GOP war on the poor: Georgia

[SniperFire]

So what's wrong with being tough on welfare freeloaders??

Nothing...if they really are freeloaders. However, taking a meat cleaver to trim a little fat isn't the right approach.

In any case, it's easy to say, "Get a job," but what job? Where? After 30 years of trickle-down sending our jobs to China, telling the working poor or unemployed to just get a job doesn't do anything except basically give them the back of your hand, does it?

Huh?

Are you saying 'jobs' have some sort of national birthright?

 

[SniperFire]

Back a time people used to find a way to take care of themselves (worked two jobs) if THEY HAD too..

Today they whine because they have to work and if they can't make it they just say, Oh well we can go suck off others... and we get articles like this from some liberal rag called, Slate

But that's the problem. A lot of these people DO work. A lot of them have two jobs. And some of them want jobs and can't find them because they are often competing with a college grad who can't find a job, either.

40% of Food Stamp recipiants have at least one person in the family with a job.

But when you have a situation where employers are openly discussing cutting employees hours to 32 hours a week so that they don't have to provide health care and dump them off on Medicaid, then you really don't have much room to complain when government grows.

Again- you idiots make this mess when you put the greed of employers over the needs of employees.

The situation you discribe is thanks to unintended consequences of bad law passed by a Democrat Super Majority against the will of the people.

Sack up and take responsibility for your failure.

 

[JoeB131]

Back a time people used to find a way to take care of themselves (worked two jobs) if THEY HAD too..

Today they whine because they have to work and if they can't make it they just say, Oh well we can go suck off others... and we get articles like this from some liberal rag called, Slate

But that's the problem. A lot of these people DO work. A lot of them have two jobs. And some of them want jobs and can't find them because they are often competing with a college grad who can't find a job, either.

40% of Food Stamp recipiants have at least one person in the family with a job.

But when you have a situation where employers are openly discussing cutting employees hours to 32 hours a week so that they don't have to provide health care and dump them off on Medicaid, then you really don't have much room to complain when government grows.

Again- you idiots make this mess when you put the greed of employers over the needs of employees.

The situation you discribe is thanks to unintended consequences of bad law passed by a Democrat Super Majority against the will of the people.

Sack up and take responsibility for your failure.

Or we pass another law telling them they can't do that.

Or better, we just put universal health care in place.

 

[JoeB131]

Links to the statistics on Americans with two jobs taking welfare?? Provide them.... Secondly, we all KNOW food stamp usage has shot through the roof and college grads have a hard time finding jobs.. it was a part of this election.. you know, the one you liberals voted to keep the same RULING ELITE -- BTW What's the definition of insanity?

The one where you trot out the same policies that got us into this mess and then try to pass them off as something new. Romney made his fortune putting people out of those good paying jobs.

You destroy the middle class and wonder why people aren't going to slice their last lifeline. Seriously?


http://www.fns.usda.gov/ora/MENU/Published/snap/FILES/Participation/2010CharacteristicsSummary.pdf

Most SNAP participants were children or
elderly. Nearly half (47 percent) were under age
18 and another 8 percent were age 60 or older.
Working-age women represented 28 percent of the
caseload, while working-age men represented 17
percent.
Many SNAP participants had jobs. Nearly 30
percent of SNAP households had earnings in 2010,
and 41 percent of all SNAP participants lived in a
household with earnings. For most of these
households, earnings were the primary source of
income.
The majority of SNAP households did not
receive cash welfare benefits. Only 8 percent of
all SNAP households received Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits
and another 4 percent received State General
Assistance (GA) benefits.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

But that's the problem. A lot of these people DO work. A lot of them have two jobs. And some of them want jobs and can't find them because they are often competing with a college grad who can't find a job, either.

40% of Food Stamp recipiants have at least one person in the family with a job.

But when you have a situation where employers are openly discussing cutting employees hours to 32 hours a week so that they don't have to provide health care and dump them off on Medicaid, then you really don't have much room to complain when government grows.

Again- you idiots make this mess when you put the greed of employers over the needs of employees.

The situation you discribe is thanks to unintended consequences of bad law passed by a Democrat Super Majority against the will of the people.

Sack up and take responsibility for your failure.

Or we pass another law telling them they can't do that.

Or better, we just put universal health care in place.

Fucking Dick Taters.

 

[mudwhistle]

Nothing...if they really are freeloaders. However, taking a meat cleaver to trim a little fat isn't the right approach.

In any case, it's easy to say, "Get a job," but what job? Where? After 30 years of trickle-down sending our jobs to China, telling the working poor or unemployed to just get a job doesn't do anything except basically give them the back of your hand, does it?

There are jobs everywhere.......they just don't pay as much as they used to so nobody is taking them. Course it sure doesn't help that the White House is constantly working to raise the cost of living through raising income taxes, payroll taxes, and excise taxes on businesses, not to mention raising the costs at the state and local governmental level so they have to raise taxes themselves. Right now our local sales taxes are almost as high as the state sales taxes. That's a little surprise we got on our food bill right before Christmas.

Too many of those jobs don't even pay enough to live on. A huge number of people drawing assistance ARE working, but still can't pay their bills AND feed their families.

In Georgia, that's just too damn bad for you. What would YOU tell them?

You can blame Obama for that. He's intentionally jacking up the costs of operations for everyone with his war on fossil fuels and by jacking up excise taxes on businesses forcing them to raise prices. His actions in Washington is causing a domino effect which effects all of us at a very real level. His policies have been in effect for over 3 years and we all have paid for them. Coming next year it will really hit us hard. That's why he put most of it off till after the election to assure that he gets another 4 years. He needs us to go over the cliff to provide cover for all of the new policies that will be kicking in come the first of the year. Then he will use his inauguration and his State of the Union address to blame it all on the GOP.

