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 ...
The only way to end poverty is for poor people to stop having children.
Especially out of wedlock.
Paul Ryan really should have resigned from office to run for VP. After that loss, he should have then stayed out of politics forever.
But, no - I hear he’s thinking of making another run at it.
God, help us.
I gave up on Ryan. He’s a statist.
Not reading it. Does it include, as does his previous plan, taking money from contractually agreed-to veterans’ widows funds?
DH
That’s stupid
DO you want to go in and forcefully abort them?
Chinese government does that.
It’s true — but you’re right if you are saying that it isn’t going to happen.
small government (government creates poverty) and free enterprise in the wealth-producing free market economy.
And they fixed immigration back in the 80s.
Yet all these systems are "broken".
Funny how that works.
There is no way to complete eradicate poverty. The poor are aways with us.
I think they are a test for the rest of us. If we care, if we make a reasonable effort to take care of them and make sure there basic needs are met, then we get blessed as a nation. And if we don’t, God puts someone else in charge.
Doesn’t have to be a handout for everyone. But it does need to take into account whether they can work.
Assuming they want to work.
After reading only three paragraphs I quit. No matter how they word it IF the FED is involved it means the States are subservient to that they created to manage the Union. There’s no way Ryan, or any of them get conservatism. They just don’t get it YET they claim to wear the badge proudly.
NO it’s not a badge to wear. It’s an understanding of the Constitution, our history under the leadership of that Constitution, and a will to comply with that Constitution.
Only the adults.
I don’t take it you’re proposing to keep the status quo?
How 'bout this: Stop taxing the money out of the states. Stop running the money thru DC to have half or more of it squandered in graft. Leave the money with the people who earned it. Howzat?
Big-time statist.
I’ll never forget when Mark Levin skewered Ryan over the budget deal debacle.
Fixed it.
No, I’m not saying it isn’t going to happen. I’m saying that depending on dehumanizing people, fetuses, poor people, and the sanctity of marriage not only is disgusting and unwise, it leads to murderous attitudes and deeds.
Look at our tax code, and out of control prices at colleges and in raising children. WE accept all of that because we, as a society, depend on birth control.
where is it leading?
You can’t have a fair and logical presidential election without the promise of not only promoting birth control and abortion, but without promising to provide it.
The dynamic nature of it and where it leads should speak volumes.
But we are addicted to it.
Calling for poor women to be condemned for having children is not ok.
Are they bad because they are poor?
How about just not providing them with tax money.
Birth control will come in a more natural form, the way it worked for millennia prior to 1970, women don’t fool around with men who won’t marry them, and women don’t marry men who can’t provide for a family.
Can’t do that? Then why are we so different from not only civilized societies of just about all of history, but from God’s plan for our society?
And if we are different, better, show us where. With a crackpot in the White House with no opposition to his wacky growing plans, a 70% divorce rate among public school attendees and administration, a 40 to 50% tax rate among middle class, including sales and ancillary taxes, and the Chamber of Commerce scrambling to establish a slave labor force through an invasion of our border.
Oh, and women culturally treated as sex objects, unless you accept the out of control pervasion of pornography
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