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Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
MixingBowlCaptain
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Date: July 25, 2017 12:04PM
http://theamericanbacon.com/welfare-pissed-president-trump-requiring-welfare-work-free-ride-ending/
President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget will save $190 billion over the next ten years by requiring able-bodied adults to work to receive food stamps.
President Trump wrote in his letter to Congress, “We must reform our welfare system so that it does not discourage able-bodied adults from working, which takes away scarce resources from those in real need. Work must be the center of our social policy.”
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said at a press conference, “If you’re on food stamps and you’re able-bodied, then we need you to go to work.”
The number of recipients on food stamps skyrocketed recently, 50 million Americans now receive food stamps and use Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards at grocery or convenience store to buy food and drinks. The 50 million citizens on food stamps amount to 15 percent of the population, a substantial increase from the 17 million Americans who received food stamps in 2000.
Food stamps, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), cost taxpayers more than $83 billion a year. The government remains unable to rein in costs, because the government does not have statistics as to how much food stamp recipients spend on kitchen staples such as meat and vegetables, compared to soda, candy, and potato chips.
A 2011 study confirmed that food stamp recipients spend more money on candy compared to any other food item.
Robert Rector, a welfare expert at the Heritage Foundation, said that requiring work for food stamps was at the “core” of welfare reform in the 1990s. President Trump is “picking the gauntlet off the ground where the Republican party dropped it.”
Trump’s budget would require states to fund one dollar for every four dollars the federal government spends on food stamps.
Rector said,
“It’s like Chinese funeral money. They just burn it.”
Many states have work requirements for food stamps. However, the Obama administration granted states waivers during the recession, and many states continue to use waivers for the food stamp requirements.
In 2014, Maine dropped its waiver for work requirements, and required everyone who could work and did not have dependents to either get employment for at least 20 hours a week, enter job-training programs, or volunteer a minimum of 24 hours a month.
Before Maine dropped its waiver in 2014, there were 13,332 food stamp recipients. By March 2015, the number of food stamp recipients dropped by 80 percent, to 2,678 recipients who decided to get a job, participate in job training, or volunteer. Roughly 9,000 people dropped out of the program, leading many analysts to observe that many of those food stamp recipients worked off the books and used food stamps to save money for other expenses. Others stipulated that many became so dependent on government welfare that they could not volunteer 24 hours a month, or roughly one hour of work per day.
Some studies estimate that 4.7 million Americans receive food stamps who are able-bodied, not elderly, and do not have children or dependents. Requiring work for food stamps would save the country $8.4 billion every year.
“We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of people on these programs,” Mulvaney said. “We’re going to measure compassion by how many people we can get off these programs.”
President Donald Trump said during his inauguration speech,
“We will get our people off of welfare and back to work – rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.”
President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget will save $190 billion over the next ten years by requiring able-bodied adults to work to receive food stamps.
President Trump wrote in his letter to Congress, “We must reform our welfare system so that it does not discourage able-bodied adults from working, which takes away scarce resources from those in real need. Work must be the center of our social policy.”
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said at a press conference, “If you’re on food stamps and you’re able-bodied, then we need you to go to work.”
The number of recipients on food stamps skyrocketed recently, 50 million Americans now receive food stamps and use Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards at grocery or convenience store to buy food and drinks. The 50 million citizens on food stamps amount to 15 percent of the population, a substantial increase from the 17 million Americans who received food stamps in 2000.
Food stamps, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), cost taxpayers more than $83 billion a year. The government remains unable to rein in costs, because the government does not have statistics as to how much food stamp recipients spend on kitchen staples such as meat and vegetables, compared to soda, candy, and potato chips.
A 2011 study confirmed that food stamp recipients spend more money on candy compared to any other food item.
Robert Rector, a welfare expert at the Heritage Foundation, said that requiring work for food stamps was at the “core” of welfare reform in the 1990s. President Trump is “picking the gauntlet off the ground where the Republican party dropped it.”
