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		<title>By: Confucius</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nyt-sobs-not-enough-are-on-welfare#comment-132321</link>
		<dc:creator>Confucius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is especially telling when you read it alongside the last S&amp;L posting titled, &quot;$2.5B Welfare Expansion Is ‘Stimulus’?&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is especially telling when you read it alongside the last S&amp;L posting titled, &#8220;$2.5B Welfare Expansion Is ‘Stimulus’?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Liberals Demise</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nyt-sobs-not-enough-are-on-welfare#comment-132311</link>
		<dc:creator>Liberals Demise</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pro....is that...&quot;from our wallets to the hood.&quot;
       or is it.....&quot;from our wallets to DA HOOD.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pro&#8230;.is that&#8230;&#8221;from our wallets to the hood.&#8221;<br />
       or is it&#8230;..&#8221;from our wallets to DA HOOD.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: proreason</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nyt-sobs-not-enough-are-on-welfare#comment-132308</link>
		<dc:creator>proreason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I ain’t STIMULATED about it. For that matter, I’m not even slightly aroused.&quot;

LMAO


but you know, I happened to be looking at tax credits today, on the off chance that some might apply to me (ha ha).   It turns out that in my state some new homeowners can get a $2,000 tax CREDIT if their income is below a threshold.  And they can still deduct interest above 2,000.

So UNKA SUGA is giving away $2000 a year IN ADDITION  to Barney Fife&#039;s little scheme to bankrupt the country so he can feel better about being a drooling pervert.   

Why don&#039;t they just build a sewer line direct from our wallets to the hood?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I ain’t STIMULATED about it. For that matter, I’m not even slightly aroused.&#8221;</p>
<p>LMAO</p>
<p>but you know, I happened to be looking at tax credits today, on the off chance that some might apply to me (ha ha).   It turns out that in my state some new homeowners can get a $2,000 tax CREDIT if their income is below a threshold.  And they can still deduct interest above 2,000.</p>
<p>So UNKA SUGA is giving away $2000 a year IN ADDITION  to Barney Fife&#8217;s little scheme to bankrupt the country so he can feel better about being a drooling pervert.   </p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t they just build a sewer line direct from our wallets to the hood?</p>
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		<title>By: 12 Gauge Rage</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nyt-sobs-not-enough-are-on-welfare#comment-132303</link>
		<dc:creator>12 Gauge Rage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>proreason, perhaps I should have added that the liberals saw this phrase of the constitution as a means of maintaining their institution of quid pro quo. You scratch our backs (Give us your votes unquestioningly) and we&#039;ll scratch yours (We&#039;ll keep you and your offspring under our control forever).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>proreason, perhaps I should have added that the liberals saw this phrase of the constitution as a means of maintaining their institution of quid pro quo. You scratch our backs (Give us your votes unquestioningly) and we&#8217;ll scratch yours (We&#8217;ll keep you and your offspring under our control forever).</p>
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		<title>By: Liberals Demise</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nyt-sobs-not-enough-are-on-welfare#comment-132302</link>
		<dc:creator>Liberals Demise</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The fact that UNKA SUGA tried to ensure that everyone had a &quot;home&quot; is &quot;WHY&quot; we are in this BS to begin with. 

As for the STIMULAS PACT.........I ain&#039;t STIMULATED about it. For that matter, I&#039;m not even slightly aroused.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The fact that UNKA SUGA tried to ensure that everyone had a &#8220;home&#8221; is &#8220;WHY&#8221; we are in this BS to begin with. </p>
<p>As for the STIMULAS PACT&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;I ain&#8217;t STIMULATED about it. For that matter, I&#8217;m not even slightly aroused.</p>
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		<title>By: proreason</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nyt-sobs-not-enough-are-on-welfare#comment-132295</link>
		<dc:creator>proreason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Too generous, 12.   The purpose of welfare isn&#039;t to help people.

The purpose is to buy votes.  The liberal strategy is to entrench themselves in power forever.  

