God I am mad about this welfare "debate". Here is my answer while spitting nails to R-Money AND Progressives:
Hatred of the poor is rampant and long lasting. Over 15 years ago when Welfare Reform was being enacted, the blame of the Welfare Queen on the low income mom was a concerted diversion from the REAL Welfare Queens; the rich, large corporations and the military. At that time in 1996, the rich and corporations paid less than 8% in revenues (where the poor and middle class paid upwards of 60% and small businesses paid the rest). The military in peace time was taking 47% of the budget and welfare was less than 4% of the budget. Now the military takes 57% of this revenue, welfare less than 2%.
But ohhhh, we cannot look at the bloated military, tax fairness, the economy, the health care crises, rising prices for necessities, or the housing boondoggle, let us blame the welfare mom who cannot defend herself instead! Low income moms should GET TO WORK making rich men richer, sheesh!
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Shame on you R-Money! You know damn well YOU are the welfare queen, not the defenseless low income mother who you beat up and ridicule just like you did to that kid in college.
You know down in your soul as do all people that poverty is NOT a "choice" it is an INSTITUION that you keep in place for your benefit, you S.O.B. The Institution of poverty is based on racism, sexism (including homophobia), disabilities, ageism, and classism. YOU profit off this institution and you know it, Keeping poverty in place with your dummass "ideas" is simply more greed spewing out of your empty soul. Let us count the ways you LOVE poverty and pretend it is a "burden" when in fact you depend on the poverty of little kids and their mothers for your own riches:
Your lack of tax responsibility allows you to live in your mansion(s) off our backs and fly in your private jets on what low income families pay in taxes that you do not pay. Even your damn horse lives on enough tax breaks to support 10 low income families and this is no exaggeration. Welfare moms pay the highest rate taxes than all other classes in every state: http://www.itepnet.org/....
You exploit the poor all the time with your paltry wages to assuage your endless greed while the poor labor at your feet. Welfare Reform even forces welfare moms to work for NOTHING in your corporations at slave labor with your so-called "workfare". With these slave laborers, you do not even have to observe basic labor laws such as forcing these women to work 8 hours without any breaks, ignoring safety laws, while you actually GET money for being so nice" as to "employ her. Of course you would never hire her, why do that when you can use her up and then get another one to take her place? PLUS you get to undermine all your paid workers' rights and pay or any hope of unions by replacing them with her slave labor?
You and your friends hide behind mega "non-profits" with your "donations" that are nothing at all because they are merely protecting your assets. Consider some "employment for the rich" here and check out the immense list of 169 non-profits raking in the dough for ONE CITY in ONE STATE with ONE PROGRAM for the state of Wisconsin that a brave organization of women called Welfare Warriors have documented in their city:
http://www.welfarewarriors.org/....
Now multiply this 169 + by 49 other states ~ and who knows how many other hundreds of cities, since no one else responsible for this flow of billions is watching the store? Then consider the cost where these "non-profits" pay little into the "services" they supposedly provide, while contracting with the government asking for even more millions in grants for these shoddy services ~ but the millionaire and billionaire tax breaks still keep rolling in:
http://www.welfarewarriors.org/....
Your precious Anne "works" while raising your children but the low income parent "does nothing" while raising theirs. This "doing nothing" will provide you with more kids who will grown up to fight in the wars you refused to fight in, pay your Social Security you refuse to pay but you surely WILL collect along with your $Billions as greedy as you are, who will pay your Medicare you refuse to pay, and even take care of YOU when you are too old to take care of yourself? Guess who IS sacrificing literally 10 X more from the amount of their low income than your pampered ass by paying a huge proportion of their own income but who will never enjoy any of it, you lazy freak?
According to labor statistics, women lose on the average of $275,000 over a work life time ~ and this is WITH her $.70 for every man's dollar. Know why, you greedy bastard? Because she is also a care giver, not only for her children but for the 24/7 care for her elders and her spouse with NO support since she is "doing nothing". You know goddamn well that if you were to replace her with more useless institutions instead of simply supporting her, it would cost $Billions more. But hey it MIGHT be worth creating those insitutions to replace her since you would never pay for it, you will just reap benefits from it. Then you could force her to go out there and say, "do you want fries with that?" to add to your $Billions, you useless greed head!
As usual even progressives "defending" the welfare mom miss the issue by parsecs. Just what IS "Work" worthy of support ~ making some rich man richer OR raising the next generation, saving $billions with "free" 24/7 care of our elderly and disabled? Is just Anne the only one who "worked" with her nannies and housekeepers? Give me a break. When you can support the worthwhile work of low income families in more than making some damn rich man richer and actually see the $Billions in "free" work that (mostly) women do, THEN debate this, dammit!
Cat Sullivan, Poverty Scholar http://povertyinitiative.org/... supporter of MWRU, http://www.facebook.com/... Mother Warriors http://www.welfarewarriors.org/... board member of People Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights (P.O.W.E.R) http://www.mamapower.org among other organizations trying to educate the public about the REAL issues of poverty, not this idiotic crap.