Monday, January 12, 2015

THE TRUTH ABOUT WELFARE IN AMERICA

ONLY 13.2 PERCENT OF FAMILIES/HOUSEHOLDS RECEIVING A WELFARE "CHECK" HAD NO WORKING ADULT,
THIS MEANS THAT 86.8% DID HAVE A WORKING ADULT.
TRY TO WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND IT...ALMOST 90% OF ALL "ABLE-BODIED" ADULTS ON WELFARE DO WORK!


OF THE 13.2% OF NON-WORKING ADULTS, I COULD FIND NO STATS ON HOW MANY ARE UNEMPLOYED COLLEGE STUDENTS, THE RECENTLY UNEMPLOYED, ADULTS WITH SHORT-TERM DEBILITATING ILLNESSES, OR RETURNING VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

YES, AMERICA, THE POOR WORK! 
THEY CAN'T LIVE ON "WELFARE"! 
THEY WOULD STARVE AND DIE!
AND MANY DO JUST THAT!
THAT DISPELS THE LIES TOLD BY POLITICIANS WHO SCREAM ABOUT "LAZY TRASH", "DEADBEATS", "MOOCHERS" & "WORTHLESS TAKERS". 
AS ONE WEBSITE PUT IT, "POLITICIANS SLING FALSE DATA ABOUT WELFARE LIKE A MONKEY SLINGS ITS OWN S___!"
MORE ON WHAT A SORRY BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES CONGRESS IS LATER.

MY MAIN SOURCES FOR THE FOLLOWING ARE :
US Department of Health and Human Services,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, 
and the CATO Institute.

IF ANYONE HAS STATS WE CAN BELIEVE, IT'S THE DEPARTMENTS THAT ACTUALLY HANDLE THINGS, YES?
AND "WATCHDOG GROUPS"?

According to the USDA:
MORE THAN HALF OF THOSE "ON WELFARE" SPENT LESS THAN 12 MONTHS "GETTING ASSISTANCE".

FOR CLARIFICATION "TANF" IS AN ACRONYM FOR "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families".
IN 2012 CHILDREN ACCOUNTED FOR THREE-QUARTERS, 75% OF ALL TANF  RECIPIENTS!
SHOULD WE PUT CHILDREN, THE ELDERLY, THE SEVERELY DISABLED TO WORK?
DOING WHAT?

76% of 'welfare" households included a child, an elderly person, or a disabled person.

A disproportionate share of TANF recipients are under the age of six, relative to the general child population. 

THOSE LAZY DRUG-TAKING LITTLE KIDS NEED TO GET A JOB, RIGHT?


THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "WELFARE QUEEN"!
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE PER HOUSEHOLD OF THOSE ON TANF WAS ALMOST IDENTICAL TO THE "NORMAL" AMERICAN FAMILY....3.7 PEOPLE  PER FAMILY!
NOT 4, 5, OR 10, JUST ABOUT 4...LIKE YOUR FAMILY MAYBE, YES?

The average monthly cash payment to a family with one child is $300-$375 per month.
THE MOST ANYONE CAN GET IS ABOUT $860 PER MONTH AND THAT'S IN HAWAII!
IN CALIFORNIA, IT'S ABOUT
 $740

Cash allowance benefits for financial assistance are regulated BY EACH STATE and allowances paid will also vary based on different criteria. 

THAT'S THE CUT-OFF, THAT'S THE "BIG MONEY" PEOPLE MAKE ON WELFARE!AND CONGRESS JUST MADE SURE MORE CHILDREN CAN'T QUALIFY!

HERE'S ANOTHER "NEWSFLASH" FOR YOU!
LESS than 20% of children living below poverty Iin 2012-2013 we
re on welfare "rolls"!!!   

80% of America's impoverished children, and their parents do not even apply for welfare!
WOULDN'T THEY QUALIFY?
OF COURSE THEY WOULD!
48% OR SO OF AMERICA WOULD PROBABLY QUALIFY!
48% OF AMERICA COULD BE CALLED "POOR"!
AMERICA HIT THE BOTTOM OF THE ECONOMIC BARREL IN 2005-2008, SO A LOT OF NEW "POOR PEOPLE" WERE CREATED BY THAT!

