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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Spiraling Leopard on January 15, 2014, 09:26:20 AM
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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/rep-sheila-jackson-lee-change-word-welfare-transitional-living-fund
In a brief speech on the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) hailed the war on poverty, endorsed government welfare programs, and said the "safety net has to be something for all of us."
"Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is -- for people to be able to live," she said.
Jackson Lee hailed the Earned Income Credit, food and nutrition programs, jobs training and education programs, Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act as "huge safety nets -- not handouts, but safety nets, she said.
As part of her five-minute speech, she displayed a photo of people in a long line "who are possibly looking for work." Jackson-Lee said there's no way to know which of those people "are near the edge of poverty or living in poverty simply because they cannot find work."
She urged Congress to pass emergency unemployment insurance -- "a transitional outreach to individuals who are chronically unemployed," as she put it.
"Quite frankly, of all the wealthy nations, we have the lowest safety net and the highest poverty, because we're not willing to accept the fact that sometimes an American needs help. Even a veteran -- even a soldier.
"So today, I honor the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty, Mr. Speaker, and I ask us not to give up the fight because the American people are looking to us to win the war."
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They are trying ever so hard to make welfare recipient into a respectable occupation.
I have a friend who WAS working with HHS (or something similar) here in Georgia. She made a sensible suggestion to a welfare queen and was fired.... Her suggestion was that the lady look into birth control and employment. The lady was 25 and had 6 kids already... all by different fathers too.
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I suggest to rename it to "The 'Gib Me Da!' Fund".
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I suggest to rename it to "The 'Gib Me Da!' Fund".
Reminds me of back when they started to call HIV AIDS, almost had to change the name because so many ghetto blacks and ghetto whites were trying to sign up it caused mass confusion.