They DO trap people. If you were correct, then the "Great Society" antipoverty programs... over the last 40 years would have shown success. They have not. Generations now are born, live and die on welfare. That's a fact jack. 47% of Americans don't pay a DIME in taxes. Hell a majority of those people actually make MORE from welfare and government handouts then they would working.
Here's the deal, people see that they can make XXX amount of money not working. They get food, cash, healthcare. If they work, they lose some of this. If they get a better paying job, they lose more of the benefits. With Obamacare that drop off is quite clearly demarcated.
What you, and MATECH and the rest of the welfare "caring folks" REALLY believe, is that these people are incapable of improving their lot in life, and they should THANKFUL for people like you who CARE for them. You believe it's in their best interest because hey... that's all their gonna amount to in life.
Disgusting really.
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Poop. You are wrong on multiple levels.
First of all..not all "antipoverty" or MOST anti poverty programs were or ARE designed to get people out of poverty. THEY NEVER were designed to get people OUT of poverty.. NEVER EVER EVER.. .
Anti poverty was about not suffering the effects of being impoverished... which before the new deal meant STARVATION. It meant young kids dying because dad lost his job. It meant kids dying of disease because their was no money for simple medicines. It meant old people being homeless on the streets dying of exposure.
THOSE were the real world consequences/risks of being impoverished. And that risk intensified when our nation went from an agricultural nation.. to an industrialized one. When you are growing your own food, or have access to growing your own food then the consequences of poverty are less. When you become an industrialized nation where access to food, clothing, heat, housing.. etc all depends on money from a paycheck? The risks of being poor are multiplied.
THATS what we learned during the Great Depression. We had become industrialized to a point that when massive unemployment struck.. suddenly, people suffered like they never had before.
The antipoverty programs put in place were not to suddenly make you middle class or rich... WHERE THE HECK DO YOU GUYS GET THAT? The antipoverty programs were put in place as a safety net... so if you lost your job and couldn't get another fast enough.. YOUR CHILDREN DIDN"T DIE.
Antipoverty programs in this country have been a wonderful success. People don't die and suffer when they are poor like they did almost 80 years ago.
In fact YOU are a perfect example of just how good the anti poverty programs have been. Anti poverty or welfare programs have been so good in this country.. that folks like you don't even realize the actual consequences of being poor without a safety net. You seem to think that they are only poor because.. "They are lazy". "why don't they get a job" you say.. of course right after lamenting about how bad the economy is and how few jobs there are under Obama.
Now you are right.. some of the arbitrary limits on welfare do create problems. Especially when you are punished for working. But tell me.. are you REALLY claiming that we should EXPAND the welfare program so that we increase the limits so that people will qualify for welfare longer rather than being dropped when they hit a limit? Is that what you really are pushing here?
and you are wrong that 47% of americans don't pay a dime in taxes... 47% of americans (lower now) don't pay a dime in FEDERAL INCOME TAX. Many if not most of those folks are still paying excise taxes, payroll taxes, state income taxes, property taxes and state sales taxes.
And those that aren't paying federal income tax? Well they are folks like the elderly that have paid in taxes their whole lives.. but now don't have enough income coming in to pay federal income taxes. They are folks like my family in the military that don't pay tax on the money they earn in a combat zone.
They are folks that are disabled.
And yes. they are folks that fall under the Bush tax cuts and that's why they don't pay income tax.
And isn't that ironic... we lambast folks for not paying federal income tax.. and then we laud the politicians that lowered the tax to the point that a lot of folks don't qualify.
