Posted on 05/08/2006 4:57:00 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy
The War on Poverty needs to be ended and called the failure that it is. It has all but destroyed our country by destroying the work ethic, particularly among the lower classes.
While there are truly needy exceptions, many welfare moms have babies solely to generate an income for which they do not have to punch a clock nor be held accountable to anyone. The largesse of politicians spending other people’s money – to guarantee their re-election – has lavished untold billions on this scheme and has nothing to show for it.
Is there any reason to reward a woman for producing an out-of-wedlock child? Is it not possible that if that income stream were ended the stream of fatherless children would also end?
Would it not make more sense to provide welfare only to intact or widowed families where the breadwinner were incapacitated to the point of truly being unable to work?
The vast majority of children produced by the welfare mentality never become productive citizens and may very well be the ones the employers of illegals and their political puppets point to as the ones unwilling to do the low-wage jobs. Were employers required to hire those fired from the welfare rolls, it seems that the job market for illegals would dry up. And without the prospect of being able to fall back on Uncle Sugar when work seems less attractive than getting high, one might reasonably expect the former welfare recipient to consider the ultimate value of retaining that source of income.
The welfare system enables people to be irresponsible and live in a perpetual state of dependence. It encourages the weak to join them. Allowing adults to be supported without personal responsibility has provided income to many people to support bad habits: idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
The welfare system has generated a huge bureaucracy of professional care-givers who cannot impose any disciplines on their charges. Secular humanism has created a living hell for millions of people who have never been exposed to, much less taught, the lessons of self-discipline and personal pride. Traditional morality, an essential ingredient in a functioning society, has been decimated by radical antichrists determined to see everyone in hell with them.
Having fostered the largest dependency system in the world, the politicians and bureaucrats seek to expand it, and continue to buy votes by enticing criminal immigrants to join the labor force and to benefit from services to which they are not entitled: education for their children, medical care, free lunch programs for their school children, driver’s licenses, in-state tuition rates for their college-age children, and no questions asked by the bank when they do business. Don’t-ask-don’t-tell is an abysmal immigration policy created by greedy traitors.
When police stop a car that is driven by an illegal, regardless of the infraction, he is let go if he blathers in his native tongue. Illegals are not held accountable when they break our traffic laws. Since the Federal Government refuses to pick them up and deport them simply because they are here illegally, they have what is a free pass to do as they please, short of a felony, here in the United States. What kind of a message does that send? That is why it makes perfect sense to make any illegal presence here a felony.
This liberal attitude towards illegal immigrant presence does not occur in any other country. In Germany, if you are involved in an accident, your blood is drawn immediately. There’s no ACLU whining about civil rights, only the government that says you have civil responsibilities. There are consequences for your behavior.
Mexico is especially brutal to illegal immigrants. Come to think of it, it isn’t so nice even to naturalized citizens either.
As soon as we end ninety percent of the welfare, the unnecessary free medical care, free school feeding programs (what’s wrong with brown bag lunches and eating breakfast at home?), a vast army of workers who sustain these bureaucracies will be freed up to go to work. In fact, if we got rid of a few cabinet level bureaucracies, we would have many more citizens available to work in the private sector. If I ran the zoo, I would get rid of the Departments of Health & Human Services, Education, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Interior, Labor and Homeland Security. I’d get rid of State, too, just because it is run by a collection of steaming nits who pride themselves on being the elite… brilliant members of the chattering class, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. I would also eliminate the IRS, CIA and FBI as they have become an embarrassment. They have suffocated themselves in layers of deadwood, snarled in as many hidden agendas as there are bureaucrats and compromised their integrity in the process. Don’t get me started on the Federal Reserve Bank, the SEC and the parasitical UN.
If government at all levels would cut employment by half, there would be plenty of Americans to pick lettuce and pluck chickens. It seems safe to call the vast majority of civil servants "guest workers" as they live off the sweat of the private sector. We don’t need any more guest workers! The United States government is the largest employer in the world. What a waste of talent and taxes!
If bureaucrats worked in the private sector instead of for the government, they would devise more efficient ways to get their jobs done and raise the standard of living for all Americans. They would pay taxes and not be supported by taxpayers. They would have a vested interest in protecting our borders and making sure that the competition for their job was legitimate. They would raise a stink if their jobs were threatened to be moved offshore instead of rubber-stamping this economic treason.
It’s a good thing that this is an election year because we can use the ballot box instead of violence to rectify the situation. Not only should you vote, but you should volunteer to work at a polling place. It is essential that all polling places have the proper number of poll workers to be sure that no illegal votes are cast.
The vast majority of American citizens have been more than patient with politicians and the non-governmental organizations as they reshaped our national culture. However, those groups have crossed the line in the sand. They cannot be trusted. They must be dismissed and replaced by those who truly believe in the strict interpretation of the Constitution, national sovereignty, a gold-backed currency, the rights of private property, the right to bear arms and states’ rights. Failing that, the gallows for those traitors is increasingly attractive.
We are perilously close to becoming a third world nation, overrun by corruption, greed and crime. If we do not succeed in overturning this malignant globalist mentality in November’s elections, our children and grandchildren will hold us in unbridled contempt for all eternity.
This liberal attitude towards illegal immigrant presence does not occur in any other country.
Lyndon Bird's legacy perpetuated by his successors and the complicit houses of congress.
ENFORCE welfare laws on the books get the greedy leaches off medicaid and welfare!
