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Calif. contemplating rewrite of social contract (i.e. they're thinking about cutting welfare)
Associated Press ^ | June 7, 2009 | Judy Lin

Posted on 06/07/2009 12:15:44 PM PDT by Zakeet

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To: Clock King

“We should just conquer Mexico.”

Make them US citizens with a vote and representation at the national level? No thanks.


21 posted on 06/07/2009 1:04:11 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Zakeet

Hey Carolina, don’t you have any family who can help you out? Why is it my responsibility to feed you and your child? Where is this child’s father and why can’t he support her? There are American children who don’t have insurance so get to the back of the line lady - or better yet, go the hell home!


22 posted on 06/07/2009 1:06:35 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Zakeet
"Illegal aliens will be especially hard hit. "

Maybe they shouldn't have been in such a hurry to invade polling stations to illegally vote for The One.

Next time we need to station ICE agents outside the polls.
23 posted on 06/07/2009 1:07:10 PM PDT by dajeeps
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To: Zakeet

A contract usually involves commitment of at least TWO parties contributing to a mutual goal. What I’m seeing here is one party committing to helping the other, but the other’s job is to sit there and consume what the former provides - that’s not a contract.


24 posted on 06/07/2009 1:29:59 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (John Galt was exiled.)
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To: bgill

Arnold started doing this months ago.

Legitimately disabled people have gotten two cuts so far, one just this month.

The amount for SSI was just over $900 per month last year, and was cut once earlier this year to $870

It is now being cut to $850

The federal share for SSI has stayed the same, it’s just the state that has cut it’s portion.


25 posted on 06/07/2009 1:36:44 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: Zakeet

“...the state’s most vulnerable residents.”

Just go to the hood and look at their sneakers...you’ll see just how poor these people really are.


26 posted on 06/07/2009 1:40:00 PM PDT by BobL (Drop a comment: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2180357/posts)
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To: Zakeet

According to Arnold illegal immigration has nothing to do with the current economic problems faced by the state. So he says.


27 posted on 06/07/2009 1:41:33 PM PDT by engrpat (A village in Kenya is missing their idiot...lets send him back)
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To: BunnySlippers
Why not stop all services for illegals? And stop all welfare for the able-bodied?
That's the answer, but it makes too much sense for politicians to initiate that.

What do you want to bet that as the money is lowered to the recipients that the state workers will still have their jobs and their inflated salaries?

As far as the illegals, we voted to stop giving them services a few years ago and one leftist judge un-constitutionally nixed the will of the people.

If that wouldn't have happened we wouldn't be in the fix we are in now.

Billions would have been saved, and more jobs would have gone to citizens as the illegal insurgent criminal invading colonists would self-deport.

28 posted on 06/07/2009 1:42:42 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: Myrddin

“Send them both back to Mexico.”

Send the mom back for sure, but maybe let the kid stay and find some lezbo couple to adopt her.

...or let mom bring the kid back with her. Mom’s choice.


29 posted on 06/07/2009 1:43:08 PM PDT by BobL (Drop a comment: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2180357/posts)
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To: Zakeet

At what point do we wake up to hear news that the CA underclass has revolted and declared CA annexed to Mexico? I’m often reminded of what happened in Rwanda, where a few radio broadcasts persuaded a large ethnic sub-population to wipe out another ethnicity, on very short notice, in a matter of hours. Initiated by La Raza-connected radio/TV stations declaring “it’s time!”, current bureaucracy centers could easily be wiped out, police stymied, positions of leadership replaced, and the whole state simply declared independent/annexed within hours. What’s BHO gonna do when tens of millions declare secession and non-cooperation? What’s Ahnuld gonna do when a La Raza posse, backed by 10,000 armed supporters, says “out. now.”? As a geographic bonus, the bulk of the population enjoys a 50-100 mile buffer zone of desert, and very few viable roads, both contributing to state defense.

Government lasts only so long as there is consent of the governed. Stop supporting the very large welfare class in CA, and we may very well see that class stop cooperating - and those inclined & prepared ready to lead that revolt and enjoy the results.

