Posted on 01/14/2016 3:42:13 PM PST by Hojczyk
“In 2008 there were about a million [ABAWDs] now they’re at about 4.7 million. This is the most rapid growing part of the caseload,†Rector said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News Wednesday, previewing his upcoming report on food stamp use among ABAWDs.
“ABAWDs are largely young adults who don’t work or are working off the books and hiding that income. They get a maximum of about $200 a month from the food stamp program,†Rector said, adding that this group of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamp users cost taxpayers up to $11 billion a year.
While many ABAWDs make money off-the-books in the “gray market,†Rector said, they are not necessarily spending it on food.
“What we found was 50 percent of the ABAWDs smoke cigarettes regularly and those who do smoke are spending about $111 per month on cigarettes. That’s about two-thirds of their Thrifty Food [Plan] allotment — what they are supposed to spend on food,†Rector said.
“What is clearly happening there is these individuals are electing to spend their own revenue on cigarettes and then requiring the taxpayer to pay for their food for them and that doesn’t make very much sense,†he continued.
Rector’s paper, which is due for release later this month, is slated to spotlight Maine’s recent success with getting ABAWDs off the SNAP rolls — presenting the state as a case study and model for improvements at the federal level.
There the state of Maine put restrictions in place, including instituting work requirements, mandating that ABAWDs work, do community service, or take part in a job-training program in order to receive food stamps for more than three months.
The number of ABAWDs on SNAP in Maine plunged.
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Why do we need to subsidize such people who refuse to work at a legitimate job??
Liberals pretend otherwise, but the Bible gives the loving response. It's not even about the taxes taken from those who earned the money. It's far more about the extreme harm that an attitude of entitlement to unearned charity does to able-bodied adults who receive something for nothing.
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EXCLUSIVE: Robert Rector Details 370 Percent Increase of Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents on Food Stamps
The Basic Living Stipend is one of the goalposts for the fundamental transformation. SNAP for ABAWD is the pathway to that goal.
And it ain’t just tobacco they spend their money on.
They could go to California and do the work Americans won’t do.
I know someone who worked at one of those places that puts packages of things together. He worked part-time over Christmas.
He told me that one time, a young woman was hired who, by the way she talked, was not used to working at all. She’d do 1 thing and then give up on working some machine or other and go sit down.
He went over to show her how the machine did some action. She followed his directions. He went back to work.
The whole situation repeated. She’d end up sitting, he’d help, she’d work a little bit, and then quit.
This went on for almost a day. He finally got mad at her and said something about her work ethic-and her appearance.
Whereupon she went to HR and accused him of harassment.
He wan’t fired. She was. But he was told not to help a bloomin’ soul after that.
People figured she was itching for a lawsuit.
I am so beyond sick and tired of working like a dog to earn money that gets forked over to lazy slugs. The handouts are abundant.
I was just reading an update from a organization in Massachusetts that fights tax increases. Look for “housing inequity” or some such crap to be the left’s new mantra. Did you know that Paul Ryno’s disgusting omnibus fully funded the AFFH (”Affirmatively Funding Fair Housing”) that Obama wanted in order to blackmail cities and town into importing subsidized gibsmedats?
But Paul Ryno’s gonna do what we conservatives want really soon. He said so, he sure did. Pfah.
Yeah, I saw that too. If only.
Now that is what I call a government success story! Improved production by 370%!!
The Democrat solution to soup kitchen lines. Hide them.
ALL paid for by printed, unbacked, Federal Reserve dollars and the massive government debt it supports.
The foundation of the progressive nanny state is the Federal Reserve.
There will be no political reform or deviation from our collectivist path while this group remains in control of our money supply.
Why do we need to subsidize such people who refuse to work at a legitimate job??
Be nice. They all have disability and qualified for SSDI. Sitting home all day is work. lol.
While most of the cars manufactured in China are sold within China, exports reached 814,300 units in 2011.[4]...In 2010, both sales and production topped 18 million units, with 13.76 million passenger cars delivered, in each case the largest by any nation in history.[8] In 2014, total vehicles production in China reached 23.720 million, accounting for 26% of global automotive production.[9]
I just posted information about the majority of our phony economy, by the way. Most American manufacturing is American-”based” manufacturing on foreign soil. Politicos have been pushing it that way for their favored constituent partners for over 40 years.
How can that be when in the SOTU address it was said that America built more cars than ever!
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