Posted on 04/08/2015 5:30:14 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Forcing food stamp recipients to work is like spraying a can of Raid down an anthill. Almost everybody scatters.
Lobsters, or welfare recipients?
Nah, they went on Social Security Disability.
“He is now trying to eliminate the income tax and shift it to property taxes. Not popular. But what it does is take money away from bureaucrats. Hoo hoo you should see how the hospitals and other agencies are fighting having their gravy trains dry up.”
How does paying more property tax help the average Joe. And how does it take money from bureaucrats? And what does this have to do with hospitals? Thanks.
An exodus took place to the most generous welfare area. Someone told them Maine. I read that the Mayor of Lewiston pleaded with the "Somali Community" of Georgia to not send any more people. He was promptly called a "racist". The hitherto available resource centers and financial outlets were being taxed to the point of collapse.
Someone there even employed a Canadian woman adviser on how to successfully integrate Somalian residents into the culture. Oh no! exclaimed I, another well meaning bureaucrat. I wonder if anyone from Maine knows just what is the situation regarding this sudden influx into a peaceful society?
Mostly all Somalians. The Feds have another program to assist those Muzzies who can’t find work or who are booted off the SNAP programs administered by the state.
It never fails. (sigh)
By shifting funding over to property taxes, and the reluctance of towns to increase property taxes will cause a downsizing of the budget.
Less money means less the bureaucrats and hospital corps have to spend and run. Most of the state is taken up by a few healthcare corporations that have hospitals and other healthcare entities as sub corps. These large corporations suck monies from the state and eliminate competition.
The state and the country as a whole are prisoners of healthcare laws that are insanely difficult, such as the interpreter laws that make the healthcare entities responsible for the communicating with a non English speaker.
Big money in big healthcare and its bosom buddy, big insurance.
Many states have those requirements but don’t enforce them. Most state welfare organizations either don’t have the staff or the higher ups won’t back them up.
GRRRRREAT news! Thanks for posting. HOORAY Maine and Governor Paul LaPage!
http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-maine-debt-clock.html
It sounds like that was answered already: if they were poor enough to qualify, in spite of having a job, so long as it was at least a 20 hour a week job, they stayed on the roles, if it was less, they had to top it up with job training.
Interesting to see how many left the state.
Lobsters.
It seems our welfare parasites are becoming an endangered species.
Atta boy Monsieur LePage.
They can already get cold hard cash with their SNAP/EBT card
Thank-you. I am sure everyone who read your response learned a lot.
I thought as much. I doubt the current crop of welfare recipients would meet USDA specifications.
The article said it was able-bodied people who were not working.
One would assume that, the real issue being how to delineate need vs. convenience, those who are actually working and still have a valid need will not be dumped. Especially since the prerequisite to actually show a willingness to be useful to society and earn the benefits seems to be the standard. I have always been a proponent of staging folks off the dole by allowing them to work and taper off the benefits in a way that keeps them a bit ahead of the game. If they go from zero income to $100 a week, drop the benefits by $50 a week. It provides incentive for those who are actually willing to try to become self-sufficient better than having a specific cutoff where one gets further behind by working.
I can see why the Left hates it - they depend on folks staying reliant on the governmenthard working taxpayers. When more people discover that it is an abomination to rob one set of folks to support the dregs, the Dems lose votes.
That picture cannot have been taken in Maine
There are huge amounts of people in this country who have worked the system and figured out how to collect Social Security disability.
It’s a huge issue in my opinion.
I’m speaking of people who in most ways are in no way disabled. In contrast to the few who truly are.
Back a few years ago when I was working on a project in California, an AG office audit showed that 60% of all welfare payments in LA County were fraudulent.
LA County’s budget is around 21 Billion dollars a year.
Around 80% of LA County’s budget goes Social Welfare transfer payments while the remaining 20% pay for things like schools, government buildings, roads and all the expenses.
That means around 16 Billion of the 21 Billion dollar LA County budget is allocated to social welfare transfer payment spending of one form or another.
Of that 16 Billion spent, 60% is fraudulent. This gives about 10 Billion taxpayer dollars wasted on welfare fraud in LA County alone.
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