Trump’s budget would require states to fund one dollar for every four dollars the federal government spends on food stamps.
Rector said,
“It’s like Chinese funeral money. They just burn it.”
Many states have work requirements for food stamps. However, the Obama administration granted states waivers during the recession, and many states continue to use waivers for the food stamp requirements.
In 2014, Maine dropped its waiver for work requirements, and required everyone who could work and did not have dependents to either get employment for at least 20 hours a week, enter job-training programs, or volunteer a minimum of 24 hours a month.
Before Maine dropped its waiver in 2014, there were 13,332 food stamp recipients. By March 2015, the number of food stamp recipients dropped by 80 percent, to 2,678 recipients who decided to get a job, participate in job training, or volunteer. Roughly 9,000 people dropped out of the program, leading many analysts to observe that many of those food stamp recipients worked off the books and used food stamps to save money for other expenses. Others stipulated that many became so dependent on government welfare that they could not volunteer 24 hours a month, or roughly one hour of work per day.
Some studies estimate that 4.7 million Americans receive food stamps who are able-bodied, not elderly, and do not have children or dependents. Requiring work for food stamps would save the country $8.4 billion every year.
“We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of people on these programs,” Mulvaney said. “We’re going to measure compassion by how many people we can get off these programs.”
President Donald Trump said during his inauguration speech,
“We will get our people off of welfare and back to work – rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.”
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
MixingBowlCaptain
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Date: July 25, 2017 12:06PM
( Will This budget it be approved? )
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
Riekd
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Date: July 25, 2017 12:14PM
Once again "Rich Trump" has no idea about "welfare" and how it works.
Almost every state, except mostly republicans states like Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, require people on welfare to work and after two years they can no longer receive benefits.
Now people on military, disabled and medicaid benefits are a different story.
Almost every state, except mostly republicans states like Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, require people on welfare to work and after two years they can no longer receive benefits.
Now people on military, disabled and medicaid benefits are a different story.
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
President Trump FTW!
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Date: July 25, 2017 12:17PM
More common sense policy that is pro American.
The guy gets everything right.
The guy gets everything right.
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
Reading is fundamental
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Date: July 25, 2017 12:23PM
Riekd Wrote:
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> Once again "Rich Trump" has no idea about
> "welfare" and how it works.
>
> Almost every state, except mostly republicans
> states like Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi and
> Tennessee, require people on welfare to work and
> after two years they can no longer receive
> benefits.
>
> Now people on military, disabled and medicaid
> benefits are a different story.
Once again, dumb libtards can't read and don't understand how things actually work in the real world. What don't you understand about the Obama administration granting waivers, extensions, and creating "experimental" programs which effectively eliminated most of the requirements?
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> Once again "Rich Trump" has no idea about
> "welfare" and how it works.
>
> Almost every state, except mostly republicans
> states like Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi and
> Tennessee, require people on welfare to work and
> after two years they can no longer receive
> benefits.
>
> Now people on military, disabled and medicaid
> benefits are a different story.
Once again, dumb libtards can't read and don't understand how things actually work in the real world. What don't you understand about the Obama administration granting waivers, extensions, and creating "experimental" programs which effectively eliminated most of the requirements?
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
Obama was so gay
()
Date: July 25, 2017 12:42PM
And I'm glad that faggot is gone.
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
K Dawg
()
Date: July 25, 2017 01:04PM
Reading is fundamental Wrote:
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> Riekd Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Once again "Rich Trump" has no idea about
> > "welfare" and how it works.
> >
> > Almost every state, except mostly republicans
> > states like Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi and
> > Tennessee, require people on welfare to work
> and
> > after two years they can no longer receive
> > benefits.
> >
> > Now people on military, disabled and medicaid
> > benefits are a different story.
>
>
> Once again, dumb libtards can't read and don't
> understand how things actually work in the real
> world. What don't you understand about the Obama
> administration granting waivers, extensions, and
> creating "experimental" programs which effectively
> eliminated most of the requirements?
