Liberals and Welfare

From Tea Party Nation

 

This is a story you are not going to see on the mainstream media.  In the mid nineties, the GOP reformed welfare.  They cut out many of the abuses of the system and reduced the welfare rolls.   Unfortunately, what no one counted on was the fact that the left will not give up.   The left wants to create a huge dependency class so they can rely on them to be reelected.

But what is going on with California is absolutely outrageous.

A report has just been released that show welfare recipients in California, who are so poor they are on welfare, have blown the tax dollars they received as benefits to vacation in places like Las Vegas, Hawaii, South Beach in Miami and even on cruise ships!

According to Fox News, since 2007, $69 million in welfare benefits have been spent in vacation destinations.  According to their report, $12 million was accessed in Las Vegas in high-end shops on the strip or in CASINOS!

This is just the fraud that was found on the surface.  It surely goes much deeper.

Seventy years ago, the thought of going on public assistance was appalling.  People would take public assistance if they had no other choices.   People were embarrassed to be on welfare.  Over the years, the left went about trying to change that.  Thirty years ago, food stamps were just that.  They were coupons that you received and it was obvious if you were buying something with them. The left wanted to “norm” welfare.  Today, welfare benefits are given on what is called an “EBT card.”  EBT stands for electronic benefits transfer.

Is the person in front of your buying their groceries with a welfare “EBT” card or their own money?  The EBT card looks just like a regular debit card.  Unless you know what you are looking for, it looks just like a card issued by a bank.

Food stamps.  They aren’t just for food anymore!  The EBT cards can be used just like debit cards, hence the ability of the people Fox News reported on, to make cash withdrawals in Las Vegas or South Beach or on cruise ships!

If you go to the Post Office and use their automated stamp machines, you can pay with your debit card or buy postage with your EBT card.  If you stop at a convenience store, you will see the signs.  They take VISA, MasterCard and EBT cards.

In the nineties, the Republicans claimed victory by “reforming” welfare.  Even Clinton tried to take credit for this popular reform.  The ink was not dry on the bill before the left tried to start undoing welfare reform.   One of their big efforts was to get people to file for disability instead of welfare.  Since Obama came into office, he has tried to push aside all of the reforms so that the Democratic dependency class would grow and they would vote for Democrats, since the party of treason could scare these people into thinking the GOP would throw them out onto the streets.

Welfare is one of the worst scams the left has pushed on America.  It is a subsidy for poverty.  One of the fundamental laws of economics is, anything you subsidize, you get more of.  Thanks to the liberal politicians we now have more poverty.

This is your tax dollars at work.  You should be outraged.