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To: combjelly who wrote (786246)	5/24/2014 7:09:57 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577978

>> For the vast majority of recipients, they can maybe get Medicaid and SNAP. This cherry-picked individual, assuming she even exists, is a fart [sic] outlier. I assume you're referring to the graphic I posted earlier. And I will agree that it was designed to show the "worst case scenario". But the point holds: The system breaks down when the incentives for NOT working are so great that significant numbers of people will make that choice. Those incentives produce a kind of "double whammy" in which not only do we have to spend money to pay the ways of these people, as non-contributors they take away from the nation's productivity and tax base. I would also point out that the graphic does not give account to Obamacare subsidies which have exacerbated the problem. >> You are kidding, right? The poverty rate was in the 20% to 25% before the War on Poverty. Afterwards, it dropped to around 11% and hasn't gotten over 15% since. Since Bush was elected, it has been creeping up. Cutting poverty programs does that... What about the poverty of kids born today into a life where they are inheriting there shares of 100 trillion in debt? That's not poverty? Never mind that we're still borrowing enough to keep their standards of living high. Almost every child born today in this country will spend some of his/her life in Dust Bowl conditions because of these so-called "anti-poverty" measures.