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.
Amen! I agree 100% with this article. Thanks for posting it, this needs to be shouted from the rooftops!
These things are killing this once great country.
I used to work at DHS so know first hand how they abuse the system. It's beyond disgusting. My secretary, who issued the checks, finally got mad enough to quit. Why? Because the welfare checks she was giving these scumbags were more than her own hard earned paycheck.
Whatever happened to the days that people took pride in a good job done and knew the value of a dollar? What happened to the days when family took care of it's own?
Our country was great before welfare and would be again without it. I think welfare is a horrible idea that encourages sloth and immorality.
Ending all Federal welfare is a good idea.
The welfare "net" creates a dependency on the gub'mint and destroys families.
The proper level for welfare to be handled at is at the state level - or lower (community, church, and family would be best...). Cutting illegal aliens off from the welfare teat is another good idea.
"End of welfare." If you're seeing a light at the end of that tunnel, I'd say you're on track.
We've always had those things -- we just used to call them "charity" instead of "taxpayer-funded entitlements."
One of the biggest ironies about the illegal immigration debate is that the primary economic "cost" these people incur in this country is the burden they place on taxpayer-funded institutions (public schools, public hospitals, etc.) that have no place in a truly free, independent nation.
"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 would agree that it's a non-truth although I don't agree it's a populist one. I'm hardcore anti-illegal immigrant and don't believe for a minute ending welfare would end illegal immigration. Would it affect it? Sure. End it, not even close.
You do know that people can work and still get welfare, right? If you have 5 kids and make 25K a year and live in CA, you are getting some welfare or starving.
A lot of what has been said about welfare here can be said about government run public education, in which children languish until graduation day. Public education=education welfare. All education should be exclusively in the private sector, eliminate property taxes, forget vouchers, and let people buy the education for their children that they can afford. Let charity, i.e., Catholic and whoever else will, pick up the slack for the desperately poor.
We did reform welfare ten years and it haven't slowed down illegal immigration- most people on welfare are women with children, not the type most prefer when it is time to build houses, especially when they can have able bodied men from Mexico. Many of the men who grew up in welfare culture have criminal records that make them unemployable.
"Illegals are not held accountable when they break our traffic laws."
Of course they are held accountable. Why would they write something like this?
This sentence is completely oxymoronic.
Please provide the numbers and sources.
You should have seen what it was like in the Kern Valley, CA.
Tons of loser welfare parents who would encourage their kids to skip school, and never have them do their homework.
There were lot of kids with 2% GPAs in the public school system there! I saw one teacher break into tears because she had called 40 parents about their children's schooling, 38 told her to go to (censored).
I also have a friend whose husband died just after their baby was born. She went on welfare and got her nursing degree. Now she is a full time surgical nurse.
Kick off the losers, help the deserving.
The 'War on Poverty' in graphs and charts:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/summary.htm
While I agree on the need to eliminate welfare, I don't think that will end immigration, or even reduce it as, contrary to popular belief, Immigrants use Welfare and social programs LESS than your average American and studies have shown this, they contribute far more to the eocnomy then they take out and if they stopped coming it would hurt all Americans. IMHO
You obviously haven't checked the FAIR website to see how much the illegals in your state are costing. They send their money back to their home countries, and US taxpayers pick up the bills for their hospitalization, education of their kids, and incarceration of millions of them in our jails. Illegals are not an asset to any state's economy.
Let's just send the bill to Mexico. Mexico doesn't give free care to sick Americans.
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