make-em mow park/cemetery lawns, rake leaves, shovel sidewalks, wash school buses/cop cars/fire trucks, pick up trash, anything to get back even a little of whats wasted on them
Posted on 03/29/2016 6:41:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
States are moving to once again require able-bodied adults to put in work hours in exchange for food stamps, after the requirements largely were suspended by the Obama administration.
The slow-moving reversal follows the administration pulling back on Clinton-era changes that required recipients to work for government welfare benefits. Signing the reform bill in 1996 alongside then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, then-President Bill Clinton said the goal was to make welfare “a second chance, not a way of life.”
But during the last recession, President Obama allowed states to suspend a requirement that able-bodied adults without children work at least 20 hours per week or participate in a training program to receive benefits for more than three months.
He allowed recipients to stay on food stamps indefinitely, arguing the three-month maximum was unfair with unemployment at 10 percent.
"Food stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis, Wall Street did," said Obama at this past January’s State of the Union address.
Unemployment today is half of what it was in 2009, yet last year more than 40 states did not require welfare recipients to work.
Kansas was one of the first states to reverse that in 2013.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I remember when Engler was gov. here in MI and they instituted this.
Amazing, the # of folk who opted out rather than mow a cemetery or such.
make-em mow park/cemetery lawns, rake leaves, shovel sidewalks, wash school buses/cop cars/fire trucks, pick up trash, anything to get back even a little of whats wasted on them
I would say, that despite her condition, she was a blessing to others.
Absolutely! I agree 100%. And the headlines that I see about EBT cards used for everything under the sun. IMHO anyone on foodstamps should use them on basics, sort of like WICC. And in fact, the Fedgov should be entirely out of the charity business.
100%
Heard recently similar about the governor of Maine...instituted work for able-bodied welfare recipients. The stats given were amazing, and I’ll not remember them verbatim by something like over a 12K number dropped to under 3k in a relatively short period of time.
In MAINE
Headline:
This Is What Happened When Maine Forced Welfare Recipients To Work For Their Benefits “
” the numbers showed a significant drop from 12,000 enrollees to just over 2,500.”
Imagine how much that would save on a countrywide basis!
http://usherald.com/maine-welfare-recipients-must-work-for-their-benefits/#
Prepare for an avalanche of new SSDI applicants.
Is that the new Common Core math?
I get 20 into 100 = 5 ($5)
But I've been out of school for over 60 years - I use the 'old' math. LOL
“20 hours per week” for $100 worth of food per month. That’s about $1.25 per hour.
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I get 20 into 100 = 5 ($5)
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20 hours per week equals 80 hours per month equals roughly $1.25 per hour. I say “roughly” because there are more than 4 weeks in a month.
I’m just a youngin’ though, I’ve only been out of school for 53 years.
Obama the incompetent bullshit!
Unrestrained deficit spending and manipulation of "employment" statistics and unlimited welfare programs and rolls caused the financial crisis.
And that's worse than the rest of us remaining unwilling slaves?
The bleeding hearts need to stop being so noble with everyone else's pocketbook...
That would include lifelong elected criminals...
Ping
The federal government has no Constitutional authority to give welfare benefits of any kind PERIOD. This issue came up multiple times before the 20th century, and it was clearly understood. Private charity is far more efficient (and better for the soul), and if that is insufficient then leave it to the states to figure out a plan. There should be no food stamps, no welfare, no disability, no FEMA to bail people out after natural disasters, and no federally subsidized healthcare.
But if you run the numbers you will see an increase of the same magnitude in disability over the same period. They didn't go off welfare, they just transferred from one form to another.
Then obviously a total failure in screening. Not surprised.
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