PEOPLE WHO DO QUALIFY ARE STILL GETTING WAY BELOW AMERICA'S "POVERTY LEVEL"!

AND FOR EVERY DOLLAR WELFARE RECIPIENTS GO OUT AND WORK FOR, THEIR "BENEFITS", ALL OF THEM ARE REDUCED. 

A LARGE FAMILY CAN GET ABOUT $500 A MONTH IN "FOOD STAMPS", BUT FOOD STAMPS DO NOT BUY ANYTHING BUT FOOD, HUMAN FOOD.

COMPARED TO THE "AVERAGE" AMERICAN FAMILY WHICH SPENDS ROUGHLY 65% ON NECESSITIES LIKE FOOD, HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, WELFARE HOUSEHOLDS SPEND 77% 

25% OF WELFARE RECIPIENTS DO NOT OWN A VEHICLE NOR A PHONE, WHICH MAKES IT VERY HARD TO GO GET A JOB.
EMPLOYERS DEMAND YOU HAVE A PHONE AND A WAY TO GET TO WORK SHOULD THEY NEED YOU TO COME IN TO FILL IN FOR SOMEONE ELSE!

NO, WELFARE RECIPIENTS ARE NOT A BUNCH OF DRUG-TAKING ADDICTS AND MANDATORY TESTS ACROSS THE NATION HAVE PROVEN HOW FEW ON WELFARE USE DRUGS!
IF WE COMPARE THESE STATS TO HOW MANY PEOPLE IN "AVERAGE" HOUSEHOLDS ARE DRUG ADDICTS, YOU WILL BE ASTOUNDED!

MIAMI, FL — Ushered in amid promises that it would save taxpayers money and deter drug users, a Florida law requiring drug tests for people who seek welfare benefits resulted in no direct savings, snared few drug users and had no effect on the number of applications, according to recently released state data. 
2.6 percent of the state’s cash assistance applicants failed the drug test, or 108 of 4,086.
Because the Florida law requires that applicants who pass the test be reimbursed for the cost, an average of $30, the cost to the state was $118,140.
This is MORE than would have been paid out in benefits to the people who failed the test.


Arizona, which passed a drug-testing law in 2009, after three years and 87,000 screenings, found only one person had failed the drug test, with huge costs for the state,
UTAH with its drug testing had almost identical results to Florida's: in Utah, only 12 people out of 466—or 2.5 percent—showed evidence of drug use after a mandatory screening. 

The addictions of poor people are limited by income.

Compare this to PHYSICIANS, for instance, who have the greatest exposure and easiest access to opiates and it's PHYSICIANS whose addiction rates are higher than those of most if not all other professional groups, but PHYSICIANS ARE NOT LIVING IN POVERTY. THEY HAVE EASY ACCESS, MONEY TO SPEND ON DRUGS, NOT LIKE THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY! 

BOTH ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION OCCUR MORE IN "UPPER CLASSES" THAN IN THE IMPOVERISHED!


YOU HAVE TO BE DESTITUTE TO QUALIFY FOR WELFARE CHECKS!

To qualify for welfare a person has to be destitute.
A single person is only allowed total assets of $1,500, and a single parent family only $2,500, so they have to use up their savings, pension, etc before accessing welfare. Only when a person is broke can they claim welfare.  


To claim, they have to bring a huge pile of documents and fill out a long form. 

Documents include: Record of Employment, current resume, proof of job search, 2 pieces of ID, most recent pay stubs (including holiday pay), Employment Insurance stubs, Income Tax Notice of Assessment or confirmation that taxes have not been filed, pension  stubs,  all bank information including all statements on all accounts, holdings, and lines of credit (whether held jointly or individually), other financial records for bonds, trust funds, life insurance policy(s) showing cash surrender values, separation agreements/divorce decrees, court documents on Maintenance & Support Agreements, self-employment financial records, Sub-Contractor Financial Records, Child Tax/Family Bonus Statement, student loan/registration, vehicle registration, ‘AVOID’ check, and a pile more documents to do with housing tenancy or ownership.

“The application process is very complex and long. It could take up to four hours to complete the application. One must be fairly well educated with good math skills to do it him/herself.”

COULD YOU GO THROUGH ALL THAT? WOULD YOU?