^Wow, really butthurt today? Trump's clown circus tweets got you ramrodded?
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> Riekd Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Once again "Rich Trump" has no idea about
> > "welfare" and how it works.
> >
> > Almost every state, except mostly republicans
> > states like Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi and
> > Tennessee, require people on welfare to work
> and
> > after two years they can no longer receive
> > benefits.
> >
> > Now people on military, disabled and medicaid
> > benefits are a different story.
>
>
> Once again, dumb libtards can't read and don't
> understand how things actually work in the real
> world. What don't you understand about the Obama
> administration granting waivers, extensions, and
> creating "experimental" programs which effectively
> eliminated most of the requirements?
^Wow, really butthurt today? Trump's clown circus tweets got you ramrodded?
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
Reading is fundamental
()
Date: July 25, 2017 01:15PM
K Dawg Wrote:
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> Reading is fundamental Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Riekd Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Once again "Rich Trump" has no idea about
> > > "welfare" and how it works.
> > >
> > > Almost every state, except mostly republicans
> > > states like Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi and
> > > Tennessee, require people on welfare to work
> > and
> > > after two years they can no longer receive
> > > benefits.
> > >
> > > Now people on military, disabled and medicaid
> > > benefits are a different story.
> >
> >
> > Once again, dumb libtards can't read and don't
> > understand how things actually work in the real
> > world. What don't you understand about the
> Obama
> > administration granting waivers, extensions,
> and
> > creating "experimental" programs which
> effectively
> > eliminated most of the requirements?
>
> ^You're right. I got nuthin.
TY!
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> Reading is fundamental Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Riekd Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Once again "Rich Trump" has no idea about
> > > "welfare" and how it works.
> > >
> > > Almost every state, except mostly republicans
> > > states like Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi and
> > > Tennessee, require people on welfare to work
> > and
> > > after two years they can no longer receive
> > > benefits.
> > >
> > > Now people on military, disabled and medicaid
> > > benefits are a different story.
> >
> >
> > Once again, dumb libtards can't read and don't
> > understand how things actually work in the real
> > world. What don't you understand about the
> Obama
> > administration granting waivers, extensions,
> and
> > creating "experimental" programs which
> effectively
> > eliminated most of the requirements?
>
> ^You're right. I got nuthin.
TY!
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
VKC36
()
Date: July 25, 2017 05:50PM
What did he do, take a a bunch of plays out of Bill Clinton's book? I wouldn't doubt it.
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
FIFY
()
Date: July 25, 2017 06:13PM
VKC36 Wrote:
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> What did he do, take a a bunch of plays out of
>Bill Clinton's Newt Gingrich's book? I wouldn't doubt it.
^ FIFY
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> What did he do, take a a bunch of plays out of
>
^ FIFY
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
D'OHnald the Corruption King
()
Date: July 25, 2017 06:30PM
Meanwhile - Trump, the 5 time draft dodger with no disabilities who refused to serve his country during the Vietnam War, created fake, made-up Government jobs for his able-bodied daughter Ivanka and his able-bodied son-in-law Jared - so they could pretend they are gainfully employed.
Trump is flying them all over the world at US Tax Payer expense, with expensive armed secret service security details paid for by US taxpayers, so they can pretend to be doing work for our country which they have no experience doing.
Talk about a welfare scam on US tax payers! Hah!
Trump is also collecting millions of US tax dollars at a profit to house and feed the security details and government office space at his various resorts.
It's okay for Trump to suck off the Government tit. Just nobody else.
Trump is flying them all over the world at US Tax Payer expense, with expensive armed secret service security details paid for by US taxpayers, so they can pretend to be doing work for our country which they have no experience doing.
Talk about a welfare scam on US tax payers! Hah!
Trump is also collecting millions of US tax dollars at a profit to house and feed the security details and government office space at his various resorts.
It's okay for Trump to suck off the Government tit. Just nobody else.
