Oh it’s had results, alright.
Cut it out and suddenly people will get jobs.................
Nike, for example, would be out of business if its target customers weren’t a bunch of stunted losers who are willing to pay $500 for a stupid pair of athletic shoes.
Shut down the border and deport illegals
That will cut down on welfare at least somewhat
No welfare for able bodied.
Try it the old fashioned way — you don’t work, you don’t eat.
Reboot the planet? I don’t see how man fixes what’s wrong. There will be no more revolutions for freedom.
There is no free lunch, Abolish all Welfare Programs for able bodied people and put up Soup Kitchens on every corner that needs one
They could start by eliminating the baby factory incentives.
All the more reason to cut social security and Medicare. Saving have to start somewhere.
It was time to cut back 30 years ago.
It’s so entrenched in American culture now than you could no more cut back on welfare payments than you could privatize Social Security.
The inflation calculator puts $1.00 40 years ago at $3.08 today—and that’s based on an understatement of the true inflation rate.
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
The headline is incorrect! The results are exactly what was intended. The Democrats now have a government funded class of voters. They have no reason to “fix” something that isn’t broken.
This is only a VERY NARROW measure of it.
Every Fed.gov agency has an "equity" division. All of them are making loans, grants, payments, etc... basis that.
in 2008 we had a housing/financial crash due to a housing bubble based, in large part, on loans made under the "Community Reinvestment Act" and loans subsidized and purchased by Government supported companies like Fannie-Mae. It was a giant, corrupt welfare-scheme based on housing loans.
That cost the economy $$ TRILLIONS.
I would argue most of what Fed.gov is a welfare/redistribution scheme
If higher welfare payments keep the leeches in NY,OR, and CA, I’m all for it.
There’s a reason why all these “means tested” programs are scattered among dozens of agencies — so that nobody can easily discover how much any particular person is getting.
Step 1 would need to be to put ALL means-tested programs under one agency, with ONE application and verification process. (then fire all the suddenly redundant government employees).
Step 2 would be to put a ceiling on the total aid a household could get, and make this ceiling less than what the head of household could make at a minimum wage job. And the ceiling does NOT go up if she has additional kids.
The purpose of welfare isn’t the well being of the recipients. It’s to fuel the monster known as big government.
Welfare should help the disabled. It should not be a way of life for the able bodied.
Some of us, of course, have a different view of the matter.
Make people WORK!!!!