JMHO Loc: Utah

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

Have you ever been on welfare...and if you were, how did YOU get out of it?

Advice given by people who have zero experience is like standing in the rain knowing you need an umbrella and have everyone tells you: "you should have brought an umbrella". And walking away smugly.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

kinda like having the beggar tell you he is hungry and you say I hope you get some food today while you casually walk into a restaurant.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

You only think it's smug because you resent people that aren't on welfare.

And those that carry an umbrella when it's about to rain.

dennisimoto Loc: Washington State (West)

"Welfare shouldn’t be about establishing government programs that do something to people, but rather programs that do something for people."

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418343/too-many-people-are-still-stuck-welfare-heres-how-lift-them-out-logan-pike-justin

I have to guess that JMHO and I are the only two who read this as an example of what could be done instead of what's wrong with the authors.

D.B & CBT, is your glass half full or half empty??

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

There is nothing wrong with programs designed to lift people out of poverty. There has to be jobs that pay well to do that. Where are the jobs? The people are there to fill the jobs but where are the jobs? The job creators got their tax breaks and want more but what have they created? Plentiful work is a necessity to bring the millions out of poverty.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

I am doing quite well for myself and wish all Americans prosperity.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

...ok, so you're poor, you've been working your whole life, you're on your second marriage, you have 8 kids and you rent a trailer to live in, a fancy double wide. Advise to someone who has to work 2 jobs to keep food on the table and the lights...doesn't fall on deaf ears...and some point you just run out of energy and time.

Making good choices in life doesn't make you experienced just wise and less impulsive.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

The reason they attack the article is because Democrats know their staying in power requires a large underclass of dependent slave voters.

Getting people off of welfare would screw everything up that Obama and the Democrats have worked so hard to do.

JMHO Loc: Utah

I never was on welfare, or needed a handout. But, I was born poor, and remember going to the government warehouse to get our 5lb block of cheese, powdered milk, sack of beans and flour each month...yeah, I remember that. I started delivering newspapers when I was 9 years old. But, I decided to do something about my poverty. I made a career out of the military (enlisted to officer), obtained three college degrees, and even started and sold my own company. The Program that ran under Clinton worked and we need to add a work requirement to receive any government aid...jmho. In short, this country has lost it's work ethic, and this would be one small way of getting it back.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

I have to call BULLSHIT on that one. It is a parroted comment bigoted in nature and far from the truth.
Working people are the backbone of this country Making jobs and opportunitys and a decent standard of living for the worker is the Democratic struggle. The struggle shall continue despite all opposition.

hprinze Loc: Central Florida

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Simpler way to lift people out of welfare.

Cut off ALL welfare to any able bodied person who refuses a bona fide job offer or who accepts and deliberately gets himself fired.

Put thieves, robbers, and drug dealers in prisons with real rock piles, real sledge hammers, real nasty armed guards, and real nasty guard dogs.

Workinman Loc: Bayou Pigeon

Ask Obama he has been in control for 6.5 years, his plan of allowing all the illegals into this country should help...right? Or killing the energy sector jobs in the name of climate change, or the hundreds of new EPA Regs...He's done a great job sad to see him go...can't wait until Hillary.....

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Call it whatever you want, but you have to know it's true.

Yes, working people are the backbone. And that back is bent from carrying those on welfare.

Let's make easy... Look at it this way.. Simple economics.

When:
1) You punish employers for hiring people with taxation and regulations.
And:
2) You reward people for not being hired.
And:
3) You increase the reward if they're single.
And:
4) You increase the reward again if they have multiple children.
Then:
5) You have to ask yourself why would rather flood the streets with single parent children of unemployed mothers than to have stable families raising children and working responsibly.

And then you get the answer:
6) You're a Democrat and these people vote for your party, and the faster they breed, and the poorer they are, the better your chances of your party keeping and gaining power.

JMHO Loc: Utah

The Democrat struggle? What have the Democrats done to provide job opportunities and a decent standard of living? And, don't tell me it's raising the minimum wage because in reality that puts more people out of work. They (democrats) had total control of the WH and Legislative Branches during the first two years of Obama's reign, and how many jobs bills and economic improvement bills did they initiate and pass? They did pass a so-called $1T stimulus package, that was suppose to provide thousands of shovel ready jobs, and repair the infrastructure, but in fact turned out to be nothing more than a payback to unions and democrat cronies...very few jobs were created. The Democrat Party (the new Communist Party) pays a lot of lip service to job creation and a decent living, but in reality their polices do just the opposite. Their primary goal is to create as many people as they can dependent upon the government, thus they own their vote...it is just that simple. The Democrats have absolutely NO DESIRE to get people off of welfare, SNAP, or any other government handout program...wake up.