 

[JoeB131]

You can blame Obama for that. He's intentionally jacking up the costs of operations for everyone with his war on fossil fuels and by jacking up excise taxes on businesses forcing them to raise prices. His actions in Washington is causing a domino effect which effects all of us at a very real level. His policies have been in effect for over 3 years and we all have paid for them. Coming next year it will really hit us hard. That's why he put most of it off till after the election to assure that he gets another 4 years. He needs us to go over the cliff to provide cover for all of the new policies that will be kicking in come the first of the year. Then he will use his inauguration and his State of the Union address to blame it all on the GOP.

And the GOP is playing right into his hands....

Brilliant!

 

[SniperFire]

But that's the problem. A lot of these people DO work. A lot of them have two jobs. And some of them want jobs and can't find them because they are often competing with a college grad who can't find a job, either.

40% of Food Stamp recipiants have at least one person in the family with a job.

But when you have a situation where employers are openly discussing cutting employees hours to 32 hours a week so that they don't have to provide health care and dump them off on Medicaid, then you really don't have much room to complain when government grows.

Again- you idiots make this mess when you put the greed of employers over the needs of employees.

The situation you discribe is thanks to unintended consequences of bad law passed by a Democrat Super Majority against the will of the people.

Sack up and take responsibility for your failure.

Or we pass another law telling them they can't do that.

Or better, we just put universal health care in place.

One suck law to try and correct the original suck law which attempted to correct another suck law.

Liberalism is a disease.

 

[JoeB131]

The situation you discribe is thanks to unintended consequences of bad law passed by a Democrat Super Majority against the will of the people.

Sack up and take responsibility for your failure.

Or we pass another law telling them they can't do that.

Or better, we just put universal health care in place.

Fucking Dick Taters.

The rest of the world has single payer health care, and frankly, the small businesses who whine about having to provide it should welcome a single payer system. It would put them on the same level as the big guys...

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Yup. The LOLberals are dangerously stupid.

 

[JoeB131]

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One suck law to try and correct the original suck law which attempted to correct another suck law.

Liberalism is a disease.

The only reason we have a suck law is because Big Insurance and Big Pharma wanted to preserve a private system that sucks.

The rest of the world has already figured this out, Bunky.

Single payer, universal coverage. Get the employers out of it, because they'll only fuck it up.

 

[Meathead]

I think the GOP needs to wage an actual war on stupidity.

 

[JoeB131]

I think the GOP needs to wage an actual war on stupidity.

That would be a circular firing squad, then?

If find it amusing the poorest states are the ones that Romney did the best in, while the affluent states are the ones Obama won.

Just sayin'.

With the exception New Mexico, the ten poorest (HIGHEST WELFARE) states all voted for Romney. So much for out of touch Mitten's nitwit theory about losing due to "gifts from Obama."
1. Mississippi
2. West Virginia
3. Arkansas
4. Kentucky
5. Alabama
6. Tennessee
7. Louisiana
8. New Mexico (Blue)
9. South Carolina
10. Oklahoma

 

[SniperFire]

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One suck law to try and correct the original suck law which attempted to correct another suck law.

Liberalism is a disease.

The only reason we have a suck law is because Big Insurance and Big Pharma wanted to preserve a private system that sucks.

The rest of the world has already figured this out, Bunky.

Single payer, universal coverage. Get the employers out of it, because they'll only fuck it up.

Our 'private' system created the most wondrous advances in medicine in the history of mankind. Hope that helps with your commie revisionism.

 

[zeke]

The great state of KY has two counties that get 50% of those counties incomes from the Federal Government. And of course those counties voted for Mittens. Go figure.

 

[nitroz]

I think the GOP needs to wage an actual war on stupidity.

I don't think they are stupid enough to put a gun to their heads.

 

[nitroz]

This is the future the GOP would like to bring to all of America.


"...What's Georgia's secret? According to government documents, interviews with poor Georgians, and those who work with them, it's a simple one: Combine an all-Republican state government out to make a name for itself as tough on freeloaders; a state welfare commissioner so zealous about slashing the rolls that workers say she handed out Zero candy bars to emphasize her goal of zero welfare; and federal rules that, regardless of who's in the White House, give states the leeway to use the 1996 law's requirement for "work activities"—the same provision that Republicans have charged President Obama wants to unfairly water down—to slam the door in the face of the state's neediest...."

Georgia’s war against the poor: The southern state is emptying its welfare rolls at the same time that poverty is soaring. - Slate Magazine

When disaster strikes a republican area, slam your doors shut on them and leave them to fend for themselves.

It's only fair.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Welfare = Democrats buying votes with our money

 

[JoeB131]

Our 'private' system created the most wondrous advances in medicine in the history of mankind. Hope that helps with your commie revisionism.

Well, no, not really. There are as many advances coming out of other countries as ours.

HIGH TECH MEDICINE AND MEDICAL ADVANCES IN JAPAN: MEDICAL ROBOTS, CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES, iPS CELLS AND CELL SHEETS - Japan | Facts and Details

BBC News - Year in review - medical advances

Damn socialists finding solutions to stuff because it's the right thing to do, those bastards!

 

[Seawytch]

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One suck law to try and correct the original suck law which attempted to correct another suck law.

Liberalism is a disease.

The only reason we have a suck law is because Big Insurance and Big Pharma wanted to preserve a private system that sucks.

The rest of the world has already figured this out, Bunky.

Single payer, universal coverage. Get the employers out of it, because they'll only fuck it up.

Our 'private' system created the most wondrous advances in medicine in the history of mankind. Hope that helps with your commie revisionism.

Really? What advances have been paid for by the Health Insurance companies?