Question, what is Welfare? What does it cost?

What is Welfare, is it an Entitlement? Is it Help for those that need it? Is it a Right? Is welfare an Opportunity, a Privilege or an Obligation? Some of these choices actually mean the same thing, is is just a little bit different emphasis depending on which word you choose. The point is, Welfare is expensive!

I cannot imagine anyone wanting people to starve, go without health care, or even be denied an education, however, at one time this was the case here in America! No, we are not perfect, but we have come a long way from those days!

Today in America, there are extensive resources for help, if you qualify! QUALIFY! That is correct, have you ever tried to get help? I have, and no, I didn’t qualify!

Yes, the food banks found at your local church and such will hand out food to anybody, and yes, there are those that abuse that, they go around to many different sources, collect these can goods and such, then sell them, yes, I have met people that bragged about doing just this! Abuse of anything is inevitable, it is always going to happen, but that doesn’t mean we need to stop helping, does it?

If the U.S.A. were to attempt stopping the giving of food and support to the whole world, we would be ridiculed! So, if we provide so much, for so many in the world, who would imagine America not providing help to our own people? Well, there are many here that will try to tell you that is the case, but, it is not true! Not by a long shot, America offers more welfare to it’s people than any other country in the world offers to theirs!

So, what is my point? We need to FIX IT! Not do away with it, just FIX IT!

Here is an excerpt from The WhiteHouse on Welfare Reform:

President’s Welfare Reform Agenda

Last year, Congress began the process of reauthorizing the historic, bipartisan 1996 welfare reform law. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, welfare reform helped to move 4.7 million Americans from welfare dependency to self-sufficiency within three years of enactment, and the number of welfare caseloads has declined by 54% since 1996. The 1996 welfare reform law expired at the end of last year. President Bush is calling on Congress to act now to sustain and expand on the success of welfare reform.

So, follow that link and read the whole article, it will help you understand the rest of this post.

As you see, even the most hated President in the world, is trying to FIX things, but he hasn’t, why hasn’t he gotten it done? Simple, Congress, even though only dominated by Democrats for two years, the Democrats have been at war with George W Bush since he beat Al Gore for president! Yes, Bush has made mistakes, many of them, but I can assure you, that he is not the only one! The Democrats don’t want to FIX welfare, they want to expand it!

I cannot find any proof of what I am saying, but it should be obvious that the Left Wing of our country has been working very hard for a very long time to not only destroy George W Bush, and the Republican Party, but the very foundations of our country! Do some research on Pelosi, Frank, Dodd and that bunch, nothing has been right according to them, our whole way of life is wrong! Why would they do this? Simple, if they run down the country far enough, and blame it on Bush and the Republicans, the surely they will be put in complete control of the country, again! Unlike the Bill Clinton era, is a much further to the Left Agenda! I know, it sounds like a dastardly wicked plan, but I know it is true, I have been watching them for years, and this is the very reason I built this website! So, now back to my point.

What is welfare?  Where did welfare come from? Back in the 30′s, President Roosevelt came up with his “New Deal” to help during the “Great Depression” and it has been expanded since, and especially in the 1960′s, until it is where we are now.

The “NEW DEAL” From Answers.com

In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt in accepting the Democratic nomination for the Presidency said, ‘I pledge you, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people’. At the time this was little more than campaign rhetoric, but the New Deal was subsequently widely used as an umbrella term to characterize the domestic reform programmes of the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s. These included banking and finance reform, various relief programmes for the unemployed, agriculture recovery legislation, the National Industrial Recovery Act, the act setting up the Tennessee Valley Authority, the National Labor Relations Act, the Social Security Act providing unemployment insurance and old age pensions, and much else besides. The phrase ‘New Deal coalition’ is often used to denote the coalition of blue-collar workers, blacks, ‘ethnic’ (non-Anglo-Saxon) white Americans, and Southerners which continued to support the Democrats until the 1960s.

— David Mervin

Many of these programs were and are a great thing, like Social Security, but as with anything the Federal Government does, it grows, gets added to and changed until the Original and the Revision look almost nothing alike! Look at what the left keeps doing to the Constitution! Amendment means change, again, some are good, some are not, sometimes they even want to change the changes! All the while, moving our country further to the left!

“We the People“, at least the lefties haven’t gotten that line changed, YET, but they are trying! Follow that link to read the Constitution, get familiar with it, then hide and watch as the liberals keep changing it!

So, once again, back to my original point, what is Welfare? If kept simple, it is a good thing, but continuous expansion has made it a monster and Barack Obama wants to turn an alligator into godzilla! Or, as Ted Nugent calls it, FEDZILLA! Check out his book, Ted, White, and Blue!

By expanding the “Entitlements” or welfare, it takes more and more control from “We the People” and turns into “We the Sheeple” and makes us more and more dependent on the Fedzilla!

Yes, America has more “wealthy” people than any other country, but Fedzilla doesn’t like that and wants to make us all beholden to it! Fedzilla is a beast and needs to be treated as such, let’s keep it as is written in “The Declaration of Indepenence” and watch out what we give consent to! Barack Obama wants you to give consnt to CHANGE, and that change WILL NOT be what you think it is!

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.

Once we give Consent, it will be practically impossible to take it back!

So, now, do you have a different opinion on Welfare? We need to stop worrying about government FREEBIES and start worrying about the Welfare of the Country!

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