(03-03-2013 10:11 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I do think maybe we demonize the folks on welfare perhaps a bit unfairly. The system is set up to KEEP people dependent on it. When someone on welfare can't take a job paying $35,000 a year without losing money to the combination of increased taxes and reduced benefits, then the poor are trapped. Until we address that, the rest of this is just kidding ourselves.

I agree. All I ask is that the system help those that actually need help and not incentive bad behavior. I have no problem contributing to helping those that are not able bodied.

Or problems are not Welfare related. That is not where the MONEY really is spent. It does though grind on those that have to pay the bills because it is openly seen everywhere.

(03-03-2013 10:05 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-03-2013 10:58 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  Federal budget spending is at 3.8 trillion. We can't cut 84 billion and not put the nation into some type of crisis? Think about it.

Scare tactics. I work for a defense contractor that is honest with its employees and everyone agrees, sequester isn't affecting anyone. But hey, Bob Woodward did find that guy in WV losing his job.

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Both sides of the aisle have used this ploy to install all kinds of bad programs and laws for decades. This playbook works very well when your want something. Americans are suckers for the double reverse.