Comments on: 21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare

By: Pepe Snead

Pepe Snead — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:59:00 +0000

Most of these cutbacks were before the 2008 meltdown. I guess people knew the government was overextended even back then.

By: Ngoc Fishback

Ngoc Fishback — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:49:19 +0000

Well, her style is a bit freeky, but it’s hard to deny her talent.

By: get2rhino

get2rhino — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:18:20 +0000

I am disabled and have received welfare for most of my lifetime and it stinks, has always stunk and is getting worse all the time. I have said for years that all they would have to do to reduce the welfare rolls by at least 60% is to require drug testing. But all those things in the article have happened to us. We’ve had our family destroyed by child protection over a 10 yr. period at a cost of 8 million taxpayer dollars, as a result of having applied for food stamps in the poorest county in California. They sued us for child support, and when I finally was granted disability benefits SSA took away a large part of my back pay because we were receiving TANF. We were lucky to be able to escape California with most of our children and our lives, but we’re broken now. And all the kings horses and all the king’s men have no desire whatsoever to put us together again. But it’s a brilliant idea to reduce the number of poor people by killing them through carelessness and ineptitude. But this is the first time I heard that the states will get their share of federally allocated money by just saying they are using it in some way vaguely related to helping the poor. It now makes sense to me after a decade of suffering and watching helplessly as my kids were jerked in and out of foster care for over half a decade and subjected to psychological warfare techniques. I imagine I will eventually commit suicide, I talk about it enough. Glad to be able to reduce the surplus population at contribute something. Why even act like there is help for those who need it why not just cancel welfare and start jailing poor people for the crimes we would have to commit to survive? At least they’d make some money off of incarcerating us. Entitlement programs indeed. Humbug. Welfare is not free and neither are we.

By: JR

JR — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:12:36 +0000

Welfare is not free!! There are many hoops that US receiving welfare have to jump through everyday just to maintain what little monies we do receive. WE are told that we can have an education but it is one that is chosen by the state, we have to have high GPAs, only can accomplish a certificate program not a degree, our children are forced to spend long hours in daycare facilities while WE volunteer 20hrs per week and go to school for finish our education. We are to be “grateful” for our Public Housing where we here guns going off every night, where our homes fall apart cause not one fixes them, where our rent increases even though our income does not, NOW how is drug testing an individual at random similar to drug testing an employee. WE are not employees of the state, we are on WELFARE government run programs because we need help and those programs were put into place to help with such needs. ONE DAY this could happen to you and those programs will be gone, then YOU will see just how serious things are going to get. This stereotypical idea that ALL individuals on welfare are drug addicted is insane, WE go through a lot just to take care of our families, and WE deserve the same chance to better our lives as those who can personally fund their own.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:19:37 +0000

Random drug testing for those receiving welfare, now that is a Brilliant idea. Those of us working are subjected to random drug tests to earn the money given to those who get the money for free! If you wan my hard earned money to support yourself, for whatever the reason might be: and YE there are those who truly do need the assistance, then you should be subjected to th same random drug testing those of us earning the money to pay you are! What do recipients have to fear? Unless they are on drugs there is nothing! If they are on drugs, then odds are pretty good that the are spending a good percentage of the TANF money on them! Those failing the drug tests should be mandated drug rehab and education if they want to keep their free money coming.

By: L Thomas

L Thomas — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:37:21 +0000

I like the idea that Florida has to cut it’s caseload. We could use something like this in good ole welfare state o california

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By: mram50

mram50 — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:41:19 +0000

U now need sources to tell you that Irving has bronze statues all over town? Well, they do, but poor people on town are encouraged to move elsewhere usually because all available housing has been condemned and bulldozed so there IS no low income housing available.