Welfare Payout Statistics That Will Make You Really Mad
Go to the article to see a chart of how your state compares.
"A Cato Institute study has determined that welfare benefits in fact payout more than a full time minimum wage job in at least 35 states! WTF?
1. The free money is more than $15 an hour in over ten states
2. Welfare is more than a newly college educated teacher in eleven states makes
3. Outdoes the salary of a computer programmer in three states!
4. The highest welfare payouts are over $20 an hour! (Hawaii, with payments equaling $29.13 per hour, DC at $24.43 per hour, Massachusetts at $24.30 , Connecticut at $21.33, New York at $21.01 per hour, New Jersey at $20.89 per hour, Rhode Island at $20.83 per hour and Vermont at $20.36 per hour)
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"A Cato Institute study has determined that welfare benefits in fact payout more than a full time minimum wage job in at least 35 states! WTF?
1. The free money is more than $15 an hour in over ten states
2. Welfare is more than a newly college educated teacher in eleven states makes
3. Outdoes the salary of a computer programmer in three states!
4. The highest welfare payouts are over $20 an hour! (Hawaii, with payments equaling $29.13 per hour, DC at $24.43 per hour, Massachusetts at $24.30 , Connecticut at $21.33, New York at $21.01 per hour, New Jersey at $20.89 per hour, Rhode Island at $20.83 per hour and Vermont at $20.36 per hour)
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What is the origin of this lack of effort or self respect? I think it is the vast mis characterization of "rights" and what they include. Todays younger generations seem to think they have a "right" to a home, cell phone, car and satellite TV. I would submit that none of these is a "right" and none are included in the definition of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as is so often espoused. Until we turn that thinking around, this problem will persist and will continue to grow.
We are in a continual battle for our natural individual rights and must recognize that it is a battle that can't be won--only stalemated until the next attack, and there will always come the next attack. Until we realize and fully understand that the jackals and scavengers of the population must be beat back at every opportunity and slightest hint of encroachment, our dreams of individual freedom with all/any of our natural rights will always remain out of our reach.
We must accept that this is much more than an intellectual battle for a way of thinking that we're involved in, that it's a life or death, teeth bared, and bloody war with no end in sight. And it's our neighbors, our friends, and our very own families that are the enemy. It's our genetic luck of the draw that we battle against.
Under Jimmy Carter those without did not eat and caused a desire for national prosperity.
Under the 0dious 0ne, people do not work but they eat. This is all being done on future borrowed money. Liberals think they have defied the basic laws of supply and demand. They have not. They have merely made the future depressions hundred times worse.
It will not be objectivists, conservatives and libertarians with torches and pitchforks at the White House but the poor starving indigent, when the checks stop coming.
Totally agree. Receiving assistance used to be embarrassing. Now it is almost a right. One of the girls in my stepbrother's high school class said that after graduation she would be "third generation welfare." That was her life's ambition! So sad and also so frustrating!
Here's a list for Virginia, per month, that I compiled from talking to a social worker: (the $/items represent a total "benefit," not necessarily a cash payment, but this is what it would have cost an employed person)
For a sow with 3 offspring (and an absent father)
Apartment: $1400
Utilities: $400
Food: $400
WIC: $100
Medical: $500
Cable TV: $30
Cell phone: $30
Home phone: $25
Car repairs: $50
Entertainment (movie and sports tickets): $75
Clothes: $100
Child care: $1,500
Additional payment for children: $500
Plus free school lunches, free Head Start, free college tuition.
That's over $5,000 per month, tax free. Equivalent job to net $60K/yr (30% tax) would be $78K / yr. Who the hell would want to work and give up that?
They do NOT believe in God and they DO believe in evolution. Within those two constructs there is NO place at all for welfare at all. there is no compassion in Nature. The strong survive the weak die. End of storey.
Every liberal hand out and freebie is a contradiction in their own fundamental beliefs when it comes to religion and life itself. If they, the liberals, were even half-way consistent they would stop all the handouts and tell people Work or Die. Become productive and support yourself or die by your own laziness.
The pigs will soon far outnumber the ability of the productive to feed them, then guess what, ALL Will die. What do these jokers NOT understand about life. Oh that is right they understand NOTHING!
I find it amazing....of all the life on the planet, only sentients violate natural law. Growing pains!
Why are the politicians opposed to this???
Because the megalomaniac lunatics are running this country, ie politicians.
Yes. IMHO people should be proud to do any work and embarassed not to do work. People embarassed to do work have it backwards.
