La Dolce Vita
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O Really
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Re: La Dolce Vita
Yeah, yeah, the only thing missing is a pic of the "welfare Cadillac."
Not to say the numbers are wrong, but if it were really that easy and if the actual benefits were that great, everybody would do it. There are eligibility conditions that have to be met for each of those benefits - and not all of them are actually cash in the pocket. Is anybody really going to argue that it's a bad thing to provide child care for a person going to school and holding a job so that they're able to get out of the welfare vicious circle?
Not to say the numbers are wrong, but if it were really that easy and if the actual benefits were that great, everybody would do it. There are eligibility conditions that have to be met for each of those benefits - and not all of them are actually cash in the pocket. Is anybody really going to argue that it's a bad thing to provide child care for a person going to school and holding a job so that they're able to get out of the welfare vicious circle?
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Stinger
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Re: La Dolce Vita
Many of them are disingenuously applied. Why tell the truth when a good lie or distortion has greater impact?O Really wrote:Yeah, yeah, the only thing missing is a pic of the "welfare Cadillac."
Not to say the numbers are wrong, but if it were really that easy and if the actual benefits were that great, everybody would do it. There are eligibility conditions that have to be met for each of those benefits - and not all of them are actually cash in the pocket. Is anybody really going to argue that it's a bad thing to provide child care for a person going to school and holding a job so that they're able to get out of the welfare vicious circle?
The $6,000 or so for weatherproofing your home is a one-year thing, not a continuing grant, and it's for homeowners, not people in Section 8 housing. Many of the items are irrelevant and don't apply to your typical welfare queen.
It's like a recent right-wing extremist meme that came down through the Glenn Beck/ Michael Savage/ other brainless dumbasses chanel. They claimed that welfare households pulled in $67,000 a year in benefits, or some other ridiculous number like that.
They arrived at that figure by counting local grants to upgrade sewers, community college program funding, etc. They just lumped anything they could tenuously claim was "welfare," along with things that couldn't possibly be labeled as welfare, and claimed that all that was part of welfare household income.
Of course, the wingnuts chugged the Kool Aid and immediately began posting it as gospel without applying any sort of sniff test or a lick of common sense.