feh...
Posted on 05/25/2015 9:16:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Scott Walker Is Making MASSIVE Changes To Welfare – Will Impact Freeloaders Harshly "....".....Walker's drug test isn't simply a play to restrict the number of people who will be eligible to receive welfare, it's also a giant step forward in changing unemployment payments from helping freeloaders live off of the work of others to payments which will actually help others prepare to receive employment.
Walker's reasoning is solid. Most, if not all, employers will require a drug test for new employees and by letting people know that unemployment and welfare are just a stepping stone for those who want to receive funds...."
But advocates for FoodShare recipients say the state is being overly aggressive, punishing needy people who make innocent mistakes.
“There’s a lot of judgment going on by white, middle-class people and a lot of assumptions and disqualifications based on these assumptions,” said Pat DeLessio, an attorney with the Milwaukee office of Legal Action of Wisconsin, a federally funded nonprofit agency......”
Wisconsin FoodShare fraud crackdown questioned MADISON—Under Republican Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin has seen a nearly 12-fold increase in the number of people suspended annually from the state’s food stamp program for fraud.
The suspensions for “intentionally violating program rules” are part of a larger get-tough approach to people receiving federally funded nutrition assistance, called FoodShare in Wisconsin. Walker has also introduced new work rules for some FoodShare recipients, and proposes to seek a federal waiver to begin requiring all adult participants of the program to undergo drug testing.
In 2011, Walker’s first year as governor, 102 people were suspended from the FoodShare program for violating program rules, according to DHS. That number has increased each year, to 1,184 in 2014........."
Just the headline communicates to me, these people are batsh#t crazy.
I like it though, some of my liberal friends who read these will be put off, because they will know this is crazy talk and start to doubt the author.
The main “debating” point of the left is hyperbole.
This article is Bull Shite and I didn’t even read it.
Wow. The incoherent screed of a stuck pig.
No one else can get these liberals to overreach like Walker can.
And you are right, it lets people see exactly where they’re coming from
This article summarizes what we are up against, politically speaking.
The liberals look at any changes to welfare and public assistance programs as taking food out of children’s mouths and all that. And then, politically speaking, that ends the discussion, as the GOP is branded by liberals and the media as cruel and heartless to innocent children.
It’s the same concept when we see ideas such as Paul Ryan proposing changes to Medicare. Ryan is portrayed as wanting to throw grandma off the cliff. We just can’t have rational discussion about certain subjects. And it’s due to the mindset of liberals, that somehow the GOP wants people to starve and be left scrounging for food in a dumpster.
Just like the Demorats who show pictures of granny being pushed down the stairs in a wheelchair. Nothing said for two years when the COL in SS payments didn’t happen. If it was during Bush’s term you’d hear the howl all the way to Pluto.
Interesting. First article I’ve seen in ages by a leftist defending “the poor.” For some odd reason, in recent years they’ve switched almost entirely to talking about how policies will hurt the middle class.
“The main “debating” point of the left is hyperbole.”
That and censoring and shouting down their opponent so their opponent cannot speak or be heard. That’s Alinsky 101.
Walker KICED THE LEFTY BUTTS in Wisconsin, and the lefties will NEVER get over that!
This commie moron conveniently forgot BJ Clinton was riding the dot-com bubble that burst leaving Bush his recession.
feh...
yeah I stopped reading anything with the word salon in the title a while ago. There’s no coherent thought in any of their articles.
Well, truth be told I would not be sad if leftists starved or ate out of garbage cans. Leftists are users and takers. They provide nothing of benefit or substance. That’s why they go ballistic on issues such as this. They know deep down that they are literally incapable of survival without us, and that they are wholly dependent on us. It must really suck to be them.
Oh, the horror of it all.
We’ve had a 30-plus year experiment in Republican approaches to the problems of poverty and declining economic opportunity – and it’s turned out abysmally.
Never has a more laughable sentence been written by anyone who was not a comedian.
wow. That title almost beats the one from CNN a few months back which was something very close to: 'the economy is in the toilet, BUT ITS NO BIG DEAL"
This is your mind on drugs!
It is very close to blood libel now.
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