Cruz said, “I believe we need to champion every able-bodied adult ought to be working, or actively looking for a job, and the entire purpose, every one of the welfare programs, even disability programs, people with disabilities are still capable, in many, many cases, of doing meaningful work, maybe not heavy manual labor.”
Wow, talk about tone-deaf. This sounds like a Jeb Bush “people aren’t working enough” quote.
MAYBE the disabled shouldn’t do heavy manual labor? What the hell?
I’m sure there are people out there that are playing fast and loose with disability benefits to the point of abuse, but there are way better ways to express your desires for full employment to suggest that crippled people should be unloading delivery trucks if they can physically manage it.
I do not think that is what he said. He is suggesting that the rest of us should not be doing all of the supporting of the unemployed and those who can work. I don’t know the statistics, but IIRC, the disability claims on SSDI under 0bama’s regime have skyrocketed. In the past, people who could work, were expected to try to work. That does not seem to be the case any longer, and then the burden of support falls to the taxpayers.
Well Ted if so many of our jobs weren’t taken by illegal immigrants, affirmative action, and sent overseas we’d be working. In addition Obama’s economic and regulatory policies have destroyed millions of jobs with Obamacare, the EPA, higher minimum wages proposed by groups that are tied to him or Soros and even caused most of us to take lower pay or less hours, that is if we’re not being laid off or fired. So F off to that statement. We need to start questiong why out of touch politicians with $175K a year jobs theses to make over a million a year.
Well Ted if so many of our jobs weren’t taken by illegal immigrants, affirmative action, and sent overseas we’d be working. In addition Obama’s economic and regulatory policies have destroyed millions of jobs with Obamacare, the EPA, higher minimum wages proposed by groups that are tied to him or Soros and even caused most of us to take lower pay or less hours, that is if we’re not being laid off or fired. So F off to that statement. We need to start questiong why out of touch politicians with $175K a year jobs seem to make over a million a year.
There are a lot of people abusing disability. I thought hard work, and advocating the virtue thereof, was a conservative principal. It used to be, until Drumpf conned a bunch of low-info nationalists. Now only things he says, or they imagine he says, makes any sense.
Cruz did not say crippled people or that they should do heavy manual labor, he said there is meaningful work for them.
Jezz
You know, if you had watched you would get it. Believe what you want from a two sentence excerpt. Ted was right on.