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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Next, she’ll want to change the name of “Food Stamps” to “Nutritional Postage.”
To beg and beg
For the Massa’ to pay,
Keeps Plantation White House
All happy and Gay.
Keep taxing the Middle Class,
And make them pay,
Cuz Massa’s Welfare War
Is here to stay!
it will be transitional while they’re living until they die.
How about “Transitional Living Loan?”
too many syllables.
That photo is more likely to be of a line of Section 8 housing voucher hopefuls.
The first known leftist/liberal to use this technique is recorded as saying “did God really say...”
Please add: Global Warming to Climate Change
Cut to the chase, Corn Rows. Call it reparations.
Change from Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to mindless idiot.
A perfect example of a person born stupid and practiced to perfection. A book could be written outlining her ignorance.
No it is welfare and should only exist for a short time for any family. Work is traditional with real paychecks. Wake up people this witch wants a guaranteed income system and this is the first step to that end.
What an idiot.
Make that Eternal Living fund.
Try changing it to GET A JOB you bum
Change Mars to the Moon
Obamanomics lifestyle fund.
For the “transition” from the Womb to the Tomb ....
Transition to what? where? A never ending transition? Of course I do not expect 75% of the Queen’s constituents to understand the word “transition” (Dat’s waaaaaacist!)
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