https://archive.ph/V8r9L - Bullshit website claims that welfare works to reduce crime, cites those who aged out of welfare state they were forced into as children are 20% more likely to commit crimes to get money (robbery, prostitution, drug dealing). Says sure, some worked harder, but others turned to life of crime to get by. Doesn't provide any context of 'why, crime?' only draws the conclusion welfare prevents crimes.
tl;dr: Makes claims, no actual evidence. Typical leftit bullshit.
https://archive.ph/hoZ9f - The reddit commies for pointing and laughing purposes.
Well this is typical leftist modus operandi. Identify problem (even if no actual problem exists) and assert their solution with no alternatives in sight.
Another example of this is gun crime. They look at all these mass shootings (particularly those in schools) and say "this is why we need gun control". Meanwhile, the 50s still had automatic weapons available to the public, schools had shooting ranges, and mass shootings weren't happening. But hey, we need to bring in more regulations and less education!
Leftists operate off deliberate and forced ignorance towards other solutions, and only consider solutions that would give them greater precedents for more power and control. Welfare is no different in this regard, it's simply another tool to get people reliant upon the state then use it as a threat to be taken away for those that don't comply with their orders.
Disability is a racket in the United States. People should realize how many are on it. It's been the preferred method of backdoor welfare for adults for many years. Most homeless people in LA are receiving some kind of disability benefit, and not cuz they got their legs blown off in 'Nam, either.
One could even argue that there's no incentive to participate in the regular economy, and every incentive to go 'under the table' when you're receiving any form of welfare, disability included.
If the government says 'if you earn other money, you lose your benefit,' then it makes sense to earn money in ways the government doesn't track: grey/black markets or criminal activity.
Tons of incentive. Particularly if you are already predisposed to working in, shall we say, untaxed industries. Anyone who thinks the welfare queen is a Republican myth hasn't spent any significant time in the ghetto. They be real.
Absolutely. You can live well enough between having your kids and their friends slinging dope on the corner and getting the check from Uncle Sugar every Mother's Day.
Then again, there's the construction "subcontractor" who's a paycheck away from homelessness who needs food stamps during periods of seasonal unemployment and Medicaid because he has a chronically ill kid and his jobs offer zero insurance because he is technically "self-employed." Should this guy try to retool for a higher-paying job with benefits, seeing as how he's got two kids, one of whom is disabled, and use state aid as a stopgap while he does so?
This strikes me as a sort of gray area.
I work with an asshole who is one of the laziest bastards in my store (which is telling because we are Customer Service) who got it for mild autism, ptsd, adhd, and a learning disorder. First fucking try. He got Vocation Rehab, and they are paying for all kinds of shit for him to the point he had to cut his work hours or face losing his foodstamps. Not that he was going to get much work hours for all the shit he causes and way he was cutting his availability because we 'worked him too hard'. Claims to have gout, but no doctor's note. No diagnosis, but it went to his SSI as well.
I make 16-18k a year, my parents pay my lot rent, ride an old mobility scooter to work, and I can't even get the minimum of $16 a month food stamps. This bastard is a fucking leech who lies constantly to make himself seem bigger, refuses to bathe, and gets all the government benefits, plus has a fucking car! There is no need to tell me how bad this system is fucked.
Gout?!?!?!? The Disease of Kings?
Maybe, like Bobby Hill, he's eating too much organ meat.
"I've got Gout!"
"I'll say when I've had enough!"
How dare you slander THE Bobby Hill's name with that association!