote groups, like blacks, women (single only of course), and gays.

The biggest problem with American Communism is that the biggest idiots in politics want to run it.

[max americana]

“a transitional living fund,”

You can’t transition from being a lifelong leech and society parasite.

[circlecity]

“Transitional” from what? Birth to death?

[Conspiracy Guy]

This is the type of left-think that came up with Affordable Care Act. Say exactly the opposite of what something is. So when Miss Lee says Transitional she means Permanent

[Conspiracy Guy]

Crap I was typing and got interrupted so you beat me to it.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Yes Cradle to Grave.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It's probably about room temperature.

[trisham]

I love that expression. The origin goes back to the 1800s, I think.

[pallis]

We could have “Transitional Living” mothers.

[oh8eleven]

“Transitional” from what? Birth to death?
Nope, transitional from generation to generation. I think we're on our 3rd generation of "poor" folk since the passing of LBJ's "Great Society." The SOB.

[2ndDivisionVet]

In a deep freeze.

[trisham]

You, sir, are too kind.

[Gaffer]

sloth & leisure.

[digger48]

We now have a generation that is growing up not knowing one single person in their family to have ever held a job.

Gonna be really hard to turn this tide.

[FlingWingFlyer]

JacksonLee is a transitional living fraud. Dumber than a box of rocks too!