I would love to see welfare completely overhauled. The point should be to encourage people to get their lives together, not to cultivate destructive habits on someone else's tax dollars.
I would love to see welfare completely overhauled. The point should be to encourage people to get their lives together, not to cultivate destructive habits on someone else's tax dollars.
To achieve this mindset — “encourage people to get their lives together” — one must start with the school system, obviously. Schools should be expected to produce literate, numerate people, who demonstrate the work ethic and have reasonable grounding in financial literacy before graduating.
Under Republican Congressional pressure, President Clinton did just that. Welfare plummeted and employment increased. All agreed it was a success. President Obama later reversed much of this. We are kind of back to square one in the mid 1990's.
That was implemented under Clinton with TANF. The big change was that it became workfare. Work or training was required. The program adjusted.
I often thought of OASDI becoming an income-based program, so total income is counted. That is, until I was close to 70 years old. The two of us have worked over 100 years paying for 3 generations of retirees.
I would love to see welfare completely overhauled. The point should be to encourage people to get their lives together, not to cultivate destructive habits on someone else's tax dollars.
To achieve this mindset — “encourage people to get their lives together” — one must start with the school system, obviously. Schools should be expected to produce literate, numerate people, who demonstrate the work ethic and have reasonable grounding in financial literacy before graduating.
Bravo.
Under Republican Congressional pressure, President Clinton did just that. Welfare plummeted and employment increased. All agreed it was a success. President Obama later reversed much of this. We are kind of back to square one in the mid 1990's.
That was implemented under Clinton with TANF. The big change was that it became workfare. Work or training was required. The program adjusted.
I often thought of OASDI becoming an income-based program, so total income is counted. That is, until I was close to 70 years old. The two of us have worked over 100 years paying for 3 generations of retirees.