Debt Ceiling: Why Not Cut Off The Welfare Checks Too?

Originally posted by spyder550
You want to cut off aid checks -- what kind of country do you really want to live in -- really? just really.

What kind of country do you want to be.

edit on 19-7-2011 by spyder550 because: (no reason given)

Originally posted by Ladysophiaofsandoz
I am ashamed and saddened at the speed and ease we Americans turn on each other. Why all the anger towards people who are suffering most, why not be angry at the banks, Wall Street, and the numerous corporations who shipped American jobs overseas, many who avoid paying taxes at all.You want to talk about leeches look at Blackwater and Haliburton and all the other vultures who drain or defense budget. I understand your anger but lets be mad at the people who DID something to put us into this mess.

My husband and I were laid off a month apart two years ago. I worked in a construction related field and he in heavy industry (his company shipped the factory to Mexico) I went back to school knowing I couldn't find a job in my field again. Now that I am out of school there are still no jobs.My husband takes any work he can find but it's all been temporary and pays 1/4 what he used to make. We lived on 14,000 last year compared to 50,000 two years ago. YES we applied for food stamps. I suggest anyone else try and feed a family on the $200.00 a month they give us. Everyday for the last four months I have checked the paper and about six different sites online I am lucky if I can find two jobs a day to apply to. I am registered with five different temporary job agencies and only managing to get 40 hours of work in four months. I dare anyone to suggest that any of this was our fault or that we are leeches. I am so sick of this country and most of the people in it who want to sit and blame the victims not the guilty. Not everyone on public assistance in uneducated, unskilled or unwilling to work.

The plan works, we are so busy blaming and fighting each other that we never see the puppeteer pulling the strings.

Originally posted by BlesUTP
reply to post by Mr Objectivity

 

i dont know where you live, but in my city, 90% of all the welfare recipients are uneducated folk who breed like rabbits to keep their free money.

i for one am sick of my tax money going to these people and to make bombs. time to spend some of that money on the working class.

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...It's almost like his entire term has been engineered to make us lose confidence in the government, the president and our country as a whole. I've never been big on NWO conspiracy theories, but this administration is like a perfect storm of bad decisions. Either it's all engineered to crush our government and soften us up for the NWO, or these are the stupidest, most worthless bunch of nimrods we've ever voted into office.

Strong on national sovereignty at the opening session of the 1992 Earth Summit...

"The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security." -Maurice Strong at the 1992 Earth Summit. www.nationalcenter.org...

Our Global Neighborhood

Report of the Commission on Global Governance
(ISBN 0-19-827998-1; Published by Oxford University Press, 1995)
A Summary Analysis

The Commission on Global Governance has released its recommendations in preparation for a World Conference on Global Governance, scheduled for 1998, at which official world governance treaties are expected to be adopted for implementation by the year 2000. Among those recommendations are specific proposals to expand the authority of the United Nations to provide:

* Global taxation;
* A standing UN army;
* An Economic Security Council;
* UN authority over the global commons;
* An end to the veto power of permanent members of the Security Council;
* A new parliamentary body of "civil society" representatives (NGOs);
* A new "Petitions Council";
* A new Court of Criminal Justice; (Accomplished in July, 1998 in Rome)
* Binding verdicts of the International Court of Justice;
* Expanded authority for the Secretary General.

...."Next to life, liberty is what people value most," the report says. It also says: "The impulse to possess turf is a powerful one for all species; yet it is one that people must overcome." It also says: "global rules of custom constrain the freedom of sovereign states," and "sensitivity over the relationship between international responsibility and national sovereignty [is a] considerable obstacle to the leadership at the international level,"/ and "Although states are sovereign, they are not free individually to do whatever they want." /.... sovereignty.net...