Thought for today!

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But republicans want to get rid of it. They never liked what it was intended for..

That’s something only repeated by people on the left. I’ve never heard of any republican want a wholesale ban on welfare services. They serve an essential need.

However when they are weaponized and used as vote buying scheme, then that’s a problem. Along with the rampant fraud and abuse.
 
That’s something only repeated by people on the left. I’ve never heard of any republican want a wholesale ban on welfare services. They serve an essential need.

However when they are weaponized and used as vote buying scheme, then that’s a problem. Along with the rampant fraud and abuse.

Name for me one program that the Republicans have introduced to help people when they are down. Just one.

Remember Social Security? Republicans didn't want it. Medicare? There's a famous record of Saint Ronald calling it the path to socialism.

And just as us lefties say that republicans don't want welfare services, the righties have a tendency to call any use of it "rampant abuse". Is it abused? It sure as hell is. By some. Medicaid helps primarily children. Trump promised that there would be no cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Check his latest budget to see how well he has kept that promise.
 
Don't think it has anything to do with abuse?
I think fewer people abuse it than not. Republicans are feeding the lines that democrats want to "keep them poor" by giving them welfare. But as good old Craig T said....he's been on food stamps...he's been on welfare. But apparently "nobody helped him out". Because what I've noticed about Republicans is that if a problem is not 100% solved...if a program has even the smallest percentage of abuse....then the program should be abolished. Unless of course the abuse helps the rich