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- From: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (J H Woodyatt)
- Subject: Whining bastards
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.181412.6382@wdl.loral.com>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:14:12 GMT
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- Followups out of talk.abortion.
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- vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
- # You can earn more money working at McDonalds than on welfare.
-
- A dubious claim, probably backed up with dubious statistics.
-
- # Let's talk about welfare then... in this country we spend $7,000/year
- # per PERSON on welfare. So an average family of 3-4 costs us around
- # $25,000 per year. Are you trying to tell me there's not some incredible
- # fraud going on somewhere here?
-
- Evidently.
-
- Lessee... $25K/yr is ~$2100/mo. AFDC for a family composed of a
- single mother and two children in California (not a very chincy state
- as states go) is $505/mo. WIC comes in at somewhere around $150/mo if
- you qualify. Food stamps -- I have no clue; gotta be at least
- $100/mo. Still, the numbers don't look promising.
-
- Minimum wage is $4.35/hr, or $754/mo gross with a 40/hr work week.
- Typically, no benefits (oh, sorry, I forgot Medicaid doesn't cost
- anything and we were talking about cash flow weren't we... oops).
- Often not even full time because full-time employees have legal
- protection that part-time employees don't.
-
- What was that about fraud?
-
- Anyway, what's the deal here? Is welfare a `cycle of poverty' that
- traps people on welfare because they make less money at minimum wage
- jobs than on welfare, or are welfare recipients mostly a bunch of
- fat, lazy `welfare queens' bilking the taxpayers out of hard-earned
- lucre just because they don't want to work for more money than they
- get on welfate?
-
- # Even if that money is just eaten up in
- # the bureaucracy it's still fraud.
-
- Why? Because bureacracy is *ALWAYS* fraud. (Unless it's *your*
- bureaucracy, in which case, it's simply waste, or better yet, fat.)
-
- I wouldn't be so pissy about this if you dittoheads would just admit
- that you simply don't want the poor to receive any help whatsoever
- from the government. Jeez. At least the Libertarians can do that.
- Get some spine, you simpering fools.
-
-
- --
- +---------------------------+ ``Man has not a single right which is
- | J H Woodyatt | the product of anything but might.''
- | bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com | -- Mark Twain
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