The fact that some welfare helps people over rough patches in their lives is a byproduct.   If liberals could buy votes with a cheaper devise, they would.   That&#039;s why they came up with hopey-changey.   That&#039;s free and in some ways more powerful.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Too generous, 12.   The purpose of welfare isn&#8217;t to help people.</p>
<p>The purpose is to buy votes.  The liberal strategy is to entrench themselves in power forever.  </p>
<p>The fact that some welfare helps people over rough patches in their lives is a byproduct.   If liberals could buy votes with a cheaper devise, they would.   That&#8217;s why they came up with hopey-changey.   That&#8217;s free and in some ways more powerful.</p>
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		<title>By: 12 Gauge Rage</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nyt-sobs-not-enough-are-on-welfare#comment-132291</link>
		<dc:creator>12 Gauge Rage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The problem that I see with the NYT article is that they seem to wish that more people were on the government dole. Somewhere along the way liberals looked at the constitution and fixated on the phrase &quot;promote the general welfare&quot;, and decided that Uncle Sam had a moral obligation to ensure that every citizen was housed, clothed and fed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The problem that I see with the NYT article is that they seem to wish that more people were on the government dole. Somewhere along the way liberals looked at the constitution and fixated on the phrase &#8220;promote the general welfare&#8221;, and decided that Uncle Sam had a moral obligation to ensure that every citizen was housed, clothed and fed.</p>
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		<title>By: wardmama4</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nyt-sobs-not-enough-are-on-welfare#comment-132277</link>
		<dc:creator>wardmama4</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah yes I can remember the days when my first hubby &amp; I had no jobs - but couldn&#039;t get a damn thing (we had savings to tide us over the 5 weeks between college and the Army) - watching food stampers eat better than we could and going to a local clinic for our healthcare (I was pregnant) because of no insurance. 

We lived on $300/month - half of which was our rent. We made it - and never looked back, nor was homeless, nor starved to death - we tightened our belts and hung in that short period of time.

My d-i-l used welfare appropriately when her family kicked her out at 17 - she finished high school, raised her son, went to college and got a Bachelor and a Masters - and got off of welfare, as fast as possible. And now lives better than I do. 

I think that the double whammy of welfare and Social Security have led too many people to rely on and believe that Uncle Sugar will pay their bills. The indoctrination works and this is what we get - a massive trillion dollar spending bill being shoved down our throats by a pathetic, inexperienced thug politician.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah yes I can remember the days when my first hubby &amp; I had no jobs &#8211; but couldn&#8217;t get a damn thing (we had savings to tide us over the 5 weeks between college and the Army) &#8211; watching food stampers eat better than we could and going to a local clinic for our healthcare (I was pregnant) because of no insurance. </p>
<p>We lived on $300/month &#8211; half of which was our rent. We made it &#8211; and never looked back, nor was homeless, nor starved to death &#8211; we tightened our belts and hung in that short period of time.</p>
<p>My d-i-l used welfare appropriately when her family kicked her out at 17 &#8211; she finished high school, raised her son, went to college and got a Bachelor and a Masters &#8211; and got off of welfare, as fast as possible. And now lives better than I do. </p>
<p>I think that the double whammy of welfare and Social Security have led too many people to rely on and believe that Uncle Sugar will pay their bills. The indoctrination works and this is what we get &#8211; a massive trillion dollar spending bill being shoved down our throats by a pathetic, inexperienced thug politician.</p>
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		<title>By: Kilmeny</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nyt-sobs-not-enough-are-on-welfare#comment-132248</link>
		<dc:creator>Kilmeny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They want to bring us right back to that golden age of being on the public dole as a permanent lifestyle choice. In college I worked at a medical office situated in a town with a high percentage of people on Medicaid. I couldn&#039;t begin to tell you the number of people I met there who had been on welfare &lt;i&gt;their entire lives&lt;/i&gt;, whose children aspired to be on welfare too, and had themselves a baby or a &quot;back problem&quot; as soon as they could. They got food stamps, free health care, and enough actual cash to where some of them dressed better than I did. The thought of going back to that is sickening.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They want to bring us right back to that golden age of being on the public dole as a permanent lifestyle choice. In college I worked at a medical office situated in a town with a high percentage of people on Medicaid. I couldn&#8217;t begin to tell you the number of people I met there who had been on welfare <i>their entire lives</i>, whose children aspired to be on welfare too, and had themselves a baby or a &#8220;back problem&#8221; as soon as they could. They got food stamps, free health care, and enough actual cash to where some of them dressed better than I did. The thought of going back to that is sickening.</p>
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		<title>By: Alice L.</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nyt-sobs-not-enough-are-on-welfare#comment-132247</link>
		<dc:creator>Alice L.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This &quot;stimulus bill&quot; aims to destroy welfare reform.  This, along with amnesty, is a push by Democrats to widen their voter base by putting more people on the dole.  Everybody loves some kind of handout - the Demos will turn it, once again, into a way of life to have a permanent majority.  This bill must be killed!  The Slimes wants welfare by having the Feds prop them up.  No way, no how, never, never.  If the NY Slimes, LA Slimes and other lib newspapers attempted some form of &quot;balance&quot;, they would not be in the financial mess that they are in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This &#8220;stimulus bill&#8221; aims to destroy welfare reform.  This, along with amnesty, is a push by Democrats to widen their voter base by putting more people on the dole.  Everybody loves some kind of handout &#8211; the Demos will turn it, once again, into a way of life to have a permanent majority.  This bill must be killed!  The Slimes wants welfare by having the Feds prop them up.  No way, no how, never, never.  If the NY Slimes, LA Slimes and other lib newspapers attempted some form of &#8220;balance&#8221;, they would not be in the financial mess that they are in.</p>
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		<title>By: proreason</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/nyt-sobs-not-enough-are-on-welfare#comment-132234</link>
		<dc:creator>proreason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;18 states cut their welfare rolls last year, and nationally the number of people receiving cash assistance remained at or near the lowest in more than 40 years. &quot;

