Why do democrats want more people on foodstamps and welfare

Isn't it better for Americans to have jobs and self respect?

Democratic Party on Welfare & Poverty

While others have pointed out the obvious (getting people to vote Democrat) there is something else as well.

When Democrat politicians campaign against Republican politicians, one of the first strategies they use is to scare people that Republicans are going to take away all their goodies.

Next election (no matter who it is) take note how the Democrat will tell people what the Republicans want to take away from them.

Trump and the Republican passed a tax bill that will allow us to keep more of what we worked for. What are the Democrats saying? How Republicans just stopped millions from getting healthcare. How Republicans are going to cut Social Security. How Republicans are going to cut Medicare, and on and on it goes.

The more people that are on these programs, the better case they make to the people when trying to defeat Republicans. So it's really a political strategy. After all, when DumBama was President, he created over 40 million new government dependents just on food stamps and Commie Care alone. It was no accident.
 
Isn't it better for Americans to have jobs and self respect?

Democratic Party on Welfare & Poverty
Food stamps and welfare checks buy loyal voters. People with jobs aren't gonna vote for politicians who give out free stuff to people who won't work.

It's not free stuff. Those of us who work and pay taxes are paying for it. That's the point.

The Republican party is the party of those of us who work, and wish to be allowed to keep more of what we have rightfully earned. The Democrats are the party of parasites who want to be supported by the fruits of other people's labor.
It is free to the takers. That gets their votes. LBJ knew this when he signed his Great Society bill. All those above who said that the Dems favor giving things to welfare slaves in exchange for votes are absolutely correct.
 
The real truth is 50 thousand dollars today is poverty level wages. Undeniable fact. For that one shows up....more pay equals more productivity. As I condone.
 
Why do democrats want more people on foodstamps and welfare

AFAIK, Democrats have never asserted that they do indeed "want more people on food stamps and welfare." What Democrats want is that food stamps and welfare be made available to people who need either.

While Republicans want an economy where as few as possible need government welfare.

I was trying to find something that I clearly remember Ronald Reagan saying, but wasn't able to. Something along the lines of Democrats defining success by how many people government helps, and Republicans defining success by how many people don't need help from government.

I did find this authenticated quote from him: “Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”
Here's one reference to Democrats defining success.

As CA Governor, opposed AFDC as rewarding lack of work
[As Governor, Reagan addressed] California’s exploding welfare system. “Here in California,” he warned, “nearly a million children are growing up in the stultifying atmosphere of programs that reward people for not working, programs that separate families and doom these children to repeat the cycle in their own adulthood.”
Reagan had especial contempt for government touts whose job performance was appraised by the length of their welfare client lists. “They go out and actually recruit people to be on welfare,“ he complained. His prejudice against AFDC was practical as well as moral. He believed it discriminated against the destitute-by encouraging the shiftless to promiscuity.

The California Welfare Reform Act became law in August 1971. Reagan called it ”probably the most comprehensive“ such initiative in American history. It had an inspirational effect on welfare policy across America, but Reagan would have to wait until 1996 before his basic dream, the repeal of AFDC, became a reality

Source: Dutch, by Edmund Morris, p. 368-9 & 376 , Jan 4, 1971
 
So.... let's cut out the food stamps and watch jobs pop up all over the place!!! Or maybe people can't find jobs and many who are working aren't making enough to get by. Maybe?
 
Why do democrats want more people on foodstamps and welfare

AFAIK, Democrats have never asserted that they do indeed "want more people on food stamps and welfare." What Democrats want is that food stamps and welfare be made available to people who need either.

While Republicans want an economy where as few as possible need government welfare.

I was trying to find something that I clearly remember Ronald Reagan saying, but wasn't able to. Something along the lines of Democrats defining success by how many people government helps, and Republicans defining success by how many people don't need help from government.

I did find this authenticated quote from him: “Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”
Just right wing cognitive dissonance after helping the rich get richer, faster.
 
Isn't it better for Americans to have jobs and self respect?

Democratic Party on Welfare & Poverty

While others have pointed out the obvious (getting people to vote Democrat) there is something else as well.

When Democrat politicians campaign against Republican politicians, one of the first strategies they use is to scare people that Republicans are going to take away all their goodies.

Next election (no matter who it is) take note how the Democrat will tell people what the Republicans want to take away from them.

Trump and the Republican passed a tax bill that will allow us to keep more of what we worked for. What are the Democrats saying? How Republicans just stopped millions from getting healthcare. How Republicans are going to cut Social Security. How Republicans are going to cut Medicare, and on and on it goes.

The more people that are on these programs, the better case they make to the people when trying to defeat Republicans. So it's really a political strategy. After all, when DumBama was President, he created over 40 million new government dependents just on food stamps and Commie Care alone. It was no accident.
Unlike our alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror.
 
So.... let's cut out the food stamps and watch jobs pop up all over the place!!! Or maybe people can't find jobs and many who are working aren't making enough to get by. Maybe?

Plenty of jobs out there. Employers can't find Americans to do them because they are sitting home on their Obama phones getting fat on food stamps.
 
Why?

Because we aren't cruel bastards that like seeing people suffer
and two most people on food stamps work hard and don't get paid enough to choose between food and medication. Oh'yess, this goes back to point one.

Why do republicans enjoy cutting people off and watching them suffer?
 

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