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To: kabar

Another take would be to remove ALL welfare from those here illegally, as well as from those who CAN work, but aren’t (means testing, time limits, etc.).

It would be amazing the amount of labor suddenly available, for our work force.


279 posted on 07/31/2015 8:25:54 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

The welfare should be removed for US Citizens also.
Why mow other people’s lawn’s on a hot summer day, or flip hamburgers, or clean restrooms, or pick fruit, when the government gives you all these benefits for NOT working?

Why bother to work??

FREE Medicaid, 60 Million people and
more millions becoming eligible under Obamacare

FREE Food stamps for 48 Million
$800/month family of 4

FREE Breakfast & Lunch at schools
FREE Rent subsidy
FREE Heat subsidy
FREE or Subsidized Obamacare (87% who joined)
FREE Obama phones
FREE Contraceptives
FREE Mammograms
FREE Abortions
FREE Pre-natal care & delivery
FREE Transportation to medical facility
FREE Translators for non-English speaking
FREE Lawyers for the indigent
FREE Pell Grants
FREE Daycare

FREE CASH! Under the Family
Independence (FI) program the takers
are given a charged debit card.

Supplementary Social Security checks
for senior immigrants even if they have
never worked 1 hour in USA.


281 posted on 07/31/2015 8:36:44 AM PDT by entropy12 (Make America Great Again!!! Go Trump/Cruz 2016....others are all in pocket of their rich donors.)
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To: Jane Long
Another take would be to remove ALL welfare from those here illegally, as well as from those who CAN work, but aren’t (means testing, time limits, etc.).

Illegal aliens cannot get welfare by law. They obtain food stamps and other benefits thru their US born children who are citizens thru birthright citizenship. SCOTUS has ruled that ERs must treat illegals who get these services free. Some states, like CA, do provide benefits to illegals.

I doubt that most of what you propose would be passed. The Dems won't allow it.

Table 6 shows that the overall high welfare use rate for immigrant households with children is not simply due to legal status. Both legal and illegal immigrants tend to make use of the welfare system. Illegal immigrant households with children primarily use food assistance and Medicaid, making almost no use of cash and housing programs. In contrast, legal immigrant households with children tend to have relatively high use for every type of program. In addition to legal status, Table 6 also reports welfare use for different types of legal and illegal households. The Department of Homeland Security estimates that more than half of all illegal immigrants come from Mexico.22 The table shows that households with children headed by Mexican illegal immigrants tend to have somewhat higher welfare use rates than do illegal immigrant households with children from all countries. As for legal immigrants, Table 6 shows that the inclusion of refugee-sending countries in the data does not make much difference to overall welfare use rates for legal immigrant households with children. Use rates for households headed by legal immigrants from non-refugee-sending countries are very similar to those for legal immigrant households when refugees are included. Refugee-sending countries are a small share of the total and, as we have seen, their use rates are not different enough from non-refugees to impact the overall results in a meaningful way.

283 posted on 07/31/2015 8:38:48 AM PDT by kabar
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