Why is that?   Do people actually want to withhold food from people who genuinely need assistance?

Or perhaps people on welfare roles who can afford $200 sneakers are contributing to additional scrutiny.

On an unrelated topic, wouldn&#039;t it be interesting to see the extent of tax-free income income in this country for transactions like drugs, prostitution, theft, scams, insurance fraud, illegal gambling, and transactions in the non-criminal underground economy?   I&#039;m reminded of the famous experiment years ago where a bus accident was staged with nobody on the bus, yet when the police arrived, 19 injured passengers had mysteriously appeared.

And of course, we haven&#039;t even touched on lotteries and the myriad uses of food-stamps.

Under the benevolent oversight of Obamy, the need for those sorts of things should quickly disappear.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;18 states cut their welfare rolls last year, and nationally the number of people receiving cash assistance remained at or near the lowest in more than 40 years. &#8221;</p>
<p>Why is that?   Do people actually want to withhold food from people who genuinely need assistance?</p>
<p>Or perhaps people on welfare roles who can afford $200 sneakers are contributing to additional scrutiny.</p>
<p>On an unrelated topic, wouldn&#8217;t it be interesting to see the extent of tax-free income income in this country for transactions like drugs, prostitution, theft, scams, insurance fraud, illegal gambling, and transactions in the non-criminal underground economy?   I&#8217;m reminded of the famous experiment years ago where a bus accident was staged with nobody on the bus, yet when the police arrived, 19 injured passengers had mysteriously appeared.</p>
<p>And of course, we haven&#8217;t even touched on lotteries and the myriad uses of food-stamps.</p>
<p>Under the benevolent oversight of Obamy, the need for those sorts of things should quickly disappear.</p>
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		<title>By: JohnMG</title>
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		<dc:creator>JohnMG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>.....“Food assistance is not considered welfare,” said Donalda Carlson, a Rhode Island welfare administrator…

Uh, excuse me?  Den why izzit sumpin&#039; you be administratin&#039;, Miz welfare administrator Carlson?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;..“Food assistance is not considered welfare,” said Donalda Carlson, a Rhode Island welfare administrator…</p>
<p>Uh, excuse me?  Den why izzit sumpin&#8217; you be administratin&#8217;, Miz welfare administrator Carlson?</p>
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		<title>By: RightWinger</title>
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		<dc:creator>RightWinger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;I&gt;&quot;
Are there people starving to death on the streets? 

If so, we would think The Times would feature them on their front page above the fold for almost as many weeks at their love fest over Abu Ghraib.&quot; 
&lt;/i&gt;

I don&#039;t think they would do that because Chairman nObama is in the White House.  I don&#039;t think the love affair will wilt enough this early to risk associating images like that with his &lt;strike&gt; dictatorship &lt;/strike&gt; Presidency.

Now if Bush was still in the White House,  then those images would be Front Page propoganda like you mentioned above.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>&#8221;<br />
Are there people starving to death on the streets? </p>
<p>If so, we would think The Times would feature them on their front page above the fold for almost as many weeks at their love fest over Abu Ghraib.&#8221;<br />
</i></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think they would do that because Chairman nObama is in the White House.  I don&#8217;t think the love affair will wilt enough this early to risk associating images like that with his <strike> dictatorship </strike> Presidency.</p>
<p>Now if Bush was still in the White House,  then those images would be Front Page propoganda like you mentioned above.</p>
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