ALMOST NO ONE COULD QUALIFY FOR ALL 8 TYPES OF WELFARE ASSISTANCE!   

A Cato Institute study in Wisconsin showed clearly that fewer than 260 out of the state’s total population of 5.7 million (that is, less than 1/200th of 1 percent of the state’s population) could hope to receive MAXIMUM "welfare aid"

CATO also showed that ONLY 27 out of 100 families in poverty received TANF (cash welfare) in 2011.
The pay-out of TANF benefits in the same year, 2011, were LESS than they were in 1996!

LOOKS LIKE PEOPLE TRY THEIR BEST TO AVOID BEING ON WELFARE, DOESN'T IT?

THE WASHINGTON POST WROTE:

Even as you look at these welfare amounts, it is not surprising that the current allowance benefits seldom, if ever, make ends meet for the recipient. The institutionalized program was set up to be an offset measure for those in need, not a complete replacement of income and benefits.
WELFARE IS NO GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEME!

RAMPANT WELFARE FRAUD IS ANOTHER MYTH, A DOWNRIGHT LIE AS CONGRESSMEN OFTEN PORTRAY MILLIONS COMMITTING WELFARE FRAUD.
THEY LIE!

"RAMPANT WELFARE FRAUD" IS A MYTH, UNLESS YOU THINK THE 0.6% OF ALL RECIPIENTS WHO HAVE EVER BEEN CHARGED WITH FRAUD CAN BE CALLED RAMPANT.
0.6%...NOT EXACTLY RAMPANT FRAUD, IS IT?
0.6% OF THE OVER 12 MILLION WHO RECEIVE WELFARE CHECKS!
0.6% OF ALL WHO RECEIVE ANY WELFARE "BENEFITS"!


Vendors committed 93% of welfare fraud. VENDORS...THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING WELFARE ASSISTANCE!

The problem is that everyone -- from the news media to well-meaning activists -- refer to "the poor" as one group having the same problem, when in reality no two people are in the category for the same reason, and almost none fall neatly into the stereotype. Right now there are millions of people out there who are using government assistance because they are ...
1~ People in a Temporary Emergency
2~ People Trapped in (and by) the System Itself.
These are the seriously poor, their MINIMUM WAGE incomes keep them poor, and their "assistance" never gives them enough to dig out of the rut. 

It's crazy but the "benefits" on welfare almost NEVER include higher education or job training for a BETTER job!
Wouldn't a GOOD system do both?
Remember, a little over 90 percent of welfare benefits go to the elderly, the disabled, and working households.

If they're unemployed, they're in a Catch-22 where they need a car and a working phone to get a job, but they need a job to afford a car and a working phone (and yes, if you are lacking both of those things, your application is almost certainly going in the trash -- they won't hire somebody they can't call in for work on short notice).
Throw kids into the mix, and it gets more complicated still. 
CHILDCARE COSTS...PLENTY!

You can't get ahead because ALL of your time, money, and energy are being poured into just BARELY maintaining the life you're currently living.

And if you get out there and work 2 jobs, 3 jobs, if you can find ONE, then your income will cancel out MOST welfare "benefits"!

No more health insurance for the family, no more food stamps, no more rent or utility assistance, not even a dollar to help pay for child care.

The Affordable Care Act will make it possible for people on Medicaid to go back to work without fearing loss of health insurance. It will turn what benefit cliffs exist in the Medicaid program into a gradual slope, so nobody will have to fear that an extra dollar of income will make them uninsured.

...conservatives and libertarians don't really care about the poverty trap, much as they may talk about it — they just hate spending money on the poor.

It's almost as though welfare assistance was designed to KEEP people on welfare?
Well, was it?

WELFARE RECIPIENTS DO PAY TAXES!
The 87% who work do pay into the tax gathering system!
They owe the IRS, same as you.
They pay into "Social Security", unemployment, Medicare, SAME AS EVERYONE ELSE.

They pay tax on everything they buy, just like you.
They have to buy vehicle tags, and also pay that gas tax.
Being below America's poverty level never means you don't pay TAX!