What’s the lady in the picture going to do when she, and a million others like her, stop getting handouts (much less jobs)? Where is the breaking point of CA’s welfare class? who is ready to lead them? and where?


30 posted on 06/07/2009 1:43:16 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (John Galt was exiled.)
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To: Syncro
Legitimately disabled people have gotten two cuts so far, one just this month. The amount for SSI was just over $900 per month last year, and was cut once earlier this year to $870

SSI has also been used for "special education" kids who are encouraged to act disturbed in order to qualify.

31 posted on 06/07/2009 1:46:38 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: PapaBear3625

Yes, there is an enormous amount of fraud


32 posted on 06/07/2009 1:50:02 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: PapaBear3625
Also schools push for ADD etc etc so kids get on meds and qualify for classes at school that they (the school) get big extra bucks for.

It's rampant and exponential

33 posted on 06/07/2009 1:52:22 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: Zakeet
At stake are programs for the poor, elderly and frail, placing millions of people in the nation's most populous state at risk of falling through a decades-old social safety net.

BS!!!

Perhaps now charities will return to their proper roles which were usurped by government illegally to try to buy voters and ensure their power.

Well run charities will out perform the government every time both in the completion of their mission and in the cost of doing it.

California could become a REAL leader in this country if they did away with government run welfare and charitable organizations took up the standard once again just as they did in the past.

34 posted on 06/07/2009 1:54:05 PM PDT by johniegrad
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35 posted on 06/07/2009 1:56:19 PM PDT by narses (http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
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To: null and void; Clock King; Canadian Outrage

With Stephen Harper leading us, we will fight you with every hockey puck, moose, and beaver we have. To the last timbit.

;-)


36 posted on 06/07/2009 1:57:36 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: fanfan

There is something especially vicious about Canadian Beaver...


37 posted on 06/07/2009 1:59:27 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 139 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: Zakeet

“Fuentas waited for more that 2 hours” for free food and free medical, but she is an illegal alien and shouldn’t be here at all. 2 hour wait! that’s just terrible.


38 posted on 06/07/2009 2:02:16 PM PDT by mefistofelerevised (M SURE THERE IS A NOBLE LLAWYER SOMEWHE)
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To: Zakeet

There is nothing in Federal or State Law that prohibits a US Citizen child of an illegal alien from returning to that alien’s home country with her/him. Nothing. That’s just liberal mush-talk. Send Mama home and her daughter can decide when she turns 21 if she wants to become a US Citizen or a Mexican one.

When I worked in Montgomery, AL for social services, a man from California, a BIG MAN from California came into my office and physically attempted to threaten me as he yelled at me that I, personally, had stopped his California Welfare Check of $800. He moved to Alabama and expected his California Welfare Check to follow him!

At the time, a run down efficiency apartment in Los Angeles was $900 a month. He was a single male and received $800 a month . . . just for breathing . . . plus food stamps and some kind of medical coverage. And he comes to the Heart of Dixie and expects the same??? I didn’t laugh at him but I did decide that if he came at me from across the desk I was high tailing it over the cubicle wall in three steps . . . chair, desk top, over. His loud voice brought our skinny little non-armed guard to the door of my cubicle and the man quieted down. Plus I sent him to the Social Security Office to let them deal with him.

THAT is why California is bankrupt. They have been doing this for over 25 years and they have nothing to show for it but a huge deficit.

In my Georgia County over 30% of the population (6000 people) are unemployed and seeking assistance that just doesn’t exist. The Food Bank are giving away a lot of food every month. Fortunately, the working and retired people here are very graciously donating money and canned food for those less fortunate. It’s going to be a long hot summer for some people.

Is what is happening planned or happenstance? Watch http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173 and come to your own conclusion.


39 posted on 06/07/2009 2:06:55 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann in 2012. With Liz Cheney as Secretary of State.)
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To: Zakeet

Instead of finding 3 hours of work, she travelled to the welfare office to wait for “her” money?

Her Money?


40 posted on 06/07/2009 2:07:26 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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