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I am a proud conservative right down to my bones, but ending welfare is where I get off. Having a welfare net is one of things that adds to the greatness of our country. The fact that some number of people abuse the system is no reason to end it. Just ending it is a cowardly way to govern. We have to have the courage to enforce the laws we have and make it even harder to cheat.
This article states my thoughts exactly. I know for a fact there are large segments of American society that know nothing except sucking off the govt. tit, depending on the big Sugar Daddy in Washington. They won't work because they don't have to.
I have personally seen examples where employers had to hire Mexicans (not illegals) because the local white population would rather draw welfare than work.
And we do need to quit paying young women to have babies out of wedlock. There are plenty of ways to prevent pregnancy, and plenty of educational programs in schools to teach young girls what causes pregnancy. So why is the unwed births higher than ever? Because we pay them to have babies.
This is what needs to be said.
You can't end welfare, then the libs wouldn't have anything to bribe folks to vote for them with.
Lyndon Baines
Great article!
The welfare system is a corrupt racket and needs to be reformed even more, but by saying getting rid of welfare will get rid of illegal immigration is just a populist non truth.
I am not sure that the problem with welfare is that some people cheat the system. The problem is the system itself. Whatever the intentions of Congress, the system they created encourages people to be idle and dependent on others. This would be so even if everyone adhered strictly to the rules.
I get off thinking about ending welfare.
As an ex welfare mom...here is my story. I used to be married to someone who I now know has some serious psychological issues....it wasn't quite as apparant then...We had 4 children and one day my husband decided that the welfare route was the ticket. He didn't have to work and a check came to the door. Up until this time he had maintained a minimum wage job...but it was full time and repectable. We were not rich but we were getting by. His attitude became gimme what you got, lemme have. He lost his self respect, eventually turning more and more to the bottle. I saw my family disintegrate before my eyes.
At one point he was required to go to the county offices to pick up the check and prove he had been looking for work...he decided even that was too much to ask for him...so he just didn't show up. I thought maybe now he would get off his lazy butt and go get a job because the golden goose was about to dry up...but Mr Government came through...instead of punishing this man (and us) for not doing what he was required to, they decided to send the check to our home and gave us more money to boot. Boy that really showed that deadbeat didn't it? I was told by my welfare case worker (more than once) that I should just leave him and I would get even more money....I couldn't believe that they were trying to force me to break up my family...but that is the ultimate goal. It does not foster family units..it does not try to preserve families either.
I eventaully found the courage to just say enough is enough...got rid of the deadbeat, left my kids with their grandparents while I got a job. I hardly ever saw my kids, but eventually got a home for all of us...remarried a wonderful guy with a great work ethic and have never looked back at those days again.
Welfare is a powerful destructive force in this country...those who are on it can feel trapped and discouraged..just like I was. The loss of privacy is another point that really ate at me...My family was not my own...it was the states...my home was open for inspection...because the state has the right to see who is living there.
It may have sounded like a good idea at the time...helping out the poor and all, but the legacy it has produced is generations of hopeless and discouraged people who feel trapped in a system they have no control over. Getting off of welfare cost me just about everything...my family is still trying to mend the wounds of those times we all were separated, but given the choice again, I would still do what I did,
My children are now all productive people in society, 3 work full time, another in college (deans list) and one still at home, a National Honor Society member.
I shudder to think what they would be like had I stayed on welfare and with that bum.
If people had to PAY at Emergency Room visits, there wouldn't be so many illegals getting free service for the coughs, fevers, stomach cramps, and normal growing up headaches. They have LEARNED in Mexico, that doctors visits are suppose to be FREE. And so they are impacting the system.
Once the parasites (welfare recipients) overwhelm the host (those of us who work for a living) and the host expires, so too do the parasites. All of which will be hastened by the retirement of the baby boom and the influx of anarchical illegal immigrants aided and abetted by our Congress and Administration.
Buh-By.
Thanks for being honest. I liked your story. I guess ONCE in my life I worked real hard to keep my salary below 10,000 so I wouldn't loose the FREE LUNCH at school and dental coverage for my kids on Hwy 16, Poth St, San Antonio, Texas 1979. I knew if I got over that we would loose food stamps. I worked harder to keep it under $10,000 so I could get the benefits.
I must disagee. The Welfare system does NOT make our country great. Quite the opposite. While we should have a basic social net to support those who truly need it (such as poor elderly), the Welfare system, as an institution, encourages and, in fact, rewards sloth and irresponsibility. The vast majority of people on welfare are young or middle aged, and nearly 1/3 of them are illegal aliens. The welfare system itself, as it is designed, allows this. It is deeply corrupt and inefficient. Cheating is only part of the problem.
The US taxpayer has footed the bill for welfare for DECADES and we as a nation have almost nothing to show for it. Minorities who have been economically successful over the last 40 years have done so OUTSIDE of the welfare system, not because of it.
But reforming the welfare system would require genuine backbone in Congress. Our nation has become so feminized, so averse to discipline, that I doubt it will ever happen. Congress fears the poor and the politically correct. We live in a Tyranny of the Unproductive.
Here is a novel idea...why not lessen welfare benefits -for able bodied recipients- so they are below what minimum wage is? ...my ex-husband's greatest talking point was ..why should I work for minimum wage when I can get more from welfare?
Pretty soon those minimum wage jobs would be looking pretty darn good.
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