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Topic: Pew Research Center survey finds declining
support for government safety nets |
Pew Research Center survey finds declining
support for government safety nets
Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Jennifer Berry Hawes
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 10/14/2012 6:30:07 AM
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| Jasmine McIntyre is thankful for the social safety net supporting her and her unborn child at the Florence Crittenton home. Without the residential program for at-risk teen moms, she would have scant money, little education and a bleak future.Instead, she is pursuing a job and is ready to enroll in college courses.[Snip] The question of how much--and for how long--tax dollars should support social safety nets has garnered much recent debate, from campaign podiums to the homes of regular folks making do with less. An in-depth Pew Research Center survey in June suggested that people like Wilborn shouldn’t get her
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 10/14/2012 6:51:19 AM (No. 8931685)
Especially when they are being used less as nets and more as huge cots to sleep on.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jgat, 10/14/2012 7:04:13 AM (No. 8931692)
Should the government help is the wrong question. The government has no money! The correct question is should our grandchildren pay for all their needs and pay for those who mismanage their lives. There has been only one divine birth, all others have been the conscious decisions of two adults.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
krause, 10/14/2012 7:05:34 AM (No. 8931697)
It used to be, of course, common that people grew up knowing that preparing yourself for a career. Safety nets were for those who had circumstances beyond their control that required one to avail themselves, temporarily, of outside help, if they couldn't get it from family or friends. Now generations grow up with welfare as a planned institutional part of their life. Certain politicians, and so-called civic leaders, have no problem with this set-up, as these people are easily controlled.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
country boy, 10/14/2012 7:15:48 AM (No. 8931709)
I'd like to see a report on how much we taxpayers are spending on free potato chips, ice cream, and sugared sodas for the Food Stamp class. Easy in the low $Billions/year, maybe $25Billion/year.
If you have never seen it, just go to your local Walmart Superstore early in the month, before the Food Stamp cards are maxed out. The shopping carts are overflowing with junk. Our local Walmart has the biggest candy isle I have ever seen, and some of the most expensive chocolate I have ever seen, imported stuff. But I can't afford any of it. I am not on Food Stamps.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LoneVoice, 10/14/2012 7:27:40 AM (No. 8931727)
If there is no risk there's no reason to be responsible.
If, in addition, the consequences of being responsible is that you get used, you will eventually give up.
These government "safety nets" are being used to haul us all in like a huge school of tuna.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GoVirginia!, 10/14/2012 7:41:07 AM (No. 8931744)
I am supposed to feel sorry for and support a woman who has gotten pregnant TWICE, with no husband in sight and no way to support those children? This is a heartwarming story? No, it is not. If there was no "safety net" paid for with MY money, perhaps this young woman would have thought twice about getting herself into this. This article presents this like it is a normal, understandable thing to happen, and look! how the taxpayers save the day!
I ask the users of Food Stamps at the local grocery for thanks when I see them wildly spending MY money. They always look confused, why should I be thanking you, they ask. I explain that it is MY money paying for their groceries, money that I am forced to pay in taxes on what I earn. It seems to be a mystery to all of them as to where that money comes from. Some seem angry and and some just seem stunned.
One woman, hair straightened, manicured nails and toes, fashionable clothes, separated her food from her children's food, which she paid for with food stamps. She left the store and got into a bright shiny new black SUV...
This has to stop.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
PageTurner, 10/14/2012 7:55:56 AM (No. 8931771)
FTA: “My mom is not here, so I wouldn’t have had much information or many resources,”
What ghetto-bred lowlife welfare mama going to a diploma mill talks in terms of 'resources'?
She's been schooled well by the sociology majors of the social services rackets in milking the system if she uses language like 'resources.'
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
slickbgone, 10/14/2012 8:13:14 AM (No. 8931809)
I work with people who have things figured out to the penny. One woman has two children, never married, & is currently dating "the man of her dreams" but will not marry him because she will no longer qualify for welfare benefits. Another woman, unmarried & pregnant with her second child is thrilled because the child is due on 12/31/12, which will increase her "tax refund". Two others have spouses that don't work because if they did their children will not qualify for the state's badgercare (welfare health insurance for children).
Take these "safety nets" away & every single solitary one of the people I've mentioned above will change their lifestyles. Yes, all support obama. Selfish, entitled, greedy, & proud of it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
dittohead, 10/14/2012 8:16:33 AM (No. 8931815)
Change the system and there will be no need for contraceptive coverage in Obamacare - they know exactly how to avoid pregnancy and they will if they get NO support what so ever!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Bubbasuncle, 10/14/2012 8:46:46 AM (No. 8931891)
The real reason these ridiculous wasteful "safety nets" will NEVER be eliminated, the huge unionized bureaucracy that administers them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
whiskey, 10/14/2012 9:37:29 AM (No. 8931986)
#4 I also shop at Walmart(in the rural areas your choices are limited). It's a given if you follow a full, rounded-up, cart through the check-out that they will pay with a government card.
If you pay for yourself, you can't afford that much stuff.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
craige, 10/14/2012 10:24:14 AM (No. 8932072)
Americans need higher taxes, to help them see reality. Hiding true costs with inflation, seeks to keep taxpayers ignorant.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lylacat, 10/14/2012 11:02:47 AM (No. 8932164)
Most people are unaware of how expensive and really stupid these "safety nets" are. My unemployed nephew (never had a job, age 39) lives with an 18 year old girl with two babies (not his). Since age 16 she has been coddled by having taxi's pick her and her babies up to go to and from the doctor. She is given a stipend to go to school (more taxi's). She attends school when it is convenient and has not been out too late the night before. She lays around using her 0bama phones texting all day long. The two black guys that fathered these babies are long gone.
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