Michigan governor tells welfare recipients to get a job or drop dead, either choice is fine

Michigan governor tells welfare recipients to get a job or drop dead, either choice is fine

well let's see how that works... go for it... that's what the right wants... let's just see what happens... hey Snyder ball in your court...

the legislation was overwhelmingly approved by the GOP-dominated Senate on Wednesday strictly along party lines.

OK GnOP this is gonna be your mess... live with it... especially when children go without food...

“A lot of these folks are working,” she said. “They just don’t make enough money to even leave the cash assistance rolls.” “And you don’t have to make a lot—I think about $814 a month for a family of three.

or drop dead, either choice is fine

PIK... I think they have already stated how they feel, JUST FINE.

I thought Bill Clinton put a two year limit on welfare benefits and that isn't much of a problem anymore.

I actually worked in the public aid system many years ago. It was an eye opening experience. Were there some milking the system-sure. The same as you will find in any system. But, the preponderance of people were people who reallly needed help. Some were incapable of holding jobs due to a lack of socialization skills or in some cases mental illness. The system really had no solutions for real social work problems and simply atttempted to manage and control the distribution of what was in those days fairly meager funds. The indignity and abuse that many recipients had to endure at the hands of Public Aid employees was often over the top.

As I look back, the state would have been well served to require children of welfare recipients to participate in educational programs that would enable them to break the cycle. Some of these young people never had a chance. That is something that is hard to understand if you do not grow up in those conditions. Gang violence, poor schools, negative peer pressure and lack of parental involvement are all ingredients for failure.

But, I know that in my city there was a vested interest in keeping people oppressed and poor, so the system worked perfectly to support those interests.Much of the problem stemmed from racial segregation in the south and de facto segregation in the north. THose blacks, for example, who escaped the racist south were often ill equipped to deal with a harsh urban environment. Welfare requirements that ould not allow a father to remain in the home was as debilitating as the effect of slaver on black family disentegration. Thus, often several generations of welfare recipients. Exacerbating the situation was discrimination in the north which limited opportunities severely. The conditions we see in the inner city today did not occur overnight, they are cumulative.

However, I am always amused by those who vilify the poor and particularly welfare recipients, while extolling the virtues of say Israel which has been on the US dole forever. How does a country exist since 1947 and we are still providing them with welfare payments? It isn't just Israel, but numerous other foreign entities where we still provide mitlitary support like Germany and Japan. These countries are on welfare-period.

Add to that the fact that when the companies who are too big to fail were about to fail, we provided them with welfare assistance. Granted, the are supposed to pay it back, and some have, but it was still assistance.

All I am, saying is that we should think twice before we start vilifying the poor. I have seen many middle to upper class people who have lost jobs and sunk dramatically in socio-economic status suddenly view the world from a different lens. Yes, it could be any of us.

Somehow I don't think Rick Snyder's making it to heaven.

‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Matthew 25:40

Not very Christian.