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    Texas welfare recipient says “Working is stupid.”

    Please consider the viewpoint of a 32-year old Austin Texas welfare recipient who says working is stupid because she gets nearly free housing, food stamps, a welfare check, and other handouts.

    “She says taxpayers are the fools…she gets to lay up all day and smoke weed while you go to work.” Well, Obama’s doin’ his part to rid the country of those foolish taxpayers….




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    I know many on it. If they take a job they loose all benefits. A good bit have children to get more money and illegals are doing the same. I am not against helping people but there is no excuse for people to be on welfare for years.

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    In Germany, if you are on welfare and you are offered a legal job (at legal pay) and if you don't take it, you get kicked off welfare.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    In Germany, if you are on welfare and you are offered a legal job (at legal pay) and if you don't take it, you get kicked off welfare.

    Welfare in this country is an "entitlement" with no strings attached. To make people work is slavery and we certainly don't want to return to slavery now do we?

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    Welfare in this country is an "entitlement" with no strings attached. To make people work is slavery and we certainly don't want to return to slavery now do we?

    If welfare is an entitlement, then why do people have to apply for it?



    Myth Families stay on welfare for a long time and don’t make any effort to get off.
    Fact Less than half of SNAP families receive it for more than 36 months overall and most receive it for no more than 2 years at a time.

    Myth People become dependent on welfare because it’s available to them.
    Fact Leading researchers agree that no evidence substantiates the “welfare trap” theory.

    Myth Welfare benefits for families provide them with enough to meet all their basic needs.
    Fact SNAP and Food Stamps combined provide less than a poverty level income in all states and their value has been going steadily downward for many years.

    Myth Even if SNAP and Food Stamps don’t provide enough to meet daily living needs, the shortfall is made up for by all the other benefits these families receive.
    Fact Most of the other major benefits available to poor families are available to only limited numbers of families and they do not add enough to family income to enable families to meet all the basic non-medical needs.

    Myth The differences in SNAP benefit levels around the country are due to cost of living differences and/or differences in wage rates.
    Fact Numerous studies have concluded that the range in benefit levels around the country is far greater than any differences in cost of living and wage variation is less than half as much as the benefit variation.

    Myth Women SNAP recipients have lost of kids and go on having kids after they begin receiving benefits.
    Fact The most typical family size in a mother and one child. The birthrate among women receiving AFDC is lower than that in the rest of the population.

    Myth People need welfare because they won’t work.
    Fact The adults receiving SNAP are those who are caring for children and over two thirds of them have recent work experience from employment while receiving aid or before they applied for aid.

    Myth Families wouldn’t need assistance if they would just go to work.
    Fact Many families who are in the workplace cannot make it on their earnings alone and need assistance in order to have decent standard of living.

    Myth Poor people move from one state to another to get higher benefits.
    Fact The evidence largely contradicts this theory and shows that poor people move less often than others and, when they do, move in the same direction as the rest of the population.

    Myth Almost all families receiving SNAP are Black or Hispanic.
    Fact Many more White families than Black or Hispanic families are helped by the SNAP program.

    Myth Non-marital births have exploded and welfare is the reason.
    Fact The non-marital birth rate is less that 5% and no reliable evidence exists that welfare is a primary reason for the growth in non-marital birth rates.

    Myth Child support reform can eliminate most child poverty and most of the need for SNAP.
    Fact Even if no deadbeat parents existed, most poor kids would be poor and most children who need AFDC would still need it.

    Myth Large numbers are receiving SNAP to which they aren’t entitled and the government isn’t doing anything about it.
    Fact The evidence shows that only a small percentage of recipients are overpaid. Most of these errors are due to honest mistakes. Rigorous programs are in place to limit all overpayments and weed out fraud.

    Myth Spending on welfare to aid needy families is a major part of the federal budget.
    Fact Spending for poor families with children under all public assistance programs that provide for basic needs including medical care amounts to about 6% of the budget

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cigar View Post

    If welfare is an entitlement, then why do people have to apply for it?



    Myth Families stay on welfare for a long time and don’t make any effort to get off.
    Fact Less than half of SNAP families receive it for more than 36 months overall and most receive it for no more than 2 years at a time.

    Myth People become dependent on welfare because it’s available to them.
    Fact Leading researchers agree that no evidence substantiates the “welfare trap” theory.

    Myth Welfare benefits for families provide them with enough to meet all their basic needs.
    Fact SNAP and Food Stamps combined provide less than a poverty level income in all states and their value has been going steadily downward for many years.

    Myth Even if SNAP and Food Stamps don’t provide enough to meet daily living needs, the shortfall is made up for by all the other benefits these families receive.
    Fact Most of the other major benefits available to poor families are available to only limited numbers of families and they do not add enough to family income to enable families to meet all the basic non-medical needs.

    Myth The differences in SNAP benefit levels around the country are due to cost of living differences and/or differences in wage rates.
    Fact Numerous studies have concluded that the range in benefit levels around the country is far greater than any differences in cost of living and wage variation is less than half as much as the benefit variation.

    Myth Women SNAP recipients have lost of kids and go on having kids after they begin receiving benefits.
    Fact The most typical family size in a mother and one child. The birthrate among women receiving AFDC is lower than that in the rest of the population.

    Myth People need welfare because they won’t work.
    Fact The adults receiving SNAP are those who are caring for children and over two thirds of them have recent work experience from employment while receiving aid or before they applied for aid.

    Myth Families wouldn’t need assistance if they would just go to work.
    Fact Many families who are in the workplace cannot make it on their earnings alone and need assistance in order to have decent standard of living.

    Myth Poor people move from one state to another to get higher benefits.
    Fact The evidence largely contradicts this theory and shows that poor people move less often than others and, when they do, move in the same direction as the rest of the population.

    Myth Almost all families receiving SNAP are Black or Hispanic.
    Fact Many more White families than Black or Hispanic families are helped by the SNAP program.

    Myth Non-marital births have exploded and welfare is the reason.
    Fact The non-marital birth rate is less that 5% and no reliable evidence exists that welfare is a primary reason for the growth in non-marital birth rates.

    Myth Child support reform can eliminate most child poverty and most of the need for SNAP.
    Fact Even if no deadbeat parents existed, most poor kids would be poor and most children who need AFDC would still need it.

    Myth Large numbers are receiving SNAP to which they aren’t entitled and the government isn’t doing anything about it.
    Fact The evidence shows that only a small percentage of recipients are overpaid. Most of these errors are due to honest mistakes. Rigorous programs are in place to limit all overpayments and weed out fraud.

    Myth Spending on welfare to aid needy families is a major part of the federal budget.
    Fact Spending for poor families with children under all public assistance programs that provide for basic needs including medical care amounts to about 6% of the budget

    You need to provide a cite for material that you are offering as fact, and not an opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    You need to provide a cite for material that you are offering as fact, and not an opinion.
    Did you notice who made that post. Liberals don't have to give citations. My citation for that is Jillian.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    You need to provide a cite for material that you are offering as fact, and not an opinion.
    Google Welfare Myths ... it's get's posted every month here when people go through their cycles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    In Germany, if you are on welfare and you are offered a legal job (at legal pay) and if you don't take it, you get kicked off welfare.
    there are places here where when you take a job (often for minimum wage) you are still required to pay back the benefits you received. it makes working unaffordable. perhaps the "fix" should be not having to pay back the money so you can move on?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jillian View Post
    there are places here where when you take a job (often for minimum wage) you are still required to pay back the benefits you received. it makes working unaffordable. perhaps the "fix" should be not having to pay back the money so you can move on?
    Where do you have to "pay back" past benefits?

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