More liberal idiocy
This Pierce County Herald article perfectly outlines why the Left is so backwards. The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted to stop denying food stamps to deadbeat parents and to the unemployed who refuse to get job training.
It’s not governments business to feed people- it never has been and it never will be – despite the sad fact that current system does just that. But to take hard-earned money out of one persons pocket and put it into someone else’s who refuses to get job training (which is free!) and/or does not pay their child support is utterly inane. If you have to be generous with other peoples money, then at least give the food stamps to the child whose deadbeat parent is not meeting their responsibility – not to the deadbeat.
As Rep. Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford, said “deadbeat parents will laugh all the way to the grocery store.”
And the working people that barely can make ends meet will continue to struggle as government steals money out of their paycheck to give to those who won’t work. Liberal La-La land at its finest!
May 4th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Firstly, that link is useless to those without a membership to the website, as it directs us to a registration page.
Now, I personally believe that while our welfare system is seriously flawed, it is measures like this that are designed to IMPROVE it. Removing it will do more harm than good. While those who refuse job training do need to be cut off, those who do agree to it need the leg-up.
See my recent article: http://www.politicalfrenzy.com/a-brief-history-of-poverty-in-the-us/