maxrandb (6,493 posts)
Get a F@#KING Job Grandma!!!
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that appears to be the "hard choices" the ReTrumplicans are proposing with their budget...and make no mistake. This is NOT Donnie "Short Fingers" budget...it's the ReTrumplicans. Don't let them run away from it.
Heard some talking head on NPR this morning talking about the "tough choices" states are going to have to make. Cut benefits to the poor, reduce eligibility for the disabled, etc. The only "tough choice" that was missing was TAXING THE ****ING SHIT OUT OF PEOPLE LIKE DONALD TRUMP.
**** - kicking poor people takes ZERO political courage. Raising taxes on the 1%? Well, that would take some ****ing political courage.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/22/trump-budget-cut-social-programs-238696
"Mulvaney rejected accusations that Trump’s budget unfairly targets the poor, arguing instead that it amounts to a broad rethink of the country’s welfare system.
“We need folks to work. We need people to go to work. If you’re on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work. If you’re on disability insurance and you're not supposed to be, we need you to work,” he added. “There’s a dignity to work, and there’s a necessity to work.”"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029105007
“We need folks to work. We need people to go to work. If you’re on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work. If you’re on disability insurance and you're not supposed to be, we need you to work,”
Mulvaney rejected accusations that Trump’s budget unfairly targets the poor, arguing instead that it amounts to a broad rethink of the country’s welfare system.
“We need folks to work. We need people to go to work. If you’re on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work. If you’re on disability insurance and you're not supposed to be, we need you to work,” he added. “There’s a dignity to work, and there’s a necessity to work.”"
“We need folks to work. We need people to go to work. If you’re on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work. If you’re on disability insurance and you're not supposed to be, we need you to work,”
I agree with that but sympathize with business owners who have people like this on payroll since they are just a "slip" or "fall" away from filing a huge workers comp claim so they can get back on the gravy train.
The BIG LIE is there are no cuts. There are reductions to proposed budget increases, but that's not a cut anywhere in the normal world. Only in DC can a reduction in an increase be called a cut. Would that there were real cuts, but that won't happen until we can string them all up by their necks.
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The BIG LIE is there are no cuts. There are reductions to proposed budget increases, but that's not a cut anywhere in the normal world. Only in DC can a reduction in an increase be called a cut. Would that there were real cuts, but that won't happen until we can string them all up by their necks.
maxrandb (6,493 posts)
Get a F@#KING Job Grandma!!!
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What is the spending on Welfare?
In FY 2017 total US government spending on welfare — federal, state, and local — is “guesstimated” to be $1,117 billion, that is 1.117 trillion for you math impaired dummies including $716 billion for Medicaid, and $411 billion in other welfare.
The BIG LIE is there are no cuts. There are reductions to proposed budget increases, but that's not a cut anywhere in the normal world. Only in DC can a reduction in an increase be called a cut. Would that there were real cuts, but that won't happen until we can string them all up by their necks.
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If you can't earn your keep there is a seat on the train to the FEMA labor camp on the eastern front. there will be plenty of work, bread , water and reeducation.
Or as happened to me, said employee says I caused her mental anguish because I told her to her job, be in on time, and work 8 hours a day.Was she from the participation trophy generation?
I fired her when after five minutes of explaining the task to her she said, and I will never forget this, "It would be easier for me if you could just do this." I told her "Then one of us is not needed." and fired her.
Was she from the participation trophy generation?
Nope. Came with good references but just couldn't handle the environment of a small company. I fought her all the way and won.how much did it cost you in time and money to win?
The BIG LIE is there are no cuts. There are reductions to proposed budget increases, but that's not a cut anywhere in the normal world. Only in DC can a reduction in an increase be called a cut. Would that there were real cuts, but that won't happen until we can string them all up by their necks.Actually, to Trump's great credit, there actually are some real, genuine cuts (not just reductions in the increase in spending) in this budget. I came across a really great document (https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/msar.pdf) yesterday that lays this all out beautifully. It's like 182 pages, but what it is is a line-item of each thing that is actually being cut, and then each subsequent page has a specific description of why it is being cut, complete with citations. So, for example, LIHEAP is being eliminated. As they note, it has been completely riddled with fraud for decades. They don't note it in that particular document, but LIHEAP has been used as a "crowbar" to other federal programs for years now. How it works is that someone comes along to the welfare office and they don't actually qualify for welfare or food stamps or whatever, but the social worker says "well, you have trouble meeting your electric bill, right? *wink* *wink*" and whoever it is says "yeah, sure." So they are "qualified" for LIHEAP, and then, because they qualify for one federal assistance program, they automatically qualify for all federal assistance programs. TA DA! Instant food stamps, instant TANF, instant cash to go buy booze, cigarettes, drugs, and lottery tickets.
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