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
D'OHnald the Triggered Libtard
()
Date: July 25, 2017 06:39PM
D'OHnald the Corruption King Wrote:
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Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
The Keyboard is not your friend
()
Date: July 25, 2017 06:47PM
D'OHnald the Triggered Libtard Wrote:
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Cool GIF, bro. Now get a job like the rest of US.
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Cool GIF, bro. Now get a job like the rest of US.
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
Moms basement is not your friend
()
Date: July 25, 2017 06:55PM
The Keyboard is not your friend Wrote:
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> D'OHnald the Triggered Libtard Wrote:
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> > D'OHnald the Corruption King Wrote:
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> Cool GIF, bro. Now get a job like the rest of US.
I work for myself. Get some skills and step up your game so that you're not working at a 'job' as a wage slave for the rest of your life.
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> D'OHnald the Triggered Libtard Wrote:
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> > D'OHnald the Corruption King Wrote:
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>
> Cool GIF, bro. Now get a job like the rest of US.
I work for myself. Get some skills and step up your game so that you're not working at a 'job' as a wage slave for the rest of your life.
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
D'OHnald the Moocher
()
Date: July 25, 2017 07:02PM
Who is paying for Trump's meals, room, board, and support services, landscaping, etc. while he is in the White House between golf outings?
Pretty sure it is US Tax Payers.
We all know Trump dodged the draft during the Vietnam War five times - because he wasn't able-bodied - but now that Lord God has miraculously cured Trump of his crippling foot ailments so that he can play 36 holes of golf on weekends - and he is worth billions of dollars from his $1,000,000 start-up loan from Daddy and a huge inheritance, why is Trump living off the Government and US Tax Dollar welfare every day?
Pretty sure it is US Tax Payers.
We all know Trump dodged the draft during the Vietnam War five times - because he wasn't able-bodied - but now that Lord God has miraculously cured Trump of his crippling foot ailments so that he can play 36 holes of golf on weekends - and he is worth billions of dollars from his $1,000,000 start-up loan from Daddy and a huge inheritance, why is Trump living off the Government and US Tax Dollar welfare every day?
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
That big vein in your forehead
()
Date: July 25, 2017 07:04PM
D'OHnald the Moocher Wrote:
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> Who is paying for Trump's meals, room, board, and
> support services, landscaping, etc. while he is in
> the White House between golf outings?
>
> Pretty sure it is US Tax Payers.
>
> We all know Trump dodged the draft during the
> Vietnam War five times - because he wasn't
> able-bodied - but now that Lord God has
> miraculously cured Trump of his crippling foot
> ailments so that he can play 36 holes of golf on
> weekends - and he is worth billions of dollars
> from his $1,000,000 start-up loan from Daddy and a
> huge inheritance, why is Trump living off the
> Government and US Tax Dollar welfare every day?
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> Who is paying for Trump's meals, room, board, and
> support services, landscaping, etc. while he is in
> the White House between golf outings?
>
> Pretty sure it is US Tax Payers.
>
> We all know Trump dodged the draft during the
> Vietnam War five times - because he wasn't
> able-bodied - but now that Lord God has
> miraculously cured Trump of his crippling foot
> ailments so that he can play 36 holes of golf on
> weekends - and he is worth billions of dollars
> from his $1,000,000 start-up loan from Daddy and a
> huge inheritance, why is Trump living off the
> Government and US Tax Dollar welfare every day?
Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
hbnwd
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Date: July 25, 2017 10:04PM
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Re: Trump signs “Welfare-To-Work” Unless you are Physically Diabled (Handicapped) No more Government Goodies Just to Sit around and Collect
Posted by:
yjpkx
()
Date: July 25, 2017 10:05PM
WRONG.
fx co welfare office is RUN by illegals and DC overflow
Trump has no control over these people, they were faking paperwork and they will just fake the new forms a different way.
fx co welfare office is RUN by illegals and DC overflow
Trump has no control over these people, they were faking paperwork and they will just fake the new forms a different way.