Right now I'm fully retired from that state's Department Of Corrections but I've off-and-on worked for four different security guard companies and for one of them twice.
I've worked on all kinds of posts for all kinds of pay, including minimum wage. Pay depends on how much a client wants to pay a company for security and you are sometimes bounced from post to post. .
I was only paid more than $11.21 twice. Wackenhut paid me $11.50 an hour to work at a Mercedes plant but during the holiday season I was ordered to work for $10.50 an hour at a Tuscaloosa bank. That kinda frosted me, pun intended, since Wackenhut wants bank guards to stand outside like scarecrows.
I heard about a $12.50 an hour Guardsmark job closer to home at a Wachovia data center and worked there for a year until the company lost the contract. Then I returned to full retirement.
Oh, yeah, my memory is now jogged about an occurrence with my career job when I was trained for it at the Selma Corrections Academy.back in 1982.
I heard that some of our black trainees meant to deliberately fail the final exam to get on welfare as for being "fired" from their last job. Sure enough, eight-to-ten black guys were weeded out and stared back at the formation I stood in. They were told to hit the highway before the graduation ceremony commenced.
Thought I had a career for 7 years during the 70s up until 1980 when I got sacked in Mississippi. Being sacked made finding the same career job impossible with colleges cranking out more journalism and communications degrees than there were jobs for. Everybody wanted to be a reporter after Watergate.
I went through some temporary crap work jobs until I saw a DOC needs you ad in The Dothan Eagle. New prisons were being built. Went to the academy March of '82.
At first the job was a safe harbor in a storm until I found out what good benefits it had along with the retirement I'm enjoying now.
During the 80s I broke up more inmate fights than I could possibly count. During the 90s I was mostly on the back gate tower, and that was a tricky place.
I almost got killed by once. ( I think God was looking after me).
I also stopped two attempted escapes by popping as many rounds into the air, one during the 80s and one during the 90s.
I have the two attaboy letters framed and hanging on a wall to prove it.
I don't want to see that prison ever again.
Yes. As you say, giving kids free rent/transportation/etc indefinitely will *not* give them a better life.
The problem lies in the mindset of two groups of people: those who believe they do not have to work to provide for themselves, and those who believe they should tax others to support those who refuse to work for themselves in order to gain power.
If we pay anything from the feds to charity its to much. That is what charities exist for, not government.
I'm moving to Hawaii. As a retiree, I thought I was doing pretty well because I didn't have to rely on social security, and had most everything all paid for (unless the 9 year old car breaks down). But, hell, going on welfare in Hawaii is doing better than me. Then reality struck me upside the head. Living in Florida is relatively cheap compared to most states, and I have a sub tropical climate, and grandkids here. So I guess Hawaii doesn't look all that good with it's high cost of living. Nevertheless, I'm still gagging on those statistics. When did they stop making Bromo-Seltzer?
Maybe it works to sell it as envying your neighbors. That works for any political ideology. But there's a truth that transcends ideology about the feeling of helping someone and making them eager to give you stuff for the stuff you give them.
Once I became successful, I toyed with the dark side - and it was when my conscience demanded I look at myself in the mirror, I found what I hated - was never those who spoke truth, but those who sold the lie of "social welfare" and "brother love" for their own gain. I hated myself for being just that evil. And it brought me back to being human.
Yes. I strongly agree with bootstrapping, but I don't think politicians are models of how to do this.
This is what I mean by "helping someone and making them eager to give you stuff for the stuff you give them." I'm not talking about politicians, alms, or helping people under coercion. I'm talking about figuring out something you can do that someone would love to pay for.
Remember the oath to get into the Gulch????
1) We need to take back the language of serving one another. You can serve under coercions or in a free trade, guns or money. If the context is making customers eager to pay your for work, that's not coercion. Really successful people, IMHO, approach work with an attitude of service, i.e. they charge a high price but provide amazing service.
2) I don't think all "Welfare" is like being force to live your life for another. If solving a public menace by punishing people with tax dollars is acceptable, I say solving a public menace by helping people with tax dollar is acceptable, if it works. This is a dangerous road b/c it can easily degenerate into people looking to the gov't to take care of them or people moralizing about how "good people put others before themselves". It's very simplistic, though, to say we can use tax dollars to solve problems as long as it doesn't in some way involve helping someone. At best that's being paranoid about well-meaning efforts degenerating; at worst it's just mean-spirtedness.