Posted on 07/24/2014 2:37:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Representative Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, is releasing a major document this morning laying out a conservative approach to reforming federal anti-poverty programs (he’s speaking on it this morning at the American Enterprise Institute). Not all of his proposals are specific legislation and some endorse existing legislation. Roughly speaking, here’s what in it:
Offer states the option of a big block grant to replace existing federal welfare programs
Ryan proposes a pilot program called the “Opportunity Grant,” which offers states the ability to use the funds they currently get for a range of programs to run individually focused programs specifically intended to help needy individuals achieve upward mobility and stay out of poverty long term. (If states want, they can stick with running the existing federal welfare programs, which offer very little flexibility in the way of implementation.)
The Opportunity Grant would consolidate several existing aid programs into one funding stream to states, which states would then be required to offer to recipients of means-tested welfare benefits as part of a consolidated recovery and mobility plan. Disadvantaged Americans would each be pared with an individual case worker, with whom they would agree on personalized short and long-term goals (e.g., apply for child support or begin drug counseling) set out in “contracts.” Most important, Ryan is building on the success of the 1990s welfare-reform laws here:
A key element of the contracts would be encouraging work, which, currently, only cash welfare requires. Food stamps, federal housing aid, utilities assistance, and more don’t have work requirements — this would essentially mandate that states opting for the Opportunity Grant implement work requirements.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Status quo?
You mean giving them food stamps, welfare, birth control, societal approval for out of wedlock sex?
No, I do not
Stop subsidizing poor people and you will reduce poverty greatly.
“unmarried high school dropout women to stop having children”
You want to go in and educate them and the boys as well, about proper civilized behavior and free market capitalism and waiting until marriage with a visible means of support?
And take away government subsidies for out of wedlock birth as well as abortion?
Yep
Yes, and yes.
“The only way to end poverty is for unmarried high school dropout women to stop having children.”
Perhaps then the male of the species should quit doing their part in creating children w/ high school drop out women?
Yeah, like THAT’s going to happen.
I agree w/ the idea that an uneducated person is more likely to live in poverty than an educated person. I just don’t blame it solely on the female. Still takes two to make a baby.
As for Paul Ryan, oh my...that ship done sailed away w/ Ryan left standing alone...left w/ nothing to do but wave as we leave him behind.
Poverty is the negation of wealth. any attempt to destroy or diminish the negative is a total waste of energy and resources. Can’ t be done. All it can do is increase the experience of poverty.
Stop the war against poverty. And stop the war against wealth and those who produce it.
Barring various forms of cloning and fertilization, you are correct :-) Seriously, my point, which I made too simplistically, is that, as unfortunate as it may be, women are the ones who have to stand for their own personal morality, if for no other reason than "baby mamas" (regardless of race) who are not married to their progenitor-partners, or at least someone who is willing to act in loco patris as an adoptive father, are the instigators of unnecessary poverty, actively promoted by a government system of welfare that rewards single parenthood and lack of education, rather than allowing society to stigmatize voluntary single parenthood and/or lack of minimal education.
Poverty is the negation of the willingness to act in ways that are likely to obtain sufficient wealth. Being poor can be overcome by an infusion of wealth, but poverty can only be overcome by an infusion of motivation to succeed.
And we bring in hundreds of thousands of poor people thru our legal immigration system. They use welfare to a greater degree than the native born. Some factoids:
In 2010, 23 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lived in poverty, compared to 13.5 percent of natives and their children. Immigrants and their children accounted for one-fourth of all persons in poverty. The children of immigrants account for one-third of all children in poverty.
In 2010, 36 percent of immigrant-headed households used at least one major welfare program (primarily food assistance and Medicaid) compared to 23 percent of native households.
In 2010, 29 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lacked health insurance, compared to 13.8 percent of natives and their children. New immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for two-thirds of the increase in the uninsured since 2000.
Well, that’s the way to do it.
It takes creativity, talent and savvy, as the culture, and especially the culture of the school and parents are against you.
But God is with you.
so I suggest getting busy.
PS ninth graders are especially open to the truth, hungry for it, and they respond to honesty, humor, and people who are willing to be adults as opposed to being older kids. And they don’t tolerate lack of fashion, but age appropriate. And they do not want to hear too much about your personal life or a gay representation of the JudeoChristian life, they need to see it in action
“Perhaps then the male of the species should quit doing their part in creating children w/ high school drop out women?
Yeah, like THAT’s going to happen.”
it happened for millennia until 1970, so, I suggest this country full of direct descendants of computer creators, NASA engineers, medical advancement researchers, communications geniuses, get busy figuring this out.
WE want government to want to get out of our lives.
That WILL never happen. It has to be done to them
Dumber than Patty Murray is incapable of any legislation.
Freedom + small government + low taxes = prosperity - that is the winning formula to get the most of people out of poverty. As long as we continue to import tons of unskilled labor into the country, legal or otherwise, it makes it harder for the poor to free themselves from economic bondage. If you could slow the flood of illegals, reduce taxes and shrink government, the pool of poor folks will shrink.
We have made the poor too comfortable in their poverty. When it becomes more desirable to work rather than collect welfare checks, then we will start winning the “war on poverty”.
Well, we did used to require marriage licenses, and culture practically prohibited reproducing without one.
Benign neglect. Choices have consequences and bad choices must be punished.
Give everyone a $10,000 tax credit, set a single 15% flat-tax, and abolish all federal government welfare programs.
Dumb people to stop having children.
Agreed, we need to fix both legal and illegal immigration and stop importing the poor.
We need to stop offshoring American jobs to third world countries by raising the import tariffs.
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