This is some legacy Obama’s building – one in six Americans now receive some form of public assistance.
USA Today: Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand.
More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, the federal-state program aimed principally at the poor, a survey of state data by USA TODAY shows. That’s up at least 17% since the recession began in December 2007.
“Virtually every Medicaid director in the country would say that their current enrollment is the highest on record,” says Vernon Smith of Health Management Associates, which surveys states for Kaiser Family Foundation.
The program has grown even before the new health care law adds about 16 million people, beginning in 2014. That has strained doctors. “Private physicians are already indicating that they’re at their limit,” says Dan Hawkins of the National Association of Community Health Centers.
More than 40 million people get food stamps, an increase of nearly 50% during the economic downturn, according to government data through May. The program has grown steadily for three years.
Cloward and Piven must be so proud.
Tags: americans, Cloward, food stamps, legacy, Medicaid, obama, Piven, welfare
Think this is an accident?
Think those on assistance will vote themselves off of it?
It’s like the joke: Christ heals 2 men and approaches the 3rd who says: “Don’t touch me, I’m on disability.”
NOT FUNNY!
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” . . . the new health care law adds about 16 million people, beginning in 2014.” Hunh? I thought there were FORTY million people without “healthcare”? What’s with this SIXTEEN business? Ohhhh . . . I forgot. Even Obamacare isn’t going to cover EVERYBODY. Nevermind. (sigh.)
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I think the Democrats were doing this long before Cloward and Piven, whose “idea” is just to push it to the max by attracting all the parasites to get into the programs and make a lifestyle of it. I remember those ‘welfare rights’ types, which feeds into the notion that HealthCare is a ‘right’ – back in the early seventies. Any strategy is OK as long as it promotes ‘the revolution’, which in turn is right out of Abbie Hoffman’s “Steal This Book” – which is, of course, defended as Freedom of Speech. So, No Good Deed goes unpunished, and there is always some bunch of clowns who will convert Charity into Subversion.
There was an article in the WSJ today by Robert Barro – harvard egghead who pulls figures from the vacuum to defend his notion that if Obama was not subsidizing UI we would have a lower unemployment rate – and that would be better for Democrats in November – so he ought to fire his economic advisors. I have other reasons why they ALL ought to be fired – and outsourced to India.
I will say it again and again – compared to what they gave Goldman Sachs and their other pals, all this UI stuff is a drop in the bucket. Sure, it could be managed better, but all this hand wringing over the deficit is rather convenient when one is shielded from the ugly economic and human reality of having millions of americans thrown out on the street. I mean, Rush was going on about SEIU ‘demonstrating’ at the house of some wall street guy. But Rush never says anything about anyone being foreclosed and thrown out in the street, and there are millions more of them, and their children, than there are wall st types. I expect he will be saying that those making minimum wage are simply improvident for not saving for their retirement. That would put him in the same category with Robert Barro. What ought to be, and what is true – well, that difference is called Wishful Thinking.
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Charity vs Subversion
The local housing authority used to have an annual beer garden to generate funds. It was basically a weekend volunteer event for the agency.
The dude that ran it found out that they made the beer garden a line item in the budget. Needless to say he got pissed.
He told the agency he’d work but no longer run the event.
WELL GUESS WHAT! They had a budget shortfall that year.
See were this is going……………………………….?
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