Posted on 01/08/2014 8:14:51 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Change the Word 'Welfare' to 'Transitional Living Fund' January 8, 2014 - 10:49 AM By Susan Jones
(CNSNews.com) - In a brief speech on the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) hailed the war on poverty, endorsed government welfare programs, and said the "safety net has to be something for all of us."
"Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is -- for people to be able to live," she said.
Jackson Lee hailed the Earned Income Credit, food and nutrition programs, jobs training and education programs, Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act as "huge safety nets -- not handouts, but safety nets, she said.
As part of her five-minute speech, she displayed a photo of people in a long line "who are possibly looking for work." Jackson-Lee said there's no way to know which of those people "are near the edge of poverty or living in poverty simply because they cannot find work."
She urged Congress to pass emergency unemployment insurance -- "a transitional outreach to individuals who are chronically unemployed," as she put it.
"Quite frankly, of all the wealthy nations, we have the lowest safety net and the highest poverty, because we're not willing to accept the fact that sometimes an American needs help. Even a veteran -- even a soldier.
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As soon as welfare doesn’t cover 19 y.o. boys with PTSD because their friend was shot and killed......and they didn’t even witness the killing...but now they have PTSD and can’t work.... as soon as that scam is fixed..then talk to me about changing the name of the scam
No. If you’re going to collect it, then you need to carry the stigma that comes with it. Otherwise, get a f***ing job.
It was probably people waiting in line at Best Buy on black Friday (no racism intended).
I caught the transitional part she is ignoring as well.
“EBT” is now used with the same derision as “food stamps” was. New-speak doesn't even work on day one.
Yeah, the left has forever been perverting the language by changing the labels on the can of dog crap.
But, in the end, the label ends up meaning “can of dog crap”, no matter what it says.
“Even a Veteran - even a Soldier.”
So, the Democrats help the retired Veterans by taking money from them to give to HEADSTART and Education to buy votes? Funny definition of helping.
Fifty years and seventeen trillion dollars for The War On Poverty. Generations of welfare beneficiaries voting Democrat. It’s time to pull out of The War On Poverty just like we pulled out of Iraq.
Because chagning words will help.
Transitional.
I don’t think that word means what she thinks it means.
Liberal to Progressive
Abortion to Pro-Choice
Central Planning to Fundamental Transformation
...ad nauseum
I’d be more comfortable with “Long Term Leech Fund” :-)
Liberals just love changing words, phrases, terminology. That’s why I call the Democrat party the “Backstabbing treasonous Marxist sons of a bitches party”
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‘Transitional Living Fund’ = Hide the Truth
Dems have mastered covering up the facts so they think.
How about changing the word WELFARE back to PUBLIC ASSISTANCE and prohibiting the federal government and the states from administering the program and requiring the municipalities to administer it and to public the names of the individuals receiving such “assistance” and the amounts they receive in each payment and their lifetime totals. That is how PUBLIC ASSISTANCE worked in the 1950s. But then back in the 1950s people went on PUBLIC ASSISTANCE for short periods of time, were grateful for the assistance, and found jobs in short order.
Let’s change the word “moron” to “Sheila”.
How about changing “welfare” to “Obamafare”?
A couple of suggestions:
dole
teat
freebies
Designate the recipients as telecommuting government employees and be done with it. They've already got a free government phone and don't do anything. Then, the Fraud in Chief can claim a massive job creation program and the AWADPT Union (Ain't Working And Don't Plan To) can start organizing and raising money for the political mob.
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