MYTH: Supporting welfare is a burden causing financial hardship to working class Americans.
FACT: Together, AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) and Food Stamps are by far the largest items of the welfare budget. Yet in 1992, AFDC formed only 1 percent of the combined state and federal budgets. Food stamps also took up 1 percent.
(Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, "Cash and Noncash Benefits for Persons with Limited Income: Eligibility Rules, Recipient and Expenditure Data, FY 1990-92," Report 93-832 EPW and earlier reports.) If you expand the definition of "welfare" to include all one-way transfers of benefits for which no services or repayment are required in exchange (such as student grants, school lunches and pensions for needy veterans) then welfare takes up only 12 percent of the combined budgets. (Sources: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, "Cash and Noncash Benefits for Persons with Limited Income: Eligibility Rules, Recipient and Expenditure Data, FY 1990-92," Report 93-832 EPW, and earlier reports; U.S. Bureau of the Census, Government Finances, series GF, No. 5, 1992.)

For the past few years I've watched something "go viral" that SHOULD show everyone the FALSEHOODS of a "good life on welfare".
"THE WELFARE CHALLENGE"
VISIT ONE OF THE MANY WEBSITES THAT WILL WALK YOU THROUGH IT.
ONE OF THEM IS HERE:
http://welfarefoodchallenge.org/past-campaigns/
GO, TAKE THE CHALLENGE, BUT NO CHEATING!
LET US KNOW HOW YOU DID.
AND NO EXCUSING YOUR CHILDREN, PETS, OR VISITORS FROM STICKING TO THE CHALLENGE!

OH, ABOUT THOSE LYING CONGRESSMEN.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES CONGRESSMEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, AND/OR ACCUSED OR CONVICTED OF CRIMES?
OF THE 500 OR SO IN THE 2000 CONGRESS, 300 FELL INTO ONE OF THE ABOVE CATEGORIES.
BEING DRUNK SEEMS TO BE THE #1 REASON THEY WERE ARRESTED, BUT THEY NEVER GET PROSECUTED FOR THAT, EVEN WHEN THEIR DRUNK RIVING KILLS SOMEONE!
SPOUSE ABUSE WAS IN THE TOP 10.
SHOPLIFTING, FRAUD, PASSING WORTHLESS CHECKS, MISUSE OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS, OTHER ASSAULT, AND PETTY THEFT ARE A FEW OTHER THINGS CONGRESS HAS BEEN CAUGHT DOING.
AND, IF YOU SIMPLY GO BACK TO VIDEOS OF THEIR "CAMPAIGN PROMISES", THEN CHECK TO SEE IF ANY OF THEM KEPT THOSE PROMISES, YOU WILL SEE THAT THOSE YOU ARE BELIEVING ON THIS "WELFARE FRAUD", ETC, ARE LIARS!
BIG LIARS!
CHRONIC LIARS!
SO WHY DO YOU BELIEVE A WORD THEY SAY?
MOST NEVER READ ANYTHING FOR THEMSELVES, DON'T DO RESEARCH...HELL, THEY NEVER EVEN READ THE BILLS THEY PASS!

IF YOU'VE READ ALL THIS AND MY OTHER BLOGS ON THE SUBJECT AND YOU STILL HATE THE "WELFARE PEOPLE"...GO, AND NEVER RETURN HERE.
THERE IS NO HOPE THAT YOU WILL EVER HAVE HUMAN COMPASSION IN A MEANINGFUL AMOUNT.
WE'LL JUST COUNT YOU AMONG THE "WILLFULLY IGNORANT".





FOR AN INSIGHT INTO WHAT IT'S LIKE TO "GO ON WELFARE", READ THIS BLOG BY A FORMER NASA EMPLOYEE:
http://everydayfeminism.com/2012/09/im-a-welfare-mom/

Older data but a lot of facts can be found at:
http://anitra.net/homelessness/columns/anitra/eightmyths.html

One of the most recent sets of data can be found here:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/hhs-report-percentage-americans-welfare-hits-recorded-high

[For a laugh on convicted felons in Congress, see https://www.wwco.com/~dda/criminals.php]

DRUNKS in Congress....too numerous to list, but SEVERAL mainstream media reporters AND Alan grayson reported drunks were the order of the day when they shut down the federal government.
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/01/grayson_blames_shutdown_on_gop_literally_drinking_on_the_job/

AMERICAN POLITICIANS CONVICTED OF CRIMES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicans_convicted_of_crimes

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