Posted on 10/26/2021 7:32:22 AM PDT by karpov
Democrats used to be the party of working people. Now they sneer at people who work hard.
Democrats pushing to pass the Build Back Better bill want a single parent with two kids to be able to take home well over $31,000 a year in cash and noncash federal benefits, tax-free, without having to work. The handouts are even higher in places like New York, which offers generous state benefits too. So why get a job?
Nonworking adults are already eligible for food stamps, housing vouchers and health care. Now Democrats want to send them monthly checks if they have kids as well: $300 per kid. The checks — nicknamed Biden Bucks — originated earlier this year to help tide over families who lost their jobs because of COVID. They’ll continue through the end of 2021, but the Biden team wants to convert them into a permanent entitlement beginning in 2022.
House Republicans mock it as “cash-for-kids.” If the bill passes with this entitlement included, economists estimate that at least 1.5 million mostly single adults with children will leave the workforce and sit on the couch instead, while the rest of us pay their tab.
Everyone wants to help kids, but Republicans and one lone Democratic senator, Joe Manchin (W.Va) oppose handing out cash to able-bodied parents without requiring them to work or at least train for a job. Democrats and their media allies bash that as cruelty. Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman attacks work requirements as a “time tax and ritual humiliation” on poor people. Really? The rest of us have to work, and there’s nothing humiliating about it.
The political battle over Biden Bucks is key to where we as a nation are headed.
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Welfare hasn’t worked for decades.
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How ‘Biden Bucks’ will gut the American’s retirement savings.....................is more like it.............
That’s by design.
They’re fundamentally changing America.
>>Welfare hasn’t worked for decades.
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Just like its recipients.
When shame left the community we lost everything.
Bingo. This is the same argument we have been having for six decades, just dressed up in new clothes and pitched for new reasons.
It never works, just like communism.
Au contraire, it's working exactly as it's meant to work.
Here is an idea. Biden bucks are for those families with children. But abortions are greatly disproportionately performed among blacks which means Biden bucks will go primarily to white families. Attack it as a racist entitlement for white people. Say the Biden bucks will cover the monthly Ku Klux Klan membership fees for white families. And their greens fees at the whites only country clubs they go to.
Yep, stigma and shame are good things. That only happens when charity is at the local level. The last shred of shame disappeared with the introduction of EBT cards. Now you do t even have to pull out food stamps to pay the cashier.
It’s weird how novelists write dystopian novels as dire warnings but Leftists read them as blueprints.
And you can get cash back from your purchase, you know to buy the stuff you’re not allowed to with your EBT card...
LBJ destroyed the black nuclear family.
Biden and the word work ethic don’t fit in the same line.
I tried
Libtards are already lazy enough 🤪
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