‘Welfare’ as a wholly owned subsidiary of the government, and its main result is the incentivizing of a disrespect for oneself, and for the entity that provides the welfare
So again you try to say that welfare makes a person bad? I am sure this trait was already there before EBT..
Always bad if religion isn't tied to the giving, ahhh, but here it is,,,,,food banks ran by religious or even a private affiliations receives benefits from the govt. for doing this work....The idea that charity alone would fill the need is short sighted to say the least....
If there is one thing we can be proud of in this nation is the generosity given to those in need....When Jesus fed the multitude he did not ask for proof of income...
Liberal welfare policy CAUSES the exact behaviors that result in poverty.
1. "[Many still have] faith in the federal government's ability to make productive citizens out of welfare recipients
despite the evidence of its failure to do so. Nearly every U.S. president since Kennedy has expressed agreement with the idea behind Kennedy's words that welfare should be a 'hand up, not a hand out,' whose rolls eventually decrease as welfare recipients are brought into the working class.
Yet when President Clinton signed legislation intended to do just that, there were
cries of horror from all over the Left.This is because of a large and dangerous change in the way our society views welfare that happened in the 1960s under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, who
changed government aid from a temporary necessity to an entitlement.
a. ... after the Great Society reforms, welfare recipients were subjected to government
control of their savings habits, intrusion into their family planning (marriage was strongly discouraged),and embarrassing questions about their personal lives.
.... liberals often object to private charities on the grounds that they are invasive, conveniently forgetting the hoops current welfare recipients must jump through to receive Uncle Sam's money."
The Yale Free Press
And they just love the 'Food-Stamp President' who has made certain that even more are on the government dole.
2. .
"....welfare programs rarely encourage good behavior.For example, AFDC explicitly frowns upon thrift, as
recipients are allowed to have only $1,000 in savings in order to remain eligible.
Grace Capetillo, a 36-year-old welfare mother, found this out the hard way after she managed to save up $3,000 over four years, only to be sued by the county of Milwaukee.... the county's request that she pay back the $15,545 she had received since going over the limit. However, she did have to pay a $1,000 fine and spend another $1,000 to get under the savings limit."
The Yale Free Press
How, exactly, did Mrs. Capetillo accumulate the vast sum of $3,000 in savings?
a.
She had shopped at thrift stores, stocked up on sale items in grocery stores....bought second hand clothes during the summer, and warm-weather outfits during the summer.
b. When her five-year-old daughter's t-shirts grew tight, she simply snipped them under the arms,...
c. When she asked for 'Li'l Miss Make-Up' for Christmas, Mrs. Capetillo didn't pay $19.99 at Toys-R-Us, she found it at Goodwill for $1.89; she cleaned it up and tied it with a pink ribbon.
d. At Goodwill, she found the pieces for Mr. Potato Head, and bought them for seventy-nine cents, saving $3.18.
Her reward from the welfare system was being sued for $14,545.
"The Tragedy of American Compassion," p. 42, by Marvin Olasky
That is the kind of responsibility that the current system penalizes, careful use of one's assets, savings, behaviors that might get one out of the welfare trap......instead the impersonal nature of the welfare system and it's built-in Liberal 'we'll take care of you' structure produce life-long dependency.
The challenge:
what, exactly does this system accomplish outside of enlisting the 'poor' as 'reliable Democrat voters'?
