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Post by jamie on Aug 12, 2012 20:26:34 GMT -5
I wonder how many of the 43 million people on food stamps are happy about being in a situation where they have to collect food stamps.
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Post by muffin on Aug 12, 2012 22:12:23 GMT -5
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Post by DaveyJones on Aug 15, 2012 8:15:48 GMT -5
.....many of them are Scamming the system Thats the Obama way. |
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Post by tomjor on Aug 16, 2012 4:52:15 GMT -5
Did you even read the story? If you did, then do you believe it's an accurate accounting of the situation? |
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Post by tomjor on Aug 16, 2012 4:52:53 GMT -5
.....many of them are Scamming the system Thats the Obama way. What does Obama have to do with food stamps? |
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Post by DaveyJones on Aug 16, 2012 11:20:50 GMT -5
re: what does Obama have to do with food stamps. Obama Administration Already Tossed the Food Stamp Work Requirement August 15, 2012 at 11:31 am The Obama Administration sure is getting defensive about its recent action to waive all work requirements in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash welfare program. But this isn’t the first time or the first program in which Obama Administration policy has undermined work requirements. The welfare reform of 1996 requires that after three months on food stamps, recipients be engaged in some kind of work activity for at least 20 hours a week. Tucked away in the mammoth 2009 so-called “stimulus” spending bill was the suspension of this requirement for able-bodied adults with no children. The suspension expired on September 30, 2010. His next two budgets then requested that the suspension be extended each year. However, he did not wait for Congress to act on these requests; instead his Department of Agriculture issued waivers to 44 states and the District of Columbia freeing them from implementing the food stamp work requirement. What has been the result? The number of able-bodied adults without children on food stamps has doubled, increasing from 1.7 million people in 2009 to 3.9 million in 2010 and costing taxpayers an extra $4 billion per year. It’s not surprising, then, that the work requirements in the TANF program are now on the chopping block. As my colleague Robert Rector points out, liberals have a long history of opposing work requirements in welfare. The sad outcome of the Obama Administration’s action is that millions of families on welfare will no longer be engaged in job preparation activities to help them enter the workforce and become self-sufficient. Instead, the days that welfare reform was supposed to put behind us—of cutting welfare checks to poor families and forgetting about them—are back. The future for these needy families just got bleaker. blog.heritage.org/2012/08/15/obam.... |
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Post by jamie on Aug 16, 2012 16:45:25 GMT -5
I would hate to be in a position where I had to collect food stamps. It is hard to imagine anyone feeling good about being in that position. But when I think about it I do know people that are determined to make food stamps and receiving welfare money a career.
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Post by DaveyJones on Aug 17, 2012 10:28:59 GMT -5
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Post by yugomary on Aug 18, 2012 8:30:25 GMT -5
.....many of them are Scamming the system Thats the Obama way. What does Obama have to do with food stamps? More obtuse observations. He has put more people on food stamps than any president in history and he is proud of it. He is making Jimmah Carter look intelligent by comparison.  |
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Post by tomjor on Aug 18, 2012 13:42:40 GMT -5
What does Obama have to do with food stamps? More obtuse observations. He has put more people on food stamps than any president in history and he is proud of it. He is making Jimmah Carter look intelligent by comparison. It is you who is obtuse. You ignore the factors that brought us to this position. What would you have President Obama do? |
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Post by hailmary on Aug 18, 2012 19:03:40 GMT -5
More obtuse observations. He has put more people on food stamps than any president in history and he is proud of it. He is making Jimmah Carter look intelligent by comparison. It is you who is obtuse. You ignore the factors that brought us to this position. What would you have President Obama do? Resign for lack of competency. DUH!!!  |
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Post by tomjor on Aug 19, 2012 8:11:42 GMT -5
It is you who is obtuse. You ignore the factors that brought us to this position. What would you have President Obama do? Resign for lack of competency. DUH!!! I meant what would you have the President do for all those people who are in need. The majority aren't ripping off the system. They've fallen on hard times and can use a hand. President Obama didn't cause the economic meltdown of '08. I believe he's doing as much as he can but the fact remains he can't single-handedly fix the ills of our society. So the question to you remains: If you don't like the way the program has been handled to date, what would you have President Obama do? |
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Post by myche on Aug 19, 2012 10:14:42 GMT -5
tomjor is guzzling the liberal Koolaide at an alarming rate. He thinks Obama is god. LOL!!!
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Post by tomjor on Aug 19, 2012 11:21:09 GMT -5
tomjor is guzzling the liberal Koolaide at an alarming rate. He thinks Obama is god. LOL!!! I don't think he's anything of the sort. I didn't vote for him, and I wouldn't again because I disagree with some of his positions. But unlike you guys, I can see both sides of the fence. I see where both sides have contributed to the mess we're in. You guys only want to blame Obama. It only illustrates your ignorance and hypocrisy. BTW, if I did drink any coo-aid, then you guys have drank the other Kool-aid. No other answer is possible. |
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Post by DaveyJones on Aug 19, 2012 15:07:34 GMT -5
RE:You guys only want to blame Obama.
After almost 4 years in the White House and at times
when Democrats Control Congress nothing has really change.
YUP Time for a change we can really believe in.
But then maybe the Republicans could screw up this economy even more but I'm willing to give them a chance to do something...anything.
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