padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

If you're going to act like this I'm going to pick up my toys and go home!

rumitoid

Goshdarnet, no.

Auntie Lulu

The Critical Critic . . . Thank you for spouting such a clear understanding of the Constitution. Not only have we grown the ranks of the "poor and downtrodden" by giving, and giving to them that they have been rendered unable to even imagine that they can stand on their down two feet. When you add to that, the sorrowful situation that so much of the tax monies that have been taken from the American workers to pay for the care and keeping of illegal, felonious, boarder jumpers--that those who need charitable funds, and who are qualified by virtue of the fact that they are actual citizens, born in the USA (and I do not mean Mama dropped this baby once she crossed the boarder)--they are sent away with their hats in their hands because there is no more money to help them. This is shameful to say the least.

Seth

Welfare and other such measures were originally designed to help people while they got back on their feet, not to be a career option.

LBJ changed all that by expanding welfare on a way set up to market it to young, naive black girls -- "have all the babies you want, just don't get married, and the gubmint will take care of you." Best investment yet for buying an entire v****g bloc and economical, too, since the taxpayer is picking up the tab.

Between the fatherless households, the lousy schools provided and so forth, ever expanding generations of welfare careerists ensued, in their own way and by Democrat design trapped in their poverty and convinced that if they didn't v**e Democrat the "r****t" Republicans would take it all away and throw them out in the street.

And you have the chutzpah to claim that there's even an iota of compassion to share between every Democrat in the country? You are a real piece of work, you know that?

To keep going, today there are millions of people of all "races" on one kind of federal dole and another, some with treatable conditions somehow labelled as "disabilities," there are able bodied men and women well below retirement age collecting social security benefits or welfare and food stamps who believe it's their right to sit around doing nothing or doing drugs, there are able bodied homeless people out there who navigate "help the homeless" organizations geared toward keeping them undomiciled or rent subsidized and government dependent for pure profit reasons and a social services hierarchy that perpetuates itself by enacting employment readiness program "requirements" that are geared to fail and keep their "clientele" in a perpetual revolving door -- all on the taxpayers' dime.

And guess who runs that entire system?

Democrats armed with their Social Work degrees.

Like any deep state type chain of bureaucracies, they are, as I mentioned above, self perpetuating because no one is in any hurry to k**l the goose that lays the golden eggs.

As has been suggested, and rightly, none of this should in any way involve the federal government. The lion's share of the problems are regional -- take California, for example. The political flavor of the state attracts the largest number of career homeless and other indigence-prone individuals, and the ever expanding cost of living coupled with state regulation and taxes chases more jobs to other states every day.

California has the single largest rate of non-retirement Social Security recipients in the nation as well as the largest number of such "entitlement" recipients that are able bodied enough to hold jobs.

The "Golden State" is a veritable Mecca for career parasites, and while the local l*****t hypocrites bellow that California is the world's 6th largest economy, the state sure is a vacuum for federal tax money paid in by hard working Americans in the rest of the country.

If California wants to perpetuate such an environment rather than solve the problem, let California foot the bill. The same goes for every other state. Their citizens set the stages for their own environments when they enter the v****g booth, o let them pay for their own political choices without parasiting off the rest of the country.

Remember the Tenth Amendment? Any item not listed as the federal government's responsibility in Article One of the Constitution belongs to the individual states. Dealing with regional indigence definitely does not appear in Article One.

So don't whine about the hard hearted Republicans who are tired of flushing our hard earned tax money down a bottomless pit, urge your fellow Democrats who "own" this problem of their own making to fix it once and for all instead of treating it as an unending personal cash cow at the expense of the federal income tax/FICA payer.

Smedley_buzkill

Pennylynn made a good point. I said something similar. SC, for instance, receives a great deal of Federal money. 50 of the 60 billion they receive goes to medicare and medicaid and SoSec.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/states-that-get-the-most-federal-money

An actual breakdown of the states is given here

https://stonesoup.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/federal-funding-received-by-state-per-dollar-sent/

Several of the red states receive a lot of federal funding, more than tax dollars, simply because so many federally funded entities are located there. Defense spending and energy spending on Federal projects are the main reasons. Also federal subsidies to farmers as in the case of North Dakota. Western states which contain a lot of federal land receive lots of federal money. States with lots of military bases or defense projects receive a lot of money. There is much more to it than the state being red or blue. Since so many Democrats oppose military spending it is not surprising that blue states receive less federal money for defense spending related items. They don't have the contracts.
A better way to look at it is to compare the taxes collected with the Federal money received for the purpose of entitlements to working age people. NOT retirees who have spent decades paying into the system.

Seth

The working agers are who I was referring to. The Social Security goes to them directly from the government, and the state pays them some small stipend.

sisboombaa

I have helped others in the past and probably will in the future but only if I have it to give. I have not, nor will I, give what belongs to someone else. The choice to give or not give was/is mine to make. I will help only those that are helping themselves. Wish the government would follow my example or get out of the welfare activity. Many years ago the community churches did the helping not the government. The churches chose who to help. Those church members in on the help were volunteers and had a say as to who was to be helped. I feel it worked better then and would now than the government's system. I'm not against helping but strongly think we should change the rules and guide lines.

The Critical Critic Loc: Turtle Island

Amen Auntie, thank you for your comments. And you’re right, by blindly giving and giving, it just causes intellectual atrophy, and in the long run helps no one. Giving someone a fish, and teaching someone to fish, and all that.

Seth

To add: these organizations that purportedly "help" the homeless are instrumental in helping them get on these permanent Social Security doles, rather than assisting them in becoming independent, working taxpayers. We're talking in many cases males in their early to mid twenties.

These organizations receive federal (taxpayer) funding for helping people navigate through social services systems to obtain and milk their entitlements.

The prevalence of such organizations in "liberal" states like California, Oregon, etc make them magnets for parasites and various types of career homeless drug users, who then make themselves at home -- in downtown L.A., on what they call skid row, the dirty sidewalks are lined with tents of various sizes and types, some real tents, some makeshift. The same can be found lining the Venice boardwalk and a couple of streets, and along Venice Boulevard in Culver City.

waltmoreno

Amen to that Seth. I personally know of several, seemingly healthy, able bodied, young people here in California who don’t work and whom I was dismayed to learn were collecting Social Security.For All of these people collect their SS monthly checks for “mental disabilities”. For example, someone diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic is getting monthly payments. Not only do they NOT attempt to address their so called “disability”, they actually don’t want it cured. In fact if it gets cured, they lose their SS.
Pathetic!

Seth

I'm kinda sorta wondering if, when people in places like Santa Monica, Venice and San Francisco are finally overwhelmed by the constant influx of these people and the diminished quality of life they represent, a new use might end up being found for the many disused FEMA camps.

rumitoid

The library has pretty women in leotards?

The Critical Critic Loc: Turtle Island

I suppose it could, but you should concern yourself with expanding your mind, not your eyes, or anything else.

rumitoid

I will take that under advisement.